Europe
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# 51307
Prévost, Antoine François (Abbé) (1697-1763)
Histoire générale des voyages,
ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu’à présent dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues … … Paris : Didot, 1746 – 1789. First edition. Twenty volumes, quarto (258 x 200 mm), uniformly bound in period half French speckled calf, spines …
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# 50813
BENESCH, Otto (1896 - 1964)
The drawings of Rembrandt. The first complete edition in six volumes
London : The Phaeton Press, 1954 – 1957. Six volumes (complete), folios, gilt lettered buckram in paper dustjacket (torn with losses, lacking the jacket to the third volume), pp. 469, 1734 black and white reproductions, a very good set in worn jackets. The first complete catalog of Rembrandt drawings, based on much original research by …
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# 51548
MIRÓ, Joan (1893 - 1983)
Joan Miró lithographs : first four volumes of the catalogue raisonne
A complete mixed language set of the first four volumes of the catalogue raisonné of lithographs by the great Spanish abstract artist Joan Miró. Printed between 1972 and 1981, the first four volumes include a total of 32 original colour lithographs by Miro bound into the text, some double page, plus four lithographed dustjackets. The …
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# 24084
A prayer to be used every day next after the prayer in time of war and tumults, in all cathedral, collegiate, and parochial churches and chapels throughout England and Ireland, during the war.
London : George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1803. Quarto, pp. 4, single sheet, folded, a little worn. Ephemeral religious printing praising the British armed forces during the Napoleonic Wars.
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# 51367
MADDOCK, James (1718 - 1786)
The florist’s directory; or a treatise on the culture of flowers;
to which is added a supplementary dissertation on soil, manures, &c. London : B. White & Sons; G. G. J. & J. Robinson, and T. & J. Egerton, 1792. First edition. Octavo, contemporary speckled calf, gilt decorated edges, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, speckled edges, engraved title page with …
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# 43341
[Photographer unknown]
Outdoor ambrotype of Bradworthy Vicarage, Devon, dated 29 July 1862.
Sixth-plate ambrotype, 72 x 58 mm (sight); in an elliptical brass mat with ormolu preserver (no case); fully contemporary inscription in ink to backing paper verso: ‘Bradworthy Vicarage, July 28th 1862’; a very sharp image; the original cover glass has a crack at upper right corner. Side view of the Bradworthy Vicarage, today a Grade II …
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# 51302
O'CONNOR, Vic (1918 - 2010)
Study of the House of Parliament at the Embankment ’73
Charcoal on paper, 212 x 299 mm (sheet) signed and title flower centre, unframed. A dynamic charcoal sketch of the Palace of Westminster, London, by the Melbourne social realist artist.
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# 47673
PHILLIPS, Giles Firman (1780-1867)
Principles of effect and colour as applicable to landscape painting
Illustrated by examples for the amateur and professional student in art. London : B. B. King, [1840]. Third edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (stained, wear to corners and head and foot of spine), presentation inscription to front free endpaper Alfred Large from James Hawkins August 26, 1853, frontispiece colour wheel chart, tissue guard (torn), illustrated title page, …
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# 50809
STANFORD, Edward
Stanford’s map of Scotland
London : Edward Stanford, circa 1885. Chromolithographed map, dissected and laid on linen in 48 panels, 123.5 x 104 cms, housed in publisher’s git-lettered purple slipcase (sunned and marked). London Atlas Series. A fine large format map of Scotland with an inset map of the Shetland Islands.
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![[JOSEPH BANKS] Bref, rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2715-300x300.jpg)
# 50103
[BANKS]. TROIL, Uno von
[JOSEPH BANKS] Bref, rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.
Upsala : uplagde af Magnus Swederus … , 1777. First edition. Octavo, half-calf over marbled papered boards (edges rubbed, chipped at head of spine), flat panelled spine lettered in gilt, offsetting to endpapers, title with engraved vignette illustration of the Icelandic landscape and Geyser spouting water, ownership signature to front pastedown and small collector’s stamp …
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# 51246
[BRITISH ARMY] [HUDDART, Art, artist]
BEAT the TERRORIST. Nobby says: Don’t be a victim!! Be unpredictable! … Switch on to security. Stay alert – stay alive!!!
[UK : British Army, c.1989]. Copy of a colour poster, 415 x 285 mm; illustration at upper left signed and dated in the image ‘Art Huddart, ’89’; 22nd Special Air Service (Hereford Garrison) stamps to verso; numerous light horizontal creases. This is a copy of an IRA terrorist bomb warning poster issued by the British Army, …
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# 51316
[PROPAGANDE FIDE]
Augusto Friderico, magnae Britanniae principi, Georgii Regis filio, Carmina linguis exoticis in honorem Dei pueri a tribus magis adorati …
[Rome : Propaganda Fide Press, 1793], Folio (360 x 230 mm), original decorative paper wrappers (upper wrapper almost detached, and lacking backstrip); ff. [1 blank], I-XXIII (i.e. 23 numbered leaves); printed on recto only and within an ornamental border; engraved arms of the Duke of Sussex at the head of title-page; verso of first blank …
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![[FUTURISM] Studio portrait of Gastone Lurini, brother of Futurist artist Marisa Mori, c.1915.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/07/2026_DSFB_4618-300x300.jpg)
# 50837
[Photographer unknown].
[FUTURISM] Studio portrait of Gastone Lurini, brother of Futurist artist Marisa Mori, c.1915.
[Italy : s.n., c.1915]. Gelatin print photograph printed on postcard stock, 137 x 87 mm; verso inscribed in ink: ‘Gastone Lurini’; in good condition, the verso with paper borders from an old mount. Gastone Lurini (1898-1916) was the son of Italian writer and intellectual Edmea Lurini Bernini, and older brother of Marisa Mori (1900-1985), a …
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# 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 …
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# 50828
SCHWEIGHOFER, Felix; MAYER, Otto (photographer)
Felix Schweighofer, Austrian actor : real photo portrait postcard with signed autograph message to opera librettist Emil Norini. Blasewitz (Dresden), July 1907.
Gelatin silver print photograph, printed on postcard stock, 137 x 87 mm; in the negative are the photographer’s handwritten details lower left ‘Otto Mayer, Dresden’, and facsimile signature of Felix Schweighofer lower right; lower margin recto with Schweighofer’s handwritten note explaining that the portrait is of him in character as August Nippes for the comedy …
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# 50829
ANGERER, Victor
Gisela Timony, Viennese actress : signed portrait photograph, inscribed for opera librettist Emil Norini. Vienna, April 1903.
Wien : Victor Angerer, [1903]. Silver albumen print photograph in cabinet card format, 163 x 103 mm; signed by the sitter in ink in the image lower right: ‘Gisi Timony’; verso with the Angerer studio imprint and with a presentation inscription by Timony: ‘Meinen lieben Collegen Herrn Emil Norini, zur freundlichen Errinerung, Wien 5. IV. …