Melbourne's Douglas Stewart Fine Books is participating in this weekend's big event in Pasadena which offers fine and rare items from around the globe, including manuscripts, modern first editions, children's books, ephemera, autographs, antiquarian books on a wide range of topics.
The Douglas Stewart list spans seven centuries, from the 15th to the 21st, and contains numerous rarities, including:
- Morga, Sucesos de las islas Filipinas (Mexico, 1609),$275,000.
- Linschoten, Histoire de la Navigation (1638 French edition),$120,000
- Fala que fes o P. Fr. Manoel da Crus (Goa, 1641),$150,00.
In addition there are important early works on China, Japan, the Philippines, New Holland, Tahiti, Hawaii and New Zealand; Gutenberg and Vitruvius; Delaunay, Warhol, and Haring; a Salt Lake City newspaper and a Confederate imprint; maps, globes, and geographical games.
Our Shipping Reporter spotted A Narrative of the mutiny on board His Majesty's ship Bounty, by William Bligh (1754-1817) which is on sale for $14,000.
