New Guinea

# 41191

CUTHBERTSON, Walter R. [Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. Victorian Branch]

[NEW GUINEA] Report of the Society’s expedition to explore the highlands of south-eastern British New Guinea; under the leadership of Walter Robert Cuthbertson, M.R.G.S.A., July to October, 1887. With journal and map.

At head of title: Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victorian Branch). Vol. V. Part II. Melbourne : Kemp & Boyce, printers, Russell Street, 1887. Series: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch. Volume V, Part II. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original printed wrappers (expertly replaced paper spine and small edge tears …

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# 40326

BRUNT, Peter et al.

Art in Oceania : a new history

London : Thames and Hudson, 2012. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 536, illustrated. A fine copy. ‘The arts of Oceania are astonishing: great statues, daunting tattoos, dynamic carving, dazzling woven and painted fabrics, intricately carved weapons, and a bewildering variety of ornaments, ritual objects, and utilitarian but beautiful things. This landmark book breaks new ground …

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# 40112

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 #505, 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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# 38880

WILLIAMS, F. E. (editor)

The Papuan Villager. Volumes 1 (1929), 2 (1930), 3 (1931), 4 (1932) and 5 (1933).

Port Moresby, Papua : Government Printer, 1929-1933. Five volumes, bound in the original pictorial wrappers (as issued at the end of each respective year by the Government printer); Volume 1, nos. 1-11 (complete); Volume 2, nos. 1-12 (complete); Volume 3, nos. 1-12 (complete); Volume 4, nos. 1-12 (complete); Volume 5, nos. 1-12 (complete); all issues …

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# 39439

DUPEYRAT, André

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Papouasie : histoire de la Mission (1885-1935)

Issoudun : Arch. de N. D. du Sacre-Coeur ; Paris : Dillen, [1935]. First edition. Octavo (245 mm), binder’s cloth (lightly marked) with gilt-lettered spine; pp. [3], 544; large folding colour map, 3 sketch maps, 64 b/w photographic plates; text in French; bound without the half-title; a lovely, clean copy; pastedown with ex libris of …

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# 39214

MURRAY, J. H. P.

[NEW GUINEA] Papua. Annual Report for the year 1913-14.

At head of title: 1914. Melbourne : Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1914. Foolscap folio (320 mm), bound in later quarter calf over cloth boards with gilt-lettered title piece to spine; pp. 195, followed by [2] folding maps and [2] pages of b/w photographic plates; the title page with some light staining and ‘Discarded’ stamp …

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# 39444

BAXTER, Michael W. P.

[NEW GUINEA] Migration and the Orokaiva.

Port Moresby, PNG : Department of Geography, University of Papua and New Guinea, 1973. “Slightly revised version of a thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in Geography at the University of Papua and New Guinea in January 1972”. Series: Department of Geography Occasional paper no. 3, January 1973. Quarto (255 x 205 …

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# 38893

WALLIS, Arthur E.

[NEW GUINEA] The cruise of the “Ellengowan”. (Presentation copy)

Sydney : New Century Press, 1924. First edition, special issue. Octavo (175 x 120 mm), brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering and device to upper board (light flecking to lower board); a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free-endpaper: ‘To my friend “Joe” Butler, with the author’s compliments. A. E. Wallis. …

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# 38882

BEIER, Ulli (editor)

[NEW GUINEA] Kewa stories from the Southern Highlands

/ collected by Stephen Rambi and Frank Nimi ; edited by Ullia Beier. Port Moresby : Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1977. Large quarto, pictorial wrappers, 56 pp.; a good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the inside of the front wrapper. Trove locates four copies (Australian Museum …

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# 38894

[BROWN, H. A.]

[NEW GUINEA] Clan myths of the Elema, Gulf of Papua. No. 2: Oa Laea

Cover title: Oa-laea. Port Moresby : Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1976. First edition. Large quarto (300 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers (a few light marks), stapled; pp. iii, ff. 44; with numerous full-page b/w illustrations (initialled by the author); a good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate the …

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# 38890

LAUER, Peter K.

[NEW GUINEA] Pottery traditions in the D’Entrecasteaux Islands of Papua

St. Lucia, Qld. : Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland, 1974. Series: Occasional Papers in Anthropology, number 3. Large quarto (290 x 210 mm), pictorial wrappers (lightly marked, spine a little faded), pp. xxvii, 267; b/w photographic illustrations, text figures, tables and diagrams; a very good copy, with publisher’s circular letter loosely inserted; from The Papuan …

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# 38912

GUISE, Alu

[NEW GUINEA] Oral tradition and archaeological sites in the eastern Central Province.

Boroko, PNG : Prehistory Dept., PNG National Museum, 1985. Series: PNG National Museum, Record no. 9. Small quarto (250 mm), publisher’s binding of illustrated wrappers within cloth-backed clear plastic cover; pp. vi, 84, followed by 46 b/w photographic plates; line-drawn text figures and maps throughout; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles …

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# 38936

LEWIS, Albert Buell

Carved and painted designs from New Guinea

/ by Albert Buell Lewis, Assistant Curator of Melanesian Ethnology … Berthold Laufer, Curator, Department of Anthropology, Editor. Chicago : Field Museum of Natural History, 1931. Series: Anthropology Design series, no. 5. Quarto (305 x 230 mm), original printed wrappers, pp. 3, followed by 52 b/w photographic plates, focusing on the art styles and material …

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# 38953

PETTERSON, Robert and Deborah

[NEW GUINEA] Rumu ethnography : aspects of culture of the Kikori-Kairi people of the Kikori River Delta, Gulf Provice, Papua New Guinea.

[Papua New Guinea] : Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1992. Quarto (300 x 210 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers and clear plastic cover, 137 pp., xerox-printed; photographic illustrations, tables, maps, bibliography; an excellent copy, from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the title page. Trove locates only two copies (NLA; ANU Library)

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# 39068

WILLIAMS, F. E.

[NEW GUINEA] Natives of Lake Kutubu, Papua

Sydney, NSW : The Australian National Research Council, [1941]. Series: The Oceania Monographs, no. 6. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), original printed wrappers (sunned, small paper loss at spine ends), pp. 154, text illustrations, genealogical charts; occasional pencilled marginalia, otherwise clean; a good copy, from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate …

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# 38954

MURRAY, J. H. P.

[NEW GUINEA] Review of the Australian administration in Papua from 1907 to 1920.

At head of title: 1920. Melbourne : Edward George Baker, Government Printer, 1920. Foolscap folio (320 mm), bound in later greencloth boards with gilt-lettered spine; pp. 29, [1 index]; a very good copy. Divided into three sections, under the headings Duty towards European settlers, Finances, and Duty towards the Natives. The author of the report, Sir …

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