New Acquisitions
Our list this month has 150 items, including early Sydney and Hobart imprints, 19th-century broadsides relating to Australia, exploration, natural history, 19th-century photographs, art – and much more!
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# 47366
CRAIG, Eric (maker/artist)
New Zealand fern specimens in original kauri wood box, early 1880s.
Box, of solid mottled kauri, 266 x 183 x 50 mm, containing [25] specimens of New Zealand ferns pressed and mounted on individual cards in uniform 210 x 140 mm format, each mount with a printed label identifying the specimen by its botanical name, using the correct binomial nomenclature in Latin (the system developed by Linnaeus); …
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# 45542
HILDER, Brett (1911-1981)
Portrait of Wandjuk Marika. Yirrkala, October 1972.
Watercolour on artist’s board, 34 x 25 cm; unsigned, but inscribed and dated by the artist ‘WANDJUK MARIKA / YIRRKALA / 19.10.72‘; in very good condition. This portrait of Yolngu leader and artist Wandjuk Djuakan Marika (1927-1987) was painted at Yirrkala Mission on the Gove Peninsula in October 1972, by Captain Brett Hilder of the …
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![[KULIN LANGUAGES] God hath made of one blood all nations of men : Acts 17th Chap. 25th verse : in 103 languages : a memorial of the Victorian Exhibition 1866, consisting of a verse from holy writ in above one hundred languages.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0627-300x300.jpg)
# 46291
[INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION OF AUSTRALASIA]
[KULIN LANGUAGES] God hath made of one blood all nations of men : Acts 17th Chap. 25th verse : in 103 languages : a memorial of the Victorian Exhibition 1866, consisting of a verse from holy writ in above one hundred languages.
[Drop title]. [Melbourne : s.n., 1866]. Lithographic printing on linen-backed paper (apparently as issued), 325 x 375 mm (sheet); right-hand edge trimmed and roughened with some minor textual loss, upper left corner of sheet with small loss and a tiny tear, verso with traces of old glue at each corner (although the sheet appears to …
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![[LA PÉROUSE EXPEDITION] Handwritten document requesting additional equipment for the Astrolabe, written on board the ship prior to its departure from Brest, dated 10 June 1785.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/11/2024_DSFB_6590-300x300.jpg)
# 45572
MONTI, Anne-Georges-Augustin de (1753-1788)
[LA PÉROUSE EXPEDITION] Handwritten document requesting additional equipment for the Astrolabe, written on board the ship prior to its departure from Brest, dated 10 June 1785.
Manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked TM, 1 page, quarto (210 x 170 mm). [Brest], ‘à bord [l’Astrolabe], le 10 juin 1785’. Headed ‘pour L’astrolabe’, and signed at the foot ‘de Monti’, the note comprises a short list of equipment that is required for the vessel: ‘two rudder bars … a spike for the …
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# 46212
GRIMSTONE, Mary Leman (1796-1869)
The Beauty of the British Alps ; or, Love at First Sight.
London : Published by G. Virtue, 26, Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row ; Bath-street, Bristol ; and Queen-square, Liverpool, 1825. Octavo (204 x 130 mm), contemporary marbled calf, boards with ornamental gilt borders (boards a little scuffed, front joint superficially cracked, minor cracking at head of rear joint, corners a trifle worn), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and …
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# 47284
[BALLEONI, Paul]
Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis S. Pii V. Pontificio Maximi Jesse editum, et urbani VIII.
Venice : Balleoni, 1754. Octavo, magnificent contemporary à la cire binding of interlaced coloured calf with elaborate foliated gilt tooling, the interlacing infilled with dark brown wax paint, spine in compartments with raised bands, extensively tooled in gilt, two working metal clasps, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, engraved title page, pp. xxiv; 456; copperplate engraved illustrations, a …
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![[BOTANY BAY BIRDS] Rackstrow's Museum, Pronounced to be of the First Importance in the World, Established upwards of Fifty Years ; lately Improved, Enlarged, and Enriched ... It consists of most Curious Objects ... Anatomical Collection ... Collection of Natural Productions ... Works of Art.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3443-300x300.jpg)
# 47513
[RACKSTROW'S MUSEUM]
[BOTANY BAY BIRDS] Rackstrow’s Museum, Pronounced to be of the First Importance in the World, Established upwards of Fifty Years ; lately Improved, Enlarged, and Enriched … It consists of most Curious Objects … Anatomical Collection … Collection of Natural Productions … Works of Art.
At head of text: No. 197, between Temple-Bar and Chancery-Lane, Fleet-Street. [London : s.n., between 1790 and 1800]. Handbill, small quarto (230 x 185 mm), letterpress printed recto and verso on laid paper; light folds, in excellent condition. “BEAUTIFUL BIRDS from BOTANY-BAY…“ A rare handbill for Rackstrow’s Museum, London’s only commercially-run waxwork anatomical museum of …
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# 47520
[Anon.]
Melancholy and dreadful loss of the Amphitrite : bound from Woolwich to Botany Bay, with 108 female convicts and 12 children, together with a crew of 16, being in the whole 136 souls; of which 133 perished in the dreadful gale of Saturday the 31st of August, 1833, off Boulogne.
[London] : J. Catnach, Printer, 2 & 3, Monmouth-court, 7 Dials, [1833]. Broadside, 250 x 190 mm, letterpress with large woodcut illustration, laid down on an old backing sheet; toned, ghosting from nineteenth-century glue at each corner, otherwise very good. A rare illustrated broadside ballad lamenting the wreck of the convict transport Amphitrite off the …
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# 47388
"NORROY" [pseud. of H. F. BROWNE]
A Tale of a Whale.
/ Written and illustrated by “Norroy”. London : Dean & Son, [1884]. [BOUND WITH] The Strange Adventures of a Carp. By “Norroy”, author of A Tale of a Whale. London : Dean & Son, [1884]. Two works bound in one, octavo (190 x 145 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial boards (rubbed and with light edge wear), …
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# 47285
DARWIN, Charles (1809 - 1882)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Second edition (1860)
London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1860. Second edition, second state (fifth thousand). Octavo, original green cloth by Edmonds & Remnants, London retaining their ticket on lower pastedown, boards blocked in blind with rules enclosing foliate designs and central panel, spine gilt (recased with original spine laid down, repairs to …
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# 46516
Anon. [for THE WORKING MEN'S EDUCATIONAL UNION]
A missionary preaching to Chinese in Hong Kong.
London : The Working Men’s Educational Union, King William Street, Trafalgar Square [1854]. Coloured lithographic wall hanging printed on calico, 880 x 1160 mm; original brass eyelets at each corner; numbered ‘LM No. 12’ lower left; slightly creased, but a well preserved example, the hand colouring still strong and vibrant. The Working Men’s Educational Union was …
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# 46899
SWEET, Samuel White, Captain (1825-1886)
Ngarrindjeri man in skin cloak, holding weapons. Point McLeay, South Australia, 1878.
Albumen print photograph, 215 x 160 mm; inscribed in negative ‘Sweet Adelaide 457’; unmounted; verso with contemporary annotation in pencil ‘Native man’; a strong print with excellent clarity; edges slightly unevenly trimmed, otherwise in fine condition. The Point McLeay Mission (today known as Raukkan) was established by the Rev. George Taplin in 1859 as a …
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# 42927
ROSS, James (1786–1838)
The Hobart Town Almanack for the year MDCCCXXXIV. (Inscribed by Ronald Campbell Gunn to fellow botanist William Jackson Hooker)
Also titled: (Ross’s) Van Diemen’s Land Annual and Hobart Town Almanack, for the year 1834. Hobart Town, Van Diemen’s Land : Printed by James Ross, [December, 1833]. Small octavo (180 x 115 mm), original blue paper wrappers with early vellum backstrip (moderate wear); front free-endpaper with a presentation inscription in ink: ‘Dr. W. J. Hooker from …
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# 42020
BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. NEW SOUTH WALES AUXILIARY. [HOWE, George, printer]
Third Report of the Auxiliary Bible Society of New South Wales. 1819. With a list of benefactions and subscriptions paid since the publication of the 2nd report. (Edward Wise’s copy)
Sydney : Printed by G. Howe, Government printer, 1819. Duodecimo (150 x 105 mm); later blue morocco with gilt-lettered spine; front pastedown with ex libris of Dr. George Mackaness; pp. 32, with the original grey wrappers bound in at the rear; title-page trimmed at bottom edge, and inscribed ‘B. Plashett Rodd, from Mr. Justice Wise, …
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![[TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; MAORI] Catalogue of J. W. Reimers's Gallery of All Nations, and Anatomical Museum. Saville House, Leicester Square, London.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3488-300x300.jpg)
# 47521
REIMERS, J. W. [GUILDER, Charles V., editor)
[TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; MAORI] Catalogue of J. W. Reimers’s Gallery of All Nations, and Anatomical Museum. Saville House, Leicester Square, London.
Open every day (except Sundays) from eleven o’clock in the morning until ten at night. Leeds : Printed by Jackson and Asquith, 32 Swinegate, 1853. Octavo (205 x 130 mm), modern grey paper wrappers, pp. 32; a clean, crisp example. Rare guidebook to the anatomical and ethnological museum owned by London-based German entrepreneur Jacob W. Reimers, a …
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![官許 新刊輿地全圖 [Kankyo shinkan yochi zenzu] [Officially Licenced New Map of the World]](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/09/16102758/2016_DSFB_51121-300x298.jpg)
# 47642
竹口瀧三郎 [Takeguchi Takisaburō]; 上村福三郎 [Uemura Fukusaburō]
官許 新刊輿地全圖 [Kankyo shinkan yochi zenzu] [Officially Licenced New Map of the World]
Edo (Tokyo), Japan : 萬屋兵四郎 [Yorozuya Heishirō], [1862] (Bunkyū 2). Hand coloured woodblock print, 1360 x 1350 mm., original cloth covers and paper portfolio, both with title labels (portfolio with some silverfishing and lacking left-hand flap), map with some foxing and silverfishing, repaired with Japanese tissue. A detailed map of the world on Mercator’s projection …