Linguistics
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# 28252
[BROMILOW, William Edward, 1857-1929, translator]
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Iesu Keriso. ‘Ida ‘Inapwana ta ‘Ida To-‘Etoseana ‘ina Onoaupaupa Auauna. (Missionary Sister Badcock’s own copy, with a manuscript letter in Dobuan from a woman at the leper colony on Ubuia Island)
Verso of title page: The New Testament in Dobuan, Papua, New Guinea. Sydney : Auxiliary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1908. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), contemporary yapp-edged limp morocco (a little scuffed, worn at head and tail of spine and rear top edge) with the name ‘Sister Irene Badcock’ stamped in gilt in …
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# 30478
S. C. AUDDY & CO. (CALCUTTA)
The handbook of Hindūstānī conversation : with a collection of familiar phrases and an easy vocabulary, English and Hindūstānī.
Calcutta : S. C. Auddy & Co., Booksellers and Publishers, 58 & 12, Wellington Street, 1909. “Revised and enlarged edition”. Duodecimo (160 mm), original printed wrappers (sunned and stained, upper wrapper chipped at bottom edge, lower wrapper with tear at foot of spine), pp [4], 60; bottom corners a little dog-eared, otherwise contents clean and …
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# 30279
RULE, Joan
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Beyond the limestone barrier
South Tamworth, NSW : DSAMC Education Pty. Ltd., 2001. First edition. Octavo (210 x 150 mm), publisher’s pictorial stiff wrappers, pp 228, with numerous b/w photographic illustrations, map; a very good copy.; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the inside of front wrapper. Australian Evangelical missionaries and linguists Joan and …
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# 30394
METHODIST CHURCH (NEW GUINEA)
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] A Methodist hymn book and catechism in pidjin English for use in mission services held for indentured labourers.
Cover title: A Metodist him buk. Malakuna, Rabaul : Printed and published by the Methodist Mission, 1936. Second edition. Duodecimo (155 x 105 mm), original printed grey wrappers (chipped at corners and tail of spine), original stitch binding, pp 32; preliminaries with some light staining, bottom corners dog-eared, but a good example. An earlier edition …
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# 30393
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Iesu Keriso eda Lohiabada Bona eda Hahemauri Tauna ena Taravatu Matamatana.
[=The New Testament in Motu]. London : The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1959. Small octavo (175 x 125 mm), publisher’s black cloth over boards lettered in gilt, edges stained red, pp 528; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. Motu (sometimes called Pure Motu …
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# 30396
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Sivarai namo Mareko ia gwauraia. / (The Gospel of St. Mark in Police Motu).
Canberra : The British & Foreign Bible Society, [1970]. Revised edition. Small octavo (180 x 123 mm), publisher’s pictorial stiff wrappers (some light foxing, old price in biro to front), staple bound, half-title with original owner’s pencilled note re. the translator’s idiosyncratic rendering of the Police Motu future tense, 56 pp, line-drawn illustrations, map; staples …
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# 30220
HIPANGO, Hoani Wiremu (c.1820 - 1865)
[MĀORI; MISSIONS] E Oku hoa aroha, Ko tatou, nga tamariki, o te Atua, Kahore ani i Kitea noatia, hei aha ranei tatou amua, Ko tatou te mahinga a te Atua …
Single quarto sheet (280 x 220 mm) of high-quality handmade Whatman paper with watermarked date 1853, recto with 16-line manuscript in ink in Māori in the hand of Hoani Hīpango Wiremu, followed by his own English translation of the above; the first text is signed Hoani Wiremu Hipango, o Nui Tireni, o Wanganui, Aperila 2. …
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# 29702
CHATTERTON, Percy
[NEW GUINEA] A primer of Police Motu
/ by Percy Chatterton, L.C.P. of the London Missionary Society. Cairns, Qld. : The Cairns Post Pty. Ltd. (By Authority of the Department of Education, Port Morseby,),1950. Small octavo (175 mm), original stiff cloth wrappers, stapled; 31 pp; errata slip pasted to inside upper wrapper; contents clean, a very good copy. ‘Hiri Motu, also known as Police …
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# 28659
LONSDALE, A. W. (Arthur Walter)
The first step in Burmese. Being an easy introduction to the language.
For the use of schools and private instruction. Rangoon : C. Bennett, American Mission Press, 1878. “The Burmah School Series”. Octavo (225 x 145 mm), publisher’s stiff blue wrappers with printed title label to front (lightly foxed and sunned, pale water stain to lower spine), pp 66, 3 (publisher’s advertisements), corrigenda slip bound in between …
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# 28675
Chinese-English dictionary
Comprising over 3800 characters with translations, explanations, pronunciations, etc., etc. Shanghai : The Commercial Press, Ltd., 1942. Octavo (195 mm), publisher’s black-lettered red cloth over boards (lightly marked), spine lettered in Chinese characters in gilt (sunned), pp. [iv]; 354; 10; title page in Chinese to rear pastedown; the English title page has a short tear …
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# 28943
WOOD, Maye
Malay for Mems
Singapore : Kelly & Walsh, 1949. Fifth edition. Duodecimo, printed cards with cloth spine, very lightly marked, wetstamp for previous owner to front pastedown, pp. [iv]; 43, light toning but internally clean. Printed by Liang Brothers, Singapore. A rare locally printed phrasebook, first published in 1928 for the memsahib (married white upper class woman) guiding them …
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# 28476
MATHEW, John
Eaglehawk and crow : a study of the Australian Aborigines, including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages.
London : David Nutt ; Melbourne : Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1899. First edition. Octavo, original gilt lettered maroon cloth boards (spine slightly sunned), pp. xvi; 288, illustrated with [6] leaves of plates (1 folding linguistic map); uncut, a very good copy. Ferguson, 12336. Loosely enclosed, a printed slip from the publisher inserted into review …
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# 27684
GAGARI, Lenard Murry; WILLISON, Peter; WILLISON, Mary; LARSEN, Bud; LARSEN, Marlys (eds.)
[NEW GUINEA] Orokaiva donda : ta hihi book / Orokaiva culture book.
Edited by Lenard Murry Gagari, Peter & Mary Willison, Bud & Marlys Larsen. Translated into English by James Jeva. Art work by Bud & Tim Larsen. Diglot edition in Orokaiva and English. Ukarumpa, PNG : Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1990. Square octavo (205 x 170 mm), cloth backed pictorial stiff wrappers; 89 pp, with line-drawn …
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# 27751
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Ane : hymn book in the Motu language of Papua
Rabaul, New Britain, Territory of New Guinea : Methodist Mission Press, 1960. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original cloth backed printed stiff wrappers (sunned), pp 80, [3 index]; a good, clean copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front pastedown. Motu (sometimes called Pure Motu or True Motu to …
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# 27986
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Ane : hymn book in the Motu language of Papua
Port Moresby, PNG : Reprinted by Hebamo Press, 1979. Octavo (200 x 135 mm), textured stiff orange wrappers lettered in black, pp 80, [3 indiex]; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the verso of the title page. Reprint of the earlier editions of 1948 and 1960 which …
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# 27185
UNEVANGELIZED FIELDS MISSION (PAPUA)
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Yosefemo maxame ira bukara kabe mosesemo bogaira / The story of the life and deeds of Joseph in the language of Lake Kutubu and Mubi, Papua.
Papua : Unevangelized Fields Mission, [probably between 1960 and 1970]. Tall octavo (230 x 145 mm), original pictorial buff wrappers (small biro mark to front), staple boundpp 20; a good copy. No other copy located; appears completely unrecorded. Lake Kutubu lies about 50 km southwest of Mendi in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New …