New Acquisitions
-
# 50724
HOWGEGO, Raymond John.
The Encyclopedia of Exploration
Sydney : Hordern House, 2003 – 2008. Five volumes, quarto, bound in cloth with colour dust jackets (lightly sunned), pp. xv; 1168; xi; 690; x; 724; xii; 1046; prospectus loosely enclosed, a very good set. The definitive reference works. The first four volumes, covering the history of exploration by land and sea from the earliest …
-
# 51046
ROGGEVEEN, Jacob [MULERT, F. E., editor]
Scheepsjournaal, gehouden op het schip Tienhoven tijdens de ontdekkingsreis van Mr. Jacob Roggeveen, 1721-1722,
medegedeeld door F. E. Baron Mulert. Met eene kaart. Middelburg : J. C. & W. Altorffer, 1911. Octavo, publisher’s printed yellow wrappers; pp. 132, with a folding map at rear; text in Dutch; a very good copy. Scarce. Trove locates only the copy in the University of Melbourne Library. Regarded as the last major Dutch voyage …
-
# 51039
DARTON AND CLARK
Peter Parley’s atlas of modern maps, and geographical tables.
Also, his remarks upon the right mode of using them, and of learning geography. With a compete index. London : Darton and Clark, 1842. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (stained), pp. 20, twelve hand-coloured maps (The world – double hemisphere, Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, The United States, Australia), geographical tables, …
-
# 51040
KLEPAC, Lou
Tim Storrier (deluxe edition with signed etching)
Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2018. Quarto, gilt-blocked red cloth in matching slipcase, pp. 264, fully illustrated. The deluxe edition, limited to 50 copies, specially bound, signed by the artist on the title page (and dated 2021), with an original four colour signed etching ‘Night Horse’ loosely enclosed. A mint copy, number 23. Tim Storrier …
-
# 50877
FRIEND, Donald.
Art in a classless society & vice versa (Special Edition of 20 finely bound copies)
A study of cultural eccentricities operating within the confines of Antipodean normalcy. Copiously illustrated with the masterpieces of avant gard, centre gard and derrier gard artists, along with a text that is not only astonishingly profound, but also surprisingly readable, from the hand of the celebrated author Donald Friend. Sydney : Richard Griffin, 1985. Folio, …
-
# 50901
O'CONNOR, Vic (1918 - 2010)
A folio of linocuts by V. G. O’Connor.
Sydney : Port Jackson Press, 1980. Folio. buckram portfolio (a few light marks), Foreword letterpress sheet, title sheet (slightly creased), five original linocuts, each titled, numbered, signed and dated 1949/80, a fine set. Printed in an edition of 75 copies, at the Whaling Road, Studio, North Sydney. A rare set of early linocuts by the …
-
# 50677
VITZELLY, Henry
Facts about Champagne and other sparkling wines,
collected during numerous visits to the Champagne and other viticultural districts of France, and the principal remaining wine-producing countries of Europe. London : Ward, Lock, and Co., 1879. Octavo, half crushed morocco over cloth by Bayntun’s of Bath, spine in compartments with raised bands, lettered and tooled in gilt, edges rubbed, top edge gilt, marbled …
-
# 51023
LIPSCOMB, John (President)
Contemporary Art Society. Twelfth Annual Interstate Exhibition
Sydney : Contemporary Art Society, 1950. Quarto, illustrated wrappers designed by Alistair Morrison (small marks), pp. [8], advertisements, foreword by John Lipscomb, catalogue of 295 paintings including works by Grace Crowley, Ralph Balson, Robert Klippel, Frank Hinder, Margo Lewers, Laurence Hope, Weaver Hawkins, Francis Lymburner, Nancy Borlase, James Gleeson, Michael Kmit, and many others. Scarce.
-
# 50895
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen (deluxe edition with signed archival print)
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. Fine copy. The rare deluxe edition, limited to only 50 copies signed by the artist. Mounted inside the upper board is a mylar sleeve housing a limited edition archival inkjet print Golden Summer 1987 / 2016 …
-
# 49878
NEW SOUTH WALES. PARLIAMENT. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
The Riverine question. Speeches in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales.
Melbourne : printed by Wilson and Mackinnon, Collins Street East, 1864. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked green pebbled cloth (rubbed), spine lettered in gilt; original yellow endpapers; title with ownership inscription of John Bowie Wilson (New South Wales Government Minister for Lands in the 1860s); pp. vii, [viii-x], 241, [3 blank]; preliminaries with …
-
# 50876
FRIEND, Donald
Hillendiana (presentation copy signed by Donald Friend; Margaret Olley; Russell Drysdale, Jean Bellette and Paul Haefliger)
A collection of Hillendiana, comprising vast numbers of facts & a considerable amount of fiction, concerning the goldfield of Hillend and environs, with the results of many years of intensive and arduous historical research. Together with copious notes, quotations from the works of esteemed and learned authors also scurrilous verses & ballads, numerous strange anecdotes …
-
# 49879
ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)
Decade 1970-1980. (Inscribed by Ellis for Skyhooks guitarist Bob “Bongo” Starkie)
Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books and the State Library of Victoria, 2013. Quarto (295 x 260 mm), diecut boards (slightly rubbed), pp. 255, illustrated; inscribed on half-title page by Rennie Ellis for legendary Skyhooks guitarist Bob “Bongo” Starkie (1952-2025): ‘To Bob, with Love’, and with the signatures of Susan van Wyk (Senior Curator of Photography, …
-
![An Appendix to the Former Work [Cosmographie], endeavouring a discovery of the unknown parts of the World, especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3991-300x300.jpg)
# 50566
HEYLYN, Peter
An Appendix to the Former Work [Cosmographie], endeavouring a discovery of the unknown parts of the World, especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent.
By Peter Heylin. London : Printed for Henry Seile, 1652. [Extracted from the first edition of Heylyn’s Cosmographie]. Disbound folio, 340 x 235 mm; title-leaf, pp. 191-7, [1 Emendation of the Errata in the Fourth Book]; browned at the edges, some very early annotations and pen trials on the last side. The idiosyncratic geography of English …
-
# 50838
BONDY, Ruth
What I meant to say : stories and travels as told to Ruth Bondy (signed presentation copy wth a small drawing by Yosl Bergner)
[Tel Aviv] : Hed Arzi Book Pub, 1997. Octavo, illustrated wrappers, pp. 223, illustrated. This copy with a signed presentation inscription to art historian, author and publisher Jenny Zimmer with a small pencil drawing by Bergner. ‘The painter Yosl Bergner was born in Vienna in 1920, arrived in Australia in 1937 and migrated to Israel …
-
# 50574
LINDSAY, Norman (1879-1969)
The Magic Pudding. Being the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle & Sam Sawnoff (first edition, second issue)
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1918. Quarto, black lettered quarter blue cloth over papered boards (a few small stains, rebacked, repairs to head and foot of spine), in original illustrated dust jacket (creased and town, paper repaired and replaced at spine and folds), plain cream endpapers, owner’s name to endpaper, colour title page, 171 pp, …
-
# 50810
HAZELWOOD, Art
Postcards From Asia
[San Francisco : the artist, circa 2000]. Quarto, concertina style bound artist’s book, papered boards, containing 14 original woodcuts, each signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 25. Created in a small edition with prints made for Hazelwood’s Walking up and down in Asia series (2000), with different prints included in each …