Western Australia
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# 50100
STOKES, John Lort (1811-1885)
Discoveries in Australia : with an account of the coasts and rivers explored and surveyed during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle in the years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43, by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, also, a narrative of Captain Owen Stanley’s visits to the islands in the Arafura Sea.
London : T. and W. Boone, 1846. Three volumes, octavo, later uniform half green calf over green cloth (boards with some flecking), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and with contrasting leather title labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers; pp. xv, 521; x, 543, with 26 plates (15 engraved, 11 lithographed) depicting events and scenes …
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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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# 49838
TINDALE, Norman B.
Stone implement making among the Nakako, Ngadadjara and Pitjandjara of the Great Western Desert.
Adelaide : W. L. Hawes, Government Printer, 1965. Reprint ‘From the Records of the South Australian Museum, Vol. XV, No. 1, October 6th, 1965’. Large octavo (240 x 175 mm), printed brown wrappers; pp. 131-164; illustrated with 23 figures; a fine copy. This paper describes observations at a native mining place in the Mount Davies …
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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. …
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# 33117
Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)
Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.
[Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …
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![[ARNHEM LAND] The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Systematic Giving League. Systematic Giving Box.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/01/2025_DSFB_0415-300x300.jpg)
# 46209
METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA
[ARNHEM LAND] The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia Systematic Giving League. Systematic Giving Box.
[Sydney] : The Methodist Missionary Society of Australasia, circa 1920. Tin collection box with hinged lid, 130 x 80 x 20 mm, lettering on the lid; some oxidisation, overall in very good condition. Wesleyan Methodism is generally considered to have formally been established in Australia in 1815 with the arrival of clergyman Samuel Leigh, although …
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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, pp. [ii – title leaf], 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 …
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# 15496
PELSAERT, François (1595-1630)
Ongeluckige voyagie van het schip Batavia uytgevaren onder’t beleydt van den E. Francois Pelsaert, na Oost-Indien, en gebleven is op de Abrollos van Frederick Houtman, … Verhalende ‘t verongelucken des schips / en de grouwelijcke moordery onder ‘t scheeps-volck / op ‘t eylandt Bataviers Kerckhof, nevens de justitie gedaen sen de moetwillige in de jaren 1628 en 1629.
Amsterdam : Gillis Joosten Saeghman, [c.1663]. Small quarto, later half vellum over marbled boards (rubbed), manuscript title to spine; ex libris bookplates to front pastedown and endpaper; pp. 44, title page with woodcut vignette (paper repair to the gutter), and allegorical woodcut verso; a further 6 copperplate vignette illustrations in the text, which is printed in two columns with occasional side …
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# 48404
OGLE, Nathanial
The Colony of Western Australia :
a manual for emigrants to that settlement or its dependencies : comprising its discovery, settlement, Aborigines, land-regulations, principles of colonial emigration, statistical, financial, and agricultural reports, also instructions and hints to settlers, directions for the anchorages, &c., with the most correct map extant. By Nathaniel Ogle. With an appendix, containing the governor’s commission, land-regulations, a …
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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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# 47245
WILKINSON, George Faulkner (1838-1884)
Carving and Turning in Ivory and Wood, by Captain G. F. Wilkinson, Perth, W. A. … Nov. 1881.
Perth, WA : [G. F. Wilkinson], 1881. Broadsheet, 255 x 125 mm, lithograph-printed in black on white paper; mounted on a section of a nineteenth-century album leaf, with some ghosting from the original glue, otherwise good. A rare broadsheet apparently issued to accompany Captain Wilkinson’s ivory and wood carving exhibit at the Perth International Exhibition …