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# 36977
HAWKESWORTH, John (1715-1773); COOK, James (1728-1779); KING, James
The three voyages of Captain James Cook
1. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and …
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# 40477
[COOK, James, 1728-1779].
An abridgement of Captain Cook’s first and second voyages.
The first performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 ; the second in 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775. For making discoveries in the northern hemisphere, by order of his majesty. Extracted from the quarto edition, in five volumes. Containing a relation of all the interesting transactions; including an abridgement of Captain Furneaux’s narrative of …
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# 29235
KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von (Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern) (1770-1846)
A voyage round the world, in the years 1803, 4, 5, & 6; performed, by order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. J. von Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy.
In two volumes. Translated from the original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. London : Printed by C. Roworth [Volume II Printed by T. Davison], for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and the Board of Longitude, 1813. First edition in English. Two volumes in one, quarto, later half calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), …
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# 40288
LETAILLE, Charles
Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d’un Voyage Autour du Monde.
Récreation instructive. Dédiée à la jeunesse par Chles. Letaille. Paris : chez les Principaux Mds. de nouveautés pour Etrennes et Cadeaux [Charles Letaille, 30 rue Saint-Jacques], [ca. 1855]. Original box of papered card, 265 x 200 x 30 mm, the lid with embossed gilt border and hand-coloured lithographic onlay depicting a New Zealand scene with Māori; the …
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# 40355
LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore (1793-1875)
Cyrille Laplace, French navigator : autograph letter, signed, regarding the published account of his circumnavigation in La Favorite. Toulon, 16 September 1835.
Manuscript in brown ink, 2 pp., octavo (200 x 135 mm), on wove paper watermarked ‘MARION’; headed ‘Toulon, 16 September 1835’, and signed at the foot ‘C. Laplace’, the letter is to an unnamed recipient (but the content makes it clear it is addressed to a representative of the Imprimerie Royale, the publisher of his …
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# 39212
RIEMER, Gustav Adolf (1842-1899)
Group of original photographs from a Prussian expedition to the Far East and South Seas, 1874-77.
Six stereoscopic albumen print photographs, individual images 68 x 68 mm, mounted in identical pairs to the back of the original embossed mounts of thin black card, each 85 x 175 mm, rectos with the photographer’s original pencilled sequence numbers at lower right corners, versos with later pencilled sequence numbers corresponding to the numbers of …
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# 40114
STEWART & CO.
Studio portrait of a young woman, possibly of Polynesian heritage. Melbourne, circa 1890.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 113 mm (gilt-edged mount), recto of mount with imprint of ‘Stewart & Co., 42 Bourke St. East, Melbourne’; the original decorative tissue guard is still attached at top edge; the print and mount are in superb condition, while the tissue guard has a few spots of foxing, but …
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# 40262
SPRY, W. J. J. (William James Joseph)
The cruise of Her Majesty’s ship “Challenger” : voyages over many seas, scenes in many lands.
/ By W. J. J. Spry, R.N. With map and illustrations. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1877. Second edition. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked and gilt-decorated green cloth over boards with bevelled edges (lightly rubbed, spine-ends softened); frontispiece plate, title with vignette portrait of Captain Nares; pp. xviii, 388, [24 …
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# 40326
BRUNT, Peter et al.
Art in Oceania : a new history
London : Thames and Hudson, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 536, illustrated. A fine copy. ‘The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven and painted fabrics, intricately carved weapons, and a bewildering variety of ornaments, ritual objects, and utilitarian but beautiful things. This landmark book breaks new ground …
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# 18841
ARAGO, Jacques (1790-1854)
Curieux voyage autour du monde par Jacques Arago
Paris : Alfred Duquesne, 1881. Nouvelle edition. Sextodecimo, 130 x 82 mm, recased, preserving upper and lower wrappers, pp. 63, very good. In this curious little volume, Arago’s account of the Freycinet expedition is rendered without employing the letter ‘A’ once, except, notably, on the title page and some notes for clarity at the end. …
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# 19088
BOULTER, Daniel (1740-1802); BOULTER, Joseph (1743-1819); BOULTER, John (1745-1816)
Copper halfpenny token for Daniel Boulter’s ‘Exhibition of natural and artificial curiosities’, Yarmouth, Norfolk, 1796.
Yarmouth : Joseph, Daniel and John Boulter, 1796. Æ halfpenny, diameter 29.8 mm. Obverse: A female seated holding a scroll inscribed BOULTER’S EXHIBITION OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL CURIOSITIES. In ex. YARMOUTH in a straight line. Reverse: Three figures symbolising Asia, Africa and America presenting various curiosities to Britannia, who is recording them in a book. …
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![[TAHITI; MUSIC] Airs tahitiens : Arue! Arue!](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/05/2023_DSFB_2520-300x300.jpg)
# 39764
SPITZ, Charles Georges or HOARE, Sophia (attributed)
[TAHITI; MUSIC] Airs tahitiens : Arue! Arue!
[Circa 1885]. Albumen print photograph (160 x 210 mm) of two pages of music notation (the original was most likely handwritten and then lithographically printed before it was photographed); generic title legible as Airs tahitiens at the head of the left-hand page, with the title of the individual tune Arue! Arue! (= Praise! Praise!) at the head of …
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# 39535
DALRYMPLE, Alexander
An account of the discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean
By Alexander Dalrymple, first printed in 1767, reissued with a foreword by Kevin Fewster and an essay by Andrew Cook. Sydney : Hordern House Rare Books for the Australian National Maritime Museum, 1996. Octavo, full blue calf, lettered and ruled in gilt, blind embossed, pp. 47, xxxi, 103., [5] leaves of folded plates. The deluxe edition, …
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# 38510
RITCHIE, Edward Samuel; [GIBBS, Robert]
Catalogue of articles for a whaling voyage.
New Bedford, Massachusetts : E. S. Ritchie, dealer in ship chandlery, and importer of hard-ware. Rodman’s Buildings, No. 61 North Water Street, [ca. 1849]. Octodecimo (160 x 100 mm), original leather-backed stiff wrappers (stained, small loss to leather at tail of spine), the upper wrapper lettered in black and inscribed in ink – evidently in …
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![[SHEET MUSIC; HAWAIIANA] Waikiki moon : vocal waltz](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/02/2023_DSFB_0932-300x300.jpg)
# 38904
STONEHAM, Reginald A. A. (1879-1942)
[SHEET MUSIC; HAWAIIANA] Waikiki moon : vocal waltz
/ words & music by Reginald A. A. Stoneham. Melbourne : Reginald A. A. Stoneham, 361 Collins St., [ca. 1920]. Folio (310 x 230 mm), pictorial wrappers with blind stamp of Melbourne bookseller E. W. Cole to front, [3] pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano), last page with ownership wet stamp of Fred. W. …
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![[NEW GUINEA] The cruise of the "Ellengowan". (Presentation copy)](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/02/2023_DSFB_0618-300x300.jpg)
# 38893
WALLIS, Arthur E.
[NEW GUINEA] The cruise of the “Ellengowan”. (Presentation copy)
Sydney : New Century Press, 1924. First edition, special issue. Octavo (175 x 120 mm), brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering and device to upper board (light flecking to lower board); a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free-endpaper: ‘To my friend “Joe” Butler, with the author’s compliments. A. E. Wallis. …