North America
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# 38356
GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)
Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …
Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and …
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# 43407
[Photographer unknown].
Ambrotype portrait of “Jake and Charles. Two old cronies – intimate friends … Who can deny that we are a happy pair when together.” Dated 15 September, 1862.
[USA : unknown photographer], September 1862. Sixth-plate ambrotype with applied colouring, 53 x 62 mm (sight), in an oval brass mat with a scrolling foliate motif, housed in a half leather case with embossed geometric design; a fully contemporary inscription in pencil to the paper lining the inside wall of the case reads: ‘Taken Sept. …
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# 50258
HUNTINGTON, Randolph
History in brief of “Leopard” and “Linden”, General Grant’s Arabian Stallions, presented to him by the Sultan of Turkey in 1879.
Also their Sons “General Beale”, “Hegira” and “Islam”, bred by Randolph Huntington. Also reference to the Celebrated Stallion “Henry Clay”. [Philadelphia] : printed for the author by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1885. First edition. Quarto, gilt-lettered green cloth over bevelled boards (stained, edges rubbed), decorated endpapers, contemporary presentation inscription to front free endpaper, crease to …
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# 49563
HECO, Joseph; MURDOCH, James (editor)
The narrative of a Japanese; what he has seen and the people he has met in the course of the last forty years.
Yokohama : Japan Gazette, Meiji 28 [1895]. Two volumes, octavo (220 x 155 mm), original blind-blocked brown (Vol. I) and tan (Vol. II) cloth, upper boards and spines lettered in gilt (both volumes with a few light marks to the boards and softened at spine ends); pp. [4], iii, [1 blank], 346, [1 blank], [2 …
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# 50205
VIDAL DE FIGUEROA, Antonio
Novena en honra de el invicto, y glorioso proto-martyr del Japon San Felipe de Jesus.
Dispuesta por el P. Antonio Vidal de Figueroa, Presbitero, de la Congregacion de el Oratorio de San Felipe Neri, de esta Ciudad de México. Año 1711. Con licencia en Mexico : por los Herederes de Juan Joseph Guillena Carrascoso, 1711. Duodecimo (144 x 96 mm), marbled paper wrappers; title-leaf, pp. 30; a fine copy. A …
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# 49874
THE O. NEWMAN COMPANY
Souvenir album from Los Angeles and vicinity.
Cover title: Souvenir from Los Angeles and Southern California. Los Angeles, CA : The O. Newman Company, [c.1915]. Small oblong quarto (210 x 265 mm), publisher’s pictorial card covers (moderate edge-wear, spine with paper split and loss, rear cover with a few spots of silverfish damage), original string ties; decorative glassine guard protecting title-page is …
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# 50297
BRAY, Glenn (1948 - )
The blighted eye. Original comic art from the Glenn Bray collection (signed and inscribed copy)
Seattle : Fantagraphic Books, 2014. Quarto, illustrated cloth in dustjacket, pp. 410, extensively illustrated. Signed and inscribed by Glenn Bray to the title page in gold marker. ‘The Blighted Eye showcases Glenn Bray’s extensive collection of original comic art by cartoonists such as R. Crumb, Matt Groening, Charles Addams, Charles Schulz, Dan Clowes, Chris Ware …
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# 13310
GOBIEN, Charles le (1653-1708) (compiler); QUERBEUF, Y.M.M.T. de (editor)
Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus.
Paris, Chez J.G. Merigot, 1780-1783. Twenty-six volumes, small octavo; contemporary uniform speckled calf, spines in compartments with gilt tooling and contrasting morocco labels; edges stained red; marbled endpapers; pastedowns with armorial bookplate of Rev. G.C. Fenwicke (Franks 10381); with a total of 55 maps, plans, plates and tables hors texte, including 28 folding maps and plans, 24 plates …
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![[TORONTO] Concert. The Alleghanians, Vocalists and Bell Players. Organised in 1846 by J. M. Boulard.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2767-300x300.jpg)
# 50128
[BOULARD, J. M.]
[TORONTO] Concert. The Alleghanians, Vocalists and Bell Players. Organised in 1846 by J. M. Boulard.
Miss Carry Hiffert, contralto; Miss Toma Hanlon, mezzo-soprano; Mr. Walter Field, buffo’ Mr. J. M. Boulard, basso; Miss Eva Leroy, accompanist. Toronto [Canada] : Mail Printing Co., [1850]. Handbill, 230 x 105 mm, lithograph-printed on both sides; recto with vignette illustration at head, list of performers, and concert programme; verso with complete lyrics to “The Burning …
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# 50155
Hawaii. The big island of the Hawaiian group
Honolulu : Hawaii Tourist Bureau, circa 1950. Single sheet, folded to make a tourist brochure on the Big Island, map.
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# 12308
HAKLUYT, Richard (1552?-1616)
The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea
or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and northeast by …
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# 49994
SHELVOCKE, George
A voyage round the world by way of the Great South Sea
Perform’d in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 guns and 100 men, (under His Majesty’s Commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late war with the Spanish Crown) till she was cast away on the Island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720; and afterwards continu’d in the …
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# 44046
LISIANSKY, Urey (1773-1837)
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, emperor of Russia, in the ship Neva.
London : John Booth … and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814. First edition in English. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), modern half calf, spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt rule, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled boards; speckled edges; preliminaries (2 blanks, frontispiece portrait of Lisianskii); xxi; [blank]; [ii], …
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# 50047
CAMPBELL, Archibald
A voyage round the world, from 1806 to 1812;
in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited. Including a narrative of the author’s shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and his subsequent wreck in the ship’s long-boat; with an account of the present state of the Sandwich Islands, and a vocabulary of their language. Edinburgh : printed for Archibald …
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# 43015
FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)
Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,
aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …
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# 49530
von KOTZEBUE, Otto
Voyage of discovery to the South Sea, and to Behring’s Straits, in search of a north-east passage; undertaken in the years 1815, 16, 17, and 18, in the ship Rurick
London : Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1821. Octavo, finely bound in period style in half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, small repaired tear to first title leaf, pp. 220 (with a title leaf to the second part between pp. 110 – …