New Acquisitions
Our June list has 200+ items: China, natural history, exploration, nineteenth-century manuscripts, colonial Australian photographs and ephemera, Australian art – and much more!
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# 46474
MORRISON, Robert (1782–1834)
五車韻府 A Dictionary of the Chinese Language, by the Rev. R. Morrison, D. D.
Shanghae : London Mission Press; London : Trübner & Co., 1865. Second edition. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary half-russet roan over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt, shelf labels to foot of spines, light edge wear, shelf marks to front pastedowns and title pages, pp. ix; [blank]; 224, 224-239, 239 …
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# 46589
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Creative effort : an essay in affirmation (deluxe edition with original signed etching)
Sydney : published for the author by Art in Australia, 1920. First edition. Octavo, quarter cloth over papered boards, spine lettered in gilt (a fine example); inscribed by the artist in pen on the front pastedown ‘Yours sincerely, Norman Lindsay’, small tape marks to endpapers, upper hinge slightly split, original signed etching by Norman Lindsay …
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![[TERRITORY OF MISSOURI] Letter of Administration, signed by William Clark as Governor and Commander in Chief of Missouri Territory, 29 March 1814.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/04/2025_DSFB_2298-300x300.jpg)
# 47053
CLARK, William (1770-1838)
[TERRITORY OF MISSOURI] Letter of Administration, signed by William Clark as Governor and Commander in Chief of Missouri Territory, 29 March 1814.
Single leaf, 308 x 187 mm, laid paper without visible watermark; pro-forma document printed on the recto, headed TERRITORY OF LOUISIANA, with LOUISIANA struck through and amended to Missouri in manuscript; dated at Saint Louis, Missouri Territory on 29 March 1814, the document has manuscript entries which record the granting of power of authority over …
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# 47321
LEWIS, Meriwether, & CLARK, William
Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. Performed by Order of the Government of the United States in the Years 1804, 1805 and 1806.
London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1817. Third English edition. Three volumes, octavo, finely bound by the London firm of Root & Son in half crushed morocco over marbled papered boards, spines in compartments with gilt-lettering, ruled in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (binder’s stamps verso), pp. xxvi; (2); large folding map …
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# 46512
GRANVILLE, Austyn (1854-1922)
The fallen race
/ With an introduction by Opie Read. New York : F. T. Neely, 1892. Octavo, illustrated wrappers ( a few light stains and chips to head and foot of spine), pp. 352, illustrated with five plates, internally clean and overall a good copy. One of the earliest and rarest Australian science fiction novels, written by …
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# 45888
HUC, Évariste Régis, Abbé (1813-1860)
Manuscript letter written by Abbé Huc, sent from Macau in November 1846, addressed to his parents in Toulouse and reporting on his just-completed epic journey through Tartary and Tibet.
Macao, 1er. Novembre 1846. Entire letter, manuscript in ink on a single folio sheet of Chinese paper, folded to form 4 pages, written on 3½ pages; the panel on the outer side addressed to ‘Monsieur Huc, Rue Pargaminières 73, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne’, circular postal markings in black ‘Paris 8 Janv. 47’ and ‘Toulouse 11 Janv. 47’; …
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# 46804
BATCHELOR, W. H. (William Henry)
Studio portrait of a young girl from the Lower family, Kooringa, South Australia, 1867-8.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm; verso with the back mark in blue of ‘W. H. Batchelor, Photographer, Kooringa’, which features his family crest with the motto De coelo veritas (From Heaven, Truth); there is also a small inscription in ink in the upper corner, probably written by Batchelor: ‘Mr. …
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# 46572
DESNOS, Louis-Charles (1725 - 1805); NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste (1686-1762)
Globe terrestre
Dressé sur les Relations les plus nouvelles de Mrs. de l’Académie Royale des Sciences par L. C. Desnos et J. B. Nolin Géographe. Se fait et se vends chez Desnos, rue St. Jacque St. Severin, Quartier de la Place Maubert. Paris, 1760, avec privilége du Roy. Dedié au Roy, par son trés humble trés obéissant …
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# 47283
A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)
The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.
[Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …
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![[GOLD RUSH] L’or](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/19151854/2014_DSFB_2377-300x300.jpg)
# 47273
HAUSER, Henri
[GOLD RUSH] L’or
Paris : Nony & Cie., 1901. First edition. Large quarto, publisher’s pictorial green cloth gilt (lightly foxed and rubbed), decorative lining papers, front endpaper with label, all edges gilt (slightly flecked), pp. 363, [4] advertisements, early owner’s inscription to title page illustrated throughout with black and white plates and line drawings in the text, contents …
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# 47213
HUMBOLDT, Alexander von (1769-1859)
Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer : autograph letter to a Captain Gowan, arranging a meeting at the Hôtel de Londres. Paris, c.1830.
1 page, quarto (260 x 200 mm). Manuscript in ink on fine wove paper with a monogram watermark; written entirely in the third person in French in Humboldt’s idiosyncratic scrawl, the letter is dated simply ‘a mardi’ (Tuesday) and is addressed (indirectly) to a Captain Gowan, whom Humboldt invites to a rendezvous at 2 o’clock the following …
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![[SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards's Botanical Register :](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/04/2025_DSFB_2305-300x300.jpg)
# 46768
LINDLEY, John (1799-1865)
[SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards’s Botanical Register :
consisting of a complete alphabetical and systematical index of names, synonymes, and matter, adjusted to the present state of systematical botany; together with A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. With nine coloured plates, containing eighteen coloured figures of plants, and with four wood-cuts. London : James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1839. First edition, …
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# 46733
SWEET, Robert (1783-1835)
Flora Australasica ; or, a selection of handsome, or curious plants, natives of New Holland, and the South Sea islands…
London : James Ridgway, 1827-1828. First edition, first issue. Octavo (250 x 160 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards (edges slightly rubbed), spine in compartments with raised bands ruled in gilt, contrasting morocco title piece lettered in gilt; front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Charles Scrase Dickins; 56 exquisite hand-coloured engraved plates by S. …
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# 47079
[SPEER, D., attributed]
Internees from the German steamship company “Hansa”. Berrima Internment Camp, New South Wales, June 1917.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 89 x 138 mm, printed on Empire postcard stock; the hand-painted sign board front and centre of the group reads ‘Kriegsgefangene der “HANSA”. Berrima, Juni 1917‘; verso with handwritten message from one of the men in the photograph to his nephew in Hamburg, Germany, headed ‘Berrima, d. 30 Juni 1917‘ and …
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# 47229
BEATTIE, J. W. (John Watt)
The New South Wales representative soccer team. Hobart, August 1911.
Hobart : J. W. Beattie, [1911]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 85 x 132 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘Prepared by J. W. Beattie, Hobart, Tasmania’; not mailed; mild corner wear, verso with a few minor stains, else very good condition. A rare photograph documenting a significant event in the early history …
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# 47205
SWEET, Samuel White, Captain (1825-1886)
Banyan trees and bush near Palmerston (Port Darwin), Northern Territory, c.1870
Two albumen print photographs, in identical 160 x 220 mm format, mounted recto and verso of a nineteenth-century album leaf of thick card, recto inscribed in pencil below the image by the album’s compiler ‘Banyan trees’, verso without caption; both are strong prints with excellent clarity, in fine condition; a few spots of foxing to …