New Guinea
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# 43555
HADDON, Alfred Cort; SELIGMANN, C. G.; STRONG, W. M.
[NEW GUINEA; TAPA BINDING] The Geographical Journal. Articles on British New Guinea from Vol. XVI, No. 3, September 1900.; Vol. XXVII, No. 3, March 1906; Vol. XXVII, No. 4, April 1906.
Studies in the anthropogeography of British New Guinea, by Alfred Cort Haddon, and Anthropological investigations in British New Guinea, by C. G. Seligmann and W. Mersh Strong; these articles (including illustrations and maps) have been extracted from original copies of the Geographical Journal and bound into cloth covered boards (245 x 160 mm) backed with a …
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 44318
BEASLEY, Harry G.
Pacific Island Records : Fish Hooks
With 207 illustrations and 49 figures in the text and an introduction by Thomas A. Joyce, M. A. Deputy Keeper of Ethnology, British Museum. London : Seeley, Service & Co., 1928. Quarto, gilt-lettered brown cloth (lightly marked, corners a little bumped) top edge gilt, light foxing to edges and preliminaries, pp. xxiv; 133, black and …
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# 44406
FRIEDE, John; TAYLOR, John Bigelow; DUBLER, Dianne
New Guinea art : masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede
San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in association with 5 Continents Editions, 2005. Two volumes, large quarto (320 x 240 mm), publisher’s black cloth over boards in pictorial dust jackets, housed in the publisher’s slipcase; pp. 622, 206; chiefly colour illustrations; map; an excellent set. Showcases one of the most important …
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 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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# 44401
CARLIER, Jean-Edouard
Sculptures de Mélanésie.
Exposition á l’Occasion des 20 Ans de la galerie Voyageurs & Curieux. Paris : Galerie Voyageurs et Curieux, 2 rue Visconti, 2021. Large quarto (290 x 235 mm), publisher’s cloth-covered boards with pictorial onlay to front; pp. 100, with 66 colour photographic illustrations by Hughes Dubois of 21 objects, text in French by Jean-Edouard Carlier; double-page …
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# 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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# 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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# 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 …