New Zealand
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# 20637
MOORE, R.P. (Robert Percy) (1881-1948)
Panoramic photograph of a large Māori group at Whakarewarewa model village, Rotorua, New Zealand.
[New Zealand : R.P. Moore, c.1925]. Hand coloured gelatin silver print photograph, 200 x 980 mm (approximate), in original glazed wooden frame, 210 x 1000 mm; the photographer’s title in negative (which in Moore’s panoramas generally appears at bottom centre) is either hidden by the frame or else was trimmed when the photograph was mounted; …
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# 20090
BRAGGE, James (1833-1908)
Photographic portrait of a young Māori woman, circa 1880.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘James Bragge, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Wellington, New Zealand’; both the albumen print and mount are in fine condition.
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# 20089
BRAGGE, James (1833-1908)
Photographic portrait of Māori leader and missionary Renata Tama-ki-Hikurangi Kawepo, circa 1880.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount), verso with imprint of ‘James Bragge, Portrait and Landscape Photographer, Wellington, New Zealand’; both the albumen print and mount are in very good condition. Born in Taumata-o-he Pa, Hawke’s Bay, Renata Tama-ki-Hikurangi Kawepo (? – 1888) was a leader of Ngāti Te Upokoiri and Ngāti Kahungunu, …
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# 20931
THORPE, Ashley; McCOLLIN, W.H.
Log book of the barque “Hippalos” (Sydney), for voyages between New South Wales and New Zealand, including her final voyage on which she was shipwrecked on November 20 1909.
Unique manuscript record of Australian-New Zealand maritime commerce prior to World War One – with an unexpected and dramatic conclusion! [Sydney : Turner & Henderson, … Nautical Stationers …, 1909]. Large quarto log book, original cloth backed papered boards with Turner & Henderson label to upper board (heavily rubbed and stained), containing the trans-Tasman voyage …
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# 20093
PRICE, Thomas Edward (1838-1928)
Photographic portrait of a Māori woman with moko, circa 1880.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount), verso imprinted ‘Photographed by Thos. E. Price, Photographer, Masterton, New Zealand’; both the albumen print and mount are in very good condition.
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# 19448
NELSON PROVINCIAL PROGRESS LEAGUE
Sunny Nelson, New Zealand
Nelson : Betts & Son, 1966. Folio (210 x 270mm), paper wrapper, staple bound (slight crease to bottom corner), 32 pp., illustrated with black and white photographs, maps, and diagrams; internally very clean, a good copy. “Nelson has an average sunshine record of 2545 hours per annum, which is higher than that of any other …
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# 20204
BROUGHTON, William Robert (1762 - 1821)
Voyage de Découvertes dans la partie septentrionale de L´Ocean Pacifique, fait par le capitaine W. R. Broughton, commandant la corvette de S. M. La Providence et sa conserve, pendant les années 1795, 1796, 1797 et 1798;
dans lequel il a parcouru et visité la côte d’Asie, depuis le 35e degré nord, jusqu’au 52e; l’île d’Insu, ordinairement appelée Jesso; les côtes nord, est et sud du Japon; les îles de Likeujo et autres îles voisines, ainsi que la côte de Corée. Tr. par odre de S.E. le ministre de la marine et …
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# 20075
WALCH, Johannes (1757-1824)
Allgemeiner Atlas. Nach den bewährtesten Hülfsmitteln und astronomischen Ortsbestimmungen,
nebst allen neuen Entdeckungen, Säkularisationen, und Entschädigungen. Augsburg : im Verlag bei Johannes Walch, 1812. Small oblong quarto, original cloth backed papered boards (heavily rubbed, corners worn), hand coloured copper engraved title leaf with original owner’s signature, followed by [35] engraved maps, all with some degree of contemporary hand colouring; manuscript foliation and a few …
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# 14698
LONEY, Alan and GIMBLETT, Max
Searchings. Selections from the artist’s journals
Auckland : The Holloway Press, 2005. Quarto, quarter buckram over blue lettered boards, unpaginated, illustrations by Gimblett. Limited to 80 copies of which 64 were for sale. This is a copy reserved for the contributors. “This book is the result of three years research and study of the Journals of one of the most significant …
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# 20074
STOUT, Sir Robert
Public education in New Zealand : a speech delivered by the Hon. Sir Robert Stout, Minister of Education, in the House of Representatives, June 18, 1886.
Wellington : Government Printer, 1886. Octavo, printed blue wrappers (chipped), pp. 28, two large folding maps showing public schools in the North and South Islands.
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# 20010
Pan American World Airways
Fly to the South Pacific by Pan Am
United States : Pan American World Airways, 1956. Tourist brochure, single sheet folded to DL size, illustrations. Focusses on Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti, Australia and New Zealand. ‘You’ll say “down under” is worth going to see because you’ll want to go off “Waltzing Matilda” yourself … out into the “out-back’ and up where painted “blackfellows” wield …
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# 19868
LLOYD, Henry Demarest; MALDONADO, Constantino M. (translator)
La “Novisima Inglaterra” : apuntes de un viajero democrata sobre Nueva Zelanda con algunas comparaciones australianas.
San Juan Bautista, Tabasco [Mexico] : Tipografia “La Economica” de Francisco C. Broissin, 1906. Small quarto, publisher’s printed wrappers (very brittle, chipped and darkened), pp iv, 188; title page lacking lower half; first few leaves with marginal water staining (no loss of text), else sound and clean throughout. Spanish translation of Newest England : notes …
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# 19417
GOSSELIN, Hellier Robert Hadley (1849-1924)
Manuscript diary recording an Englishman’s outward voyage to New Zealand via Hobart Town, his tour of the North Island, and homeward voyage on s.s. Ruapehu, June – October 1894.
Small pocket diary (163 x 113 mm), limp roan covers with later handwritten paper label ‘Old diaries / Hellier Gosselin’, approximately 75 pages neatly written in ink, recording the owner’s journey to New Zealand, out via the Cape of Good Hope and Hobart Town, home via Cape Horn (both voyages on s.s. Ruapehu), and his …
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# 18727
Mappe-Monde. Ou carte générale de toutte la terre, dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l’Académie Royale des Sciences,
Mise en jeu, Ouvrage aussi utille que curieux, et qui donnera une connaissance exacte du Monde entier. A Paris : [Imprimerie Royale Academie Royale des Sciences, circa 1768]. Copperplate engraving, measures 430 x 550 mm (plate line), 532 x 632 mm (paper), original hand colouring, old fold lines, small pin holes along the folds, old …
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# 19081
RICHARDS, E.S.
Mrs. Wilson dressed in riding habit. Wellington, New Zealand, early 1860s.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘E.S. Richards, Photographer, Wellington, N.Z.’, and contemporary inscription in ink ‘Mrs Wilson, New Zealand’; the albumen print has a surface scratch in the sky area at upper right and a few pinholes at top margin, but …
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# 18821
ILES, Arthur James (1870-1943)
Three views of the interior of a Māori carved house, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, circa 1895
Three albumen print photographs, format 140 x 200 mm, each with handwritten caption and ‘Iles Photo’ in the negative; unmounted; one of the prints with short tear at right edge, otherwise all are in good condition.