New Guinea

  • H.M.S. "Nelson" : an account of her first commission on the Australian Station. The voyage out - arrival at Sydney - description of the ship - cruises and doings out here; with a detailed account of the establishment of British protectorate at New Guinea in 1884.

    # 49558

    SHEARSTON, John S.

    H.M.S. “Nelson” : an account of her first commission on the Australian Station. The voyage out – arrival at Sydney – description of the ship – cruises and doings out here; with a detailed account of the establishment of British protectorate at New Guinea in 1884.

    Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885. First edition. Octavo (212 x 142 mm), original printed pink wrappers (light stains); pp.78; title-page with off-setting, else contents clean and sound; [TOGETHER WITH] An albumen print photograph (c.1885) by Charles Bayliss of HMS Nelson alongside the ferry Brighton in Sydney Harbour, inscribed verso in period hand ‘From …

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  • Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Volume II. Physiology and Psychology. Parts I & II. (In the original wrappers)

    # 48976

    [HADDON, Alfred Cort]; RIVERS, W. H. R.; SELIGMAN, C. G.; MYERS, Charles; McDOUGALL, W.

    Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Volume II. Physiology and Psychology. Parts I & II. (In the original wrappers)

    Cambridge, UK : at the University Press, 1901-03. Two volumes, large quarto (280 x 210 mm), in uniform cloth-backed printed green wrappers as originally issued (Part I in superb condition, the upper wrapper of Part II with a lengthy tear and chipped corner, both Parts slightly sunned at edges and with the original printed price …

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  • The British New Guinea Development Company, Limited : participating preference share certificate, dated May, 1919.

    # 29993

    THE BRITISH NEW GUINEA DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, LIMITED

    The British New Guinea Development Company, Limited : participating preference share certificate, dated May, 1919.

    London : [printed by Waterlow & Sons, for] The British New Guinea Development Company, Limited, [1919]. Single sheet, 260 x 300 mm, recto printed in reddish-brown, with manuscript entries dated 6 May 1919 recording the fully paid ownership of 42 preference shares by Ernest Alfred Parsloe; blind embossed company seal; verso with printed ledger (not filled …

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  • Last frontiers : the explorations of Ivan Champion of Papua. (Limited edition)

    # 49711

    SINCLAIR, James

    Last frontiers : the explorations of Ivan Champion of Papua. (Limited edition)

    Broadbeach Waters, Qld. : Pacific Press, 1988. Edition limited to 1000 copies of which this is #506, signed by the author and Ivan Champion. Octavo (250 x 170 mm), publisher’s green cloth in pictorial dust jacket, housed in gilt-lettered green cloth slipcase; pp. xii, 307, index, bibliography, b/w photographic illustrations, endpaper maps, large folding map unopened …

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  • Relations de divers voyages curieux,

    # 48825

    Thévenot, Melchisédec (1620-1692)

    Relations de divers voyages curieux,

    qui n’ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d’Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d’autres Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d’Animaux inconnus à l’Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Pays dont on n’a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, …

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  • [CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

    # 35516

    BUSSIÈRE (publisher); MATENET, Jules Xavier (designer); COUDERT, B. (illustrator); JANNIN, H. (lithographer)

    [CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

    Paris : Bussière, [between 1870 and 1880]. Original cartonnage box, 235 x 295 x 40 mm, the lid with hand-coloured lithographic onlay of a scene on the Amazon with printed game title above and picture caption below, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Bussière, Ed. Paris’, framed by an embossed paper border (scattered silver fishing at …

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  • Aida : life and ceremony of the Gogodala

    # 49614

    CRAWFORD, A. L.

    Aida : life and ceremony of the Gogodala

    Bathurst : Robert Brown and Associates in association with The National Cultural Council of Papua New Guinea, 1981. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 408, extensively illustrated.

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  • Oceanic Art / Ozeanische Kunst / Art Océanien (two volume edition)

    # 49618

    MEYER, Anthony J.-P.

    Oceanic Art / Ozeanische Kunst / Art Océanien (two volume edition)

    Köln : Könemann, [1995]. First edition. Two volumes. Folio, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth over boards, in pictorial dust jackets (fine); pp. 640, with a total of 731 illustrations in colour and b/w, maps; housed in an illustrated box (some light edge wear). Parisian tribal art dealer Anthony Meyer’s monumental and fabulously well illustrated publication is probably …

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  • Voyage de D'entrecasteaux, envoyé à la recherche de La Pérouse

    # 48532

    D'ENTRECASTEAUX, Antoine Bruni [Bruny] (1737-1793)

    Voyage de D’entrecasteaux, envoyé à la recherche de La Pérouse

    … /​ rédigé par M. de Rossel. Paris : De L’Imprimerie impériale, 1808. Two volumes, thick quarto, both text volumes finely bound in uniform full morocco, ruled in gilt, expertly rebacked, spines in compartments with ornamental gilt tooling and lettering, all edges gilt, first volume with half-title, title leaf, pp. lvi, 704 pp with 32 folding …

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  • Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty's Colonies.

    # 49242

    TRENDELL, A. J. R.

    Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.

    A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …

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  • [TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; MAORI] Handbill advertising J. W. Reimers's Anatomical and Ethnological Museum in Saville House, Leicester Square, London. September, 1853.

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    REIMERS, J. W.

    [TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; MAORI] Handbill advertising J. W. Reimers’s Anatomical and Ethnological Museum in Saville House, Leicester Square, London. September, 1853.

    Never Before Exhibited in London. Saville House, Leicester Square. Open every day. Reimers’s Anatomical & Ethnological Museum, consisting of upwards of Several Hundred Magnificent Preparations in Wax, &c. … Anatomical Figures … Human Brain and Five Sense … Gallery of All Nations … Great Human Family … For Gentlemen Only…. London : J. W. Peel, …

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  • Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    # 33117

    Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)

    Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    [Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …

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  • Form colour inspiration : Oceanic Art from New Britain

    # 48262

    HEERMANN, Ingrid (ed.)

    Form colour inspiration : Oceanic Art from New Britain

    Stuttgart : Arnoldsche, [2001]. Large quarto (300 x 230 mm), publisher’s boards in pictorial dust jacket; pp. 218, profusely illustrated in colour; with essays by Philippe Peltier, Christian Kaufmann, Ingrid Heermann, Monique Jeudy-Ballini, Ulrich Menter, Philip J. C. Dark, Chantal Knowles and Chris Gosden, and Julie To’Liman-Turalir; text in English; a brand new copy in the …

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  • Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

    # 29076

    BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777)

    Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

    : contenant ce que l’on scait des moeurs & des productions des contrées decouvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Paris : Chez Durand, 1756. First edition. Two volumes, quarto (260 x 200 mm), contemporary full calf (boards …

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  • New Guinea art : masterpieces from the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede

    # 48207

    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; light marks but an excellent set. Loosely enclosed : …

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  • The land of the hibiscus blossom : a yarn of the Papuan gulf

    # 47705

    NISBET, (James) Hume (1849-1923)

    The land of the hibiscus blossom : a yarn of the Papuan gulf

    With twenty-four illustrations by the author. London : Ward and Downey, 1888. First edition. Octavo, pictorial cloth over bevelled boards (edges rubbed), bound by ‘Novello’ with binder’s ticket, patented endpapers, previous owner’s name to front pastedown, frontispiece illustration by the author, pp. xii; 340, illustrations; a few light marks, a good copy. A tale of …

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