New Zealand
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# 45155
POLYNESIAN SOCIETY
List of reprints from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, also of other available Maori publications.
Wellington, NZ : Polynesian Society, [1941]. Octavo, stapled wrappers (foxed, owner’s pencilled name and date ‘F. H. Molony May 1943’ to front, lower wrapper extensively annotated in pencil, paper splits at head and tail of spine); pp. 12, [2]; original owner’s marginalia, otherwise internally good. Dating based on one of the ‘New Publications’ advertised on …
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# 45179
JOPPIEN, Rüdiger and SMITH, Bernard
The art of Captain Cook’s voyages (four volume set)
Volume one : The voyage of the Endeavour 1768 – 1771. With a descriptive catalogue of all the known drawings of peoples, places, artefacts and events and the original engravings associated with them. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1985 (reprint). Folio, cloth in dust jacket, pp. xv; 247, illustrated. Volume two : The voyage of …
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# 44726
SMITH, Ian
Pākehā Settlements in a Māori World : New Zealand Archaeology 1769–1860
Wellington : Bridget Williams, 2019. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 328, illustrated. ‘Pākehā Settlements in a Māori World offers a vivid account of early European experience in these islands, through material evidence offered by the archaeological record. As European exploration in the 1770s gave way to sealing, whaling and timber-felling, Pākehā visitors first became sojourners in …
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# 44731
REED, A.W.
Myths and legends of Maoriland
: illustrated by George Woods and W. Dittner. Wellington : A.H. and A.W. Reed, 1954. Fourth impression. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, 230 pp, illustrated, a fine copy.
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# 43629
SOUTH CANTERBURY COUNCIL; CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART (TIMARU)
Unique album presented to the Duke and Duchess of York by the citizens of South Canterbury, New Zealand, during the royal visit in March 1927: with an illuminated address and original watercolours.
Large square quarto, 310 x 280 mm, purple suede over bevelled boards (virtually unrubbed), front board with gilt-tooled decoration and lettering ‘South Canterbury, New Zealand, 16th March 1927’, lower board also decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; silk endpapers; [14] leaves of white card, the first [6] containing an elaborate illuminated address headed ‘To Your …
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# 44499
BARTHOLOMEW, J[ohn], W. HUGHES, and Sidney HALL (engravers)
Atlas of Australia with all the Gold Regions
A series of maps from the latest and best authorities. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, c. 1853. Quarto, later gilt-lettered cloth, containing six hand-coloured engraved maps (five double page, and one folding) of the gold regions of Australia, a few pale stains, short tape repair to the margin of the first map, and a …
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# 42355
TE AROHA PONO [COLENSO, William 1811-1899]
[MAORI LANGUAGE] Ko te tuarua o nga pukapuka waki; hei wakakite atu i nga henga a te Hahi o Roma.
Hopataone [Hobart Town] : He mea ta i te Perehi o te Watahaoha ratou ko nga teina [printed by R. S. Waterhouse and Brothers], 1840. Small octavo (180 x 110 mm), recent stitched marbled wrappers; pp. 24; text in Māori; first leaf with small perforation to top margin, a lightly creased top corner and some mild …
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# 44366
NEWTON, Douglas (ed.)
Arts of the South Seas : island Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia : the collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller
Munich : Prestel, 1999. Large quarto (315 x 250 mm), publisher’s cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket (slightly rubbed), pp. 368, profusely illustrated in colour and b/w; a fine copy of one of the best surveys of Oceanic Art available.
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# 38367
CALLANDER, John (1722–1789)
Terra Australis Cognita : or, voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth Centuries.
Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the Southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by the Editor, in which some …
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# 41535
SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820)
Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.
Stockholm : Anders J. Nordström, 1783; Carl Deleen, 1802 – 1818. Octavo, three volumes, fine early nineteenth century Swedish half-calf over marbled boards, spines in compartments with contrasting red morocco title labels, the last two volumes bound in uniform, with the volume numbers I; II reversed by the binder, a fine set in early bindings …
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# 24975
[HAMILTON, Mrs.]; [DEUCHAR, John, Mrs.]
A Nugget of Gold from Australia!!! presented to Mrs John Deuchar by Mrs Hamilton on 12th Aug. 1867, New Zealand.
Manuscript note in brown ink on a small scrap of paper, 50 x 60 mm, laid down on later card backing; old fold lines (the gold nugget was originally enclosed inside the note), a small perforation and two short edge tears, resulting in the loss of a couple of letters, else complete; [together with] the …
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# 44317
REEVES, Edward
Brown men and women or The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896
London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1898. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial maroon cloth gilt (light rubbing, corners slightly bumped, head and tail of spine a little softened, spine lightly sunned), 60 photographic illustrations, folding map, bookplate to front pastedown, small paper flaw to frontispiece, internally fresh and clean, a very good copy. Memoir of …
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# 41879
DELATTRE, Charles
Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.
Paris ; Limoges : Martial Ardent, 1850. Octavo (187 x 11 3 mm), publisher’s original embossed cloth over boards gilt (corners worn, spine with small loss at head and with loss to cloth at tail), front paste-down with original owner’s name, lithographed frontispiece with ethnic types of the Americas and Oceania (including natives of the …
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# 44025
HURST, Norman and Nadine
Polynesia : objects of daily life
Cambridge MA : Hurst & Hurst, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (marked), pp. [32], illustrated. Fish hooks, cememonial objects, domestic objects and weapons from Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
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# 44023
POWELL, Jane P.; FRIEDMAN, Martin L.
Primitive Art of the Pacific Islands
New York : Brooklyn Museum, 1957. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked), pp. [16], illustrated with tribal artefacts from New Ireland, New Guinea, Cook Islands, Gilbert Islands, Marquesas Islands, Easter Island, New Zealand and the Admiralty Islands.
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# 42611
"The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition"
The house New Zealand built in England
London : The Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, 1950. Oblong quarto, full crushed red morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, the panels ruled and lettered in gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled in gilt, all edges gilt, endpapers creased, introductory text, 35 original photographs mounted on cards with printed captions opposite. Ex-library the …