New Zealand

# 19417

GOSSELIN, Hellier Robert Hadley (1849-1924)

Manuscript diary recording an Englishman’s outward voyage to New Zealand via Hobart Town, his tour of the North Island, and homeward voyage on s.s. Ruapehu, June – October 1894.

Small pocket diary (163 x 113 mm), limp roan covers with later handwritten paper label ‘Old diaries / Hellier Gosselin’, approximately 75 pages neatly written in ink, recording the owner’s journey to New Zealand, out via the Cape of Good Hope and Hobart Town, home via Cape Horn (both voyages on s.s. Ruapehu), and his …

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# 18053

WAHLEN, Auguste

Costumes, usos e trajos de todos os povos do mundo,

em face de documentos authenticos e das mais recentes viagens. Lisboa : Impresa Lusitana, 1872-1873-1874-1876-1878. Five volumes, octavo, original quarter blue calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, corners bumped, upper board of vol. 4 with several scratches), spines with gilt lettering and rule; vol. 1 (Asia) 421, [1]; vol. 2 (Asia, India) 439, [4]; …

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# 16015

SAMUELS, Samuel

[NEW ZEALAND; JUDAICA] Two letters written by Samuel Samuels, a Jewish gold miner in the Grey Valley, West Coast, South Island, during the Great War.

Newspaper notices from the 1870s inform us that Samuel Samuels was a pioneer settler in the Ahaura district of Westland. Like many others, he had arrived during the West Coast gold rush and had been involved in gold mining ventures. By 1917, when Samuels wrote both of these letters to one of his nephews (in …

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# 16014

REEP, Richard Thompson; [CAMERON, Roderick William, 1823-1900]; [ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY]

[MARITIME] Letter from the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company to shipping line owner R.W. Cameron regarding the conveyance of mails on the new Panama Route to Australia

London, 12 August 1859. Entire letter, 2 pp small quarto, on the engraved letterhead of the ‘Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, No 55, Moorgate Street, London’, from Richard Thompson Reep, Secretary of the RMSCPC, to R.W. Cameron, owner of the R.M. Cameron & Co. Shipping Line, New York; Reep’s message is a reply to Cameron’s enquiries about …

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# 15814

STOCK, [Arthur], Archdeacon (1810-1901)

Astronomy for beginners, who live in the southern hemisphere

Wellington, N.Z. : T.A. Bowden, 1874. Duodecimo, original cloth backed printed card covers, endpapers with advertisements for The Colonial Series of Elementary School Books, early printed ownership label of ‘Mr. R. Wilson, Craigielea, Benhar, Otago’ to blank facing title page (mild off-setting), pp i-iv, 5-44, illustrated with diagrams; a very good copy. The first edition of …

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# 15423

SILCOCK, Harriet Eleanor; [RELPH, H.B.]

[NEW ZEALAND] Letter to an early Hutt River settler, Dr. Relph, from his sister in England, 1842

Entire letter, single sheet folding to form [4] sides, quarto, neatly written manuscript in ink on 3 sides (cross written on the last page), headed ‘Enford, near Chippenham, July 10th 1842’, addressed to ‘My dear Brother’; signed at the foot ‘Your only affectionate and sincerely attached Sister, Harriet Eleanor Silcock’; outer side with address panel, to …

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# 14772

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[POLYNESIA] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens, Eastern Arms &c.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. November 1904. No. 20. Octavo, original printed wrappers, pp 2 (brief descriptions of 69 items), followed by 2 photographic plates (tissue guards intact) illustrating all items; a fine copy. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes artefacts from New Zealand …

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# 14775

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[GILBERT ISLANDS] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. September 1905. No. 30. Octavo, original printed wrappers (detached), pp 2 (brief descriptions of 37 items), followed by 2 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs, illustrating most items. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes 11 artefacts from the Gilbert Islands, among …

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# 14777

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[SOUTH AMERICA] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. October 1905. No. 31. Octavo, original printed wrappers (edges a little chipped), pp 2 (brief descriptions of 36 items), followed by 2 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs, illustrating most items. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes 36 artefacts from India …

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# 14779

OLDMAN, William O. (1879-1949)

[NEW HEBRIDES] Illustrated Catalogue of Ethnographical Specimens.

Issued by W.O. Oldman, 77, Brixton Hill, London, S.W. July, 1905. No. 28. Octavo, original printed wrappers (detached), pp 2 (brief descriptions of 30 items), followed by 2 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs, illustrating all items. Scarce original sales catalogue of the renowned early ethnographic dealer W.O. Oldman. Includes 15 artefacts from the Naga hill tribes …

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# 10436

MONRAD, Ditlev Gothard, Bishop of Lolland and Falster (1811-1887); [LAURENTIUS VALLA]

Den første Kamp om den apostolske Troesbekjendelses Oprindelse.

/ Laurentius Valla – Konciliet i Florens. [=The first dispute over the origin of the Apostles’ Creed. Laurentius Valla – The Council of Florence]. Kjøbenhavn : C.A. Reitzel, 1875. First edition. Octavo, contemporary half leather over marbled papered boards, spine lettered in gilt, frontispiece portrait of Laurentius Valla, pp 268, 73, mild water stain to …

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# 11693

ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich

Zimmermann’s account of the third voyage of Captain Cook 1776 – 1790

Translated by Miss U. Tewsley, of the Library Staff, under direction of Johannes C. Anderson. With a few Explanatory Notes. Alexander Turnbull Library Bulletin No. 2. Wellington : W.A.G. Skinner (Government Printer), 1926. Octavo, original printed wrappers (lightly marked), pp. 49; two plates. The author sailed with Cook on his voyage in search of the North …

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# 14629

HELLWIG, Albert

[ASYLUM IN AUSTRALIA & THE PACIFIC] Beiträge zum Asylrecht von Ozeanien

[=Studies on the right of asylum in Oceania]. Stuttgart : F. Enke, 1906. Series: Sonderabdruck aus Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft, XIX Band. Octavo, original printed wrappers, pp 64; mostly uncut; a fine copy. Studies on the right of asylum in traditional societies of Oceania, including Australia; New Zealand; New Ireland; New Britain; New Guinea; the Sandwich Islands; …

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# 12714

BUDÉ, Eugène de (1836-1910)

Notice sur la province de Canterbury, Nouvelle Zélande, avec carte.

At head of title: A.M.F. Flowers: souvenir d’amitié. Genève : Librairie Carey, 1866. Large octavo, original printed yellow wrappers (early ownership signature to upper wrapper), pp 22, folding map at rear; a very good copy. A concise overview of the province of Canterbury which includes appendices on farming and emigration, with a table of the …

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# 10904

WILSON, Mrs. Robert

New Zealand, and other poems

London : Joseph Masters, 1851. Octavo, pebbled cloth (edges worn), gilt-lettered to spine, bookplate to front pastedown, pp. 172. The lead poem on New Zealand is accompanied by extensive notes and also an appendix which relates to the Canterbury Settlement.

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# 8057

Letters from settlers & labouring emigrants in the New Zealand Company’s settlements of Wellington,

Nelson, & New Plymouth, from February, 1842, to January, 1843. London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1843. Small octavo, original printed brown wrappers (small amount of chipping to the edges), pp 211, clean and sound, a very good copy. Bagnall, 3140. An early anthology of pioneers’ letters, some of which were reprinted from the New Zealand …

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