Tasmania
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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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# 40039
DUYKER, Edward
François Péron : an impetuous life : naturalist and voyager
Carlton, Vic. : The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Series: Miegunyah Press series. Series 2 ; Number 75. Octavo (240 x 160 mm), publisher’s cloth over boards in pictorial dust jacket, xxiii, 349 pp., plus 16 unnumbered pages of plates; maps; a very fine copy of this now scarce book. ‘Presents a balanced assessment of the difficult …
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# 36955
WEBB & SON
A pair of husband and wife carte de visite portraits housed in a double union case. Launceston, Tasmania, late 1860s.
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, mounts trimmed to 75 x 60 mm (approx.), both with the identical back mark of Webb & Son, St. John Street, Launceston, Tasmania, mounted under glass in their original oval-shaped brass mats within octagonal gilt brass foil preservers (spots of verdigris to the mats, otherwise both in …
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![[TASMANIA] Apple picking at Glenora](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/03/2023_DSFB_1630-300x300.jpg)
# 39300
BEATTIE, John Watt (1859-1930)
[TASMANIA] Apple picking at Glenora
[Circa 1890]. Albumen print photograph, in large format 170 x 225 mm; inscribed in the negative: ‘Apple picking at Glenora. 974B. Beattie, Hobart’; unmounted; in very fine condition.
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![[JORGEN JORGENSON] Jörundar Hundadagakónungur : Ævisaga](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/09/29164854/2022_DSFB_5884.jpg)
# 38509
BAKEWELL, Sarah
[JORGEN JORGENSON] Jörundar Hundadagakónungur : Ævisaga
Reykjavík: Skrudda, 2005. Octavo (235 x 150 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over boards in pictorial dust jacket, pp 280, b/w plates, map, bibliography, index; text in Icelandic; an as new copy. Icelandic translation of Sarah Bakewell’s The English Dane : a life of Jorgen Jorgenson (London : Chatto & Windus, 2005), which tells – through his own manuscripts and …
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# 36836
[VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS]
Images of Australian womanhood, 1910-1925 : fifty photographic portraits of women by Australian studios.
Group of 50 (fifty) gelatin silver print photographs, all printed on postcard stock (as was customary in this period) in uniform format 140 x 90 mm (approximate); 49/50 have studio imprints, and in some cases the sitters are identified on the back; a couple with corner wear and one with light marks, but overall the …
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# 37291
Photographer unknown.
Landau carriage, Hobart, late 1920s.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 120 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount; the image has an early inscription in black ink ‘In Hobart, Tas. Feb. 29’, and in later blue pen the date ‘1925’ has been written twice; the verso of the mount has a faded newspaper cutting from the period with …
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# 35908
[NORMAN, James, 1790-1868] SCOTT, Thomas Hobbes, Archdeacon; HILL, Richard, Rev.; ARTHUR, George, Lieutenant-Governor
Official duplicate correspondence re. reimbursement to the Church Missionary Society in Sydney for Rev. James Norman’s passage to Tasmania from England. February-October, 1829.
[Sydney, NSW, 1829]. Manuscript in ink, [3] pp, foolscap folio bifolium; in the hand of a CMS clerk; being duplicate copies of three letters, comprising: 1. Sydney, 17 February 1829. Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes Scott, to the Rev. Richard Hill of the CMS, Sydney; 2. Sydney, 26 August 1829. Rev. Richard Hill, to Archdeacon Thomas Hobbes …
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# 35750
BISHOP-OSBORNE, John (1851-1934)
Studio portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis D. Grey, Director of the Tasmanian Main Line Railway Company. Hobart, 1878.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount); recto of mount with fully contemporary caption in ink ‘Colonel Grey’; verso imprinted ‘From the Photographic Studio of J. Bishop Osborne, 76 Murray St., Hobart Town’; in excellent condition. ‘The Tasmanian Main Line Railway was built by a private company formed in 1872. …
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# 29076
BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777)
Histoire des navigations aux terres australes
: contenant ce que l’on scait des moeurs & des productions des contrées decouvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Paris : Chez Durand, 1756. First edition. Two volumes, quarto (260 x 200 mm), contemporary full calf (boards …
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# 30173
VANCOUVER, George (1757-1798)
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world;
in which the coast of North-West America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by his Majesty’s command principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the year 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, in the Discovery sloop …
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# 32149
BEATTIE, John Watt (1859-1930)
Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816. Presented to the Museum by Mr. A. Bolter, 1867.
[Circa 1890]. [Title from image]. Albumen print photograph of a lithograph held in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum; 260 x 180 mm, blind stamped J. W. Beattie, Photographer, Hobart at lower left; laid down recto of a leaf removed from a 19th-century album; some short edge tears and light foxing at top edge, otherwise in …
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# 30735
After George Frankland (British, 1800–1838)
Governor Davey’s Proclamation to the Aborigines, 1816.
[Circa 1890]. Watercolour and ink on paper, 400 x 235 mm (image), 460 x 290 mm (sheet), with calligraphic caption in black ink at head of image (erroneously attributing the Proclamation to Governor Davey) surmounting four illustrations separated by ink-ruled lines; these pictorial sequences are intended to be read from bottom to top, and they …
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# 35221
CRAIG, Clifford
More old Tasmanian prints : a companion volume to The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land and Old Tasmanian prints.
Launceston : Foot & Playsted, 1984. Edition limited to 1000 copies (no. 444). Large octavo, fine pictorial cloth boards in like dust jacket, colour frontispiece plate, 389 pp, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, a fine copy.
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![[TASMANIA] Convict record of Thomas Watson, sentenced at the Gloucester Assizes in August 1833 to 7 years transportation to Van Diemen's Land; arrived on the John Barry, August 1834; remained in penal servitude until July 1845.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13110731/2022_DSFB_2192-300x300.jpg)
# 34735
[COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF CONVICTS]
[TASMANIA] Convict record of Thomas Watson, sentenced at the Gloucester Assizes in August 1833 to 7 years transportation to Van Diemen’s Land; arrived on the John Barry, August 1834; remained in penal servitude until July 1845.
Single parchment sheet, 300 x 250 mm; manuscript in ink, densely written across 1 1/2 pages, the entries covering the period August 1834 to July 1845, written in many different hands and in different locations in Van Diemen’s Land; the prisoner’s physical description and background are entered in the upper margin recto, and beside it …
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# 34800
[MULGRAVE, Peter Archer, 1778-1847]
The Tasmanian. Volume II, number 56. March 21, 1828. (Subscriber copy of P. A. Mulgrave).
Hobart Town : Printed and published by John Campbell MacDougall, at the Tasmanian Office, Elizabeth Street, March 21 1828. Folio newspaper, [4] pp, upper margin of first page with subscriber’s name ‘P. A. Mulgrave, J.P.’ inscribed in ink and 2d newspaper duty stamp in orange; old folds (some tearing along the fold lines); a fragile …