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# 4650
Three albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm, two with hand colouring, two imprinted Clifford, Morris & Co. Artists, Fleet Street, Dunedin, and one imprinted Clifford & Morris. Artists, Fleet Street, Dunedin, the albumen prints in very good condition, one with crease to lower right corner of mount, not affecting the image. …
$ 30.00 AUD
# 4649
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm, verso with wet stamp of E. Teague, Photographer, Oxford St., Lyttelton, the albumen print with some mottling in the negative but in good condition, the mount fine. …
$ 30.00 AUD
# 4648
A group of twenty-two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format (approximately 103 x 64 mm), all by Timaru studios and dating from the late 1860s to late 1880s; the studios represented are T.E. Price (3); Price & Hartman (5); Smith (4); Rudolph Haigh (3); Coxhead (1); Coxhead & Sargeant (1); Adolf Gottlieb Fischer (1); William Ferrier (4); two of the cartes with foxing, but overall the group is in very good condition. …
$ 120.00 AUD
# 4647
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 63 mm, verso with imprint of E. Wheeler & Son, Artists & Photographers, Colombo Street, Christchurch, Patronized by their Late Excellencies Sir George Grey and Sir George F. Bowen, the albumen print in good condition with a few of spots of foxing. …
$ 30.00 AUD
# 4646
A group of twelve albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, each approximately 104 x 63 mm, six with the imprint verso of Frederick Smith's studio (three different back mark designs), including a superb early 1870s outdoor photograph of a large family group showing some of the members on horseback (presumably in the garden of their property); five with the imprint verso of Waimate Portrait Gallery, Queen Street, and one with the imprint of James Fiddes, Wagga Wagga (New South Wales), the verso of which bears a contemporary inscription Mrs R. Forrest, Waimate; the majority in …
$ 165.00 AUD
# 4645
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 63 mm, verso with imprint of E. Wheeler & Son, Colombo Street, Christchurch, Photographers to His Excellency Sir G. F. Bowen, and contemporary inscription in ink 'Fanney [sic] Johnson'; the albumen print in very good condition with excellent tonal range, the mount with some toning. In all likelihood the sitter is the same Fanny Johnson (1847-1918) who married John Lines (1842-1910) on 10 March, 1870 in Akaroa. …
$ 30.00 AUD
# 4637
Rotterdam : H. V. van Gogh, [1850]. Small octavo, original red cloth gilt (rubbed, corners worn), inscribed on second free endpaper 'K.C.A. Falken ten geschenke ontvangen van Z.K.H. Prins Alexander der Nederlanden, G'Hage, 1863', tape repair verso of title page, 99 pp, [6] hand coloured lithographs, sparse foxing but overall clean and sound. Text in Dutch. A charming collection of maritime adventures with exquisite lithographs by P.W.M. Trap. Includes accounts of the ill-fated expeditions of Dufresne in New Zealand and Bering in Kamtschatka, various lesser known shipwreck …
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# 4631
Rome : L. Salomone, [circa 1930]. Offset printed card, 117 x 75 mm, recto with illustration depicting the martyrdom of Father Peter Chanel, a Marist missionary murdered on the island of Futuna, to the northwest of Tonga, in 1841. Chanel was one of the first group of Marist missionaries to be sent to the southwest Pacific. The missionaries arrived at their various destinations in 1837, having been accompanied on the voyage by Jean Baptiste Pompallier, the first Bishop of Western Oceania (including New Zealand). Fine. …
$ 30.00 AUD
# 4555
Michael Graham-Stewart in association with John Gow. Introductory essay by Keith Giles. Auckland : John Leech Gallery, 2013. Large quarto, illustrated wrappers, 198 pp, colour photographic illustrations throughout, with essays by Michael Graham-Stewart and Keith Giles. A superbly produced catalogue showcasing what is almost certainly the most comprehensive collection of Maori carte de visite photographs in public or private hands, as well as one of the most important private collections of nineteenth century photographs of Polynesian peoples ever assembled. A brand new publication, of which we …
$ 85.00 AUD
# 4543
Madrid : [Talleres Espasa-Calpe, s.a.], 1928. Two volumes octavo, illustrated wrappers (chipping to edges, paper on spines with some cracking and loss), pp 249, 270 (contents clean and sound), illustrated with photographic plates, maps. Memoir of a round the world voyage. Volume 1 covers South America, New Zealand, Australia and Java; Volume 2 deals with India. Chapters are devoted to the Torres Strait pearling industry; Aborigines of the Port Darwin area; Rotorua; Maori culture. Single copies are recorded in Australian and New Zealand collections (State Library of New South Wales; Alexander …
$ 135.00 AUD
# 4462
Two albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 104 x 62 mm, versos with imprint of T.E. Price Photographer Timaru, the albumen prints and mounts in fine condition. Two highly unusual studio photographs of male performers (possibly from an amateur dramatic society), one clearly being a tableau of a comic scene from one of their productions, the other with a humorous arrangement of heads within an empty picture frame. …
$ 165.00 AUD
# 4460
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 64 mm, recto and verso with imprint of Clifford & Morris, Fleet Street, Dunedin, the albumen print in very good condition (some mottling in the negative), the mount fine. A rare studio photograph of a professional comedian in in black face and full costume, posing with a zany expression. His stage props include an umbrella, jug and white gloves. …
$ 165.00 AUD
# 4457
Circa 1865. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 63 mm, verso with imprint of W.H. Mason, Repository of Arts, 108 King's Road, Brighton, both albumen print and mount in fine condition. Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN (1805–1865) is best remembered for having commanded HMS Beagle during its famous five year voyage in the 1830s. As well as being an outstanding surveyor and hydrographer, FitzRoy was also a pioneer meteorolgist,. The carte de visite we offer here is a photograph of a drawn representation of the signals he developed, designed to be hoisted at ports along …
$ 75.00 AUD
# 4423
Thirteen albumen print photographs, various formats ranging from 215 x 280 mm (largest) to 57 x 97 mm (smallest), laid down recto and verso of four nineteenth century album pages, contemporary manuscript captions in ink beneath each image, no photographer's imprint, the largest print captioned Laying the Foundation Stone of the Post Office, Maldon, 1869, the group including a carte de visite format photograph of an engraving by the goldfields artist S.T. Gill titled Native Dignity, which shows an Aboriginal couple partially dressed in flamboyant European attire (but with bare …
$ 3,500.00 AUD
# 4152
Lettres, recits et fragments divers, extraits des annales de la Propagation de la Foi et precedes d'une introduction. Lille : L. Lefort, 1853. Second edition. Octavo, publisher's ornate gilt cloth boards (lightly rubbed), engraved frontispiece, 238 pp (mild foxing throughout). An account of French Catholic missions to indigenous peoples across the globe. The section on Oceania contains sections on various missions to the Gambier Islands, New Zealand (Marists) and Wallis and Futuna. The section on Wallis and Futuna also includes a description of the traditional culture of the …
$ 330.00 AUD
# 4146
London : Thomas Varty, The Educational Depository, York House, 31 Strand, n.d. [circa 1840]. Series title: The New Series of Educational Maps published by Thomas Varty (late Roake & Varty). Folding map, overall dimensions 655 x 830 mm, folding to 225 x 140 mm, dissected into 18 sections (mild foxing; 5 closed edge tears, the most prominent extending 200 mm into the centre of Western Australia), linen backed, housed in original green cloth slipcase (lower edge split, otherwise mild edge wear), contemporary manuscript label to front. The map shows Mt. Hopeless as the furthest inland feature …
$ 900.00 AUD
# 4144
London : James March, 5, Great Charlotte Street, Blackfriars Road, n.d. [circa 1843]. Series title: March's Library of Instruction & Amusement. Quarto, publisher's printed red wrappers (good, with mild handling wear), stitched, [8] pp each with a striking hand coloured engraving at the head of the text, with [6] blank pages, occasional light marks but not affecting the vibrant illustrations. A scarce geography for young children, with descriptions of five parts of the known world (including a very brief account of Australia on the final page). The marvellous illustrations …
$ 675.00 AUD
# 4141
Cover title: Rotorua and New Zealand's thermal wonderland. [Wellington, New Zealand] : Issued by Tourist and Publicity Department, n.d. [circa 1935]. Octavo, publisher's pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 39 pp, illustrated. Fine. Two copies recorded in Australian collections (Monash University Library; National Library of Australia). …
$ 55.00 AUD
# 4139
[Wellington, New Zealand] : Tourist and Publicity Department, [1937]. Quarto, publisher's pictorial wrappers, staple bound, 32 pp, chiefly illustrated, maps. Fine. Three copies of this edition recorded in Australian collections (National Gallery of Australia Research Library; State Library of New South Wales; National Library of Australia). …
$ 60.00 AUD
# 4136
Wellington, New Zealand : Government Printing Office, n.d. [circa 1925]. Quarto, publisher's pictorial wrappers (mild corner creasing to back cover), staple bound, [12] pp, chiefly illustrated, contents clean and sound. …
$ 85.00 AUD
# 4129
Auckland : The New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review office [for Wairakei Limited), 1921. Quarto, thick paper wrappers with gilt lettering to front (chipped around the edges, faint damp stain upper right front cover), inscribed on title page January 29-30, 1923, ribbon ties, 48 pp, printed in sepia with half-tone photographic plates, extra detachable page at rear being an application to become a shareholder in Wairakei Limited, occasional pencil markings, two plates with amateur hand colouring. Published annually from 1919 until well into the 1930s, this tourist brochure was used to …
$ 45.00 AUD
# 4122
Auckland : printed by Whitcombe & Tombs Limited [for the Auckland Gateway Reception and Information Bureau], 1938. 'Published with the financial support of the Auckland City Council, Auckland Harbour Board, Auckland Transport Board, N.Z. Govt. Railways, N.Z. Govt. Tourist Dept. and various Firms and Advertisers'. Oblong octavo, pictorial wrappers, 28 pp, illustrated. An excellent copy. This edition unrecorded in Australian collections. …
$ 85.00 AUD
# 4112
Two albumen print photographs, each 101 x 63 mm, versos with impint of 'Mitchell. Military Bookseller, 39, Charing Cross', and manuscript 'New Zealand' within a printed cartouche. Both in fine condition. This pair of cartes de visite appear to be official photographs of an as yet to be awarded New Zealand Medal. They show the obverse and reverse of the medal. The space within the laurel wreath was intended for engraving the recipient's dates of service. The official website of the New Zealand Defence Force gives the following information about the New Zealand …
$ 220.00 AUD
# 4104
: traduction de Mme. E. B.. Paris : Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1882. Bibliothèque des Mères de famille. First edition. Octavo, brown cloth gilt (rubbed, lightly marked, head and tail of spine softened), edges stained red, endpapers with twentieth century French bookseller's stamps, 292 pp (contents clean and sound). French translation of Station Life in New Zealand, Lady Barker's South Island memoir. A single copy of this edition recorded in Australian collections (State Library of New South Wales). …
$ 220.00 AUD
# 4103
[The voyage of the Cassowary : a New Zealand sketch]. pp 69-126 IN: Revue Britannique, seventh series, fifth year, no. 5, May, 1855. Paris : Revue Britannique, 1855. Octavo, original printed blue wrappers, spine sunned, pp 256, good condition. French translation of one of the adventure stories in the German traveller and writer Friedrich Gerstäcker's Tales of the Desert and the Bush (1854), a fictionalised account of an English expedition's encounters with Maori. …
$ 55.00 AUD
# 4071
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 61 mm, image 44 x 38 mm, verso with studio imprint of T.H. Bowers, Photographer, Lyttelton; the albumen print is in fine condition; the mount with a few light marks. Post-mortem photographs taken by Australasian studios are rarely encountered, and few are recorded in public collections. While memorial portraiture was extremely popular in North America during the first decades of photography in the nineteenth century, the idea of the memento mori photographic portrait appears not to have been so widely adopted in Australian and …
$ 150.00 AUD
# 3940
Parts II and III of a three volume set. II. Équateur, Panama, Antilles, Mexique, Iles Sandwich, Nouvellle-Zélande, Tasmanie, Australie. III : Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, Queensland, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie du Sud, Ile Maurice, Ile de la Réunion, Les Seychelles, Aden, Palestine, Égypte. Paris : Victor Palmé, 1888 ; 1890. Two volumes large octavo, publisher's papered boards (lightly rubbed) and blue cloth spines, pp 365, 446, illustrated, occasional mild foxing, sound. French travel memoir which includes detailed descriptions of visits to the …
$ 475.00 AUD
# 3928
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format (165 x 107 mm), recto of mount imprinted George & Walton, 214 Colombo Str, Christchurch; verso imprinted in gilt Jubilee Cabinets, Eden George. Fine condition with wonderful tonal range. A superb studio portrait. …
$ 75.00 AUD
# 3765
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 79 pp, illustrated in colour and b/w. An excellent copy. Catalogue of a landmark exhibition of Easter Island art and culture held at the Met. in 2001-2002. …
$ 35.00 AUD
# 3694
New York : The American Museum of Natural History, May 1928. Guide leaflet no. 71. First edition. Octavo, brown pictorial card covers, staple bound, 37 pp, illustrated with b/w photographic plates and line drawings in the text. Fine. This edition recorded in only one Australian collection (State Library of New South Wales). …
$ 125.00 AUD
# 3530
av Bill Shark (Pehr W. Sundström) ; med 56 illustrationer och 2 kartor. Stockholm : Eget Förlag 1925. Octavo, original textured green cloth with gilt lettering (a few ink marks to the edges of the front board), spine with gilt lettering (sunned), marbled endpapers, 190 pp (clean and sound), illustrated, map. Text in Swedish. Written by a Swedish settler in New Zealand, this work contains several historical sketches (including accounts of the Boyd massacre and the Harriet affair), a commentary on Maori culture, reminiscences of the Taupo region in the 1880s, and a description of a …
$ 220.00 AUD
# 3522
bland Ceylons Tamiler och Singhaleser, Australiens Kannibaler och Nya Zeelands Maorer. Stockholm : Albert Bonniers förlag, [1891]. Octavo, contemporary half morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, [iv], 256 pp, [19] leaves of plates (some colour), 1 colour map. Text in Swedish. A good copy. Swedish traveller's account of his time spent in Ceylon, North Queensland and New Zealand, which focuses on the ethnology of Indigenous peoples. Copies recorded in six Australian collections (James Cook University Library; National Library of Australia; …
$ 330.00 AUD
# 3521
Lund : C.W.K. Gleerups förlag, 1913. Octavo, publisher's illustrated papered boards (lightly rubbed) and red cloth spine, 96 pp, illustrated. Text in Swedish. A good copy. A book on Maori culture written for children by a Swedish settler in New Zealand. The narrative interweaves some of the author's first-hand experiences with ethnological information. Dillberg was something of a renaissance man: an electrician by trade, he patented an invention for the improvement of telephone systems in 1895; he was the author of several works of non-fiction and fiction about, or set in, New …
$ 400.00 AUD
# 3519
[The Workers' paradise, New Zealand : a study]. Stockholm : Nordiska Bokhandeln, 1908. Octavo, publisher's pictorial wrappers (edges browned, front with corner loss and tear along the top half of spine), 97 pp (clean and unopened), 1 colour map. Text in Swedish. An analysis of New Zealand's economy from the 1870s onwards, which ends with a pessimistic prognosis: 'The workers' paradise in New Zealand is a fool's paradise..." (p.97). Three copies recorded in New Zealand collections (Alexander Turnbull Library; University of Auckland Library; University of Canterbury …
$ 125.00 AUD
# 3457
Circa 1900. Albumen print photograph, 150 x 100 mm, on section of original album page, a strong print in excellent condition. A skillfully lit photograph which shows the three-dimensional qualities of this figure, an archaic Maori idol carved from basaltic rock, with protruding tongue and elongated, three-fingered hands. The image was taken against a plain backdrop with the figure placed on a makeshift sheet, suggesting it was probably taken in a museum rather than a photographer's studio. …
$ 185.00 AUD
# 3404
till Sverge : ögonblicksbilder från en mångtusenmilafär. Norrköping: Aktiebolaget Trycksaker, 1933. Octavo, publisher's pictorial card wrappers, 143 pp, [15] leaves of photographic plates. Text in Swedish. A very good copy. A Swedish low-budget traveller's memoir of a round the world voyage in the immediate post-Depression era. Includes chapters on Melbourne, Canberra, country New South Wales, Sydney, New Zealand (tourism, Maori, Scandinavian immigrants), Fiji, Hawaii, six months by bus across the U.S.A., 'among Chicago vagrants', and …
$ 275.00 AUD
# 3403
bland Ceylons Tamiler och Singhaleser, Australiens Kannibaler och Nya Zeelands Maorer. Stockholm : Albert Bonniers förlag, [1891]. Octavo, publisher's gilt pictorial brown cloth, [iv], 256 pp, [19] leaves of plates (some colour), 1 colour map. Text in Swedish. A good copy. Swedish traveller's account of his time spent in Ceylon, North Queensland and New Zealand, which focuses on the ethnology of Indigenous peoples. Copies recorded in six Australian collections (James Cook University Library; National Library of Australia; Northern Territory Library; State Library of New South …
$ 330.00 AUD
# 3354
und Neuseeland. Berlin : Ernst Siegfried Mittler ind Sohn, 1911. First edition. Octavo, publisher's gilt pictorial red cloth, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed for John May on the half title, 312 pp, 125 photographic illustrations, folding map. Text in German. An excellent copy. A study of the contemporary societies and political economies of Japan, the Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand. …
$ 225.00 AUD
# 3349
bland Ceylons Tamiler och Singhaleser, Australiens Kannibaler och Nya Zeelands Maorer. Stockholm : Albert Bonniers förlag, [1891]. Octavo, publisher's gilt pictorial brown cloth, [iv], 256 pp, [19] leaves of plates (some colour), 1 colour map. Text in Swedish. A good copy. Swedish traveller's account of his time spent in Ceylon, North Queensland and New Zealand, which focuses on the ethnology of Indigenous peoples. Copies recorded in six Australian collections (James Cook University Library; National Library of Australia; Northern Territory Library; State …
$ 330.00 AUD
# 3346
Stockholm : Bokförlaget Natur och kultur, 1931. Series title: Natur och kultur, 109. Small octavo, publisher's brown cloth, title page printed in red and black, 176 pp, illustrated, 1 folding map at rear. Text in Swedish. A very good copy. A history of the Maori which focuses on their struggle with colonialism in the nineteenth century, including biographies of key figures in the Maori Wars. A section is also devoted to Maori mythology and poetry. Only one copy recorded in Australian collections (State Library of New South Wales). …
$ 300.00 AUD
# 3345
Lund : C.W.K. Gleerups förlag, 1913. Octavo, publisher's illustrated papered boards (front board lightly marked) and red cloth spine, 96 pp, illustrated. Text in Swedish. A good copy. A book on Maori culture written for children by a Swedish settler in New Zealand. The narrative interweaves some of the author's first-hand experiences with ethnological information. Dillberg was something of a renaissance man: an electrician by trade, he patented an invention for the improvement of telephone systems in 1895; he was the author of several works of non-fiction and fiction about, or set …
$ 400.00 AUD
# 3276
Paris : Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1890. Octavo, gilt decorated red cloth boards (rubbed), spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, all edges gilt, front paste-down with school prize certificate dated 1892, marbled endpapers, 223 pp (outer pages foxed), 59 illustrations. A good copy. Ethnology and natural history of the Pacific region covering Australia, New Zealand and island Polynesia, Melanesia and the Malay archipelago. …
$ 175.00 AUD
# 3263
Circa 1885. Silver albumen print photograph, 200 x 150 mm, laid down on original board mount, imprinted in negative lower right Ring Photo. and captioned in negative lower left Greenland, the print in fine condition with rich tones and excellent detail. The London-born colonial photographer James Ring arrived in Greymouth, New Zealand in 1879, setting up his own photography studio there in 1881. He won a bronze medal at the Colonial Exhibition in London in 1886, and his highly successful business, which specialised in its views of the West Coast New Zealand's South Island, continued right …
$ 330.00 AUD
# 3179
Wellington : John Mackay, 1909. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth imitating leather (snagged at head), bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 619, interleaved with notepaper for addenda (of which there are several neat entries). The first edition of Hocken's vast and important bibliography relating to New Zealand. Scarce. …
$ 200.00 AUD
# 3149
Circa 1862. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 100 x 61 mm, recto with contemporary inscription in pencil to mount beneath image: Bp. Honolulu, verso with studio imprint of Hills & Saunders, 16 Corn Market Street, Oxford, 11 Worcester Place, Eton, 108 & 109 High Street. A very strong, clear print of a fine, vignetted portrait. The Yorkshire clergyman Thomas Nettleship Staley (1823-1898) was the first Anglican Bishop of the Church of Hawaii, a position to which he was appointed in late 1861, partially on the recommendation of Samuel Wilberforce. He left England for Hawaii …
$ 85.00 AUD
# 3111
moyen-age, la géographie moderne et les cartes relatives à la géographie physique. Paris : Hôtel de Thou [Charles Panckoucke], 1787-88, Quarto, two volumes bound in one, contemporary full calf (rubbed), spine with raised bands with gilt decoration and burgundy leather title label with gilt lettering, part one (1787): engraved frontispiece, pp 65 (textual analysis of the maps), 77 hand-coloured maps numbered 1-77 (separated by blank leaves); part two (1788): pp 112 (textual analysis of maps), 63 hand-coloured maps numbered 78-140 (separated by blank …
$ 6,500.00 AUD
# 3105
Paris : Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1891. Octavo, gilt decorated red cloth (lightly rubbed), gilt edges, 223 pp (clean), 59 illustrations. A very good copy. Ethnology and natural history of the Pacific region covering Australia, New Zealand and island Polynesia, Melanesia and the Malay archipelago. No copy of this second edition is recorded in Australian collections. …
$ 220.00 AUD
# 3054
Despatches to His Excellency the Governor and correspondence between the Governments of Victoria and Tasmania on the subject. Melbourne : Government printer, 1883. Foolscap, staple bound (rusted), 17 pp (some foxing to edges, otherwise clean). The correspondence centres on the New Hebrides question, and includes letters from the missionaries Macdonald and Paton strongly in favour of annexation of the islands. There is also discussion of the annexation of New Guinea, which occurred the following year when both Britain and Germany divided the eastern half of the island between them. The …
$ 60.00 AUD
# 3015
Paris : Bernard Grasset, [1935]. Sixth edition. Octavo, publisher's pictorial wrappers, 299 pp (most unopened), illustrated with b/w photographic plates [32 pp] and line drawings in the text. A comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of the art and culture of Easter Island. …
$ 100.00 AUD
# 2965
Circa 1899. Albumen print photograph, 150 x 200 mm, numbered and captioned in negative 6284. Native girls - Rotuma. Burton Bros. Dunedin protected Oct. 1899, laid down on original board mount, a strong print in very good condition with rich tonal range. The small, isolated island group of Rotuma, lying to the north of the Fijian islands, was originally settled by the Lapita people. Because of its location (more or less at the centre of a geographical triangle bordered by Micronesian, Polynesian and Melanesian cultures), its language population, and culture reflect a diversity of influences, …
$ 220.00 AUD
