Voyages & Exploration

# 41798

HUNT, Susan and CARTER, Paul

Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 150, gift inscription to title page, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia.

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# 24992

[BANKS, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820]

[WINE FROM THE ENDEAVOUR] A Catalogue of a Small Cellar of Curious Old Wines of the Late Joseph Steavenson, Esq. which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Lahee … No. 23, Gilbert Street, Grosvenor Square, on Tuesday, the 31st day of March, 1840, …

[London] : s.n., 1840. Octavo (225 x 143 mm), [4] pp; contemporary ink annotation beside lot 11 “East India”; a couple of small closed tears, light foxing. Apparently unrecorded, this unassuming little catalogue is a record of the sale by auction of wines from the deceased estate of London wine and brandy merchant, Joseph Steavenson. A …

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# 41521

MARCET, Edouard

Australie. Un voyage a travers le bush.

Dessins de Mm. G. Liquier et D. d’apres les indications de l’auteur. Geneve : Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1868. Octavo, gilt-lettered cloth (spine glued down), all edges gilt, pp. 268, the text set in ornamental borders with decorated initials, illustrated with 20 original photographs after drawings by the author. Printed in an edition of 200 copies. Rare …

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# 41271

CROOKE, Ray

An epistle from Oberea (signed twice by Ray Crooke)

With decorations by Ray Crooke. Ferntree Gully, Vic. : The Rams Skull Press, 1955. Quarto, hessian bound boards with traditional Polynesian tapa design, signed ‘Ray Crooke 21 October 65’ on the endpaper, 24 pp, illustrated with seven original silk screens by Ray Crooke. Limited to 250 copies signed by the artist; the cover was also …

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# 41525

Yamanaka Zensaburo

[WORLD MAP] Bankokushnghizu

Japan : (Meiji 14) [1881]. Handcoloured copperplate print, 990 x 700 mm, folding to 130 x 180 mm, some silverfishing and creases with some splitting, both repaired with Japanese tissue. A map of the world on Mercator’s projection by Japanese cartographer Yamanaka Zensaburo. Obviously derived from European sources, it shows the voyages of famous explorers …

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# 41489

KNIGHT, J. G. (John George) (1826-1892)

Narrative of the visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to the Colony of Victoria, Australia.

Compiled by J. G. Knight. Melbourne : Mason, Firth and Co., 1868. Quarto (280 x 225 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over bevelled boards with gilt device, lettering and rule to upper board, lower board with same device stamped in blind (lightly marked, edges rubbed), all edges gilt, photographic frontispiece with tipped-in oval albumen print portrait …

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# 41303

GROVES, Murray

[NEW GUINEA] Dancing in Poreporena.

The Arthur Maurice Hocart Memorial Prize Essay, 1954. Offprint from The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 84: 75-90. London : RAI, [1954?]. Quarto (285 x 225 mm), original stapled green wrappers (sunned along spine, very light vertical crease, pen annotation to upper wrapper), pp. 16; internally excellent; from …

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# 41463

FISCHER, Theodor

Vagabondlif I Australien

/ af Theodor Fischer. Stockholm : Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1879. Small octavo (185 x 125 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards; pp. 124, illustrated with 5 b/w lithographic plates (including one of a large Aboriginal group titled ‘King Okalia and entourage’; text in Swedish; a fine copy. Memoir of a Swedish drifter in the …

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# 41587

DUPEYRAT, André

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Mitsinari : twenty-one years among the Papuans

London : Staples Press, 1954. First UK edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (a few marks), in the pictorial dust jacket (spine sunned, else edges chipped with small loss), endpaper maps, pp. 256, illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates; preface by Paul Claudel; a very good copy, from The Papuan Collection …

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# 41103

BURTON BROTHERS

[SAMOA] Lt. Gaunt’s squad drilling. (Apia, 1899).

Albumen print photograph, 145 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount, 245 x 295 mm; ms. caption in the negative reads: ‘6395. Lt. Gaunt’s Squad drilling. Burton Bros. Dunedin. Protected, Oct. ’99’; the print is in good condition; the mount is sunned at the edges and has a tiny amount of insect damage at …

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# 41159

[ZAHN, August, editor]

Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 3 Teil.

Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses 1923. Part 3. First edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 52. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers (detached) with illustrated front by Lina Burger and illustrated advertisement on rear for Das Kinderblatt (the Mission’s newspaper for children), pp 20, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good. …

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# 41158

[ZAHN, August, editor]

Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 1 Teil. 2 Auflage.

Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses (1918) 1922. Part one. Second edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 37. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers illustrated in red front and rear (sunned at edges, front with crease at bottom corner), stapled, pp 16, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good, a clean copy. …

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# 41157

[ZAHN, August, editor]

Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 2 Teil. 2 Auflage.

Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses (1918) 1922. Part two. Second edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 38. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers illustrated front and rear (mild sunning at edges, slightly bruised at head of spine), stapled, pp 24, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good, a fine copy. Second …

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# 40439

FLEMMING, Carl (publisher); HERRICH, A. (cartographer)

[ANTARCTICA] Die Gebiete um den Südpol

Glogau : Carl Flemming, [ca. 1896]. Chromolithographic map, 410 x 480 mm, dissected and laid down on its original linen backing sheet, 420 x 495 mm; shows tracks of the main Antarctic expeditions from Cook (1772-75) to Bull (1894-95); scale 1:40,000,000; light handling wear around the edges, otherwise very good, with old collection stamp and …

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# 41191

CUTHBERTSON, Walter R. [Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. Victorian Branch]

[NEW GUINEA] Report of the Society’s expedition to explore the highlands of south-eastern British New Guinea; under the leadership of Walter Robert Cuthbertson, M.R.G.S.A., July to October, 1887. With journal and map.

At head of title: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victorian Branch). Vol. V. Part II. Melbourne : Kemp & Boyce, printers, Russell Street, 1887. Series: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch. Volume V, Part II. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original printed wrappers (expertly replaced paper spine and small edge tears …

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# 41346

TIPPING, Marjorie

Ludwig Becker : artist & naturalist with the Burke & Wills expedition

Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 1979. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, light edge wear, pp. 224, illustrated, in acetate slipcase. A good copy. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Art Gallery …

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