New Zealand

# 29863

Sundström, Pehr W.

[MAORI] Ett hjältefolk i Söderhavet : historiska skildringar från Nya Zeeland

Stockholm : Bokförlaget Natur och kultur, 1931. Series title: Natur och kultur, 109. Small octavo, publisher’s brown cloth, title page printed in red and black, 176 pp, illustrated, 1 folding map at rear. Text in Swedish. A very good copy. A history of the Maori which focuses on their struggle with colonialism in the nineteenth …

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# 29208

UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LTD.

Islands of the South Seas : Society Islands (Tahiti), Cook Islands (Rarotonga), Fiji Islands, Tongan Islands, Samoan Islands, Hawaii.

[Dunedin, N.Z.?] : The Company, n.d. [c1925]. Small quarto, 230 x 205 mm, designed to be folded in half, pictorial wrappers, 15 pp, magenta-toned photographic illustrations, map; a fine copy. Beautifully designed and well-illustrated Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand travel brochure for South Seas cruises. The National Library of Australia holds a copy …

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# 27343

[FITZSIMMONS, Robert ("Bob"), 1863-1917]; RICHARD K. FOX (publisher)

Photographic portrait of champion Anglo-New Zealand-Australian-American bare knuckle boxer Bob Fitzsimmons in a fighting stance, taken in New York in 1893.

Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 162 x 106 mm (mount); the print is embossed at lower left ‘Copyright 1893 Richard K. Fox’; removed from an old frame, the print and mount have suffered some surface loss around the edges, particularly at the bottom margin where Fox’s imprint with his Franklin Square, New York address …

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# 26940

SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed)

Atiu gathering. Cook Islands, circa 1885.

Albumen print, 170 x 215 mm, verso wet stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with pencilled captions in two different hands: ‘Atiu gathering (Cook Islands)’ and, probably slightly earlier in date than the larger caption, ‘The Himare [?] of the Atiu (Cook Islands)’; unmounted, loss at bottom corners, 50 mm vertical tear running …

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# 26941

Photographer unknown.

Mission house. Rarotonga, Cook Islands, circa 1890.

Albumen print, 190 x 235 mm, laid down on a nineteenth-century album page with slightly later caption in ink beneath the image ‘Mission House Raratonga [sic] 1890 (?)’; tiny amount of loss at top left corner, mild wrinkling, otherwise an unfaded print with nice tones.

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# 26813

COLE, William Washington (1847-1915)

South Sea Savages, or Maori War Dancers. The List including a Troupe of Genuine South-Sea Savages tattooed from head to foot, and faithfully giving The Great Maori War Dances.

[Advertised and illustrated on] A double-sided poster for W. W. Cole’s World-Famous, Five-Continent New Mammoth Circus, appearing at Binghamton, New York on Monday, April 24, 1882 (the location and date are wet stamped at foot of the verso). Buffalo, NY : The Courier Company Show Printing House [for W. W. Cole], [1882]. Lithograph printed in black …

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# 26003

ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

The Orient Steam Navigation Company, Limited. Prospectus.

London : The Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 13 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C., [1880]. Folio (420 x 265 mm) bifolium, 3 pp, folding to 265 x 105 mm with printed title to outer side; original share application form still loosely enclosed; outer side a little dusty, but a near fine example. ‘The Orient Steam Navigation Company …

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# 25186

BRIGHAM, William T.

[HAWAII] A handbook for visitors to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History.

Honolulu : Bishop Museum, 1903. First edition. Small oblong quarto (170 x 270 mm), original pictorial stiff wrappers, pp 106, profusely illustrated with b/w photographic plates; a very good copy. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum was founded in 1889, and houses the world’s largest collection of Polynesian cultural artefacts and natural history specimens, in addition …

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# 24976

Gold from the diggings of J. Allen

[Australia or New Zealand, probably 1860s]. Manuscript in brown ink written on a small piece of paper, 50 x 90 mm, folded to form an envelope 20 x 36 mm, containing a number of tiny gold nuggets. This fascinating little packet was sourced together with an Australian gold nugget and manuscript note given to a …

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# 24707

LOVECHILD, Mrs. (attributed)

A peep at old Asia

Merrill’s Pictorial Gallery. Part III. Concord, N.H. : Rufus Merrill, [1847]. Royal octavo, pictorial yellow wrappers (front lightly marked), stitched, title page with original owner’s presentation inscription, 24 pp, illustrated, internally clean and sound, a very good copy. Although predominantly an introduction for young readers to Chinese culture, this scarce pamphlet also includes text about Maori …

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# 15736

Gendron, Ernest

[MANUSCRIPT] Campagne de la Corvette à Voiles l’Alcméne. Commandée par Mr. Coudein, Capitaine de Frégate, à destination des Mers du Sud et Océanie.

[Libourne, France, between 1882 and 1887]. Folio, 270 x 215 mm, manuscript, [159] pp, in 4 stitched sections of 23, 38, 48 and 50 pages respectively, the third section with 2 pencil and wash drawings in the text, the fourth section with 3 pencil and wash drawings in the text and one laid down on thick paper (a …

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# 23367

HOLMES, John

Connections

Dunedin : John Holmes, 2013. Octavo, printed papered boards, pp. [8], accordian style small press book, in paper slipcase. Limited to 29 copies signed by the printer. Eight poems printed letterpress: Year of the dragon by Greg O’Connell; Turf war bySue Wootton; Radishes by Lorna Crozier; Table manners by Pauline Cartwright; Life’s little indignities by Alistair Robinson; A rainy morning byTed Kooser. …

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# 22631

PARR, Phil

History of hobby printing in Australasia.

Titahi Bay, N.Z. : Aspect Press for Association of Handcraft Printers, N.Z., 1980. Limited edition of 200 copies (no. 13), presentation copy for Phil Cade, signed by the author. Octavo, printed card wrappers, bibliography pp [6] – [10], illustrated; with leaflet laid in, an offset copy of Amateur journalism / by Leon Stone. Sydney : …

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# 19886

MORLEY, Michael

XXXXXwords

Dunedin : Otakou Press, 2014. Quarto, publisher’s black cloth over boards, with white paper dust jacket lightly embossed with title and author, unpaginated; internally pristine, a fine copy. No. 8 of 100 copies, signed by Michael Morley. “XXXXXwords brings together a selection of lyrics performed by Michael Morley with Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, …

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# 21645

F.G. RADCLIFFE (publisher)

[SPELEOLOGY] Waitomo, Ruakuri and Aranui, New Zealand. “The most beautiful caves in the world.”

Whangarei, NZ : F.G. Radcliffe [c.1910]. Small oblong quarto, original silver-lettered grey wrappers and green ties, [24] pp, all monochrome photographic illustrations; a pristine copy.

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# 15422

BAIN & BURTT; [GIBBS, Alexander]

[WHALING] Letter written from Auckland, New Zealand to New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1853

Entire letter, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, quarto, closely written manuscript in ink on 3 sides, headed ‘Auckland, New Zealand, 8th February 1853’, addressed to ‘Alexander Gibbs Esqr., New Bedford’; signed at the foot ‘Your faithful obedt. servants, Bain & Burtt’; outer side with address panel, endorsed ‘via New York’, with ‘LONDON / …

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