Voyages & Exploration

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

    # 29696

    [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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  • [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Sane, der letzte Wasahäuptling

    # 29693

    KEYSSER, Christian (1877-1961)

    [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Sane, der letzte Wasahäuptling

    [=Sana, the last Wasa chief]. Palmer, Iowa : Missions-Hilfsverein, 1923. Series: Die offene Tür in Neu-Guinea, Nummer 5. Octavo (222 x 145 mm), publisher’s pictorial wrappers (a little sunned at edges), stapled; pp 28, with several full-page photographic illustrations (including a portrait of Pastor Johann Flierl), lower wrapper with map; text in German, in Fraktur; …

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  • Thomas and William Boone’s library of Australian travels

    # 29574

    WANTRUP, Jonathan

    Thomas and William Boone’s library of Australian travels

    Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2019. Quarto, gilt-lettered green buckram, pp. 194, illustrated. Limited to 135 copies signed by the author. New copy. “Thomas and William Boone, prominent booksellers of new, secondhand, and antiquarian books and manuscripts in mid- nineteenth-century London, were responsible for publishing the first-hand accounts of all the major figures from the …

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  • Australian Line of Packet Ships, sailing the 15th of every month, for Sydney direct.

    # 29385

    [DEVITT & MOORE; H. & C. TOULMIN]; MARSHALL & EDRIDGE (AGENTS)

    Australian Line of Packet Ships, sailing the 15th of every month, for Sydney direct.

    London : Marshall & Edridge, 22 February 845. Quarto sheet, 275 x 210 mm, printed recto only, a circular from the London shipping agents Marshall & Edridge, announcing the mutual co-operation of the shipping firms Devitt & Moore and H. & C. Toulmin re. the despatch of ships to Sydney, with Packets carrying cargo and …

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  • [MAORI] Ett hjältefolk i Söderhavet : historiska skildringar från Nya Zeeland

    # 29863

    Sundström, Pehr W.

    [MAORI] Ett hjältefolk i Söderhavet : historiska skildringar från Nya Zeeland

    Stockholm : Bokförlaget Natur och kultur, 1931. Series title: Natur och kultur, 109. Small octavo, publisher’s brown cloth, title page printed in red and black, 176 pp, illustrated, 1 folding map at rear. Text in Swedish. A very good copy. A history of the Maori which focuses on their struggle with colonialism in the nineteenth …

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  • [EASTER ISLAND] L’Ile de Pâques et ses mystères. (Original prospectus)

    # 29335

    CHAUVET, Stéphen

    [EASTER ISLAND] L’Ile de Pâques et ses mystères. (Original prospectus)

    Paris : Editions Tel, 1935. Bifolium, 270 x 135 mm, [4] pp, text in French printed on all sides, with 3 photographic illustrations of an archaic wooden statue in profile and a stone statue (front and rear views) both in the collection of the British Museum; front with ‘Septembre’ crossed out and wet stamped ‘Octobre’ …

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  • [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Wie ich Missionar wurde und meinen Weg nach Australien und Deutsch-Neuguinea fand.

    # 29217

    FLIERL, Johann (1858-1947)

    [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Wie ich Missionar wurde und meinen Weg nach Australien und Deutsch-Neuguinea fand.

    [=How I became a missionary and found my way to Australia and New Guinea]. Neuendettelsau : Verlag des Missionshauses, 1910. Second edition. Series: Neuendettelsau Verlag des Missionshauses Nr. 13. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), original pictorial pink wrappers (a little darkened), stapled; pp 32, with a photographic frontispiece portrait of Flierl; text in German, in …

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  • The cyclopedia of Fiji (illustrated).

    # 29058

    Anon.

    The cyclopedia of Fiji (illustrated).

    Published under the patronage of His Excellence the Governor of Fiji, the Administrative and Legislature of the Colony and the Wardens and Town Councils of Suva and Levuka. A complete historical and commercial review of Fiji. An epitome of progress. A compendium of statistics and data concerning the group never yet compiled or brought together …

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  • Studio portrait of a tattooed Marquesan dancer.

    # 28162

    SPITZ, Charles Georges (1857-1894)

    Studio portrait of a tattooed Marquesan dancer.

    [Circa 1887]. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 140 mm, unmounted; verso with fully contemporary caption in pencil: Marquesan dancer; a strong print with rich tonal range and excellent clarity and contrast; the print is in very good condition, with the tiniest of nicks at two of the corners and some insignificant light creasing to the …

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  • [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Ankunft und Anfangseindrücke in Neu-Guinea.

    # 27241

    KEYSSER, Christian (1877-1961)

    [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Ankunft und Anfangseindrücke in Neu-Guinea.

    [=Arrival in and first impressions of New Guinea]. Palmer, Iowa : Missions-Hilfsverein, 1923. Series: Die offene Tür in Neu-Guinea, Nummer 2. Octavo (222 x 147 mm), publisher’s pictorial wrappers (chipped at top corner) with original owner’s name Bodensieck to front, stapled; pp 16, with several full-page photographic illustrations, lower wrapper with map; text in German, …

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  • Atiu gathering. Cook Islands, circa 1885.

    # 26940

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

    Atiu gathering. Cook Islands, circa 1885.

    Albumen print, 170 x 215 mm, verso wet stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with pencilled captions in two different hands: ‘Atiu gathering (Cook Islands)’ and, probably slightly earlier in date than the larger caption, ‘The Himare [?] of the Atiu (Cook Islands)’; unmounted, loss at bottom corners, 50 mm vertical tear running …

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  • Mission house. Rarotonga, Cook Islands, circa 1890.

    # 26941

    Photographer unknown.

    Mission house. Rarotonga, Cook Islands, circa 1890.

    Albumen print, 190 x 235 mm, laid down on a nineteenth-century album page with slightly later caption in ink beneath the image ‘Mission House Raratonga [sic] 1890 (?)’; tiny amount of loss at top left corner, mild wrinkling, otherwise an unfaded print with nice tones.

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  • South Sea Savages, or Maori War Dancers. The List including a Troupe of Genuine South-Sea Savages tattooed from head to foot, and faithfully giving The Great Maori War Dances.

    # 26813

    COLE, William Washington (1847-1915)

    South Sea Savages, or Maori War Dancers. The List including a Troupe of Genuine South-Sea Savages tattooed from head to foot, and faithfully giving The Great Maori War Dances.

    [Advertised and illustrated on] A double-sided poster for W. W. Cole’s World-Famous, Five-Continent New Mammoth Circus, appearing at Binghamton, New York on Monday, April 24, 1882 (the location and date are wet stamped at foot of the verso). Buffalo, NY : The Courier Company Show Printing House [for W. W. Cole], [1882]. Lithograph printed in black …

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  • Some polychrome incised pottery ware from Mt. Turu, New Guinea.

    # 26921

    TINDALE, Norman B.

    Some polychrome incised pottery ware from Mt. Turu, New Guinea.

    Adelaide : The Hassell Press, [1941]. Offprint from Records of the South Australian Museum, vol. VI, no. 4, February 28th, 1941. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), original printed buff wrappers, pp 357-362, with line-drawn text illustrations plus [2] full-page photographic plates; very short tear at top edges of leaves, else a good copy. A …

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  • [COOK] Four nineteenth-century photographs of eighteenth-century engravings of Tahitian subjects.

    # 25915

    [HOARE, Sophia, photographer]; HODGES, William, 1744-1797 (artist); WEBBER, John, 1752-1793 (artist); BERNARD, Robert, 1734-1777 (engraver)

    [COOK] Four nineteenth-century photographs of eighteenth-century engravings of Tahitian subjects.

    Papeete, Tahiti : Mrs. Sophia Hoare, [between 1880 and 1889]. Four albumen print photographs of copperplate engravings, 130 x 203 mm (1. and 2.) / 167 x 130 mm (3.) / 110 x 210 mm (4.); unmounted; versos all with the wet stamp of ‘Mrs. S. Hoare, Photographer, Papeete, Tahiti’; (1.) and (2.) with mild …

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  • [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] The Papuans : a people of the South Pacific.

    # 26915

    STONE-WIGG, Montagu, Right Reverend

    [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] The Papuans : a people of the South Pacific.

    By the Right Rev. Montagu John Stone-Wigg, M.A. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1898-1909). With later additions by the Right Rev. Henry Newton, D.D. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1922- ). Sydney : Australian Board of Missions, 1933. Second edition. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers, stapled, slightly worn, pp 76, photographic frontispiece and 3 full-page photographic illustrations, full-page …

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