Maritime
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# 34174
FREEMAN, William (1809–1895)
Studio portrait of Lieutenant Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa of HMS Clio, Flagship of the Pacific Station. Sydney, 1872.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); recto with a fully contemporary caption in ink beneath the image: ‘Fredk. Metaxa’; verso imprinted ‘Freeman, late Oswald Allen. Artist Photographer. Crayon & Miniature Painter. 360 George Street, Sydney. Terms Cash on Delivery. Photographer by Appointment to His Excellency the Governor’; the print has …
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![[NEW GUINEA; CATHOLIC MISSIONS] Massacre at Woodlark Island, (of crew and passengers of brig "Gazelle.")](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11120003/2022_DSFB_0726-300x300.jpg)
# 34022
New South Wales. Legislative Assembly.
[NEW GUINEA; CATHOLIC MISSIONS] Massacre at Woodlark Island, (of crew and passengers of brig “Gazelle.”)
Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 27 February, 1857. Sydney : Government printer, 1857. Foolscap folio, string bound, pp [1], 15; marginal water damage at top edges, else fine. ‘Return to an Address from the Honorable the Legislative Assembly, dated 10 February, 1857, requesting that His Excellency the Governor General would be pleased …
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# 33832
MATSON LINES
Fares & Sailings. Hawaii – New Zealand – Australia
San Francisco : Matson Line, 1938. Quarto, folded in half to narrow octavo, self-wrappers, pp. [16], schedules of sailings from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Honolulu, with itineraries of Pacific cruises visiting Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Suva, etc. Usefully, the regulations included also give detail of what discounted fares may be applied to one’s servants …
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![[FEDERATION; COOK] Botany Commonwealth Celebrations. The Historic Landing of Capt. Cook in 1770. A Grand Picnic of the Residents of the District will be held on Monday, January 7, 1901.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16111512/2015_DSFB_2537-300x249.jpg)
# 33645
BOTANY (NEW SOUTH WALES). COUNCIL.
[FEDERATION; COOK] Botany Commonwealth Celebrations. The Historic Landing of Capt. Cook in 1770. A Grand Picnic of the Residents of the District will be held on Monday, January 7, 1901.
The commodious Steamer “Clyde” will leave Botany Pier at 9 a.m., and hourly after until 2 p.m. landing Passengers at Kurnell Wharf. Last Return Trip will leave Kurnell Wharf at 7 p.m. Return Ticket – Adults, 1s. … … [Botany, N.S.W. : The Council, 1901]. Ticket, 75 x 95 mm, printed recto only in black …
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# 33567
BAIN, Arthur
Life and explorations of Fridtjof Nansen
/ By J. Arthur Bain. New edition revised and considerably enlarged. With numerous illustrations and map. London : Walter Scott, Ltd., [1897]. Thick octavo (210 x 145 mm), publisher’s burgundy cloth over boards with bevelled edges (a few light marks), upper board with lettering and portrait of Nansen in gilt, spine lettered in gilt and …
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# 33652
[COLUMBUS]
The Latin letter of Columbus : printed in 1493 and announcing the discovery of America. Reproduced in facsimile, with a preface.
London : Bernard Quaritch, 1893. Royal octavo (220 x 180 mm), publisher’s printed stiff wrappers, pp vi, [8], partially uncut, a near fine copy. Published by Quaritch to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s letter. Three copies traced in Australian collections: University of Sydney Library; National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales …
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# 33629
MINNS, B. E. (Benjamin Edward) (1863-1937) (artist)
Grand Military Tattoo. Tendered to the Admiral Commanding and Personnel of the visiting United States Battle Fleet, at the Royal Agricultural Society’s Ground, Sydney, New South Wales. Thursday July 30th at 8pm, 1925.
[Drop title]. Sydney : The Motor Press Ltd., 1925. Octavo (225 mm), colour pictorial wrappers, the upper wrapper design signed in the image lower right ‘B. E. Minns’ and incorporating symbols of the United States of America and Australia, including the flags of both nations, the kangaroo and emu, and the New South Wales waratah; …
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# 33051
HENRY, R. J., Captain
On board the yacht “Maraquita”, photographed by Captain Henry at sea, on her outward bound voyage to Iceland, November 1858.
[British, November 1858]. Stereoscopic photograph, each individual image 71 x 64 mm (arched format), on original card mount 110 x 170 mm (trimmed at the lower margin and so lacking the printed caption), verso with fully contemporary caption in pencil ‘On Board the Yacht – Maraquita’ (same wording as the original printed caption); the prints are …
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# 33427
LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY
John Williams ships : 100 years at sea. A service commemorating the LMS ship centenary, 1844-1944.
At foot of title: A leaflet for Sunday School teachers and leaders. London : LMS, 1944. Single sheet (190 x 375 mm), folding to 190 x 125 mm, [6] pp, illustrated front; a fine copy. In all, (up until the last was decommissioned in 1968) seven incarnations of the London Missionary Society ship John Williams carried …
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# 33340
WHARTON, Captain W. J. L.
Captain Cook’s journal during his first voyage round the world made in H. M. Bark “Endeavour” 1768 – 71.
A literal transcription of the original MSS. With notes and introduction. Illustrated by maps and facsimiles. London : Elliot Stock, 1893. Large octavo, publisher’s green cloth (hinges strengthened), armorial bookplate of George Herbert Wailes to front pastedown, fore and lower edges uncut, pp. lvi; 400; maps and plates, including three large folding charts in rear …
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![[DUTCH EAST INDIES] Belawan](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/05/17140154/2017_DSFB_1620-300x300.jpg)
# 15513
ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD
[DUTCH EAST INDIES] Belawan
Rotterdam : Royal Rotterdam Lloyd, [c.1930]. Octavo pamphlet, original illustrated wrappers, lower wrapper with colour map of Belawan and plan of Medan, [6] pp; text in English; a very good copy. Scarce tourist brochure published by the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd shipping line (KRL). Belawan is a seaport on the northeast coast of Sumatra.
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![[DUTCH EAST INDIES] Batavia](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/05/17140228/2017_DSFB_1621-300x300.jpg)
# 15514
ROYAL ROTTERDAM LLOYD
[DUTCH EAST INDIES] Batavia
Rotterdam : Royal Rotterdam Lloyd, [c.1930]. Octavo pamphlet, original illustrated wrappers, lower wrapper with colour street plan of Batavia [Jakarta], [6] pp; text in English; a very good copy. Scarce tourist brochure published by the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd shipping line (KRL).
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# 33503
PARKIN, Ray
H.M. Bark Endeavour : her place in Australian history.
With an account of her construction, crew and equipment and a narrative of her voyage on the east coast of New Holland in the year 1770. Melbourne: Miegunyah Press (MUP), 1999. Reprint. With plans, charts and illustrations by the author. Quarto, two volumes in slipcase (a little marked), pp. 468, 25 maps, 31 full and …
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# 33449
[H. PERROT & CIE.?]
Galaup de La Pérouse 1741-1785
[Title from cartouche in design]. [Lyon? : H. Perrot et cie.?], [circa 1900]. Educational trade card, 73 x 107 mm, recto with chromolithograph design; verso blank. Fine. La Pérouse’s death date is given as 1785, in error. Note: other examples sighted have the imprint of H. Perrot & cie., Lyon, on the back.
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# 33114
SPURLING, Stephen (1821-1892); BAILY, Henry Hall (1839-1896)
Studio portraits of five officers of the Russian naval corvette “Boyarin”. Hobart, May-June 1870.
Five albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, mount sizes 101 x 63 mm (1) and 105 x 63 mm (4); one with the back mark of H. H. Baily, Hobart and four with the back mark of S. Spurling, Hobart; the versos have fully contemporary inscriptions written in ink or pencil, identifying the …
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# 21155
FORBES, David W.
Hawaiian National Bibliography 1780-1900 (complete four volume set)
Volume I: 1780-1830. Volume II: 1831-1850. Volume III: 1851-1880. Volume IV: 1881- 1900. Sydney : Hordern House and Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1999-2003. Quarto (250 x 205 mm.), four volumes, printed in black and red, bound in fine-weave green cloth. The complete set, as new condition as received from the publisher, a couple of …