Voyages & Exploration

  • Treasure Ships : Art in the Age of Spices

    # 31100

    BENNETT, James

    Treasure Ships : Art in the Age of Spices

    Adelaide : Art Gallery of South Australia, 2014. Folio, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 352, extensively illustrated. Treasure Ships: Art in the age of spices is the first exhibition in Australia to present the complex artistic and cultural interactions between Europe and Asia from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries – a period known as the ‘Age …

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  • Copper halfpenny token for Robert Heslop, dealer in natural curiosities, Finsbury Square, London, 1790s.

    # 30262

    HESLOP, Robert

    Copper halfpenny token for Robert Heslop, dealer in natural curiosities, Finsbury Square, London, 1790s.

    London : Robert Heslop, n.d. [c.1795]. Æ halfpenny, diameter 29.7 mm. Obverse: A male contortionist and a monkey. Around the perimeter: CAN YOU DO SO. Reverse: An inscription on six lines THE FIRST SHOP IN LONDON FOR NATURAL CURIOSITYS PAINTINGS COINS COLOURS FOR ARTISTS &c. Around the perimeter: R. HESLOP NO. 86 CHISWELL STREET FINSBURY …

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  • Police Station, Goolwa. - Murray River. No. 59.

    # 30764

    BURNELL, George (1830-1894) & COLE, E.W. (1832-1918)

    Police Station, Goolwa. – Murray River. No. 59.

    [Title from contemporary inscription in ink verso]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 74 x 70 mm, on original flat mount of buff-coloured card, 83 x 177 mm; fully contemporary inscription in ink verso; each albumen print has a few tiny marks, and the mount is a little dusty but otherwise clean and stable. …

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  • British Cyprus

    # 30839

    DIXON, W. (William) Hepworth

    British Cyprus

    London : Chapman and Hall, 1879. First edition. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked red cloth over boards (some light marks and staining to both), Crescent and Cross device in black at centre of both boards, spine with the same device and lettering in gilt (a little sunned); ownership signature of original owner in …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Sentiments and leading ideas in native society

    # 30789

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

    [NEW GUINEA] Sentiments and leading ideas in native society

    / by F. E. Williams, Government Anthropologist, with introduction by Sir Hubert Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of Papua. At head of title: Territory of Papua. Port Moresby : Edward George Baker, Government Printer, 1932. First edition. Series: Anthropology Report, no. 12. Octavo (230 mm), original printed blue wrappers (lightly marked), pp [6], 16; last few leaves with nicks …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] The Vailala madness and the destruction of native ceremonies in the Gulf Division

    # 30787

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

    [NEW GUINEA] The Vailala madness and the destruction of native ceremonies in the Gulf Division

    / by F. E. Williams, Assistant Government Anthropologist, with an introduction by W. M. Strong, and a memorandum by J. H. P. Murray. At head of title: Territory of Papua. Port Moresby : Edward George Baker, Government Printer, 1923. First edition. Series: Anthropology Report, no. 4. Octavo (230 mm), original printed blue wrappers, pp xiii, [1 …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Native education : the language of instruction and intellectual education

    # 30790

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

    [NEW GUINEA] Native education : the language of instruction and intellectual education

    / by F. E. Williams, Government Anthropologist. At head of title: Territory of Papua. Port Moresby : Edward George Baker, Government Printer, 1928. First edition. Series: Anthropology Report, no. 9. Octavo (230 mm), original printed blue wrappers (lightly marked and with a mild vertical crease), pp v, [1 blank], 25; contents clean; from The Papuan Collection …

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  • [TAHITI] The Diadem taken from the top of Mount Aorai, circa 1885

    # 30340

    SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed)

    [TAHITI] The Diadem taken from the top of Mount Aorai, circa 1885

    Albumen print, 107 x 166 mm, verso wet stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: ‘The Diadem taken from the top of Aorai’; unmounted, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs of Tahiti, the Marquesas and …

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  • [TAHITI] Papeete from the Signal House, circa 1885

    # 30341

    SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed)

    [TAHITI] Papeete from the Signal House, circa 1885

    Albumen print, 128 x 216 mm, verso wet stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: ‘Papeete from Signal House, right side’; unmounted; a strong print with rich tonal range, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs …

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  • [LA PEROUSE] La navigation : poëme

    # 30685

    Esménard, J. (Joseph), 1767-1811

    [LA PEROUSE] La navigation : poëme

    Half-title: La navigation, poëme en six chants, avec des notes historiques et géographiques. A Paris : Chez Giguet et Michaud, 1806. Second edition. Octavo, fine contemporary full speckled calf with gilt borders, spine with gilt decoration and brown morocco label with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece (arrival of Cleopatra at Tarsus), xiv, 412 pp, …

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  • Une femme du monde à la Nouvelle-Zélande

    # 30691

    BARKER, Mary Anne (Lady), 1831-1911

    Une femme du monde à la Nouvelle-Zélande

    : traduction de Mme. E. B.. Paris : Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1882. Bibliothèque des Mères de famille. First edition. Octavo, brown cloth gilt (rubbed, lightly marked, head and tail of spine softened), edges stained red, endpapers with twentieth century French bookseller’s stamps, 292 pp (contents clean and sound). French translation of Station Life in …

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  • [HAWAII] Un royaume polynésien. Îles Hawaï

    # 30687

    SAUVIN, Georges

    [HAWAII] Un royaume polynésien. Îles Hawaï

    Paris : E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie., 1893. Octavo, colour printed pale blue wrappers, 321 pp, folding map. A lovely copy. A French visitor’s impressions and analysis of Hawaiian society.

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  • [CHINA] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. Vol. II, no. 3, New Monthly Series. March, 1880.

    # 28578

    MORRISON, Gabriel James (1840-1905); HOLUB, Emil (1847-1902)

    [CHINA] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. Vol. II, no. 3, New Monthly Series. March, 1880.

    London : Printed by William Clowes & Sons, [1880]. Tall octavo (245 mm), original printed blue wrappers (lightly marked, small paper loss at spine ends), pp 1-8 (advertisements), 145-208; folding colour plate at the rear with two Maps to Accompany Papers on Journeys in Eastern China by G. J. Morrison, M. I. C. E., 1878, which …

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  • [JAVA] Serat Gurma Lelana : ri ngengga ing gambar 4 lembar.

    # 29176

    RHEMREV, J. L. Th.; MULDER, P. J. (illustrator)

    [JAVA] Serat Gurma Lelana : ri ngengga ing gambar 4 lembar.

    Leiden : Brill, 1884. First edition. Octavo, original printed yellow wrappers, 92 pp, illustrated with [4] double-page chromolithograpic plates, including tiger, wild boar and deer hunting scenes and a native house on stilts; text in Javanese. A very good copy, partly unopened and clean throughout, the margins of the plates with some light foxing or …

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  • J. M'Douall Stuart's explorations across the continent of Australia. With charts. 1861 - 62.

    # 29256

    STUART, J. McDouall (1815-1866)

    J. M’Douall Stuart’s explorations across the continent of Australia. With charts. 1861 – 62.

    Melbourne : F. F. Bailliere, 1863. First edition. Octavo, lettered pink papered cards (lightly discoloured), cloth spine, pp. [vi, advertisements], folding map (short tear at gutter), title page, 97; [3]; occasional foxing. Account of Stuart’s fifth and sixth expeditions from Adelaide to the north of Australia in search of new grazing land and a passage …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] A primer of Police Motu

    # 29702

    CHATTERTON, Percy

    [NEW GUINEA] A primer of Police Motu

    / by Percy Chatterton, L.C.P. of the London Missionary Society. Cairns, Qld. : The Cairns Post Pty. Ltd. (By Authority of the Department of Education, Port Morseby,),1950. Small octavo (175 mm), original stiff cloth wrappers, stapled; 31 pp; errata slip pasted to inside upper wrapper; contents clean, a very good copy. ‘Hiri Motu, also known as Police …

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