Pacific

  • # 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 …

  • # 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, …

  • # 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.

  • # 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.

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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, …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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.

  • # 46398

    LUQUIENS, H.M. (Huc Mazelet)

    Hawaiian art.

    Honolulu, HI : Bishop Museum, 1931. Series: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 18. First edition. Tall octavo (240 x 160 mm), original cloth backed papered boards, pp 59, illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates; ex library of the San Francisco firm S & G Gump Company (card pocket to pastedown and wet stamp to …

  • # 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 …

  • # 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, …

  • # 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), …

  • # 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 …