New Zealand

  • Studio portrait of New Zealand-Australian boxer Otto Cribb. Sydney, c.1901.

    # 37504

    FALK STUDIO

    Studio portrait of New Zealand-Australian boxer Otto Cribb. Sydney, c.1901.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 167 x 108 mm (mount); recto of mount with imprint of ‘FALK / 496 George Street, Sydney’; verso with wet stamp of Melbourne print, postcard and photograph seller W. H. Cooper, Royal Arcade; the albumen print is in good condition; the mount is chipped at two corners, but is …

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  • [INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world

    # 48451

    [CLIFT, Horace William]

    [INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world

    Calcutta : printed at the Calcutta School-Book Society’s Press, and sold at their Depository, Circular Road, 1846. Sixth edition. Octavo (177 x 110 mm), original plum cloth (faded and with scattered stains); ownership inscription to front free endpaper: ‘R. Moore of the 1 Company 6 Bn. Bengal Artillery Feby. 12 the [sic] 1857 Anno Domino …

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  • Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

    # 29076

    BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777)

    Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

    : contenant ce que l’on scait des moeurs & des productions des contrées decouvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Paris : Chez Durand, 1756. First edition. Two volumes, quarto (260 x 200 mm), contemporary full calf (boards …

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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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  • [BOROVANSKY BALLET] Signed photograph of New Zealand-born dancer Jonet Wilkie. Melbourne, November 1946.

    # 47149

    STEELE PHOTOGRAHY LTD. (Auckland)

    [BOROVANSKY BALLET] Signed photograph of New Zealand-born dancer Jonet Wilkie. Melbourne, November 1946.

    Gelatin silver print, 150 x 100 mm, with the blind stamp of ‘Steele, Auckland’ lower right, and inscribed in pen ‘For Kerry, with best wishes, Jonet Wilkie’; verso with pencilled date of 21/11/46 (the date that the photograph was inscribed for Kerry, a Melbourne ballet fan, during the Borovansky Ballet’s season at His Majesty’s Theatre); some …

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  • Le monde en estampes. Types et costumes des principaux peoples de l’univers.

    # 9262

    MÜLLER, Elisabeth

    Le monde en estampes. Types et costumes des principaux peoples de l’univers.

    Paris : Bédelet, n.d. [circa 1858]. Oblong quarto, original quarter black morocco over blind blocked black cloth boards (rubbed) with gilt lettering and design to upper board, spine with gilt lettering and ornament (softened at head and tail), all edges gilt, 52 pp, illustrated with lithographed vignettes + 24 tinted lithographed plates by J. Bocquin after …

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  • Anno Domini 2000 : or, Woman's destiny. (First edition, colonial issue)

    # 45923

    VOGEL, Julius, Sir (1835-1899)

    Anno Domini 2000 : or, Woman’s destiny. (First edition, colonial issue)

    / by Sir Julius Vogel, K.C.M.G. London : Hutchinson and Co., 1889. “Colonial edition”. Octavo (195 x 130 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered pictorial grey cloth (boards rubbed and lightly marked, corners bumped; spine sunned and marked, frayed at ends); frontispiece portrait of the author, pp. viii, [1]-331, [4 publisher’s advertisements]; newspaper cutting to verso of front endpaper …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] An archive of studio portrait photographs of members of the families of Benjamin and Edward Smith of Wellington, 1860s to early 1870s.

    # 46141

    [Various Wellington photographers]

    [NEW ZEALAND] An archive of studio portrait photographs of members of the families of Benjamin and Edward Smith of Wellington, 1860s to early 1870s.

    Twenty-five albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, average dimensions 100 x 63 mm (mounts), by the Wellington studios of E. S. Richards (4), Richards & Batt (1), Batt & Richards (2), W. H. Davis (7), W. J. Harding (1), Wrigglesworth (1), and Wrigglesworth & Binns (1), and the Wanganui studio of Thomas Tuffin …

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  • [BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,

    # 46347

    MEINERS, C. (Christoph) (1747-1810)

    [BIOLOGICAL RACISM] Betrachtungen über die Fruchtbarkeit, oder Unfruchtbarkeit, über den vormahligen und gegenwärtigen Zustand der vornehmsten Länder in Asien,

    von C. Meiners…. [=Observations on fertility and sterility in the ancient and present states of the main regions of Asia]. Lübeck und Leipzig : im Verlage bey Bohn und Compagnie, 1795-96. Two volumes, octavo (195 x 125 mm), matching contemporary bindings of marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, first volume with small paper loss, otherwise very …

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  • Studio portrait of two actors in costume as Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Wellington, New Zealand, 17 October 1881.

    # 41732

    WRIGGLESWORTH & BINNS

    Studio portrait of two actors in costume as Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Wellington, New Zealand, 17 October 1881.

    Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 116 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Wrigglesworth & Binns, Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand’, and contemporary inscription in ink ‘Oct. 17th 1881’; both the print and mount are in fine condition.

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  • Gamle Ny-Zeeland

    # 46399

    MONRAD, Ditlev Gothard, Bishop of Lolland and Falster (1811-1887)

    Gamle Ny-Zeeland

    [=Old New Zealand]. Kjøbenhavn : C.A. Reitzel, 1870. First Danish edition. Duodecimo, original cloth-backed papered boards (rubbed), upper board with nineteenth century Danish school library’s ownership inscription, mild foxing to paste-downs outer leaves, 66 pp, contents clean and sound, a good copy. Text in Danish. Rare. Politician and religious authority Ditlev Gothard Monrad lived in …

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  • Manual of the birds of New Zealand

    # 45981

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

    Manual of the birds of New Zealand

    Wellington : George Didsbury, Government Printer, 1882. Octavo, gilt-lettered binder’s cloth (corners bumped, wear to head and foot of spine), pp. xii; 107; [blank]; iii (list of publications); [blank], illustrated with 39 black and white lithographs on tinted blocks, previous owner’s name to endpaper, a couple of occasional spots of foxing, internally clean. Sir Walter …

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  • [MARITIME] Joseph and Mary Ann Jewell, survivors of the wreck of the General Grant, shipwrecked in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand in May 1866.

    # 45562

    HEWITT, Charles

    [MARITIME] Joseph and Mary Ann Jewell, survivors of the wreck of the General Grant, shipwrecked in the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand in May 1866.

    [Circa 1868]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 61 mm (mount); recto inscribed ‘9d pence each’ (presumably in the hand of a Melbourne print- or bookseller); verso with imprint of ‘C. Hewitt, Photographer, Australasian Studio, 95, Swanston Street. Melbourne’; a strong print but with scattered foxing; the back mark is faded. The American …

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  • Studio portrait of a woman in mourning dress standing beside an infant in a pram. Christchurch, New Zealand, late 1860s.

    # 45157

    WHEELER, Edmund

    Studio portrait of a woman in mourning dress standing beside an infant in a pram. Christchurch, New Zealand, late 1860s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 65 mm (mount); verso imprinted ‘E. Wheeler’s Studio, Colombo Street, Christchurch’; both the print and mount are in excellent condition. The woman’s face is haggard and her expression is melancholic. She looks old enough to be the child’s grandmother – although she is probably its mother.

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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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