Tasmania
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# 41550
ROWCROFT, Charles (1798-1856)
Nybyggarne på Van Diemens Land : en berättelse från det Australiska nybyggarlifvet
/ af Charles Rowcroft ; öfversatt från den tyska bearbetningen för ungdom af Julius Hoffmann. Stockholm : Tryckt hos Eric Westrell, 1861. Octavo (185 x 120 mm), publisher’s printed papered boards (lightly marked, backstrip replaced), pp. [4], 128, with [4] leaves of chromolithographed plates; text in Swedish; front pastedown with partially erased ownership inscription dated …
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# 41348
BURN & SON
Superior jewellery, gold & silver watches, clocks, chains, Alberts, brooches, rings, etc. etc. being the residue of the stock of Mr. D. Barclay; … will be sold by public auction at the Mart, Elizabeth-Street, by order of Mr. Golding, by Burn and Son, on Thursday, May 15, 1879, without the slightest reserve.
Catalogues to be had at the Mart, where the above are now on view. Hobart Town : Davies Bros., Printers, “Mercury” Office, 1879. Single sheet, 225 x 160 mm, lithograph-printed recto only; the flyer was evidently preserved flat for a century or so inside a Hobart newspaper, as it has offsetting from the newsprint on …
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![[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Francis Burgess, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph note signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the dispatch of mounted policemen to help in the pursuit and capture of bushrangers in the Prosser's Plains district. 29 November, 1843.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_DSFB_5458-300x300.jpg)
# 41347
BURGESS, Francis (1793-1864)
[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Francis Burgess, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph note signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the dispatch of mounted policemen to help in the pursuit and capture of bushrangers in the Prosser’s Plains district. 29 November, 1843.
Manuscript in ink, single sheet (225 x 185 mm); signed ‘Fras. Burgess’ and headed ‘Police Department [Hobart Town], Nov. 29 1843’, the note is addressed to ‘Chas. Schaw Esq., Magistrate’; endorsed at Richmond ‘Recd. 1/4 past 2 of pm’; verso docketed ‘CPM, 29 Nov ’43, “Bushrangers”‘; two original horizontal folds, extremely well preserved. An interesting …
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![[TASMANIA; CONVICTS] Police magistrate's case summary against recidivist convict Patrick McKone, one of the longest-serving prisoners in the Van Diemen's Land penal system. Flowerdale (Upper Esk), March 1846.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_DSFB_5464-300x300.jpg)
# 41356
[McKONE, Patrick]
[TASMANIA; CONVICTS] Police magistrate’s case summary against recidivist convict Patrick McKone, one of the longest-serving prisoners in the Van Diemen’s Land penal system. Flowerdale (Upper Esk), March 1846.
Manuscript in ink, 2 pp., foolscap folio (320 x 200 mm); original folds, short tear at top edge (no loss), otherwise well preserved. Case summary prepared by an unnamed police magistrate at Flowerdale, near Wynyard, northwest Tasmania, dated 12 March 1846. ‘March 12 46. P[olice ] M[agistrate], Flowerdale. Patrick McKone, Coromandel. TL, Life. Larceny of …
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# 41085
MARCHANT, Phillip James
Studio portrait of a woman in Salvation Army uniform. Latrobe, Tasmania, circa 1890.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 112 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘Marchant & Co., Photographic Studio, Latrobe, Tasmania’; a strong print in excellent condition; the mount has some light handling marks.
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# 39619
BURROWS' STUDIOS (LAUNCESTON)
Photographic Memoirs: Visit to Launceston of September’s Prettiest Bride (Mrs W. H. Dando).
With Compliments from Burrows’ Studios, Launceston, 1926. Photograph album, oblong folio (240 x 340 mm), original burgundy crushed morocco over boards with gilt-stamped initials ‘T.D.’ (Thelma Dando) to front (upper boards with a few scuff marks; lower board with the leather worn at fore-edge); gilt-stamped title leaf, followed by [20] sepia-tone gelatin silver print photographs …
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# 40193
WANTRUP, Jonathan
Australian Rare Books 1788 – 1900
Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on …
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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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# 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 …