Travel & Exploration

# 11016

[TAHITI; MISSIONS] Saturday Magazine. No. 87. November 9th, 1833.

London : John William Parker, West Strand, 1833. Quarto, disbound, 8 pp, printed in double columns, a fine copy. Includes the third part of an article titled Polynesia, an account of the first missionaries in Tahiti (five columns; with woodcuts of a Hawaiian burial ground and an outrigger canoe).

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# 26915

STONE-WIGG, Montagu, Right Reverend

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] The Papuans : a people of the South Pacific.

By the Right Rev. Montagu John Stone-Wigg, M.A. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1898-1909). With later additions by the Right Rev. Henry Newton, D.D. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1922- ). Sydney : Australian Board of Missions, 1933. Second edition. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers, stapled, slightly worn, pp 76, photographic frontispiece and 3 full-page photographic illustrations, full-page …

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# 16856

KERSTEN, Wim; OUDSHOORN, G.

[OCEANIC ART] Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea

Amsterdam : Museum Fodor, 1963. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers (lightly marked), 24 pp, illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates; a good copy. Catalogue produced for Museum Fodor’s exhibition of objects from the astonishing private collection of Peter Kohler, Ascona (Switzerland), staged from 22 May to 30 June 1963. It features many sculptural masterpieces from the Sepik, …

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# 51567

Col. Sharom bin Hashim, Editor-in-Chief

The Malaysian Army’s battle against communist insurgency in Peninsula Malaysia 1968-1989 (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

Kuala Lumpur : Army Headquarters, Ministry of Defence, 2001. Folio, gilt-lettered leather in dustjacket, slipcase, pp. 218, illustrated. A very scarce book about guerrilla warfare in Malaysia in the twentieth century. Provenance: The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a signed presentation inscription to him from Minister of Defence …

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# 51566

Hassanal Bolkiah Muiz'zaddin Wad'daulah, Sultan of Brunei

Abode of Peace : Brunei Darussalam (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

Singapore : Editions Didier Millet, 1993. Folio, boards in illustrated dustjacket, laminated illustrated slipcase (slightly scuffed), diecut endpaper, pp. 208, illustrated. An illustrated photobook about the small southeast Asian nation Brunei, formally named Negara Brunei Darussalam which translates to ‘The country of Brunei : Abode of Peace’. With a foreword by His Majesty The Sultan …

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# 51565

RAMOS, Fidel (1928 - 2022)

Philippines 2000 : a vision for the nation (signed presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

Makati City, (Manila, The Philippines) : Studio 5 Design, 1996. Second edition. Folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. 223; (17), illustrated. The detailed illustrated book outlining President Fidel Ramos’s flagship socio-economic development plan ‘Philippines 2000’ aimed at seeing the Philippines achieving a newly industrialized country status by the year 2000. Provenance : The Hon. Alexander Downer, …

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# 51564

LIU, Gretchen

Singapore. A pictorial history 1819 – 2000 (presentation copy for the Hon. Alexander Downer)

Singapore : Archipelago Press, 2000 (second impression). Quarto, illustrated boards in dustjacket, light edge wear and sunning to spine, pp. 400, extensively illustrated. Historical photographs of Singapore. Provenance : The Hon. Alexander Downer, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 1996 – 2007. With a signed presentation inscription to him from Low Choon Ming, High Commissioner for …

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# 50775

FAVIER, Alphonse

Péking : histoire et description.

Peking [Beijing] : Imprimerie des Lazaristes au Pé-T’ang, 1897. First edition, deluxe issue (with 10 coloured plates). Folio (255 x 355 mm), two volumes in one, contemporary three-quarter morocco over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and lettering; marbled pastedowns and endpapers, each pastedown with a mounted original watercolour (one of flowers, the …

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# 49446

BERTUCH, F. J. (Friedrich Justin) (editor)

[BLUE MOUNTAINS CROSSING] Neue Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden.

Verfasset von einer Gesellschaft von Gelehrten, und herausgegeben von Dr. F. J. Bertuch … … Erster Band. Weimar : im Verlage des Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1817. Octavo, four parts in one volume, octavo (192 x 120 mm), contemporary cloth-backed marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), expertly re-backed; front pastedown with 19th-century University College, London bookplate; frontispiece folding engraved …

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# 50806

MENPES, Mortimer and Dorothy

War impressions (deluxe edition, copy number 1, with original signed watercolour)

Being a record in colour by Mortimer Menpes. Transcribed by Dorothy Menpes. London : Adam & Charles Black, 1901. Quarto, in a fine signed binding by Bickers of London of full levant morocco, elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering and tooling, edges slightly rubbed, morocco turn-ins with …

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# 51151

RICCI, Matteo (1552-1610); TRIGAULT, Nicolas (1577-1628) (editor)

De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Iesu.

ex P. Matthaei Ricii eiusdem Societatis com[m]entarijs Libri V : ad S.D.N. Paulum V. in quibus Sinensis Regni mores, leges atque instituta & nouae illius Ecclesiae difficillima primordia accurate & summa fide describuntur. Lyon : Horace Cardon, 1616. Quarto (235 x 170 mm), contemporary limp vellum (upper cover with small loss at bottom corner), spine …

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# 51365

HENTY, E. A. (Mrs. Edward Starkey)

Australian shooting sketches, and other stories

London : Digby, Long, & Co., 1907. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (slightly dulled), presentations inscription from the author to the front free endpaper (with an old repaired tear), pp. 319; (1 – advertisement), a few spots of foxing but a very good copy. Mrs. Edward Starkey was a member of the Henty family, her grandmother (described …

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# 51298

MICHIE, Sir Archibald.

Readings in Melbourne; with an essay on the resources and prospects of Victoria, for the emigrant and uneasy classes.

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1879. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth, edges lightly rubbed and foxed, hinges cracked, upper free endpaper with a membership roster of members of a circulating Book Club, ownership name inscribed of E. A. Balderstone, pp. xvi; 328; 32 (publisher’s catalogue), edges foxed, internally clean, a very good copy. A …

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# 50103

[BANKS]. TROIL, Uno von

[JOSEPH BANKS] Bref, rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.

Upsala : uplagde af Magnus Swederus … , 1777. First edition. Octavo, half-calf over marbled papered boards (edges rubbed, chipped at head of spine), flat panelled spine lettered in gilt, offsetting to endpapers, title with engraved vignette illustration of the Icelandic landscape and Geyser spouting water, ownership signature to front pastedown and small collector’s stamp …

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# 51244

SCHILDER, Gunter & KOK, Hans.

Sailing for the east. History & catalogue of manuscript charts on vellum of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) 1602 – 1799

Houten (The Netherlands) : Hes & De Graaf, c. 2010. Quarto, cloth in illustrated dustjacket, light edge wear, pp. 707, extensively illustrated, CD-ROM. A detailed study of the sea routes the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) took from Europe to Asia, illustrated with maps and charts on vellum, instruments and books from the period.

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# 51356

GROS DE BELER, Aude. (editor.)

Tattoo

Arles : Musée du quai Branly Actes sud, [2014]. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards,, pp. 303, illustrated. new copy. ‘The practice of tattooing has an extensive primitive history in Asian and African countries, where it had social, religious and mystical roles. In 3000 BC, Otzi (whose mummy was famously discovered in the 1990s) covered his body …

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