North America
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![[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/03/2025_DSFB_1728-300x300.jpg)
# 46765
STANLEY, Henry Morton [ROWLANDS, John]
[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.
Albumen print photograph (a copy print made in 1872 from a print made by an unidentified American studio in 1864-65), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘J. Laing, Portrait & Landscape Photographer, Miniature & Portrait Painter. Castle Street, Shrewsbury’, and with an inscription in ink by the original …
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![[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/03/2025_DSFB_1724-300x300.jpg)
# 46766
WALKER, Mary Edwards (1832-1919)
[AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; MEDICINE] Studio portrait of Mary Edwards Walker, the first American female surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Manchester, 1866.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 64 mm (mount); lower margin recto with imprint of ‘Joseph B. Forster, Pho.’, and a roughly contemporary inscription in pencil identifying the sitter as ‘Dr. Mary Walker’; verso with the studio’s printed motto ‘Light and Truth’; in very good condition. A rare full-length studio portrait of …
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# 43061
LIGON, Richard (1585? - 1682)
A true and exact history of the Island of Barbadoes.
Illustrated with a map of the island, as also the principal trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawn out by their several and respective scales, together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the several houses, rooms, and other places, that are used in the …
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# 46909
CANADA PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY
Western Canada. Manitoba, Assiniboia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and New Ontario. How to get there. How to select lands. How to make a home.
[Montreal?] : The Canada Pacific Railway Company, 1903. Octavo, lettered wrappers (lower panel detached), pp. 80, black and white photographic illustrations, very large folding lithographed map showing the lands under the control of the Canada Pacific Railway Company, a very good copy. Very scarce guide for settlers in Western Canada.
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# 46911
SAVAGE, Edward H.
Police records and recollections; or, Boston by daylight and gaslight for two hundred and forty years.
Boston : John P. Dale & Company, 1873. Octavo, half-morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and ornamentation, edges rubbed, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, pp. 388, lithographed plates. A description of the seedier side of Boston by a police officer.
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# 42374
SPILBERGEN, Joris van (1568-1620)
Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.
Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden] : Nicolaus van Geelkercken, 1619. Small oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), contemporary limp vellum with early manuscript title and collection number to spine; title with large engraved vignette (early ownership signature to upper margin); pp. [4] (blank), 175, [5] (blank); with folding engraved world map and a further 24 engraved …
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# 46580
MEDINA, Balthasar de
Vida martyrio, y beatificación del invicto proto-martyr de el Japan San Felipe de Jesús, patron de Mexico, su patria,
imperial corte de Nueva España en el Nuevo Mundo … Segunda Impressión … Madrid : en la imprenta de los Herederos de la Viuda de Juan García Infanzón, 1751. Quarto (205 x 145 mm), contemporary limp vellum (ties replaced); pp. [28], 176, with one engraved plate depicting the crucifixion of San Felipe; scattered light foxing, else contents very good; …
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# 46581
Anonymous.
Breve resumen de la vida y martyrio del inclyto mexicano y proto-martyr del Japón, el Beato San Felipe de Jesús.
Añadidas algunas obvias reflecciones en honor del mismo Héroe esclarecido, y de esta dichosísima Ciudad felize en ser su Patria. Por un Eclesiástico de este Arzobispado … … México : En la Oficina Madrileña de la Calle de Sto. Domingo y Esquina de Tacuba, 1802. Octavo (195 x 140 mm), contemporary full mottled calf (very good, with some minor staining and edge wear), spine with gilt decoration, …
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# 46800
AMTORG TRADING CORPORATION (New York)
Soviet Russian Art and Handicraft Exposition. Grand Central Palace, New York, February 1929
[Cover title]. Also titled: Art and Handicraft Exposition of Soviet Russia. New York : Peasant Art & Handicraft Department of Amatory Trading Corporation, 1929. Small quarto (265 x 180 mm), illustrated wrappers with original owner’s name to front, original ties, [15], [1] pp, numerous illustrations (some colour); an excellent copy. A scarce catalogue of Russian …
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# 46543
GASS, Patrick (1771 - 1870)
Lewis and Clarke’s journal to the Rocky Mountains in the years 1804, -5, -6; as related by Patrick Gass, one of the officers in the expedition.
New edition with numerous engravings. Dayton : Ells, Claflin, and Co., 1847. Octavo, later leather with title label, early ownership inscription to pastedown, pp. 238; (2 – advertisements), wood engraved plates, scattered foxing and a few stains, a folded slip of paper laid in with a note indicating it contains the original title label from …
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# 38432
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van (1563-1611)
Histoire de la Navigation de Jean Hugues de Linschot Hollandois, aux Indes Orientales.
Contenant diverses descriptions des lieux jusques à présent descouverts par les Portugais: observations des Coustumes & singularitez de delà, & autres declarations … … Troisieme édition, augmentée. Amsterdam: Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638. Three parts in one volume, folio (310 x 200 mm), contemporary mottled calf (rubbed), spine in compartments with ornate gilt decoration and lettering; edges speckled …
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# 45779
LAS CASAS, Bartholomé de (1484-1566)
Den spiegel der Spaensche Tyranny gheschieht in West-Indien.
Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke wreede feyten der Spangiaerden : met t’samen de beschrijvinge der selver Landen, Volckeren aert ende natuere … … [BOUND WITH] Tweede Deel van de Spieghel der Spaense Tyrannye, gheschiet in Nederlant. Waer in te sien is de onmenschelicke ende wreede handelinghen der Spaengiaerden … … Amsterdam : Jan Everts. …
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# 46463
A.Y.P. EXPO. CO.
Souvenir folding card … Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seatte, Washington, June 1st to October 16th 1909.
[Seattle] : AYP Expo. Co., 1909. Colour-illustrated wallet, 105 x 155 mm, containing a concertina foldout with 24 postcard-size chromolithographed photographic images of buildings and First Nations groups from the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition held in 1909 in Seattle; the wallet has a few small marks, contents in fine condition.
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# 46363
USAF (NORTHEAST AIR COMMAND)
Small archive of original photographs taken at Narsarssuak (Narsarsuaq) Airbase, Greenland, 1942-45.
Group of 7 (seven) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 200 x 250 mm format; no inscriptions to versos, but presumably taken by a USAF serviceman; all of the prints are in excellent condition. These original photographs, taken sometime between 1942 and 1945, show USAF personnel at the airbase at Narsarssuak (Narsarsuaq), Greenland, which had been …
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![Committee Reporter. Vol. 1, nos. 1-9, March-December 1944. (Complete run) [PLUS] Vol. 2, nos. 1-12, January-December 1945. (Complete run)](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0696-300x300.jpg)
# 46323
THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
Committee Reporter. Vol. 1, nos. 1-9, March-December 1944. (Complete run) [PLUS] Vol. 2, nos. 1-12, January-December 1945. (Complete run)
New York, NY : The American Jewish Committee, March 1944 to December 1945. Twenty-one individual issues (i.e. not bound), uniform quarto (280 x 220 mm), self-wrappers, 8-page format; occasional illustrations; very good condition throughout. ‘The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a civil rights group and Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest …
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# 46519
SOULÉ, Frank et al.
The annals of San Francisco ;
Containing a summary of the history of the first discovery, settlement, progress and present condition of California, and a complete history of all the events connected with its great city : to which are added, biographical memoirs of some prominent citizens. By Frank Soulè, John H. Gihon and James Nisbet. New York : D. Appleton …