Tasmania
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![[TASMANIA] Ambrotype portrait of Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet. Launceston(?), c.1855; plus associated photographic portraits of members of the Richardson and Sherwin families.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/06/2025_DSFB_3175-300x300.jpg)
# 43660
[Various photographers]
[TASMANIA] Ambrotype portrait of Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet. Launceston(?), c.1855; plus associated photographic portraits of members of the Richardson and Sherwin families.
I. Dr. James Richardson and his second wife, Agnes Percy Peet, c.1855. [Photographer unknown]. Half-plate ambrotype with hand colouring, 120 x 90 mm (sight), housed in a brass mat with ormolu preserver under the original cover glass and in the original leather half-case; verso with two brass hooks and wire for wall hanging; small areas …
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# 47283
A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)
The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.
[Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …
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# 47229
BEATTIE, J. W. (John Watt)
The New South Wales representative soccer team. Hobart, August 1911.
Hobart : J. W. Beattie, [1911]. Gelatin silver print photograph, 85 x 132 mm, printed on Kodak Austral postcard stock; verso wet-stamped ‘Prepared by J. W. Beattie, Hobart, Tasmania’; not mailed; mild corner wear, verso with a few minor stains, else very good condition. A rare photograph documenting a significant event in the early history …
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# 47236
BJELKE PETERSEN, Marie (1874-1969)
Jewelled nights
London : Hutchinson, [1923]. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s black-lettered blue cloth (spine ends a little softened); early ownership inscription to front free-endpaper; pp, 317; binding firm, very clean throughout, an excellent copy. Tasmanian novelist Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Jewelled nights tells the story of a runaway bride who seeks her fortune in the osmiridium fields on …
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# 46211
WOOLLEY, Charles
Studio portrait of a gentleman wearing a white bow-tie. Hobart Town, Tasmania, early 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, 106 x 62 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘Chas. A. Woolley, 42 Macquarie St., Hobart Town’; the print and the mount are both in fine condition.
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# 46210
SPURLING, Stephen (I)
Tinted studio portrait of Miss M. Robertson. Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1868.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, 102 x 63 mm (mount); verso with back mark of ‘S. Spurling, Photographer, Hobart Town. Prize Medallist, for Portraiture, Intercolonial Exhibition, Melbourne, 1866’, and a fully contemporary inscription in pencil: ‘Miss M. Robertson, Tasmania / 1868’; some very pale foxing to the print and the mount. The elegant sitter …
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# 45848
GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan
Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963
Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …
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![[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/11/21164456/2017_DSFB_5075-300x300.jpg)
# 47220
[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.
Manuscript in ink, single folio sheet, 370 x 235 mm, folded, headed ‘Circular Head, August 27 1847’, signed at the foot ‘Yours truly, W. [Shepman?]’; outer side addressed to ‘W. Johnstone Esq. Launceston’ and endorsed ‘[Per] “Mercury”‘ / Paid’; old loss at 2 corners, small perforation from letter spike, but the letter itself is complete …
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# 30697
FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)
Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.
Contained within: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCVI. Part II. London : printed by W. Bulmer, 1806. Quarto, original plain blue wrappers, pp. iv; 239 – 473; [8]; 12 engraved plates (some folding), the plates foxed but the text clean, all edges uncut and a little dusty, a fine …
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# 47047
WEBB, T. D.
“Amy & Kathie”. Launceston, Tasmania, late 1860s.
Albumen print with hand colouring, 102 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘T. D. Webb, Photographer, St. John’s St., Launceston, Tasmania’, and early pencilled inscription ‘Amy & Kathie’ (the spelling of the latter name corrected from ‘Cathy’); the print is a little pale but is otherwise in very good condition, as is …
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# 46767
THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship “Northfleet”, lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.
Albumen print photograph, 102 x 63 mm (mount); lower margin recto with printed caption: ‘Captain Knowles. Lost in the Northfleet off Dunganess, Jan. 22 1873’; verso with The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company’s backmark; the print has a couple of light marks; the verso of the mount has some residual glue marks at the edges. …
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# 46499
TURNER, John
Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.
Newcastle : Hunter History Publications, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 148, illustrated, light handling marks, a very good copy. A detailed study of Lycett.
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# 29410
HUDSPETH, B. M.
Santa Claus and the shadow
Sydney : S. T. Leigh & Co., circa 1892. Quarto, lithographed papered boards, lithographed title page (reproducing the cover). pp. 69, text in sepia with border rule, a fine copy. A collection of Christmas stories for children by ‘Miss B..M. Hudspeth, of Hobart, a lady who has already favourably established her name as an acceptable contributor to current Australian …
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![Silver Bank Gum Tree, ab[out] 300 f. high. (a study). Kangaroo Hollow, Tasmania. 1 February 1854.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/06/2024_DSFB_3382-197x300.jpg)
# 44054
SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)
Silver Bank Gum Tree, ab[out] 300 f. high. (a study). Kangaroo Hollow, Tasmania. 1 February 1854.
[Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 200 x 140 mm, initialed in pencil l.l. ‘W. S.’, with general location and date below ‘Tasmania 1 Feb 1854’; captioned in pencil l.r. ‘Silver Bank Gum Tree ab[out] 300 f. high. Kangaroo Hollow. (A study)’; artist’s numbering in pencil ‘209’; laid down on card and tipped onto …
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# 44894
TASMAN, Abel Janszoon (1603 - 1659)
Abel Janszoon Tasman’s Journal of his discovery of Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand in 1642.
With documents relating to his exploration of Australia in 1644 being photo-lithographic facsimiles of the original manuscript in the colonial archives at The Hague with an English translation and facsimiles of original maps to to which are added life and labours of Abel Janszoon Tasman by J. E. Heeres, Ll. D. Professor at the Dutch …
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# 44855
GOOS, Pieter
Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones
Amsterdam : Pieter Goos, op’t Waater inde Vergulde Zeespiegel, 1666. 430 x 538 mm (image), 465 x 555 mm (sheet), had coloured, decorative cartouche, a fine example. A fine example of Pieter Goos’ sea chart of the Pacific Ocean. Extending from Van Diemen’s Land to Japan, and from New Zealand to California, it significantly notes discoveries …