New Acquisitions
We present 200 recent acquisitions: art, literature, exploration, natural history, war, Norman Lindsay, 19th-century photographs, ephemera – and much more.
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# 49703
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey et al.
The Yellow Book : an illustrated quarterly.
London : Elkin Mathews & John Lane; Boston, MA: Copeland & Day, 1894 – 97. Thirteen volumes, octavo, black-stamped yellow cloth; lightly marked, corners a little bumped, top edges dust soiled, a very good mixed set. Vol. 1: 272 (reprint with “April” corrected on front cover, repaired tear to foot of spine); Vol. 2, reprint, …
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# 51278
J. LEVY & CIE. (PARIS) (photographer)
The allegorical statue “Australie”, photographed in situ at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878.
Albumen print, cabinet card format, 165 x 108 mm (mount), blind stamp of the photographer J. Lévy & cie., Paris in the image lower right; verso blank; a superb print in fine condition. This larger-than-life allegorical statue, sculpted from marble and titled Australie, was exhibited in the display of decorative arts during the Paris Exposition Universelle in …
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# 50981
LATHAM, John (1740 - 1897)
A General History of Birds. (Deluxe issue)
Winchester : printed by Jacob and Johnston for the author, and sold by G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1821-1828 (but the rare deluxe Bohn issue, London, circa 1840). Eleven volumes bound in ten (the eleventh being the index), quarto, in the publisher’s deluxe binding of full crushed red morocco (a green version was also available), …
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# 51559
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Renaissance 1961
Watercolour on paper, 56.0 x 89.0 cm; 85.0 x 115.0 cm (framed), signed and dated lower right: Norman Lindsay / 1961. One of the most ambitious watercolours ever created by Norman Lindsay, painted in epic large format. A highly complex figurative composition, in which the octogenarian painter displays a lifetime of experience in capturing the …
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# 50915
[MAHER, Alice]
The Port Phillip Exercise Book.
[Melbourne : s.n., probably between 1880 and 1890]. Large octavo (210 x 165 mm), original pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper with lithographed cartouche illustrations with sport and recreation themes that feature some familiar Port Phillip landmarks, including a football match, cricket (at the MCG), tennis, yachting (at Queenscliff), rowing (under Princes Bridge), penny-farthing riding (around …
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# 50775
FAVIER, Alphonse
Péking : histoire et description.
Peking [Beijing] : Imprimerie des Lazaristes au Pé-T’ang, 1897. First edition, deluxe issue (with 10 coloured plates). Folio (255 x 355 mm), two volumes in one, contemporary three-quarter morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and lettering; marbled pastedowns and endpapers, each pastedown with a mounted original watercolour (one of flowers, the …
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# 51201
[Unknown collector]
Album of pressed ferns collected in New South Wales and Fiji, c.1880.
Quarto (295 x 230 mm), original leather over boards with gilt-embossed decoration (rubbed); all edges gilt, watered silk pastedowns and endpapers; containing a chromolithographed title-leaf worded ‘Album’ and a further 25 leaves of thick card with lithographed borders in red, each with a pressed native fern specimen skilfully mounted on the recto; every specimen is accompanied by …
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![[BATTLE OF COCOS] Group of original photographs taken by a crew member of HMAS Sydney in the aftermath of the engagement with the Emden on 9 November, 1914.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5725-300x300.jpg)
# 51434
[Photographer unknown]
[BATTLE OF COCOS] Group of original photographs taken by a crew member of HMAS Sydney in the aftermath of the engagement with the Emden on 9 November, 1914.
Group of 5 (five) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 85 x 130 mm format; all in good condition, the versos numbered 1 to 5 in ink in a fully contemporary hand; these numbers correspond to the five brief descriptions typed on an accompanying sheet, 160 x 200 mm, old folds but well preserved. On …
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# 51262
[ARTHUR STREETON]
Streeton’s show of the sunlit suburbs of Sydney
Cup Week only. Open from 31 Oct to 5 Nov 1921, Athenaeum Hall. Melbourne : Atlas Press, 1921. Octavo, printed wrappers (lightly marked, horizontal crease), 4 pp. List of 10 works. Scarce.
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# 47552
YOUNG AUSTRALIA LEAGUE
Australia to Japan : girls’ tour – with the Young Australia League, August to December 1935.
Melbourne : Renwick Pride Pty. Ltd., printer, [1935]. Tour prospectus. Small quarto (225 x 170 mm), stapled pictorial self-wrappers (light horizontal fold; upper wrapper with corner crease; lower wrapper with short corner tear); pp. 16, with numerous b/w photographic illustrations, map; very clean throughout; loosely enclosed is the official application form for the tour, plus …
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# 51366
[WALPOLE, Horace].
The Castle of Otranto, a gothic story.
Translated by William Marshall, Gent. from the original Italian of Onuphiro Muralto, Canon of the Church of St. Nicholas at Otranto. A new edition, with plates. London : printed for E. Jeffery, 1797. Octavo, full speckled calf, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments ruled in gilt, contrasting gilt-lettered morocco title label, lightly rubbed, marbled endpapers …
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# 51259
HAIGH, Edward (attributed)
Scene in the Park during the Colonial Cricket Match, Melbourne. (January, 1862)
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, mount 83 x 165 mm, verso with original paper label with printed ornamental border and contemporary inscription in ink, Scene in the Park during the Colonial Cricket Match, Melbourne, and at lower left contemporary pencilled ownership initials E.G.; both the stereoscopic prints and the mount are …
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# 51341
ADAMS, Richard (1920 - 2016)
Watership Down (deluxe edition with original signed watercolour)
London : Paradine, 1976. Octavo, full crushed levant morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine in compartments with gilt-illustrations and vignette to front board, light sunning to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, 550 pp., numerous colour and black and white illustrations and folding colour map at rear, a fine copy, housed in the publisher’s marbled …
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![[BLUE MOUNTAINS CROSSING] Neue Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5677-300x300.jpg)
# 49446
BERTUCH, F. J. (Friedrich Justin) (editor)
[BLUE MOUNTAINS CROSSING] Neue Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden.
Verfasset von einer Gesellschaft von Gelehrten, und herausgegeben von Dr. F. J. Bertuch … … Erster Band. Weimar : im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1817. Octavo, four parts in one volume, octavo (192 x 120 mm), contemporary cloth-backed marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), expertly re-backed; front pastedown with 19th-century University College, London bookplate; frontispiece folding engraved …
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# 51215
DEAMER, Dulcie (1890 - 1972)
The Silver Branch
Twenty-seven poems by Dulcie Deamer. Dover Heights (Sydney) : Swinburne Press, 1948. Octavo, quarter cloth over lettered boards, Norman Lindsay illustrated dustjacket (lightly marked and edge worn), slight split to upper hinge, frontispiece illustration by Rosaleen Norton, pp. 89; colophon, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Dulcie Deamer. Very scarce. ‘Mary Elizabeth Kathleen Dulcie …
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# 50806
MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy
War impressions (deluxe edition, copy number 1, with original signed watercolour)
Being a record in colour by Mortimer Menpes. Transcribed by Dorothy Menpes. London : Adam & Charles Black, 1901. Quarto, in a fine signed binding by Bickers of London of full levant morocco, elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and tooling, edges slightly rubbed, morocco turn-ins with …