New Acquisitions
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# 50698
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. (Third edition) 1861
London : printed by W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1861. Third edition. 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 lettered in gilt (corners slightly bumped, light bumping to head and foot of …
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# 29462
LEICHHARDT, Ludwig (1813-1848)
Journal of an overland expedition in Australia from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845.
London : T. & W. Boone, 1847. First edition. Octavo, bound in period style with half-calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title labels, pp. xx, 544, 8 (publisher’s advertisements); frontispiece and [6] aquatint plates (1 folding), internally clean; with the rare separately issued, hand-coloured map on three sheets (as issued: …
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# 48533
LABILLARDIERE, [Jacques Julien Houten de].
Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse,
fait par ordre de l’Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et la 2me année de la République Francoise. Paris : Chez H. J. Jansen, an VIII de la République Francoise [1800]. Two volumes quarto plus atlas folio, the two text volumes in early quarter papered boards with gilt-lettered calf spines …
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# 50718
EYRE, Edward (1815-1901)
Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.
Original ink signature of Edward Eyre, on front section of a small bifolium of notepaper (103 x 93 mm), with an autograph covering note by Eyre on the third side, written in the third person: ‘Mr. Eyre has much pleasure in presenting his autograph for Miss Christy’s collection as requested in Mr. Christy’s letter of …
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![[LONDON; DOLLS] Meech's Royal Exhibition of Mechanical and Wax Figures, 50 & 52, Kennington Road ... Complimentary Lenten Order, admitting TWO on Payment for ONE,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/07/2026_DSFB_4598-300x300.jpg)
# 50822
[MEECH, Herbert John]
[LONDON; DOLLS] Meech’s Royal Exhibition of Mechanical and Wax Figures, 50 & 52, Kennington Road … Complimentary Lenten Order, admitting TWO on Payment for ONE,
To view the magnificent life-size Models in costly costumes of eminent persons, The Automaton Flute Player, with the wonderful mechanical Groupings, Works of Art, and the performances of Professor Burman, the Wizard, (From the Egyptian Hall) whose feats are still the delight and surprise of all. Admission 6d. Working Classes and Children 3d. Open daily …
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![[SLAVERY] Theatre Royal, Derby. ... The Close of the Grand Peristrephic (or moving) Panorama of the Bombardment of Algiers. Displaying the whole of the British Fleet,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/07/2026_DSFB_4714-300x300.jpg)
# 50868
[MARSHALL, Peter and William]
[SLAVERY] Theatre Royal, Derby. … The Close of the Grand Peristrephic (or moving) Panorama of the Bombardment of Algiers. Displaying the whole of the British Fleet,
the City as it appeared before the Battle, and the City and Batteries in Ruins as they were left on the day of the Battle, with the British Boats bringing away the Christian Slaves released from Bondage to liberty, happiness, and home … The Panorama was visited in Birmingham by 30,000 Persons, and in Nottingham …
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# 50880
BATTARBEE, Rex (1893 - 1973)
Fashion, 1924
Pen and ink on artist’s board, 200 x 65 mm (image), 255 x 115 mm (card), tissue guard, unsigned, verso with the artist’s design label ‘R. E. Battarbee, Fashion Artist, Illustrator & Designer, 2nd Floor, 372 Flinders Lane’, authenticated by the artist’s daughter Gayle Quarmby. An exquisite small pen and ink by Australian artist Rex …
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# 50757
BLIGH, William
The dangerous voyage performed by Captain Bligh, with a part of the crew of His Majesty’s ship Bounty, in an open boat, over twelve hundred leages of the ocean; in the year 1789.
To which are added, an account of the sufferings and fate of the remainder of the crew of said ship. Dublin : R. Napper, 1824. Duodecimo, contemporary full calf corner and edge wear, outer front hinge with splits at head and foot), spine with gilt rule and lettering (worn at ends); edges speckled red; woodcut …
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# 50836
LESAINT, Edward (1870-1940) (director)
Sydney-born Australian silent film actress Louise Lovely in two scenes from “Painted Lips” (1918).
Los Angeles, California : Edward LeSaint, [c.1918]. Two gelatin silver print photographs on lightweight card stock, in identical 160 x 210 mm format; the negatives inscribed ‘LeSaint 2439’ and ‘LeSaint 2739’ and the versos with old pencil annotations: ‘Louise Lovely’ and ‘The Straw Cellar’, respectively; both prints are in fine condition (unframed). Two stills from …
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# 50802
EUROPAEUS, David Emanuel Daniel (Taneli)
Die Stammenverwandtschaft der meisten Sprachen der Alten und Australisches Welt.
[=The genealogical relationship of most languages of the Old World and the Australian world]. St. Petersburg : Typografiya Tovarishchestva “Obshchestvennaya Pol’za”, Bol’shaya Pod’yacheskaya no. 39, 1877. Large folio, 49 x 43 cm, pp. [10] (the last blank), comprising four double-page tables, preceded by the author’s explanatory essay illustrated with two wood-engravings; text in German; contemporary …
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# 50814
Ribadeneira, Pedro de, 1527-1611; Alegambe, Philippus, 1592-1652; Southwell, Nathaniel, 1598-1676
Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu, opus inchoatum a R.P. Pedro Ribadeneira
Eiusdem Societatis Theologo, anno salutis 1602. Continuatum a R.P. Philippo Alegambe Ex eadem Societate, usque ad annum 1642. Recognitum, et productum ad annum Iubilæi M.DC.LXXV. [1675]. A Nathanaele Sotuello Eiusdem Societatis Presbytero. Romæ : Ex typographia Iacobi Antonij de Lazzaris Varesij, MDCLXXVI [1676]. Folio, contemporary vellum over boards; front pastedown with the ex libris of …
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# 51020
IRMO, Louis A. (editor)
Mermaids and moonlight. The watercolours of Norman Lindsay
[Stokie, Illinois] : Soo Loo Press, 1993. Folio, clamshell box 375 x 300 x 30 mm with title labels, containing an Introduction by Louis Irmo; three essays on Norman Lindsay by Alex Dean Foster, William Stout and Louis Irmo; 30 individual colour reproductions of Lindsay’s watercolours not previously published, each mounted on card, and three …
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# 50985
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
Norman Lindsay : two hundred etchings (with original prospectus)
Published in two volumes, with an introduction by Daniel Thomas, comments on Norman Lindsay’s etching technique and a catalogue and notes. Edited by Douglas Stewart. Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1973. Two volumes, folio, quarter crushed morocco over gilt-lettered buckram in card slipcase, unpaginated, two hundred full page plates printed rectos only, limited to 210 …
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# 50347
LINDSAY, Norman, 1879-1969
The pen drawings of Norman Lindsay (deluxe edition)
Special number of Art in Australia. Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Bertram Stevens. Sydney: Angus & Robertson Ltd., 1918. Quarto, quarter cloth over papered boards, rare printed dustjacket (a couple of small chips to head and foot of spine), photographic frontispiece, 55 tipped-in plates, very fine. Limited to 200 copies signed by Norman Lindsay …
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![[NORMAN LINDSAY] Earth visitors : poems by Kenneth Slessor](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/01/2025_DSFB_7712-300x300.jpg)
# 50993
SLESSOR, Kenneth; LINDSAY, Norman (illustrator)
[NORMAN LINDSAY] Earth visitors : poems by Kenneth Slessor
London : Fanfrolico Press, 1926. Limited edition of 425 copies (this copy number 106). Quarto, original gilt decorated papered boards and spine (bump to one corner), pp [1-8], 9-75, light foxing to endpapers, uncut lower and fore-edge, ‘three collotype reproductions of woodcuts by Norman Lindsay, and two copperplate engravings made from designs by the same …
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# 50955
[LINDSAY]. DEAMER, Dulcie
As it was in the beginning (presentation copy signed by Dulcie Deamer and Norman Lindsay)
Melbourne : Frank Wilmot, 1929. Octavo, quarter cloth over papered boards (slightly foxed), dustjacket (a little marked), 64 pp. with tipped-in illustrations by Norman Lindsay. With the tipped-in limitation slip, numbered and stating the edition is limited to 500 copies of which 450 are for sale. With a signed presentation inscription from the author Dulcie …