Voyages & Exploration
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![[MARQUESAS] Ueber den Ursprung des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Staatsform in den Südsee-Inseln, und zwar auf der Insel Nuckahiwah, einer der Washington-Inseln.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16163345/2015_DSFB_1551-186x300.jpg)
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TILESIUS VON TILENAU, Wilhelm Gottlieb (1769-1857)
[MARQUESAS] Ueber den Ursprung des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Staatsform in den Südsee-Inseln, und zwar auf der Insel Nuckahiwah, einer der Washington-Inseln.
pp 133-168 in: Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pőlitz (editor), Jahrbücher der Geschichte und Staatskunst : eine Monatsschrift. Leipzig : Hinrichs, May, 1828. Octavo (215 x 130 mm), original printed wrappers, pp 113-224, partially uncut; with folio size folding lithographic plate of Marquesan tattoo designs at rear; a fine copy. Text in German in Fraktur. The German naturalist and explorer …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local "workboys", Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11115730/2022_DSFB_0665-300x300.jpg)
# 33738
Photographer unknown.
[NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local “workboys”, Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.
Two sepia tone gelatin silver print photographs on card stock, in identical 88 x 140 mm format, one with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil verso ‘W. O. Linehan, Lt. Ryan & some native workboys at Manus’; both in excellent condition. In 1916 Australian soldiers Warrant Officer N. C. Linehan and Lieutenant Harold Ryan were …
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![[NEW GUINEA] La Nouvelle-Guinée : IIIe notice : le fleuve Augusta](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/04101020/2022_DSFB_0572-300x300.jpg)
# 34010
BONAPARTE, Roland Napoléon, 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano (1858-1924)
[NEW GUINEA] La Nouvelle-Guinée : IIIe notice : le fleuve Augusta
Paris : Imprimé pour l’auteur, Mars 1887. Large octavo (235 x 180 mm), original printed stiff wrappers (unevenly sunned, old wet stamp of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to front); pp viii, [1 blank], 16, with a folding colour map at rear; text in French; internally fine, a very good copy. A work on the …
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# 34188
WHEATCROFT, Andrew
Bahrain in original photographs 1880 – 1961
London and New York : Kegan Paul International, 1988. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket (light handling wear), pp. xiv; 142, photographically illustrated, a hint of pale foxing to preliminaries, else internally fine. The front free endpaper with a lengthy gift inscription to a visitor celebrating their birthday in Bahrain, dated 1989, loosely enclosed is a note …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Plumes from paradise : trade cycles in outer Southeast Asia and their impact on New Guinea and nearby islands until 1920.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11120134/2022_DSFB_0773-300x300.jpg)
# 34083
SWADLING, Pamela
[NEW GUINEA] Plumes from paradise : trade cycles in outer Southeast Asia and their impact on New Guinea and nearby islands until 1920.
/ Pamela Swadling. With contributions by Roy Wagner and Billai Laba. Boroko : Papua New Guinea National Museum in association with Robert Brown & Associates (Qld) Pty Ltd, 1996. First edition. Small quarto (270 x 195 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards in the original dust jacket; pp 352, profusely illustrated with colour and b/w plates; maps, …
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![[TORRES STRAIT; PAPUAN GULF] Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Volume II. December 10, 1913.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/19091321/2022_DSFB_0928-300x300.jpg)
# 34355
HAMLYN-HARRIS, R. (editor)
[TORRES STRAIT; PAPUAN GULF] Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Volume II. December 10, 1913.
Brisbane : Queensland Museum, 1913. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), original printed green wrappers with old paper reinforcement along spine, pp 38, with 17 full-page b/w photographic plates of ethnographic artefacts (a stone “god” from Darnley Island, Torres Strait; Papuan Gulf masks and headdresses; Queensland bullroarers) which accompany essays by Hamlyn-Harris (Director of …
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# 34384
LANGFORD, W. G. (Walter Gilbert)
Bulletin of the Territory of Papua. No. 4, 1918. Report on the geology of the Hohoro District, Papuan oilfield.
Melbourne : Dept. of Home and Territories, 1918. Quarto (275 x 220 mm), original printed grey wrappers (old collection stamp to front), pp 16, with a folding colour cross-sectional plan of the Vailala goldfields, and folding topographical and geological map of same, 2 leaves of photographic plates plus several photographic illustrations in the text; title page …
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![[NEW GUINEA] Violence among the Kukukuku (Anga), Papua New Guinea](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/01/28131311/2022_DSFB_0338-300x300.jpg)
# 34003
MACKELLAR, M. L. (Malcolm L.)
[NEW GUINEA] Violence among the Kukukuku (Anga), Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby : [Malcolm Mackellar], 1972. Quarto (300 mm), author’s cloth-backed illustrated wrappers with clear plastic cover; 38, [2], 3, [11] leaves, with b/w photographic illustrations, tables, maps; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the dedication leaf. Self-published – no doubt in very small numbers – this …
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# 33711
British New Guinea. Administrator.
British New Guinea. Report for the year 1887, by Her Majesty’s Special Commissioner for the Protected Territory, with appendices.
At head of title: 1888. Queensland. Brisbane : James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1888. Foolscap folio (330 mm), disbound, pp 49, 2, 13; some foxing at extremities, otherwise very good. Scarce.
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# 33705
MURRAY, J. H. P. (John Hubert Plunkett), Sir (1861-1940)
Papua. Offences by natives. Memorandum by the Lieutenant-Governor.
Presented by Command; ordered to be printed, 3rd June, 1915. At head of title: 1914-15. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. [Melbourne] : Printed and published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Ptinter for the State of Victoria, 1915. Foolscap folio (330 mm), stapled, pp 9; a …
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# 33310
O'DWYER, Michael Francis (1864-1940)
A visit to Russian Central Asia.
/ By Michael Francis O’Dwyer, I.C.S., Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Punjab. pp. 479-512 in: Journal of the Society of Arts, April 16, 1897. London : The Society, 1897. Octavo (250 x 165 mm), stitchbound, pp. i-ii, 479-514, iii-iv; one double-page with 4 photomechanical process illustrations of mosques and tombs in Samarkand and the …
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# 33709
PERKINS, J. A.; EGGLESTON, Frederick William, et al.
Report of Committee appointed to survey the possibility of establishing a combined administration of the Territories of Papua and New Guinea, and to make a recommendation as to a capital site
(1) for the combined administration of that is favoured, or (2) for the Territory of New Guinea if the retention of separate administrations is recommended. August, 1939. Presented by Command, 12th September, 1939; ordered to be printed, 22nd September, 1939. At head of title: 1937-38-39. The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Canberra : Printed …
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# 33507
PULMAN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO [PULMAN, Elizabeth]
Studio portrait of Melanesian missionary John Richardson Selwyn. Auckland, New Zealand, early 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount), recto of mount imprinted in bottom margin ‘Photographed by G. Pulman [i.e. Elizabeth Pulman], Auckland’; verso blank; both the albumen print and the mount are in very good condition. ‘John Richardson Selwyn (1844-1898) was an Anglican priest who became the second Bishop of Melanesia and then the second Master of Selwyn …
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# 34049
British New Guinea. Administrator.
Annual Report on British New Guinea from 1st July 1889 to 30th June 1890; with appendices.
At head of title: 1890. Queensland. Brisbane : James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1890. Foolscap folio (330 mm), string bound, pp 168, with 3 lithographed plates (including profile of the Victor Emanuel Range and tribal designs) and 6 large folding maps at rear; Appendix X, Native Dialects (117-168) contains several important vocabularies of indigenous languages; …
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# 34048
British New Guinea. Administrator.
British New Guinea. Report for the year 1888, by Her Majesty’s Special Commissioner for the Protected Territory, with appendices.
At head of title: 1889. Queensland. Brisbane : James C. Beal, Government Printer, 1889. Foolscap folio (330 mm), staple bound, pp 39, with a large folding colour map at rear; front with rust marks around the staples and some very light foxing, otherwise very good. Scarce.
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![[EASTER ISLAND] La herencia musical de Rapanui : etnomusicologia de la Isla de Pascua](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/19001113/2012_DSFB_2205-225x300.jpg)
# 21143
CAMPBELL, Ramón
[EASTER ISLAND] La herencia musical de Rapanui : etnomusicologia de la Isla de Pascua
Santiago de Chile : Editorial Andrés Bello, 1971. First edition. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers (edges chipped), 594 pp, plus staple-bound abstract in English (10 pp, rear poket), illustrated with black and whitew and colour photographic plates and line drawings in the text, musical notation, bibliography; a very good copy. Scarce. An important study of the …