Voyages & Exploration

  • Indigenous family and their dwelling, Demerara, British Guiana.

    # 38920

    Photographer unknown.

    Indigenous family and their dwelling, Demerara, British Guiana.

    [Georgetown, British Guiana : s.n., late 1860s]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 64 x 100 mm (mount); no photographer’s imprint; verso with fully contemporary inscription in ink: ‘Indian boys, Demerara’, and in pencil: ‘S.A.’ (i.e. South America); although it is a copy-print made at the time, the print has plenty of detail and is …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] The cruise of the "Ellengowan". (Presentation copy)

    # 38893

    WALLIS, Arthur E.

    [NEW GUINEA] The cruise of the “Ellengowan”. (Presentation copy)

    Sydney : New Century Press, 1924. First edition, special issue. Octavo (175 x 120 mm), brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering and device to upper board (light flecking to lower board); a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free-endpaper: ‘To my friend “Joe” Butler, with the author’s compliments. A. E. Wallis. …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Kewa stories from the Southern Highlands

    # 38882

    BEIER, Ulli (editor)

    [NEW GUINEA] Kewa stories from the Southern Highlands

    / collected by Stephen Rambi and Frank Nimi ; edited by Ullia Beier. Port Moresby : Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1977. Large quarto, pictorial wrappers, 56 pp.; a good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the inside of the front wrapper. Trove locates four copies (Australian Museum …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Clan myths of the Elema, Gulf of Papua. No. 2: Oa Laea

    # 38894

    [BROWN, H. A.]

    [NEW GUINEA] Clan myths of the Elema, Gulf of Papua. No. 2: Oa Laea

    Cover title: Oa-laea. Port Moresby : Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1976. First edition. Large quarto (300 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers (a few light marks), stapled; pp. iii, ff. 44; with numerous full-page b/w illustrations (initialled by the author); a good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate the …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Pottery traditions in the D'Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua

    # 38890

    LAUER, Peter K.

    [NEW GUINEA] Pottery traditions in the D’Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua

    St. Lucia, Qld. : Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland, 1974. Series: Occasional Papers in Anthropology, number 3. Large quarto (290 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers (lightly marked, spine a little faded), pp. xxvii, 267; b/w photographic illustrations, text figures, tables and diagrams; a very good copy, with publisher’s circular letter loosely inserted; from The Papuan …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Oral tradition and archaeological sites in the eastern Central Province.

    # 38912

    GUISE, Alu

    [NEW GUINEA] Oral tradition and archaeological sites in the eastern Central Province.

    Boroko, PNG : Prehistory Dept., PNG National Museum, 1985. Series: PNG National Museum, Record no. 9. Small quarto (250 mm), publisher’s binding of illustrated wrappers within cloth-backed clear plastic cover; pp. vi, 84, followed by 46 b/w photographic plates; line-drawn text figures and maps throughout; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles …

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  • Carved and painted designs from New Guinea

    # 38936

    LEWIS, Albert Buell

    Carved and painted designs from New Guinea

    / by Albert Buell Lewis, Assistant Curator of Melanesian Ethnology … Berthold Laufer, Curator, Department of Anthropology, Editor. Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History, 1931. Series: Anthropology Design series, no. 5. Quarto (305 x 230 mm), original printed wrappers, pp. 3, followed by 52 b/w photographic plates, focusing on the art styles and material …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Rumu ethnography : aspects of culture of the Kikori-Kairi people of the Kikori River Delta, Gulf Provice, Papua New Guinea.

    # 38953

    PETTERSON, Robert and Deborah

    [NEW GUINEA] Rumu ethnography : aspects of culture of the Kikori-Kairi people of the Kikori River Delta, Gulf Provice, Papua New Guinea.

    [Papua New Guinea] : Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1992. Quarto (300 x 210 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers and clear plastic cover, 137 pp., xerox-printed; photographic illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography; an excellent copy, from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the title page. Trove locates only two copies (NLA; ANU Library)

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Natives of Lake Kutubu, Papua

    # 39068

    WILLIAMS, F. E.

    [NEW GUINEA] Natives of Lake Kutubu, Papua

    Sydney, NSW : The Australian National Research Council, [1941]. Series: The Oceania Monographs, no. 6. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), original printed wrappers (sunned, small paper loss at spine ends), pp. 154, text illustrations, genealogical charts; occasional pencilled marginalia, otherwise clean; a good copy, from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Review of the Australian administration in Papua from 1907 to 1920.

    # 38954

    MURRAY, J. H. P.

    [NEW GUINEA] Review of the Australian administration in Papua from 1907 to 1920.

    At head of title: 1920. Melbourne : Edward George Baker, Government Printer, 1920. Foolscap folio (320 mm), bound in later greencloth boards with gilt-lettered spine; pp. 29, [1 index]; a very good copy. Divided into three sections, under the headings Duty towards European settlers, Finances, and Duty towards the Natives. The author of the report, Sir …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Drama of Orokolo : the social and ceremonial life of the Elema.

    # 38896

    WILLIAMS, F. E. (Francis Edgar) (1893-1943)

    [NEW GUINEA] Drama of Orokolo : the social and ceremonial life of the Elema.

    Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1940. First edition. Octavo (225 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over boards with gilt device to upper board, spine lettered in gilt, pp. xxvi, 464; with 2 full-page maps, 63 plates (3 col.), 21 text figures, appendix, 1 folding & 2 full-page relationship tables, 4 appendices, glossary, index; contents clean and fresh; front …

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  • Histoire d’Alexis Goodman, tirée des manuscrits de feu M. le capitaine Cook

    # 14356

    POUGENS, Charles de (1755-1833)

    Histoire d’Alexis Goodman, tirée des manuscrits de feu M. le capitaine Cook

    pp 1-75 in: Pougens, Charles de. Récréations de philosophie et de morale. Yverdon : [F. B. de Félice] ; et se vend à Paris : chez Debure l’aîné, 1784. Duodecimo, contemporary full calf ruled in gilt (rubbed), spine with gilt ornament, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt ‘Histoire d’Alexis Goodman’ (frayed at head and …

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  • [HAWAII; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; CHINA] Tvänne resor från Ostindien till Americas nordvästra kust, åren 1786, 1788 och 1789, af Johan Meares. Sammandrag utur engelska originalet.

    # 30091

    MEARES, John (c.1756 - 1809)

    [HAWAII; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; CHINA] Tvänne resor från Ostindien till Americas nordvästra kust, åren 1786, 1788 och 1789, af Johan Meares. Sammandrag utur engelska originalet.

    Stockholm : Hos kamereraren J.S. Ekmanson, på Bokhandl. Mag. I. Utters Förlag, 1797. Small octavo, contemporary half mottled calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed), spine in compartments with gilt ornament and contrasting title labels lettered in gilt; pp [12], 404; text in Swedish; heavily scored early ownership signature to bottom margin of title page, with resultant …

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  • History of the Sandwich Islands

    # 33864

    DIBBLE, Sheldon (1809 - 1845)

    History of the Sandwich Islands

    Lahainaluna : Press of the Mission Seminary, 1843. Octavo, full calf with flat panelled spine, ruled in gilt with contrasting morocco title label, gilt lettering (the binding with edge wear, recently polished, joints expertly repaired), posthumous bookplate (dated 1912) for the library of distinguished Hawaiian businessman and diplomat Henry Alpheus Pierce Carter (1837 – 1891) …

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  • [DARWIN]. H.M.S. Suffolk : third commission on the China Station 1933-1935

    # 12056

    [HOWARD, R.G.]

    [DARWIN]. H.M.S. Suffolk : third commission on the China Station 1933-1935

    Cover title: H.M.S. Suffolk “Nous maintiendrons”. Hong Kong : privately printed, [1935]. Royal octavo, blue faux leather, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, illustrated title page, 164 pp, with many photographic illustrations and sketches, maps, a near fine copy. Scarce. A record of the Royal Navy cruiser H.M.S. Suffolk‘s third commission on the China …

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  • Gems from the Coral Islands : or incidents of contrast between savage and Christian life of the

    # 6453

    GILL, William

    Gems from the Coral Islands : or incidents of contrast between savage and Christian life of the

    South Sea Islanders. Eastern Polynesia: comprising the Rarotonga Group, Penrhyn Islands, and Savage Island. By the Rev. Gill, Rarotonga. Philadelphia, [Pa.] : Presbyterian Board of Publication, [1855]. First edition. Octavo, pictorial blue cloth, gilt (lightly rubbed), front pastedown with rubber stamp of the Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, California, xiv, [15]-285 pp, illustrated, edges with mild flecking but internally …

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