Voyages & Exploration

# 25768

HUGHAN, Allan (1834-1883)

Two views of the Kanak village at Gouars, New Caledonia, 1874.

I. Albumen print photograph, 203 x 153 mm, inscribed in the negative at bottom right ‘Hughan 4-74’, laid down on its original board mount, 370 x 240 mm, the lower margin with contemporary caption in ink in a neat hand: ‘Cases au village de Gouars. Côte Sud Ouest’. II. Albumen print photograph, 153 x 199 …

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# 25770

HUGHAN, Allan (1834-1883)

Kanak men by the waterfall at Canala, New Caledonia, 1874.

Albumen print photograph, 199 x 151 mm, inscribed in the negative at bottom left ‘Hughan 6-74’, laid down on its original album page of thick card, 320 x 250 mm, verso with contemporary caption in pencil in ink in a neat hand: ‘Cascade à Canala’; a strong print with rich tonal range and excellent clarity; the …

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# 25186

BRIGHAM, William T.

[HAWAII] A handbook for visitors to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History.

Honolulu : Bishop Museum, 1903. First edition. Small oblong quarto (170 x 270 mm), original pictorial stiff wrappers, pp 106, profusely illustrated with b/w photographic plates; a very good copy. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum was founded in 1889, and houses the world’s largest collection of Polynesian cultural artefacts and natural history specimens, in addition …

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# 25206

ADAMS & CO. (MELBOURNE)

[GOLD RUSH] For San Francisco, California. To Sail on the 25th of July, Positively. The First Class American Packet Ship “Louisa,” …

Fare to San Francisco : Steerage, £25. No Cabin Passengers taken. Freight taken at lower rates. For Freight or Passage, apply to Adams & Co., 69, Collins Street, West, Melbourne. Melbourne : Goodhugh & Trembath, 48, Flinders Lane, East, and 174, Elizabeth Street, [1854]. Clipper ship sailing card, 227 x 144 mm, printed recto only …

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# 22961

[GERSTÄCKER, Friedrich, 1816-1872]; WILLIAMS, Sophus (photographer); HADER, E. (artist)

[GOLD RUSH] Portrait of traveller and writer Friedrich Gerstäcker.

Albumen print photograph of a painted portrait, carte de visite format, 107 x 67 mm (mount), recto of mount with facsimile autograph of the famous writer, along with the artist’s details: ‘E. Hader pinxit’, the publisher’s copyright statement: ‘1882. Gesetzlich geschützt’, and the imprint of the photographer and publisher: ‘Photographie und Verlag v. Sophus Williams, …

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# 16360

WOOD, Mrs Susan Nugent

[BURKE & WILLS] Bush flowers from Australia. By a daughter of the Soil.

London : James Nisbet, 1867. First edition. Small quarto, original green cloth with gilt title and decoration (front and rear boards marked, rebacked, endpapers replaced), nineteenth century owner’s inscription, hand-coloured frontispiece, pp viii, 152 (occasional foxing and few ink marks). A collection of poems and short essays by Susan Nugent Wood (1836-1880), who lived much …

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# 25226

SCOTT, Charles P. (1878-1928)

Suite of ten photographs taken on Allendale or Todmorden Stations near Oodnadatta, South Australia, 1903-04.

Ten silver gelatin print photographs, most in format 150 x 200 mm (some smaller), laid down in pairs on rectos of five contemporary board mounts; versos with original owner’s name E. S. Chase inscribed in ink (probably Edward Selwyn Chase, an Anglican minister associated with the Church Missionary Society); the group comprises portraits of local Aboriginal …

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# 25213

STONE, Albert and REED, J. Hammond (editors)

Historic Lushan : the Kuling Mountains

Hankow : Arthington Press, Religious Tract Society, 1921. Octavo, gilt-lettered moiré cloth, previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. [vi]; map; ii; 106, numerous photographic plates with tissue guards, large folding map (old tape repair), a very good copy. “Mount Lu or Lushan (simplified Chinese: 庐山; traditional Chinese: 廬山; pinyin: Lúshān, Gan: Lu-san), also known as …

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# 25188

WEST, Thomas, Rev.

Ten years in south-central Polynesia : being reminiscences of a personal mission to the Friendly Islands and their dependencies.

London : James Nisbet & Co., 1865. Octavo, original blind blocked green cloth over boards (rubbed), spine with gilt lettering and ornament, hinges cracked, verso of frontispiece with presentation inscription ‘Presented to Master Percy Lone for diligence in collecting for Wesleyan Missions, Christmas 1871’, and beneath it a later ownership inscription dated 1957; frontispiece lithographed …

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# 25726

DOOLEY, Gillian and Danielle CLODE

The first wave : exploring early coastal contact history in Australia

Mile End, S.A. : Wakefield Press, 2019. Large octavo (234 x 136 mm) trade paperback, pp x, 448, colour illustrations, maps; brand new publication. ‘The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or …

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# 25112

PULSFORD, Edward (compiler)

Special Record of the Proceedings of the Geographical Society of Australasia, in fitting out and starting the Exploratory Expedition to New Guinea. July, 1885.

Sydney : Geographical Society of Australasia, 1885 First Edition. Octavo, original printed brown wrappers (spine with some paper loss), 80 pp; scattered foxing, occasional marginal annotations in blue pencil; a good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), and accompanied by his bookplate. The New Guinea Exploring Expedition – also known as The …

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# 18737

石川俊之(流宣) [Ishikawa Toshiyuki (Ryūsen)]

萬國総界圖 (万国総界図) [Bankoku Sōkaizu] [Map of the Whole World]

Edo (Tokyo), Japan : 須原屋茂兵衛 [Suharaya Mohē], [1708] (Hōei 5). Woodblock print with yellow colours added by hand, 1315 x 595mm, original covers and title slip; complete. An early Japanese map of the world. Japan is displayed in the centre of the map, which is oriented so that east [東] is at the top of the …

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# 25122

YOUNG, Maribelle (translator)

[NEW GUINEA] Bwaidoka tales

: collected and translated by Maribelle Young. Canberra : ANU, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1979. Series: Pacific Linguistics, Series D – no. 16. Quarto, stiff wrappers, pp viii, 136, 10; a fine copy, with the bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne) to the front free-endpaper. Bwaidoka is an Austronesian language spoken …

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# 25211

NIHON SHONEN.

[BOARD GAME; ANTARCTICA] Nankyoku Tanken Hikoki Sugoroku.

[= Boardgame of the Antarctic Expedition by plane]. Tokyo : Jitsugyo no Nihonsha, 1911. Folded colour lithograph sheet, 730 x 540 mm, with illustrations by Akashi Sekish; together with the original playing markers with aeroplane designs printed on red, blue, yellow and white paper; a few insignificant insect holes (only noticeable when held to the …

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# 25038

Photographer(s) unknown.

Archive of photographs belonging to a Dutch East India Company coffee plantation overseer in East Java, early 1900s.

This small archive of 32 photographs – taken with a variety of camera types, and for the most part by different amateur photographers – was compiled by a Dutch East India Company employee, and documents his life as an overseer on a Company coffee plantation in East Java in the early 1900s. The backs of …

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# 24465

FITZPATRICK, James A.

[NEW GUINEA: EARLY FILM FOOTAGE] Papua and Kalabahai : Weird haunts of strange people. A FitzPatrick Travel Talk.

[Beverly Hills, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1933]. From the series Traveltalks : The Voice of the Globe. One reel of 16 mm film (possibly a copy print?) with approximately 8 mins 30 secs of footage, in an Eastman Kodak Company metal can, later (early 1970s) printed label to front of the secondhand and collectable 16 mm film …

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