New Guinea

  • How we were saved. A New Guinea experience

    # 47768

    NISBET, (James) Hume (1849-1923)

    How we were saved. A New Guinea experience

    [London] : [A. & F. Pears Limited], [1892?]. Octavo, folded sheet, pp. [4], printed in black, blue and red, illustrations by the author, advertisement for Pears Soap on lower panel. A fine copy. ‘A four-page, single-sheet leaflet printed in red, blue and black. The unpaged back cover is a advertisement for Pears’ Soap, and the …

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  • Eight bells. A tale of the sea and of the cannibals of New Guinea

    # 47734

    NISBET, (James) Hume (1849-1923)

    Eight bells. A tale of the sea and of the cannibals of New Guinea

    London : Ward and Downey, 1892. Third edition. Octavo, yellow back, pictorial papered boards (worn, rubbed, lacking the backstrip), advertisements to endpapers, vignette illustration by the author, pp. vi; 334; a few light marks, a little shaken, a good copy. A tale of fiction set in New Guinea, where Hume Nisbet had travelled to personally …

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  • The arts of Aboriginal Australia and Papua Nuigini. Shepparton Civic Centre, March 22-24, 1976.

    # 48288

    ABORIGINAL ARTS BOARD, AUSTRALIA COUNCIL.

    The arts of Aboriginal Australia and Papua Nuigini. Shepparton Civic Centre, March 22-24, 1976.

    North Sydney, NSW : The Aboriginal Arts Board, Australia Council (under the patronage of the Shepparton City Council), 1976. Exhibition catalogue. Square octavo (185 x 185 mm), stapled pictorial self-wrappers, 26 pp., b/w photographic illustrations; a good copy. This exhibition, which anticipated the official opening of the International Village in Shepparton, northern Victoria, featured traditional …

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

    # 37295

    SAINSON, Louis-Auguste de (1800-1874)

    The artist and 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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  • [NEW GUINEA] A dictionary of the Mailu language.

    # 47666

    LANYON-ORGILL, Peter A.

    [NEW GUINEA] A dictionary of the Mailu language.

    Edited and enlarged from the researches of the Rev. W. J. V. Saville and the Comte d’Argigny by Peter A. Lanyon-Orgill … With a foreword by Ernst Schwarzenburg … London : Luzac & Co., 1944. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original printed blue wrappers (sunned, spine reinforced with later green cloth); pp 72; half title …

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  • Le Tour de monde, ou Tableau gégraphique et historique de tous les peuples de la terre,

    # 47413

    DUFRÉNOY, Mme. (Adélaïde Gillette) (1765-1825)

    Le Tour de monde, ou Tableau gégraphique et historique de tous les peuples de la terre,

    contenant une description succincte des pays qu’ils habitent ; un aperçu des moeurs, coutumes, religions et lois… monumens et antiquités… notices biographiques… littérature, industrie, commerce, etc. Dédié à madame la comtesse de Ségur. Paris : Alexis Eymery, 1814. Six volumes, 32mo (135 x 90 mm), contemporary uniform bindings of mottled calf, spines with gilt decoration and contrasting …

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  • New Guinea Highlands : Art from the Jolika Collection

    # 47657

    FRIEDE, John et al.

    New Guinea Highlands : Art from the Jolika Collection

    with contributions by Bruce Beehler [and 15 others] ; edited by John Friede, Terence E. Hays, and Christina Hellmich ; collection photographs by John Bigelow Taylor and Dianne Dubler. San Francisco : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Munich : DelMonico Books, 2017. Thick folio, boards in dustjacket, pp. xvii, 665, extensively illustrated. New …

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  • [DUTCH NEW GUINEA] Rapport inzake Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea over het jaar 1954. Uitgebracht aan de Vereenigde Naties ingevolge artikel 73e van het Handvest.

    # 16867

    Netherlands. Ministerie van Overzeese Rijksdelen

    [DUTCH NEW GUINEA] Rapport inzake Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea over het jaar 1954. Uitgebracht aan de Vereenigde Naties ingevolge artikel 73e van het Handvest.

    The Hague : Ministerie voor Uniezaken en Overzeese Rijksdelen; Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, [1954?]. Quarto, original printed wrappers (spine sunned), pp 120, followed by a section of black-and-white photographic plates (one loose), and a substantial number of folding statistical tables and appendices; a good copy. Comprehensive Dutch government report which covers Dutch New Guinea’s trade …

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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