New Guinea
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# 34326
Maker unknown.
[NEW GUINEA] A group of hand-coloured magic lantern slides with ethnographic subjects.
[s.l. : s.n., circa 1910]. Four glass magic lantern slides with hand colouring, uniform 82 x 82 mm format; the mounts have captions in white ink: ‘New Guinea holding up a piece of home made tapa cloth’; ‘New Guinea family crests’; ‘New Guinea carrying bird Birds of Paradise down to the coast’; and ‘New Guinea …
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# 35256
AUSTRALIA. DEPARTMENT OF TERRITORIES.
[NEW GUINEA] Official record of the unveiling of the Mount Lamington memorial, Popondetta Cemetery, Papua.
[Canberra : Commonwealth Government Printer, 1953?]. Oblong folio (230 x 355 mm), original green cloth over boards, rivet bound, [4] leaves with text (rectos only), followed by [9] leaves each with a mounted gelatin silver print photograph and printed caption (rectos only); as well as images documenting the unveiling ceremony itself, the photographs include two of the …
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# 35186
FRITTS, Jean G.
Sotheby’s. African and Tribal Art. New York, May 19 2000.
Sydney : New York, 2000. Quarto (270 x 210 mm), illustrated card covers, pp 132; auction catalogue with 302 lots, illustrated in colour and b/w; a very good copy.
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# 34898
PURARI ACTION GROUP (PARDY, Rob; PARSONS, Mike; SIEMON, Don; WIGGLESWORTH, Ann)
[NEW GUINEA; ECOLOGY] Purari : overpowering PNG?
Fitzroy, Vic. : International Development Action for Purari Action Group, 1978. Quarto (270 x 200 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers; pp [10], 221; with artwork by Jeff Stewart, maps; a good copy. An environmental impact study compiled by a group of Melbourne conservation activists. ‘Four years before Papua New Guinea became independent, investigations began into the …
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# 34907
FORT, George Seymour
Chance or design? A pioneer looks back : experiences in New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea and Africa
[Cover title]. Also titled: Chance or design? A pioneer looks back. London : Robert Hale Limited, [1942]. First edition. Octavo (218 x 145 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over boards, in the original dust jacket (chipped, spine sunned); pp 180; portrait frontispiece, 6 b/w photographic plates, index; internally very good; the publisher’s ‘With the Compliments of …
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# 34900
LEAHY, Michael J. ("Mick"); JONES, Douglas E. (editor)
Explorations into highland New Guinea 1930-1935 / Michael J. Leahy
; edited by Douglas E. Jones ; foreword by Jane C. Goodale. Bathurst, N.S.W. : Crawford House Press, 1994. Octavo (235 mm), publisher’s cloth in pictorial dust jacket; pp 254, with numerous b/w photographic illustrations, map; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. ‘This book …
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# 35015
Oil exploration in Papua and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea
Melbourne : Australian Petroleum Company Pty. Ltd., and Island Exploration Company Pty. Ltd., 1940. Large octavo (228 x 153 mm), original printed wrappers (lightly foxed), staple bound, 31 pp, b/w photographic illustrations throughout; internally clean and sound.
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# 34002
PAPUAN PLANTING & TRADING COMPANY.
[NEW GUINEA; RUBBER] Prospectus of the extension of the Papuan Planting & Trading Syndicate into the Papuan Planting & Trading Company.
At head of title: For Private Circulation only. Carlton, Vic. : Ford & Son, printers, [1898]. Foolscap folio (340 mm), [4] pp; original folds, edges with some insect nibbling and very short tears, else clean. ‘Capital – £3,000 in 300 Shares of £10 each. Capital required £1500. 300 Shares are issued at £10 per Share. …
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# 34018
MALINOWSKI, Bronislaw (1884-1942)
The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia : an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea.
With a Preface by Havelock Ellis. New York : Horace Liveright, 1929. First US edition. Two volumes. octavo (220 x 150 mm), uniform black cloth over boards with beveled edges (rubbed and lightly marked), spine lettered in gilt (faded); top edges gilt, fore-edges uncut; xviii, map plate, 279; viii, 281-603 pp; photographic plates throughout; bindings …
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# 34530
British and Foreign Bible Society.
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Buki tabu lowaenei : Nugana, Si apwesa, Loina, Ruta, Esiteri, Salamo, Isaia, Iona.
[=Old Testament. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Ruth, Esther, Psalms, Isaiah, and Jonah in Dobu]. London : British and Foreign Bible Society, 1919. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), original limp black roan, spine titled in gilt, 361 pp; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. Dobu (or …
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# 34022
New South Wales. Legislative Assembly.
[NEW GUINEA; CATHOLIC MISSIONS] Massacre at Woodlark Island, (of crew and passengers of brig “Gazelle.”)
Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 27 February, 1857. Sydney : Government printer, 1857. Foolscap folio, string bound, pp [1], 15; marginal water damage at top edges, else fine. ‘Return to an Address from the Honorable the Legislative Assembly, dated 10 February, 1857, requesting that His Excellency the Governor General would be pleased …
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# 33738
Photographer unknown.
[NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local “workboys”, Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.
Two sepia tone gelatin silver print photographs on card stock, in identical 88 x 140 mm format, one with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil verso ‘W. O. Linehan, Lt. Ryan & some native workboys at Manus’; both in excellent condition. In 1916 Australian soldiers Warrant Officer N. C. Linehan and Lieutenant Harold Ryan were …
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# 33975
NEWTON, Douglas (1920-2001)
[NEW GUINEA] Art styles of the Papuan Gulf. (Ian Hogbin’s copy, inscribed by Douglas Newton)
New York : Museum of Primitive Art, 1961. First edition. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial black papered boards printed in white (corners bumped, spine with a few small abrasions), a significant association copy, the front free-endpaper with the ownership signature of Australian anthropologist Ian Hogbin, inscribed below by the author, renowned ethnographer and …
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# 34010
BONAPARTE, Roland Napoléon, 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano (1858-1924)
[NEW GUINEA] La Nouvelle-Guinée : IIIe notice : le fleuve Augusta
Paris : Imprimé pour l’auteur, Mars 1887. Large octavo (235 x 180 mm), original printed stiff wrappers (unevenly sunned, old wet stamp of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to front); pp viii, [1 blank], 16, with a folding colour map at rear; text in French; internally fine, a very good copy. A work on the …
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# 33980
TAYLOR, G. A.
[NEW GUINEA] The 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, Papua.
Canberra : Government Printer, 1958. “Bulletin Number 38 of the Department of National Development, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics”. Quarto (250 x 180 mm), printed green wrappers (spine and edges sunned), pp [iv], 115, plus 157 illustrations and plates (including 9 folding data charts and maps), errata slip tipped-in on inside front wrapper; …
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# 34006
BOOTH, Doris R. (Regina) (1895-1970)
[NEW GUINEA] Mountains, gold and cannibals
Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1929. First edition. Octavo (205 x 140 mm), publisher’s patterned blue cloth lettered in navy (rubbed, spine sunned and marked), front free-endpaper with early gift inscription, frontispiece photographic portrait of the author, xix, 203 pp, index, numerous b/w photographic plates; glossary of pidgin-English terms; occasional light foxing, otherwise clean and …