Pacific

  • Picturing the island

    # 47112

    CRAFWORD, Marian (1955 - )

    Picturing the island

    Melbourne : the artist, 2016. Quarto, illustrated wrappers with wraparound title band, pp. [52], illustrated. A contemporary photobook created by Melbourne artist Marian Crawford, drawing on her memories growing up on Babana (contemporary Kiribati) and using historical photographs of what was at the time known as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. ‘Picturing the Island takes …

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  • Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.

    # 42374

    SPILBERGEN, Joris van (1568-1620)

    Speculum orientalis occidentalisque Indiae navigationum.

    Lugduni Batavorum [i.e. Leiden] : Nicolaus van Geelkercken, 1619. Small oblong quarto (190 x 250 mm), contemporary limp vellum with early manuscript title and collection number to spine; title with large engraved vignette (early ownership signature to upper margin); pp. [4] (blank), 175, [5] (blank); with folding engraved world map and a further 24 engraved …

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  • Anthropologie der Neu-Caledonier und Loyalty-Insulaner

    # 46816

    SARASIN, Fritz

    Anthropologie der Neu-Caledonier und Loyalty-Insulaner

    / von Dr. Fritz Sarasin. Mit einem Atlas von 64 Tafeln in Heliogravure, Lithographie und Lichtdruck, sowie 55 Kurvenzeichnungen und Abbildungen im Text. Berlin  : C. W. Kreidel’s Verlag, 1916-22. Text volume only (without the Atlas volume). Large quarto (290 x 230 mm), publisher’s blue wrappers lettered in black, pp. xiv, 651, [2 publisher’s ads.]; text illustrations, …

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  • [PACIFICA] Les Samoa, ou, Archipel des Navigateurs : etude historique &​ religieuse

    # 46659

    MONFAT, P.A.

    [PACIFICA] Les Samoa, ou, Archipel des Navigateurs : etude historique &​ religieuse

    Lyon : E. Vitte, 1890. Troisieme edition. Octavo, decorative wrappers (spine cracked, front wrapper neatly detached), decorative spine somewhat brittle and sunned, xv, 414 pp (scattered spotting throughout), [7] leaves of plates, map. A detailed study of Samoan culture, together with a history of French Catholic missions to this island group.

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  • [TONGA; FIJI] Chez les Meridionaux du Pacifique

    # 46658

    SOANE MALIA, P.

    [TONGA; FIJI] Chez les Meridionaux du Pacifique

    Lyon : Librairie Catholique Emmanuel Vitte, 1910. Octavo, printed paper wrappers, xv, 321 pp, illustrated with black and white photographic plates. A very good copy. Cultural history of Tonga and Fiji written from the perspective of a Catholic missionary. Includes much information on missionary activity in the islands.

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  • Napoleon : revolution to empire

    # 46720

    GOTT, Ted et al.

    Napoleon : revolution to empire

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2012. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xv, 313, illustrated. Includes a chapter on the Baudin Expedition to Australia. ” This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social …

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  • Alexander Maconochie of Norfolk Island (signed copy with letter)

    # 46718

    BARRY, John Vincent

    Alexander Maconochie of Norfolk Island (signed copy with letter)

    A study of a pioneer in penal reform. Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1958. Octavo, cloth in dustjacket, signed by the author on the title page, pp. xxii;277, a fine copy. From the library of noted art historian Ann Galbally. Loosely enclosed, a letter from the author The Hon. Sir John Barry addressed to the …

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  • [WHALING] Certificate of Shipment of Seamen issued at Honolulu for the whaling vessel "Montpelier" out of New Bedford (Job Macomber, Master). Dated 7 February 1857.

    # 28360

    CONSULATE OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FOR HONOLULU, H.I.

    [WHALING] Certificate of Shipment of Seamen issued at Honolulu for the whaling vessel “Montpelier” out of New Bedford (Job Macomber, Master). Dated 7 February 1857.

    Honolulu, Hawaii : U.S. Consulate, 1857. Lithograph printed document with manuscript entries, 310 x 400 mm, headed ‘Cirtificate [sic] of Shipment of Seamen’ above the American eagle and ‘Consulate of United States of America, for Honolulu, H. I.’; immediately below is the printed declaration with relevant entries supplied in ms.: ‘I, the undersigned, Consul of …

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  • Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé dans les ports et à la mer.

    # 27137

    KERAUDREN, Pierre François (1769-1857?)

    Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins et sur les soins à prendre pour conserver leur santé dans les ports et à la mer.

    Paris : Annales maritimes et coloniales. II.e partie. Année 1824. – Juin. Octavo, bound in contemporary marbled wrappers, pp [2], 457-541, with an engraved diagram of a furnace ventilator (p.540); light browning to some of the leaves, but a very good copy. Text in French. An important treatise on the causes of, and preventive measures …

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  • A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay;

    # 14834

    TENCH, Captain Watkin (1758-1833)

    A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay;

    with an account of New south Wales, its production, inhabitants, &c. To which is subjoined, a list of the civil and military establishments at Port Jackson. London : J. Debrett, 1789. Second edition. Octavo, half-calf over marbled boards, spine in compartments with gilt fleurons, gilt lettered morocco title label, pp [xii, including the half-title], 146, …

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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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  • Studio portrait of Samoan London Missionary Society pastor and tutor Saanga and his family, (Apia?) 1906.

    # 46145

    [Photographer unknown]

    Studio portrait of Samoan London Missionary Society pastor and tutor Saanga and his family, (Apia?) 1906.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 185 x 135 mm (mount); original studio mount (without photographer’s imprint); verso with Saanga’s own inscription in ink identifying the sitters as Saanga, Madeline, Freddy, Sose, Rarotonga, Rita, Edward, and beneath this ‘With Saanga’s kind regards. June 12 ’06‘; a slightly later ownership inscription in pencil at the top …

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  • Campagne de l'Uranie (1817-1820) : journal de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet, d'après le manuscrit original

    # 45873

    FREYCINET, Rose Marie Pinon de (1794-1832)

    Campagne de l’Uranie (1817-1820) : journal de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet, d’après le manuscrit original

    / accompagné de notes par Charles Duplomb. Paris : Societé d’Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1927. First edition. Large quarto (285 x 230 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers with French flaps (sunned, spine with water staining and small paper loss at ends), pp. [2 blank], xiii, [1 blank], 190, [2], with 25 plates (13 in colour, …

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  • [BIBLE. TAHITIAN] Te Bibilia moa ra, oia te faufaa Tahito e te faufaa apî ra : iritihia ei parau Tahiti.

    # 45900

    [NOTT, Henry] HOWE, William; CHISHOLM, Alexander; BARFF, John

    [BIBLE. TAHITIAN] Te Bibilia moa ra, oia te faufaa Tahito e te faufaa apî ra : iritihia ei parau Tahiti.

    Lonedona : Neia e R. Clay, Sons, e O. Taylor ma, na te Taieti Bibilia i Beritani e te mau fenua atoa i faatupuhia i Lonedona ra i te Matahiti 1804. [London : R.Clay & Sons and O. Taylor, for The British and Foreign Bible Society], 1878. Fourth edition. Thick octavo (225 x 150 mm), …

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  • Two stereoscopic views taken in Samoa, 1875.

    # 46142

    WALTER, Charles (Carl) (1831-1907) (attributed)

    Two stereoscopic views taken in Samoa, 1875.

    Two stereoscopic albumen print photographs, each image approximately 80 x 80 mm (square format), on original black card mounts, 85 x 176 mm, versos blank; the prints are a little pale, but are otherwise in good condition. This pair of Samoan stereoviews came as part of a small group of stereographic photographs by German-born Victorian …

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