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# 24869

MONTROUZIER, Xavier (1820-1897)

[NEW GUINEA; NATURAL HISTORY] Essai sur la faune de l’ile de Woodlark ou Moiou.

Lyon : Imprimerie de F. Dumoulin, 1857. Octavo (235 x 160 mm), contemporary marbled papered boards (rubbed, corners bumped) with cloth spine (splits, small loss to cloth at head and tail); pp 226, [7] (index); hinges cracked, foxing to title page (also a small amount of silverfishing at top edge) and last few leaves, otherwise …

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# 24724

WILLIS, A. F. & G. C.

Tales from the Middle Kingdom

Shanghai : The Christian Book Room, [1923]. Octavo, gilt-lettered blue cloth with pictorial inlay, scarce diecut dustjacket (front panel torn), pp. 147, photographic plates, a very good copy.

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# 24707

LOVECHILD, Mrs. (attributed)

A peep at old Asia

Merrill’s Pictorial Gallery. Part III. Concord, N.H. : Rufus Merrill, [1847]. Royal octavo, pictorial yellow wrappers (front lightly marked), stitched, title page with original owner’s presentation inscription, 24 pp, illustrated, internally clean and sound, a very good copy. Although predominantly an introduction for young readers to Chinese culture, this scarce pamphlet also includes text about Maori …

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# 15736

Gendron, Ernest

[MANUSCRIPT] Campagne de la Corvette à Voiles l’Alcméne. Commandée par Mr. Coudein, Capitaine de Frégate, à destination des Mers du Sud et Océanie.

[Libourne, France, between 1882 and 1887]. Folio, 270 x 215 mm, manuscript, [159] pp, in 4 stitched sections of 23, 38, 48 and 50 pages respectively, the third section with 2 pencil and wash drawings in the text, the fourth section with 3 pencil and wash drawings in the text and one laid down on thick paper (a …

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# 11209

Chase, H. L. (attrib.) & Williams, J. J. (attrib.)

Photographs of Hawaii, 1870-1883

Eleven albumen print photographs mounted recto and verso of [7] pages removed from a nineteenth century travel album, all in format 175 x 235 mm, contemporary captions in French and English in ink beneath each image, the prints attached to the leaves with the original double-sided adhesive tape at each corner, occasional foxing and mild …

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# 23739

LAWES, W. G. (William George) (1839-1907)

Grammar and vocabulary of language spoken by Motu tribe, New Guinea ; by Rev. W. G. Lawes,

with introduction by Rev. Geo. Pratt. Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government printer, 1885. First edition. Octavo, contemporary straight grain navy morocco, upper board lettered in gilt (corners bumped, spine scuffed and a little worn at head and tail), pp i-x (Introduction), 1-18 (Grammar), 19-57 (English-Motu Vocabulary), [58 blank], 59-108 (Motu-English); bright and clean, a very …

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# 21871

NOBUKAZU, Yosai (1872 - 1944)

[SYDNEY]. Godaishu Kanyu Sugoroku [Boardgame of a World Trip]

Tokyo : Tsunashima Kamekichi, Meiji 23 (1890). Woodblock printed in colour, 712 x 698 mm, lined with Japanese tissue, old folds as issued, a clean and bright example. A board game of a voyage around the world, starting in Yokohama and with illustrated vignette scenes of the destinations visited, including Vanvouver, San Francisco, Niagara Falls, New …

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# 22622

DRUMMOND, H. N.

[NORFOLK ISLAND; MISSIONS] John Coleridge Patteson : an account of his death at Nakapu,

and description of S. Barnabas Chapel, Norfolk Island, dedicated to his memory. Cover title: Bishop Patteson : pioneer and martyr. With an account of the Memorial Chapel. Parkstone, U.K. : Ralph & Brown, 1930. Quarto, publisher’s printed card wrappers, a presentation copy inscribed by the author on the inner front wrapper, 45 pp, illustrated; contents clean …

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# 22603

GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, Jacques, 1757-1810

Homme & femme de l’Isle de Pâques

Copperplate engraving, original hand colouring, 156 x 112 mm (plate line) dated 1801, with accompanying letterpress description titled Habitans de l’Isle de Pâques Fine copperplate of a romanticised depiction of the people of Easter Island, extracted from Grasset de Saint-Sauveur’s Voyages pittoresques dans les quatre parties du monde (Paris : Chez Madame veuve Hocquart, 1801). The …

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# 22195

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS (USA)

A Christmas missionary exercise : illustrated with scenes from our Foreign Mission Fields.

Cover title: A Christmas missionary exercise and album. New York : The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1894. Oblong octavo, original cloth backed printed stiff wrappers (lightly creased and marked), pp [24], illustrated with numerous half-tone photographic plates of various missions in China, Japan, Korea, Siam, Laos, India, Chile, …

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# 16669

KIPPIS, Andrew (1725-1795)

[COOK] Andrew Kippis : autograph letter, signed.

Sydenham, Kent, 17 June 1776. Entire letter, manuscript in ink on single folio sheet of wove paper watermarked G.R., 360 x 230 mm, written on 1 1/4 sides, addressed to ‘The Rev. Mr. Parry, at Cirencester, Gloucestershire’, signed at the foot ‘Your most affectionate Brother and obliged Servant, And. Kippis’; remnants of wax seal; original …

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# 13799

DUPETIT-THOUARS, Abel Aubert (1793-1864)

Admiral Dupetit-Thouars : autograph letter signed, dated June 1845

Manuscript in brown ink, single sheet, folding to form [4] sides, small octavo; written on 2 sides; headed Paris, le 5 Juin 1845, a note from Admiral Dupetit-Thouars to the publisher Baudry requesting copies of a course in philosophy; signed at the foot ‘A. Du Petit Thouars’; address and postal markings to the last side; …

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# 12254

BAUDIN, Charles (1784-1854)

[DUMONT D’URVILLE] Admiral Charles Baudin : autograph letter signed, to Casimir Gide, dated February 1841

A letter relating to the publication of Dumont d’Urville’s account of his second voyage in the Astrolabe, one of the most important Pacific and Antarctic voyages of the nineteenth century. Manuscript in ink, single sheet, quarto, headed Paris, 4 février 1841, a note from Admiral Charles Baudin, commander of the French fleet in Central and …

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# 12253

VINCENDON-DUMOULIN, Clément Adrien (1811-1858)

[DUMONT D’URVILLE] Vincendon-Dumoulin : autograph letter signed, to Casimir Gide, circa 1842

Single sheet, octavo, manuscript in brown ink, written on one side only, undated but probably 1842, a note from the hydrographer Vincendon-Dumoulin to Dumont d’Urville’s publisher, Casimir Gide, suggesting an amendment to one of the maps in the fourth volume of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage au Pôle Sud (Vincendon-Dumoulin was the editor of the work, published in …

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# 1453

ARAGO, Jacques Étienne Victor (1790 - 1855)

[FREYCINET] Manuscript letter signed by Jacques Arago

Single sheet (250 x 270 mm), folded vertically, the blindstamped initials ‘J.A.’ impressed into the paper, with a short message written in ink in the hand of Arago’s secretary (Arago had lost his sight in 1837), signed in pencil in the frail hand of the aged Arago himself and dated 9 October 1853. The letter …

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# 21618

OCCIDENTAL & ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP CO.

1896 / 1897. Joint Schedule showing sailing of steamers of the Occidental & Oriental Steamship Co. and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. between San Francisco and Yokohoma and Hongkong.

(Including calls at Honolulu, Nagasaki, Hiogo (Kobe) and Shanghai). At head of sheet: United States, Japan and China. San Francisco : Occidental & Oriental S.S. Co., 421 Market Street, September 26, 1896. Lithographed broadsheet, 400 x 230 mm, printed recto only; original folds, in fine condition.

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