New Zealand

  • [NEW ZEALAND] Flights from the land of the bell-bird and rata :

    # 5134

    BLACKE, S.E.

    [NEW ZEALAND] Flights from the land of the bell-bird and rata :

    a collection of short stories illustrative of life in New Zealand. Auckland [N.Z.] : Wildman and Lyell, 1900. Octavo, original cloth backed printed card wrappers (lightly marked), decorative lining papers, 102 pp (edges flecked), a sound copy. Scarce. Copies are recorded in three Australian collections (National Library of Australia; State Library of New South Wales; Melbourne …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] Photographic portraits of three fashionable young women, Dunedin, late 1870s

    # 4650

    Clifford, Morris & Co.

    [NEW ZEALAND] Photographic portraits of three fashionable young women, Dunedin, late 1870s

    Three albumen print photographs, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm, two with hand colouring, two imprinted Clifford, Morris & Co. Artists, Fleet Street, Dunedin, and one imprinted Clifford & Morris. Artists, Fleet Street, Dunedin, the albumen prints in very good condition, one with crease to lower right corner of mount, not affecting the image.

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] Photographic portrait of a man wearing fraternal regalia, Christchurch, circa 1875

    # 4647

    E. Wheeler & Son

    [NEW ZEALAND] Photographic portrait of a man wearing fraternal regalia, Christchurch, circa 1875

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 101 x 63 mm, verso with imprint of E. Wheeler & Son, Artists & Photographers, Colombo Street, Christchurch, Patronized by their Late Excellencies Sir George Grey and Sir George F. Bowen, the albumen print in good condition with a few of spots of foxing.

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  • [NEW ZEALAND; THEATRE] Photographic portrait of a comedian in blackface, Dunedin, circa 1880.

    # 4460

    Clifford & Morris.

    [NEW ZEALAND; THEATRE] Photographic portrait of a comedian in blackface, Dunedin, circa 1880.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 64 mm, recto and verso with imprint of Clifford & Morris, Fleet Street, Dunedin, the albumen print in very good condition (some mottling in the negative), the mount fine. A rare studio photograph of a professional comedian in in blackface and full costume, posing with a …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] Söderhavets pärla : skildringar från Nya Zeeland.

    # 3530

    Sundström, Pehr W.

    [NEW ZEALAND] Söderhavets pärla : skildringar från Nya Zeeland.

    av Bill Shark (Pehr W. Sundström) ; med 56 illustrationer och 2 kartor. Stockholm : Eget Förlag 1925. Octavo, original textured green cloth with gilt lettering (a few ink marks to the edges of the front board), spine with gilt lettering (sunned), marbled endpapers, 190 pp (clean and sound), illustrated, map. Text in Swedish. Written by …

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  • [FIJI] Labour men - Rewa River - Fiji

    # 2963

    BURTON BROS.

    [FIJI] Labour men – Rewa River – Fiji

    Albumen print photograph,150 x 210 mm, numbered and captioned in negative 2505. Labour men – Rewa River – Fiji, laid down on original board mount with photographer's imprint of Burton, Dunedin at lower right and printed title The Camera in the Coral Islands at lower left, foxing along right hand edge of mount (not affecting image), …

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  • [PHOTOGRAPH] Oil painting of a scene on the Waipunga River, New Zealand

    # 1733

    WRIGHT, Thomas, 1830-1881 (artist)

    [PHOTOGRAPH] Oil painting of a scene on the Waipunga River, New Zealand

    Circa 1870. Albumen print photograph (220 x 280 mm) of an oil painting, laid down on original album page (ink stains within the negative, edges of the page stained), signature appears on painting at lower left: T. Wright. Photographer unknown. The painting has been identified as Scene on the Waipunga River, New Zealand, by Thomas Wright, which …

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