New Zealand

  • "New Zealand ferns collected for Miss Grahame by her friends at Hazelbank, Auckland, 1860".

    # 49927

    [CIRCLE OF THE GRAHAME FAMILY]

    “New Zealand ferns collected for Miss Grahame by her friends at Hazelbank, Auckland, 1860”.

    [Auckland, New Zealand : s.n., 1860]. Handmade album. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), the covers taken from a copy of The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott (Edinburgh : A. & C. Black, 1857), of limp tan cloth with decoration in blind and gilt device to front and rear; the book’s original pastedowns and endpapers …

    $2,800.00 AUD Read more
  • Young woman posed in front of a painted studio backdrop of Otago Harbour. Dunedin, New Zealand, 1863-65.

    # 49858

    DENSLOW, John West

    Young woman posed in front of a painted studio backdrop of Otago Harbour. Dunedin, New Zealand, 1863-65.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm (mount); verso with the imprint of ‘Denslow, Artist, Royal Gallery, Octagon, Princes St., Dunedin’; the print and the mount are both in excellent condition. ‘When John Denslow set up a photographic studio in Dunedin in 1863, he described himself in artistic terms. In an advertisement …

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  • [POLYNESIA] Original letter containing vivid descriptions of Tahiti and Rarotonga. August, 1934.

    # 17253

    [Author unidentified]

    [POLYNESIA] Original letter containing vivid descriptions of Tahiti and Rarotonga. August, 1934.

    Typed letter, [7] pages, on onion-skin paper, 280 x 215 mm, headed ‘At Sea, about 500 miles from N.Z. Sunday, August 19th, 1934’; with pencil map of the ship’s journey through the islands of Tahiti and three lines of handwritten text; addressed to ‘Dear Pauline’ (internal references indicate she was a close personal friend of the …

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  • [TASMAN] Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het Noorden en Oosten van Japan,

    # 49581

    LEUPE, Pieter Arend (editor); SIEBOLD, Philipp Franz von

    [TASMAN] Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het Noorden en Oosten van Japan,

    volgens het journaal gehouden door C.J. Coen, op het schip Castricum … Met de daarbij behoorende kaart en eenige fac-similés, en geographische en ethnographische aanteekeningen, tevens dienende tot een zeemansgids naar Jezo, Krafto en de Kurilen, en stukken over de taal en voortbrengselen der Aino-landen, van Jonkheer P.F. von Siebold.  Amsterdam : Frederik Muller, 1858. …

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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, …

    $62,500.00 AUD Read more
  • An abridgement of Captain Cook's first and second voyages.

    # 40477

    [COOK, James, 1728-1779].

    An abridgement of Captain Cook’s first and second voyages.

    The first performed in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 ; the second in 1772, 1773, 1774 and 1775. For making discoveries in the northern hemisphere, by order of his majesty. Extracted from the quarto edition, in five volumes. Containing a relation of all the interesting transactions; including an abridgement of Captain Furneaux’s narrative of …

    $1,400.00 AUD Read more
  • Relations de divers voyages curieux

    # 13747

    KLINGER, Johann Georg; MULLER, Johann Wolfgang

    Relations de divers voyages curieux

    Also titled: Description de differens peuples remarquables des cinq parties du monde. Nuremberg : J. G. Klinger, 1805-1807. Second edition. Original box of red paper over card, 114 x 100 x 105 mm, with gilt embossed decoration, the lid lettered in gilt Jeu de voyage des cinq parties du monde (corners bumped); the box in three compartments: …

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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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  • 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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  • [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    # 47286

    [WAKEFIELD, Priscilla; MILLS, Alfred, illustrator]

    [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    Paris : Guyot et de Pelafol, 1816. 32mo (68 x 60 mm), original calf, boards with decorative borders in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (a little worn at the junctions of the head and outer joints), marbled endpapers; 96 pp. with a frontispiece and 47 copperplate illustrations of people of the world; binding …

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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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  • Colin McCahon. Gates and journeys

    # 49422

    McCAHON, Colin (1919 - 1987)

    Colin McCahon. Gates and journeys

    An Auckland City Art Gallery centenary exhibition / organised with the assistance of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand. Auckland : Auckland City Art Gallery, 1988. Oblong quarto, lettered wrappers, pp. 158, illustrated, light handling wear and foxing to preliminaries. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Auckland City Art Gallery, 11 …

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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.

    # 47522

    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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  • A history of the birds of New Zealand (second edition)

    # 48847

    BULLER, Walter Lawry, 1838-1906; KEULEMANS, John Gerrard, 1842-1912

    A history of the birds of New Zealand (second edition)

    The scarce large format second edition of an acclaimed ornithological work, illustrated by J.G. Keulemans. London : the author, 1888. Second edition. Thirteen parts, bound in two volumes, quarto, publisher’s gilt-illustrated green cloth, rebacked with new leather spines, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, vol. I pp. lxxxiv; 250; [vi]; vol. II pp. xv; 359, …

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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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  • The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.

    # 47283

    A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)

    The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.

    [Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …

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