Western Australia
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![[BATTLE OF COCOS] Group of original photographs taken by a crew member of HMAS Sydney in the aftermath of the engagement with the Emden on 9 November, 1914.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5725-300x300.jpg)
# 51434
[Photographer unknown]
[BATTLE OF COCOS] Group of original photographs taken by a crew member of HMAS Sydney in the aftermath of the engagement with the Emden on 9 November, 1914.
Group of 5 (five) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 85 x 130 mm format; all in good condition, the versos numbered 1 to 5 in ink in a fully contemporary hand; these numbers correspond to the five brief descriptions typed on an accompanying sheet, 160 x 200 mm, old folds but well preserved. On …
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# 51358
TAPPER, Nick (editor)
Ngarra : the texta drawings
Edited and introduced by Nick Tapper with contributions by Henry F. Skerritt and Kevin Shaw. Subiaco, W.A. : Mossenson Art Foundation, 2015 (2018 reprint). Quarto, illustrated wrappers in dustjacket, pp. 175, illustrated. New copy. ‘ A mesmerising collection of texta drawings by one of remote Australia’s most significant artists. Ngarra was the senior lawman for …
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# 50718
EYRE, Edward (1815-1901)
Edward Eyre, explorer of the Australian interior and colonial administrator: presentation signature with accompanying autograph note, dated 20 April 1867.
Original ink signature of Edward Eyre, on front section of a small bifolium of notepaper (103 x 93 mm), with an autograph covering note by Eyre on the third side, written in the third person: ‘Mr. Eyre has much pleasure in presenting his autograph for Miss Christy’s collection as requested in Mr. Christy’s letter of …
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# 48371
PELSAERT, Francois (c.1595-1630)
Ongeluckige voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien.
Amsterdam : Jan Jansz, 1647. First edition. Small quarto, papered boards; title-leaf, pp. 118, lacking final blank (as in most copies); six folding copperplates (plate V provided in expert facsimile); some very pale marginal water stains, tiny worm hole to margin of first few leaves; a clean and well preserved copy, housed in a calf …
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# 49674
[FREYCINET, Rose de] MALLAC, Jacques
À Madame L. de Freycinet.
Île-de-France [Mauritius, Port-Louis] : Imprimerie de Mallac frères, 25 May 1818. Quarto (250 x 194 mm), 2 pp., letterpress, recto and verso of a single loose leaf; light horizontal fold, a fine example. This extremely rare and precious document – one of only three copies known – is a poetic tribute to the adventurer Rose …
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# 50825
TINDALE, Norman B.
Palaeolithic kodj axe of the Aborigines and its distribution in Australia : results of the Harvard-Adelaide Universities Anthropological Expedition, 1938-1939.
Adelaide : Hassell Press, 1951. Reprint ‘From Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. IX, No.3 and No. 4, June 30th, 1950 and June 30th, 1951’. Large octavo (240 x 175 mm), printed brown wrappers; pp. 257-274; 371-374; with a total of 18 line-drawn figures and 1 photographic plate illustrating four aspects of a kodj …
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# 50681
KLINGENDER, Tim
Sotheby’s. The John McCaffrey Collection of Kimberley Art. Sydney, 28 July 2003
Melbourne : Sotheby’s, 2003. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated card covers (spine rubbed), pp 104, auction catalogue with 71 lots, most illustrated in colour; including works on paper by Indigenous artists from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, decorated coolamons, boomerangs and spearthrowers, and boab nuts carved by Jack Wherra.
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# 50635
FRY, Gavin
William Boissevain. A passion for colour (signed copy)
Introduction by Gavin Fry. Foreword by Janet Holmes a Court. Sydney : The Beagle Press, 1998. Quarto, lettered boards, illustrated dustjacket (edge wear, foxed verso), 160pp. illustrated throughout, preliminaries foxed, signed and inscribed by the artist on the title page.
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# 50605
WALSH, Grahame L. (1944 - 2007)
Bradshaw’s ancient rock paintings of north-west Australia
Geneva : Edition Limitee for The Bradshaw Foundation, 1994. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (light handling marks), pp. xviii; 284, 99 colour plates, maps. A fine copy. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Housed in the original publisher’s mailing carton, with the original prospectus, order form, and related clippings. Since their ‘discovery’ by pastoralist Joseph …
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# 39617
de WIT, Frederick (1630-1706)
Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula : in omnes partes divisa, de nova correcta, ac in lucem edita
per Fredericum de Witt Amstelodami cum privilegio D.D. ordinum Hollandiae Westristacqs ; F. de Wit excudit. [Amsterdam : Frederik de Wit, circa 1688]. Copperplate engraving on paper, 58.0 cm in diameter, on sheet 51.0 x 61.0 cm, original hand colouring, a couple of paper reinforcements verso, a very good copy. A fine large format seventeenth century …
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# 26670
MORTESON, G.
General description of the Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd, Wiluna, Western Australia. (Prepared for the Members of the Australian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy).
[Wiluna, W.A.] : G. Morteson [for Wiluna Gold Mines Ltd.], [1933]. Small square quarto (245 x 210 mm), original cloth-backed paper wrappers, the upper wrapper featuring a map of Western Australia hand-drawn in black ink, with Wiluna marked in red and the names Meeka[tharra] and Laverton added later in pencil, the upper margin with typed …
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# 49782
HAYES, Denis, FALK, Jim and BARRETT, Neil.
Red light for yellow-cake : the case against uranium mining.
Melbourne : Friends of the Earth Australia, 1977. Octavo, stapled yellow wrappers printed in red; pp. 96; map; foreword by Manning Clark; a very good copy.
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# 48514
THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY (Perth)
Inaugural entertainment, St. George’s Hall, Perth, Western Australia, under the patronage of His Excellency Major-General Sir Harry St. George Ord … on Thursday and Monday, December 4 and 8, 1879,
an Amateur Company will perform the well-known 3-act musical melodrama the Colleen Bawn, or the Brides of Garryowen … … Perth, W.A. : Stirling Bros., Printers, 1879. Quarto bifolium, [4] pp., printed entirely in gold ink; short closed tear at upper margin of second leaf, last side lightly marked, otherwise extremely well preserved; accompanied by …
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![Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/01/2026_DSFB_0606-300x300.jpg)
# 49394
BECHER, A. B.
Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas
Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean, containing a brief account of the winds, weather, and currents prevailing therein. With charts. London : J. D. Potter, 1859. Second edition. [Together with] : Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas, with an account of the winds, weather, and currents found therein throughout the year. London : …
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# 49242
TRENDELL, A. J. R.
Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.
A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …
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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_2670-300x300.jpg)
# 47146
[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; tipped onto a section of a nineteenth-century album leaf, single horizontal fold, otherwise fine. Perth playbill listing the casts of two theatrical pieces. Performers include Mr. H. …