New Zealand
-
# 10437
MONRAD, Ditlev Gothard, Bishop of Lolland and Falster (1811-1887)
Prædikener paa alle Søn- og Helligdage i Aaret, samt i Fasten
[=Sermons for all Sundays and Holy days in the year, including Feast days]. Kjøbenhavn : Forlagt af den Gyldendalske Boghandel (F. Hegel), Thieles Bogtrykkeri, 1874. Second edition. Octavo, contemporary half leather over black cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, hinges weakened, frontispiece portrait of Monrad, 544 pp, contents clean and sound, a good copy. Text …
-
# 37963
AUCKLAND HARBOUR BOARD
Official handbook containing information regarding the Ports of Auckland (Waitemata) and Manukau
Auckland : Auckland Harbour Board, December 1915. Octavo, illustrated cloth, pp. 55, double page photographs of Auckland Harbour and the Departure of the American Fleet in 1908, photographic plates, large colour folding maps, a very good copy.
-
# 37329
Photographer unknown
View of Wellington, New Zealand. Late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, 77 x 207 mm; laid down on section of card cut from a 19th-century album leaf; no photographer’s imprint; with contemporary caption in ink beneath the image: ‘Wellington – New Zealand’; the print has lost some contrast but is otherwise in very good condition; the mount is free from foxing. Possibly attributable …
-
![[QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES; MAORI] På forskningsfärd : minnen från en tvåårig vistelse](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/18233207/2015_DSFB_5179-300x300.jpg)
# 3522
FRISTEDT, Conrad
[QUEENSLAND ABORIGINES; MAORI] På forskningsfärd : minnen från en tvåårig vistelse
bland Ceylons Tamiler och Singhaleser, Australiens Kannibaler och Nya Zeelands Maorer. Stockholm : Albert Bonniers förlag, [1891]. Octavo, contemporary half morocco over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, [iv], 256 pp, [19] leaves of plates (some colour), 1 colour map, a good copy. Text in Swedish. A Swedish traveller’s account of …
-
# 37504
FALK STUDIO
Studio portrait of New Zealand-Australian boxer Otto Cribb. Sydney, circa 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 …
-
![[GALLIPOLI] An improvised On Active Service postcard handwritten on a souvenired Ottoman Turkish soap packet, sent home from Gallipoli by a New Zealand infantryman in June 1915.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/08/19101935/2022_DSFB_5064.jpg)
# 36664
[GALLIPOLI] An improvised On Active Service postcard handwritten on a souvenired Ottoman Turkish soap packet, sent home from Gallipoli by a New Zealand infantryman in June 1915.
Section of cardboard cut from a Turkish soap packet, approx. 90 x 140 mm (slightly irregular), the verso with handwritten message in violet pencil headed ‘Post Card / On Active Service / June 5th’, addressed to the sender’s aunt, Mrs S. S. Clarke in Ponsonby, Auckland, New Zealand, with ‘INFANTRY BRIGADE/FIELD/10JU15/POST OFFICE/NZ DIVISION’ circular date …
-
# 35151
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (LONDON)
Missionary lotto.
London : Church Missionary Society, [circa 1900]. “Second series. (Revised)”. Original card box, 235 x 115 x 21 mm, with title and imprint to lid (light marks and handling wear, but sturdy and without any edge or corner splits); the inside lid with printed Missionary Lotto Rules (mild foxing); the interior of the box is …
-
# 35361
HADDON, Alfred C. (1855-1940)
Evolution in art, as illustrated by the life histories of designs
London : Walter Scott, Ltd., 1895. The Contemporary Science Series, edited by Havelock Ellis. First edition. Octavo (185 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked maroon cloth over boards lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed), spine titled in gilt (softened at the ends and with a couple of small marks); pp [4 publisher’s ads.], xviii, [2], 364, [14 ads.]; illustrated …
-
# 36668
MEYER, Anthony J.-P.
Oceanic Art / Ozeanische Kunst / Art Océanien
Köln : Könemann, [1995]. Single volume second edition. Folio (320 x 275 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth over boards, in pictorial dust jacket (very good); pp. 640, with a total of 731 illustrations in colour and b/w, maps; half title with pale foxing, faint damp stain to top edges of last few leaves, but an excellent …
-
# 36222
GEORGE ROSE (MELBOURNE)
The Dragon’s Mouth Geyser, Wairakei, New Zealand.
Melbourne : George Rose, [between 1900 and 1910]. Rose’s Stereoscopic Views. Sold only by George Rose, Publisher, Melbourne. Stereoscopic silver albumen print photograph, each individual image 90 x 75 mm, on board mount 102 x 177 mm, with the publisher’s imprint to recto; printed caption beneath both images The Dragon’s Mouth Geyser, Wairakei, New Zealand. It plays …
-
# 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 …
-
# 33869
POUCHET, F. A. (1800-1872)
The Universe : or, the infinitely great and the infinitely little. (Presentation binding of Auckland College, New Zealand).
Illustrated by 343 engravings on wood and four coloured plates. From drawings by A. Faguet, Mesnel, Emile Bayard, and J. Stewart. London : Blackie & Son, 1875. New edition, embodying the author’s latest improvements. Thick octavo, presentation binding from Auckland College & Grammar School, New Zealand, gilt stamp on upper board, full polished calf, ruled …
-
# 35594
LYE, Len
Happy moments. Text & images by Len Lye
Edited & with an afterword by Roger Horrocks. Auckland : The Holloway Press, 2002. Folio, lettered papered boards (lightly marked), cloth spine with paper title label, pp. 48, illustrations. Original prospectus enclosed. ‘Happy Moments is the first complete publication of Len Lye’s remarkable autobiographical texts written in New York in the 1960s. The 21 texts …
-
# 12393
MULLER, Elisabeth
Le monde en estampes (deluxe coloured edition)
Types et costumes des principaux peoples de l’univers. Paris : Bedelet, [c.1858]. Oblong quarto, polychrome cloth gilt (expertly rebacked), all edges gilt, 52 pp, with 24 hand coloured tinted lithographed plates; light foxing, but a very good copy. A finely illustrated study of the races of the world, with sections on the New Zealand Maori, Marquesas …
-
# 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 …
-
# 35274
TAYLOR, C. R. H.
A Pacific bibliography
Printed matter relating to the native peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. Oxford : Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1965. Second edition. Thick octavo (240 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine, 692 pp, 1 fold-out map; a beautifully fresh and bright copy, without the dust jacket; from The Papuan Collection of Charles …