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# 40313
[GREAT BRITAIN. ROYAL NAVY]
A List of His Majesty’s Royal Navy. Navy Office, 1st October 1794.
Large octavo (230 x 150 mm), in the original Admiralty-style binding of straight-grain red morocco with elaborate gilt border incorporating stars, wreaths and cornerpieces, spine gilt in six compartments; inner dentelles; all edges gilt; original marbled endpapers; engraved title-page with date in manuscript 1st October 1794 (although the list has additions to 1801); 200 pp., …
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# 50086
BARRINGTON, George (1755-1804)
Barrington’s voyage to New South Wales; with a description of the country; the manners, customs, religion &c. of the natives in the vicinity of Botany Bay
Manchester : printed by A. Swindells, Hanging-bridge, and sold by T. Thomas, and J. Sadler, c. 1795. Duodecimo, finely mound in modern tree calf with floriated gilt rule border, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, pp. 48, a fine copy. Very scarce edition of Barrington’s voyage to Botany Bay. The attribution to Barrington …
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# 50046
[GOULD, John]
History of the Otaheitean Islands, from their first discovery to the present time.
Including an account of the institutions, government, manners, customs, religion, & ceremonies of the people inhabiting the Society, the Friendly Islands, and the Marquesas. With an historical sketch of the Sandwich Islands. To which is added, an account of a mission to the Pacific Ocean, in the years 1796, 97, 98. Edinburgh : Printed by T. …
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![[MAP] Karte von Australien oder Polynesien : nach den Zeichnungen, Reisebeschreibungen](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16170000/2015_DSFB_0724-300x219.jpg)
# 10394
WEIGEL & SCHNEIDERSCHEN
[MAP] Karte von Australien oder Polynesien : nach den Zeichnungen, Reisebeschreibungen
und Tagebücher der vorzüglichsten Seefahrer bis 1789 entworffen im Jahr 1792, vermehrt 1796. Nürnberg : in der Weigel und Schneiderschen Handlung mit Kayserl. allergnl. Privil., 1796 [but probably 1804-1808]. Copperplate engraved map with hand colouring, 460 x 650 mm, verso with contemporary title in large, bold manuscript AUSTRALIEN; central vertical fold, as issued; a fine copy. A …
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# 44046
LISIANSKY, Urey (1773-1837)
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva.
London : John Booth … and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814. First edition in English. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), modern half calf, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt rule, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled boards; speckled edges; preliminaries (2 blanks, frontispiece portrait of Lisianskii); xxi; [blank]; [ii], …
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# 48965
MORRISON, Robert (1732-1834)
A grammar of the Chinese language. (John Francis Davis’ copy)
Serampore : Printed at the Mission Press, 1815. Quarto (275 x 215 mm), half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels lettered in gilt; marbled edges; title with ownership signature of ‘J. F. Davis’; pp vi, [2], 280; text in English and Chinese characters; occasional marginal damp staining with …
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# 50047
CAMPBELL, Archibald
A voyage round the world, from 1806 to 1812;
in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited. Including a narrative of the author’s shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and his subsequent wreck in the ship’s long-boat; with an account of the present state of the Sandwich Islands, and a vocabulary of their language. Edinburgh : printed for Archibald …
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# 43015
FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)
Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,
aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …
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![[COOK] Newton’s new & improved terrestrial pocket globe 1817](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/06/2023_DSFB_3248-300x300.jpg)
# 40260
NEWTON FAMILY
[COOK] Newton’s new & improved terrestrial pocket globe 1817
London : John Newton, 1st January 1817. Terrestrial pocket globe, 3 inches in diameter, engraved gores with original hand colour over papier-mâché and plaster sphere, the surface in fine order with a recent wax applied for protection, two metal pins resting the globe in the original publisher’s shagreen case, titled Newton’s improved pocket celestial globe, …
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# 49440
WILLIAMS, Captain John
An historical account of the rise and progress of the Bengal Native Infantry,
from its first formation in 1757, to 1796, when the present regulations took place. Together with a detail of the services on which several battalions have been employed during that period. By the late Captain Williams, of the Invalid Establishment of the Bengal Army. London : John Murray, 1817. Octavo, full polished calf, ruled in …
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# 49530
von KOTZEBUE, Otto
Voyage of discovery to the South Sea, and to Behring’s Straits, in search of a north-east passage; undertaken in the years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the ship Rurick
London : Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1821. Octavo, finely bound in period style in half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, small repaired tear to first title leaf, pp. 220 (with a title leaf to the second part between pp. 110 – …
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![[OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/11/2025_DSFB_7153-300x300.jpg)
# 49083
Peter LEE (BRITISH CONSUL, ALEXANDRIA)
[OTTOMAN EMPIRE] Passport of safe conduct for travel to Malta issued to Captain Benjamin Adams (17th Light Dragoons) by the British consul at Alexandria, 17 May 1823.
[Alexandria in Egypt : British Consulate, 1823]. Lithographed pro-forma document with manuscript entries, 270 x 385 mm, on wove paper watermarked with an Eagle and FAG in roman (cf. Edward Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Hilversum, 1950, p. 24); embossed paper seal of the British Consulate, Alexandria in Egypt intact at lower left; signed …
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# 49326
MARSDEN, William (1754 - 1836)
Memoirs of a Malayan Family, written by themselves, and translated from the original by W. Marsden, F. R. S. &c. &c.
London : printed for the Oriental Translation Fund, sold by J. Murray and Parbury, Allen & Co., 1830. First edition. Large octavo, original green cloth, a little edge wear, spine slightly sunned, with original printed label to spine, shelf mark from the Sir Thomas Phillips collection to front pastedown, wet stamp from a New Delhi …
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# 48531
MOOR, J[ohn] H[enry] (1802 - 1843)
Notices of the Indian Archipelago, and adjacent countries; being a collection of papers relating to Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Nias, the Philippine Islands, Sulu, Siam, Cochin China, Malayan peninsula, &c.
Accompanied by an index and six maps. Part first [all published]. Singapore : the author, 1837. Quarto (266 x 220 mm), finely bound in period style quarter straight-grained morocco over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; large hand-coloured folding map of ‘The Town and environs of Singapore, drawn by J.B. Tassin, from an actual …
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# 49046
THOM, Robert (1807-1846) (translator)
Wang Keaou Lwan pih neen chang han, or The lasting resentment of Miss Keaou Lwan Wang, a Chinese tale; founded on fact. Translated from the original by Sloth. (Inscribed by Rev. David Thom)
Canton : printed at the Canton Press Office, 1839. Small quarto, recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with contrasting red leather title label lettered in gilt; bound with the original printed green upper wrapper (stained and re-margined) retaining the two original pasted-on printed slips worded ‘Translated from the original by Robert Thom, Esq., resident …
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# 49285
TAYLOR, W. Cooke
A popular history of British India, commercial intercourse with China, and the insular possessions of England in the Eastern Seas.
London : James Madden & Co., 1842. Octavo, publisher’s green cloth (rebacked, preserving original spine with is rubbed), remnants of gilt lettering to spine, pp. viii; 508, internally clean, many leaves remaining unopened (a few have been roughly opened), a very good copy. With a detailed contemporary account of the war with China which saw …