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Our latest list has 130+ items: travel and exploration, including early Christian missions in Asia and the Americas; English and French literature; private press books; dictionaries; colonial Australian photographs … and much more!
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# 49956
FLAUBERT, Gustave
Herodias
With illustrations by Georges Rochegrosse. Preface by Anatole France. Paris : Societe des Beaux Arts, 1895. Edition Artistique, limited to seventy-five copies for England and America (this is copy 21). Large octavo, 270 x 205 mm, in an exquisite Beaux-Arts binding of full crushed morocco, double fillet gilt border, triple fillet gilt frame, floral design …
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# 49927
[CIRCLE OF THE GRAHAME FAMILY]
“New Zealand ferns collected for Miss Grahame by her friends at Hazelbank, Auckland, 1860”.
[Auckland, New Zealand : s.n., 1860]. Handmade album. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), the covers taken from a copy of The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh : A. & C. Black, 1857), of limp tan cloth with decoration in blind and gilt device to front and rear; the book’s original pastedowns and endpapers …
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# 49973
[BARTELS, Albert]. INOUYE, T.
The modern linguist, or conversations in English, French, German and Japanese
Tokio L H. Uyeki, 1886. Oblong octavo, publisher’s cloth with contemporary original owner’s homemade marbled paper jacket, with title label and initials ‘F. J.’, half-title in English and Japanese, pp. xii; 165; blank; (3), vocabulary of words and short phrases in five languages, derived from Albert Bartels’ work published in 1850, title leaf with offsetting …
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![[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The floure and the leafe, & the boke of Cupid, god of love, or the cuckow and the nightingale](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/03/2026_DSFB_2011-300x300.jpg)
# 49953
[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CLANVOWE, Sir Thomas
[KELMSCOTT PRESS]. The floure and the leafe, & the boke of Cupid, god of love, or the cuckow and the nightingale
London (Hammersmith) : Kelmscott Press, 1896. Small quarto, publisher’s Holland-backed boards, the linen spine with edge wear and traces of handwritten title, printed blue papered boards (a few small spots), bookplate for Harry Mansfield to from pastedown, printed in black and red, one of 300 copies printed on paper (an additional 10 copies were printed …
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# 48769
FRASER, Joseph
Melbourne and Mars : my mysterious life on two planets. Extracts from the diary of a Melbourne merchant
Melbourne : Pater & Knapton, 1889. Octavo, lettered wrappers (fragile, edges conserved; title page, presentation inscription in pencil to p. 3, pp. 104; [8 – catalogue]; internally clean, a very good copy. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather title label. Melbourne and Mars is an early Australian work of utopian science …
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# 49995
OWEN, T. C.
The tea planter’s manual
With coloured lithographed plans of an iron, and a wood-and-stone, tea factory, drawn to scale. Colombo : A. M. & J. Ferguson, 1886. Octavo, Ceylonese binding of plum papered boards, title label to upper board (edges rubbed), owner’s name to title leaf (recto and verso), xxiv; errata leaf, ‘memo’ slip, 162, xvi (advertisements), two very …
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# 50240
BAILEY, N[athan].
A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary :
containing not only explanations of the words in the English language, and the different senses in which they are used ; with authorities from the best writers, to support those which appear doubtful ; but also their etymologies from ancient and modern languages : and accents directing to their proper pronunciation ; shewing both the …
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![[THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/01/08164638/2020_DSFB_0121-2-300x300.jpg)
# 40072
LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
[THYLACINE; GOLD RUSH] Display of gold from the Colony of Victoria at the International Exhibition, London, 1862
London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, 1862. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, 80 x 80 mm each image (arched format), on yellow mount 84 x 173 mm; recto with printed title: The International Exhibition of 1862: No. 141 – N. E. Transcept, and Australian Gold Case; under magnification, the sign on the case reads: The Stamping Machine / Victoria …
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# 49964
PATERSON BROTHERS
Schoolboys playing cricket and leapfrog outside the Camberwell Common School building, Melbourne, c.1867.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 63 x 104 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Paterson Brothers, Photographic Artists. Portrait Rooms, 8 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; both the print and the mount are in fine condition. A very early colonial cricket photograph. The Camberwell Common School opened on 19 August 1867, roughly on …
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# 50259
[Photographer unknown].
Aboriginal group on an urban street. New South Wales, c.1880.
Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 73 x 73 mm, on original flat mount of grey card, 87 x 177 mm; verso with fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘2. Aboriginals N.S.W.’; both prints have excellent clarity and are in fine condition, as is the mount.
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# 49916
WILDE, Oscar (1854 - 1900)
The complete works of Oscar Wilde.
Patrons’ Edition De Luxe. New York : Doubleday, Page and Company, 1923. Twelve volumes, octavo, finely bound in contemporary half crushed morocco over buckram, ruled in gilt, spines in compartments with raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt with sunflower motif, top edges gilt, other edges uncut, pagination various, with introductions by W. B. Yeats …
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# 49992
MAUPASSANT, Guy de
Le vagabond.
Lithographies en couleurs par Steinlen. Paris : Société des Amis des Livres, 1902. Small folio, magnificently bound in full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, gilt rules and fillets, spine in compartments with prominent raised bands, lettered and ruled in gilt (a little rubbed on the bands), full morocco doublures with gilt rules and morocco fillets, …
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# 49926
BRONTE, Charlotte and Anne.
The novels of the sisters Bronte
Edinburgh : John Grant, 1907. The Thornton edition. Twelve volumes, octavo, contemporary blue half morocco over buckram (very lightly rubbed), spines in compartments with raised bands, lettered and ruled in gilt with decorations, top edges gilt, fore edges uncut, marbled endpapers, illustrated with numerous photographic plates of places associated with the Bronte sisters. Includes the …
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# 13336
Hay, John, 1546-1607
De rebus Iaponicis, Indicis et Peruanis epistolae recentiores.
A Joanne Hayo Dalgatttiensi Scoto Societatis Jesu in librum unum coacervatae. Antuerpiæ : Ex officina Martini Nutij, ad insigne duarum Ciconiarum, Anno M. DC. V. [Antwerp : Martin Nutius, 1605]. Octavo, fine Jesuit binding of full calf ruled in gilt with ornamental cornerpieces; upper board with central Jesuit device, lower board with heraldic crest; flat-panel spine tooled …
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# 14164
Argensola, Bartolome Leonardo de
Conquista de las Islas Malucas
Madrid : Alonso Martin, 1609. Small folio, contemporary limp vellum (somewhat cockled, lacking ties); endpapers sympathetically renewed; engraved title-leaf (expertly re-margined at fore- and bottom edges with penwork in facsimile (including for the imprint, which is folded over at bottom edge – the imprint is commonly lacking); pp. [10], 407 (i.e. 411, as 316-319 are …
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# 49427
ACOSTA, Emanuel (1541-1604), et al.
Iesus. Cartas que los padres y hermanos de la Compañia de Iesus, que andan en los reynos de Iapon escriuieron a los de la misma Compañia,
desde el año de mil y quinientos y quare[n]ta y nueue, hasta el de mil y quinientos y setenta y uno : en las quales se da noticia de las varias costumbres y idolatrias de aquella gentilidad : y se cuenta el principio y successo y bondad de los Christianos de aquellas partes. En Alcala …