New Guinea

  • Louis de Rougement, colonial adventurer and hoaxer: autograph letter, signed, offering stories to an editor for publication. Ampthill, Bedfordshire, 1903.

    # 32327

    ROUGEMONT, Louis de (Henri Louis GRIN) (1847-1921)

    Louis de Rougement, colonial adventurer and hoaxer: autograph letter, signed, offering stories to an editor for publication. Ampthill, Bedfordshire, 1903.

    Manuscript in ink on ruled paper, 160 x 200 mm; headed ‘Flitwick, Ampthill, 1.7.03’, the letter is addressed to The Author Syndicate, Lincoln Inn Field, London, and is signed at the foot ‘Yours, Louis de Rougemont’; wet stamped ‘Received 2 Jul 03’, and with a correspondence number in red crayon; original vertical fold, clean and …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Handbook of the Territory of Papua. (First edition)

    # 46277

    SMITH, M. Staniforth

    [NEW GUINEA] Handbook of the Territory of Papua. (First edition)

    Melbourne : J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, 1907. Octavo, original cloth backed papered boards (sunned and lightly marked), pp 108; internally very clean, a good copy. A comprehensive handbook for prospective traders, investors and residents. British New Guinea had been transferred to Australian control on 16 November 1905. Under Australian administration it became known as …

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  • The discovery of the mainland of New Guinea : Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón or Íñigo Ortiz de Retes?

    # 45151

    FORSYTH, John Walter [INGLETON, Geoffrey C., copyist & editor]

    The discovery of the mainland of New Guinea : Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón or Íñigo Ortiz de Retes?

    / by J. W. Forsyth. (Copy by G. C. I.). Manuscript in fountain pen, 67 pp., foolscap folio, written recto only on faint-ruled paper; with a page of prefatory notes by Geoffrey C. Ingleton, headed ‘Forsyth’s Paper’; complete and very well preserved; housed a custom clamshell box. ‘John Forsyth, a solicitor by profession, was an …

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  • Small group of original photographs taken in the Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen area, German New Guinea, circa 1910.

    # 45777

    [Photographer unknown]

    Small group of original photographs taken in the Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen area, German New Guinea, circa 1910.

    Group of 3 (three) sepia-tone gelatin silver print photographs printed on postcard stock, in 89 x 138 mm format, versos with fully contemporary manuscript captions in German (likely to be in the hand of the photographer) identifying the locations precisely; all are in good condition. These photographs were taken with personal camera and are almost …

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  • Shields of Melanesia

    # 45069

    BERAN, Harry; CRAIG, Barry

    Shields of Melanesia

    / Edited by Harry Beran and Barry Craig. Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai’i Press, in association with Oceanic Art Society, Sydney, 2005. Quarto (295 x 215 mm), publisher’s black cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket; pp. xix, [1], 287; illustrated in colour and b/w; maps; light handling wear, an excellent copy.  

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  • Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée, dans lequel on trouve la description des lieux, des observations physiques & morales, & des détails relatifs à l'Histoire Naturelle dans le Règne Animal & le Règne Végétal

    # 44864

    SONNERAT, Pierre (1748 – 1814)

    Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée, dans lequel on trouve la description des lieux, des observations physiques & morales, & des détails relatifs à l’Histoire Naturelle dans le Règne Animal & le Règne Végétal

    Paris : Chez Ruault, 1776. Quarto, full speckled calf, corners subbed and bumped, rebacked with new head and tail caps, preserving original spine, spine in compartments with contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate for Henry White to front pastedown with bookseller’s label of A. H. Spencer, half-title, engraved frontispiece, …

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  • Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones

    # 44855

    GOOS, Pieter

    Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones

    Amsterdam : Pieter Goos, op’t Waater inde Vergulde Zeespiegel, 1666. 430 x 538 mm (image), 465 x 555 mm (sheet), had coloured, decorative cartouche, a fine example. A fine example of Pieter Goos’ sea chart of the Pacific Ocean. Extending from Van Diemen’s Land to Japan, and from New Zealand to California, it significantly notes discoveries …

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  • Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en 't Eylandt California

    # 44856

    OTTENS, Reinier (1698 - 1750); de WIT, Frederik (1629 - 1706)

    Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en ‘t Eylandt California

    Amsterdam : [R. & I. Ottens, 1745]. Copperplate engraving, 490 x 560 mm (image); 565 x 665 mm (sheet), hand coloured, small repair to tear in cartouche and a couple of pinholes, else fine. A striking example of Reiner and Joshua Ottens’ chart of the Pacific Ocean, an updated state of Frederick De Wit’s chart …

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  • Panorama of the old world and the new.

    # 44895

    PINNOCK, William

    Panorama of the old world and the new.

    Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …

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  • A grammar of the Motu language of Papua.

    # 44837

    LISTER-TURNER, Rev. R.; CLARK, Rev. J.B. CHATTERTON, Percy (editor)

    A grammar of the Motu language of Papua.

    Sydney : A.H. Pettifer, Govt. Printer, [1946]. Second edition. Octavo (240 x 150 mm), publisher’s silver-lettered green cloth (lightly marked); 91 pp; internally excellent; bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne) to front free-endpaper.

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  • British New Guinea. (Association copy, inscribed for conchologist Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum)

    # 44324

    THOMSON, J. P. (James Park) (1854-1941)

    British New Guinea. (Association copy, inscribed for conchologist Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum)

    London : George Philip & Son ; Brisbane : Alexr. Muir & Morcom, 1892. First edition. Large octavo (230 x 165 mm), publisher’s gilt-decorated maroon cloth over boards (lightly rubbed), spine lettered in gilt (sunned); a significant association copy, with a presentation inscription on the verso of the front free-endpaper by the author for conchologist Charles …

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  • Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. (6 volumes)

    # 44338

    HADDON, Alfred Cort (1855-1940)

    Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. (6 volumes)

    New York : Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1971. Six volumes large octavo (255 x 180 mm), uniform bindings of silver-lettered brown cloth, spines with black leather title-pieces lettered in silver; illustrated with 103 plates reproducing a large number of photographs, 604 text figures, and 23 maps; a complete set of the scarce reprint of the original …

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  • Art de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée.

    # 44403

    CARLIER, Jean-Edouard

    Art de Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée.

    Paris : Galerie Voyageurs et Curieux, 2 rue Visconti, 2010. Quarto (290 x 200 mm), publisher’s pictorial papered boards; pp. 160, with 130 colour photographic illustrations by Hughes Dubois illustrating 124 objects (plus 6 b/w illustrations); text in French by Jean-Edouard Carlier; bibliography; a pristine copy. The Oceanic Art catalogues of Voyageurs et Curieux are …

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  • Arts of the South Seas : island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia : the collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller

    # 44366

    NEWTON, Douglas (ed.)

    Arts of the South Seas : island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia : the collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller

    Munich : Prestel, 1999. Large quarto (315 x 250 mm), publisher’s cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket (slightly rubbed), pp. 368, profusely illustrated in colour and b/w; a fine copy of one of the best surveys of Oceanic Art available.

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  • [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Sivarai namo Mareko ia gwauraia. / (St. Mark in Police Motu).

    # 44432

    [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Sivarai namo Mareko ia gwauraia. / (St. Mark in Police Motu).

    London, Canberra, Cape Town, Toronto, Wellington : The British & Foreign Bible Society, [1964]. First edition. Small octavo (180 x 123 mm), publisher’s pictorial stiff wrappers, staple bound, 56 pp, line-drawn illustrations, map; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne). ‘Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just …

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  • The artist with companions from the Astrolabe in the rainforest at Carteret Harbour, New Ireland (1827).

    # 37295

    SAINSON, Louis-Auguste de (1800-1874)

    The artist with companions from the Astrolabe in the rainforest at Carteret Harbour, New Ireland (1827).

    Watercolour and ink on paper, 398 x 287 mm (entire sheet); contemporary inscription in ink to verso: 80. Vue du grand torrent et d’une forêt / Hâvre Carteret; the artist’s own re-worked section (80 x 110 mm, irregular) carefully pasted on at lower left; short closed tear at right edge; extremely well preserved. A very early depiction of …

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