Western Australia
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# 47323
HITTI, Deanna
Object of the game
Fremantle : Fremantle Arts Centre, 2021. Quarto, illustrated wrappers in illustrated card dustjacket, pp. [40], illustrated. Limited to 200 numbered copies signed and dated by the artist. An artist’s book and exhibition catalogue ‘Object of the Game presents the 2018 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award-winning artist’s book Towlaby Deanna Hitti, a Melbourne based artist with …
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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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![[GOLD RUSH] L’or](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/19151854/2014_DSFB_2377-300x300.jpg)
# 47273
HAUSER, Henri
[GOLD RUSH] L’or
Paris : Nony & Cie., 1901. First edition. Large quarto, publisher’s pictorial green cloth gilt (lightly foxed and rubbed), decorative lining papers, front endpaper with label, all edges gilt (slightly flecked), pp. 363, [4] advertisements, early owner’s inscription to title page illustrated throughout with black and white plates and line drawings in the text, contents …
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![[SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards's Botanical Register :](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/04/2025_DSFB_2305-300x300.jpg)
# 46768
LINDLEY, John (1799-1865)
[SWAN RIVER COLONY] Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of Edwards’s Botanical Register :
consisting of a complete alphabetical and systematical index of names, synonymes, and matter, adjusted to the present state of systematical botany; together with A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony. With nine coloured plates, containing eighteen coloured figures of plants, and with four wood-cuts. London : James Ridgway, Piccadilly, 1839. First edition, …
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# 47287
CHARLETON, A. G.
Gold Mining and Milling in Western Australia
London : E. & F. N. Spon, and New York : Spon & Chamberlain, 1903. Thick octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, worn and rubbed (particularly at corners), rebacked with original spine laid down, cloth repairs to head and foot of spine, touching a few letters, advertisements to endpapers, previous owner’s wet stamp to endpaper and title page, …
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# 47154
OTTO, J. H. (Johann Henri)
Portrait of a group of Menang Noongar men and women. Albany area, Western Australia, late 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 104 x 63 mm (mount), verso with wet stamp of ‘J. H. Otto, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Albany, W.A.’; the print has mottling in the negative and has lost some contrast; the mount has old residual glue marks verso (the carte was once mounted in an album). A …
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![[PLAYBILL] [April 7, 1883]. Amateur Theatricals, St. George's Hall, Perth. Uncle's Will ... A Husband to Order.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2944-300x300.jpg)
# 47249
[THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY?] (Perth)
[PLAYBILL] [April 7, 1883]. Amateur Theatricals, St. George’s Hall, Perth. Uncle’s Will … A Husband to Order.
Perth, WA : [s.n.], 1883. Broadsheet, 210 x 130 mm, lithograph-printed in navy on light blue linen paper, on the first side of a bifolium (the other three sides blank); some silverfishing along the fold and at bottom edges, otherwise good condition. Perth playbill listing the casts of two plays. Performers include Mrs. Wilkinson, Mr. …
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![[PLAYBILL] [St. George's Hall, Perth, 4 November 1881] Programme. The original Serio Comic Drama in two Acts, entitled Milky White, by H. T. Craven Esq.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2942-300x300.jpg)
# 47250
[FREMANTLE AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB]
[PLAYBILL] [St. George’s Hall, Perth, 4 November 1881] Programme. The original Serio Comic Drama in two Acts, entitled Milky White, by H. T. Craven Esq.
[Perth, WA : s.n., 1881]. Broadsheet, 210 x 130 mm, lithograph-printed recto only in black on mauve paper; horizontal fold, some paper adhesions at left edge, otherwise good condition. Perth playbill listing full cast of a production by the Fremantle Amateur Dramatic Club. Performers include Mr. A. G. Rosser, Mr. W. H. Turner, Mr. F. …
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![[PLAYBILL] Entertainment by The Thespians. Perth, W.A., July 31, 1877. In aid of the Dorcas Society. ... A Thumping Legacy ... Cool as a Cucumber.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2946-300x300.jpg)
# 47248
THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY (Perth)
[PLAYBILL] Entertainment by The Thespians. Perth, W.A., July 31, 1877. In aid of the Dorcas Society. … A Thumping Legacy … Cool as a Cucumber.
Perth, WA : [s.n.], 1877. Broadsheet, 260 x 170 mm (horizontal fold), lithograph-printed recto only in black on white paper; tipped onto a nineteenth-century backing sheet, in very good condition. Perth playbill listing the casts of two theatrical pieces. Performers include Mr. O. Burt, Mr. H. C. Prinsep, Mr. H. Ashton, Mr. J. C. H. …
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![[PLAYBILL] Private Theatricals given by H. E. The Governor & Mrs. Robinson. Perth, W.A., December 15, 1876. Dearest Mamma ... Whitebait at Greenwich.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2940-300x300.jpg)
# 47251
[ROBINSON, William Cleaver Francis, Sir]
[PLAYBILL] Private Theatricals given by H. E. The Governor & Mrs. Robinson. Perth, W.A., December 15, 1876. Dearest Mamma … Whitebait at Greenwich.
[Perth, WA : s.n., 1876]. Broadsheet, 215 x 140 mm, lithograph-printed recto in blue on buff paper, text set within decorative border with royal coat of arms at head; laid down on a section of a nineteenth-century album leaf, mild toning. Perth playbill listing the casts of two theatrical pieces. Performers include Mr. H. C. Princep, …
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![[PLAYBILL] Thespian Dramatic Company. St. George's Hall, Perth. First Winter Performance, Wednesday & Thursday 21st & 22nd July 1880 at 8 p.m. "The Chimney Corner. A thrilling domestic drama in two acts ... A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock. A farce in one act.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2682-300x300.jpg)
# 47246
THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY (Perth)
[PLAYBILL] Thespian Dramatic Company. St. George’s Hall, Perth. First Winter Performance, Wednesday & Thursday 21st & 22nd July 1880 at 8 p.m. “The Chimney Corner. A thrilling domestic drama in two acts … A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock. A farce in one act.
[Perth, WA : s.n.], 1880. Broadsheet, 330 x 205 mm (horizontal fold), lithograph-printed in violet on cheap white paper; illustrated border (which advertises a forthcoming performance of Boucicault’s play London Assurance); scattered foxing, upper two-thirds glued to nineteenth-century backing sheet; roughening and small tears at edges. Perth playbill listing the casts of two amateur theatrical pieces. Performers …
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![[PLAYBILL] Thespians. St. George's Hall, 8 Sept[embe]r. 1880. Our Wife ... Patient Penelope.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2948-300x300.jpg)
# 47247
THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY (Perth)
[PLAYBILL] Thespians. St. George’s Hall, 8 Sept[embe]r. 1880. Our Wife … Patient Penelope.
[Perth, WA : s.n.], 1880. Broadsheet, 210 x 145 mm, lithograph-printed in violet recto only, on cheap white paper, with two vignette illustrations; some light foxing and creasing, else good condition. Perth playbill for two theatrical pieces; the characters in each play are listed in French and Classical Greek, respectively (the names of the performers are …
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# 47168
[Photographer unknown.]
Frederick Bennion’s racing yacht “Hinemoa” in the Swan River, Perth, Western Australia, late 1880s.
Albumen print photograph, 185 x 240 mm, laid down recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf of thick card, the mount inscribed in pencil by the album’s compiler ‘Bennion’s yacht “Hinemoa”‘; no photographer’s imprint; a strong print in good condition with some very light scattered foxing; verso with an inferior example of the same print, heavily …
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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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![[PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/04/2025_DSFB_2145-300x300.jpg)
# 47025
WURM, S. A. (ed.); BRANDENSTEIN, C. G. von; CAPELL, Arthur; HALE, K.
[PILBARA; MORNINGTON ISLAND; BATHURST & MELVILLE ISLANDS] Papers in Australian Linguistics no. 2.
Canberra : ANU, 1967. Series: Pacific Linguistics. Series A – Occasional Papers, no. 11. Quarto (255 x 205 mm), publisher’s cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. iii, 73, [3 publisher’s ads.]; includes maps, tables and diagrams; a very good copy. Contains the following papers: C. G. von Brandenstein. The language situation in the Pilbara, past and present. …
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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 …