Voyages & Exploration
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# 24707
LOVECHILD, Mrs. (attributed)
A peep at old Asia
Merrill’s Pictorial Gallery. Part III. Concord, N.H. : Rufus Merrill, [1847]. Royal octavo, pictorial yellow wrappers (front lightly marked), stitched, title page with original owner’s presentation inscription, 24 pp, illustrated, internally clean and sound, a very good copy. Although predominantly an introduction for young readers to Chinese culture, this scarce pamphlet also includes text about Maori …
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# 24446
WILLIAMS, F.E. (Francis Edgar) (1893-1943)
[NEW GUINEA] Creed of a government anthropologist
At head of title: Presidential address. Sydney : Australasian Medical Publishing Company Limited, 1939. Offprint from Report of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. xxiv, Canberra Meeting, January, 1939. Octavo (215 x 137 mm), printed wrappers (light vertical crease), pp 145-159; a presentation copy, inscribed by Williams on the …
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# 24444
NORTHCOTT, Cecil
[NEW GUINEA] My friends the cannibals : (John H. Holmes of Papua).
London : Edinburgh House Press ; Melbourne : The Book Depot, 1943. “First Australian edition. October, 1943”. Series: Eagle Books, no. 5. Small octavo (182 x 122 mm), publisher’s wrappers, 32 pp; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles fletcher (Melbourne), and accompanied by his bookplate. Muir 8705. Story, written for young readers, of …
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# 24276
MASSOLA, Aldo
Drum types of Eastern New Guinea
Melbourne : National Museum of Victoria, 1957. Anthropology series, no. 3. / Memoirs, no. 22, part 7, 4th September, 1957. Small quarto (240 x 185 mm), original printed wrappers, staple bound, pp 12, with 2 b/w photographic plates illustrating 15 drums from the Papuan Gulf, Astrolabe Bay, Huon Gulf-Tami Island, Ramu River, Sepik River etc.; …
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# 24243
Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area.
You and the native : notes for the guidance of members of the Forces in their relations with New Guinea natives.
[Brisbane?] : Allied Geographical Section, 1943. First (and only) edition. “12th February 1943”. Square duodecimo (136 x 108 mm), original printed brown wrappers, staple bound, pp 17, line illustrations; a fine copy. Copies are recorded in six Australian collections (Monash University Library; Deakin University Library; National Library of Australia; Australian War Memorial Research Centre; Academy …
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# 24242
Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area.
Getting about in New Guinea.
[Brisbane?] : Allied Geographical Section, 1943. “First reprint, 26th October 1943”. Square duodecimo (136 x 108 mm), original printed grey wrappers, staple bound, pp 29, line illustrations; a fine copy. A combat survival guide for Australian soldiers in New Guinea.
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# 24241
Allied Forces. South West Pacific Area.
The native carrier : employment and treatment of native carriers in New Guinea.
[Brisbane?] : Allied Geographical Section, 1943. First (and only) edition. “9th February 1943”. Square duodecimo (136 x 108 mm), original printed green wrappers, staple bound, pp 23, line illustrations; a fine copy. Scarce. Copies are recorded in four Australian collections (Monash University Library; National Library of Australia; Australian War Memorial Research Centre; Academy Library, UNSW …
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# 24442
HORNE, Shirley
[NEW GUINEA] Them also : first mission contact with the primitive Biamis.
Port Moresby : Unevangelized Fields Mission Press, 1968. Small octavo (172 x 122 mm), publisher’s pictorial stiff wrappers, 53 pp, with numerous reproductions of photographs taken by Keith Dennis, as well as line drawn illustrations by Grahame Martin; original owner’s name inside upper wrapper, but a fine copy. It was not until 1965 that the …
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# 24250
FEETHAM, J.O. (John Oliver), 1873-1947
[NEW GUINEA] From Samarai to Ambasi in the “Whitkirk” : an account of a visit to the New Guinea Mission in 1916
/ by the Bishop of North Queensland, J.O. Feetham. Sydney : Australian Board of Missions, 1917. First edition. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), original pictorial brown wrappers (stained and chipped), staple bound, front free-endpaper with ownership inscription of ‘V.F. Fowler, Bank of NSW, Samarai, Papua’, pp 44, photographic illustrations, map; contents clean and sound; from …
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# 24246
RAY, Sidney H. (Herbert); CUST, R.N. (Robert Needham)
[NEW GUINEA] A comparative vocabulary of the dialects of British New Guinea
/ compiled by Sidney H. Ray … with preface by Dr. R. N. Cust. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1895. First (and only) edition. Small octavo (185 x 125 mm), original limp blue cloth lettered in black; front pastedown and title page with early ownership inscriptions dated 1911, front endpaper with later owner’s …
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# 13344
Xavier, Francisco de (1506-1552), et al.
Diversi Avisi Particolari Dall’Indie di Portogallo : riceuuti, dall’anno 1551. fino al 1558,
dalli Reuerendi padri della Compagnia di Giesv; Dove S’Intende Delli Paesi, delle genti, & costumi loro, & la grande conuersione di molti popoli, che hanno riceuuto il lume della santa sede, & religione Christiana; Tradotti nuouamente dalla lingua Spagnuola nella Italiana. (Parts 2-5 titled: Nuovi Avisi delle Indie [or dell’Indie] di Portogallo … … ). In Venetia …
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# 13335
Anghiera, Pietro Martire d’, 1457-1526; Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo Fernández de, 1478-1557; Eden, Richard; Willes, Richard
The history of trauayle in the West and East Indies and other countreys lying eyther way towardes the fruitfull and ryche Moluccaes : as Moscouia, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Aegypte, Ethiopia, Guinea, China in Cathayo, and Giapan : with a discourse of the Northwest passage.
Imprinted at London : By Richarde Iugge, 1577. Small quarto, later crushed red morocco, panels ruled in gilt with ornaments; spine in compartments ruled and lettered in gilt; edges with pale marbling; title page; ff [x], 466, [6], some misnumbering; two armorial bookplates to front pastedown, including that of art historian and politician Horatio (Horace) Walpole; …
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# 13334
Gonzalez de Mendoza, Juan, 1545-1618; Loyola, Martin Ignacio de, d. 1606; Parke, Robert
The historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China, and the situation thereof : togither with the great riches, huge citties, politike gouernement, and rare inuentions in the same. Translated out of Spanish by R. Parke.
London : Printed by I. Wolfe for Edward White, 1588. First English edition. Quarto, nineteenth century vellum over boards ruled in gilt (small stain to lower board), yapp edges; contrasting morocco title label with gilt lettering to spine; edges stained red; marbled endpapers with the bookplate of Arthur Dalrymple; pp [viii], 410; title page with early …
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# 24309
Veer, Gerrit de (fl. c. 1570-1598)
Vraye description de trois voyages de mer tres admirables, faits en trois ans, a chacun an un, par les navires d’Hollande et Zelande au Nord par derriere Norwege, Moscovie et Tartarie, vers les royaumes de China et Catay.
: ensemble les decouvremens du VVaygat, Nova Sembla, & du pays situé sous la hauteur de 80 degrez : lequel on presume estre Groenlande, où oncques personne n’a esté : plus des ours cruels & ravissans, & autres monstres marins : & la froidure insupportable, d’avantage comment a la dernier fois la navire fut arrestee …
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# 24306
Mendes Pinto, Fernão (d. 1583); Cogan, Henry (translator)
The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies.
With a relation and description of most of the places thereof ; their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave : written originally by himself in the Portugal tongue and dedicated to the …
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# 13326
San Vitores, Diego Luis de (1627-1672)
Memorial, que el P. Diego Luys de Sanvitores, religioso de la Compañia de Jesus,
Rector de las Islas Marianas remitió á la congregacion del glorioso apostol de las Indias S. Francisco Xavier de la Ciudad de Mexico, pidiendo le ayuden, y socorran para la fundacion de la missión de dichas islas … Impresso en Mexico. : Por Francisco Rodríguez Lupercio, Año de 1669. Small quarto, full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, …