Pacific
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# 50553
BEST, Elsdon
The stone implements of the Maori.
Wellington, NZ : John Mackay, Government Printer, 1912. Series: Dominion Museum. Bulletin No. 4. First edition. Quarto (285 x 225 mm), recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine in compartments with gilt-lettered black leather title label; title-leaf, pp. 410; with 50 b/w photographic plates and one folding line-drawn plate, plus other illustrations in the …
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# 50563
VALLANCE, T. G. et al.
Nature’s investigator : the diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805
Compiled by T.G. Vallance, D.T. Moore & E.W. Groves. Canberra, ACT : Australian Biological Resources Study (Flora), [2001]. Octavo, laminated pictorial boards, maps to endpapers, previous owner’s name to front free endpaper, pp. xii; 666, illustrations, a fine copy. Scarce. The diary of Robert Brown, naturalist on the ‘Investigator’ voyage of Matthew Flinders, with much …
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![[NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia's North Province, 1930-31.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3652-300x300.jpg)
# 50453
"J. O. H." (photographer and compiler)
[NEW CALEDONIA] Archive of original photographs taken by a German geologist, documenting mining, interactions with indigenous people, and the landscape in New Caledonia’s North Province, 1930-31.
Group of 58 (fifty-eight) gelatin silver print photographs, in uniform 80 x 110 mm format, all neatly mounted on green paper backing sheets, 140 x 210 mm, each with the meticulous cataloguing of the photographer in the form of typed information in German, including in the upper margin a main heading ‘Neu-Kaledonien’ and a sub-heading, …
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# 38356
GONZALEZ CABRERA BUENO, José (c. 1670 - after 1733)
Navegación Especulativa, y Práctica, con la Explicación de algunos Instrumentos, que están mas en uso en los Navegantes … …
Manila : Impresa en el Convento de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de la Orden de Nro. Seraphico Padre San Francisco, 1734. First edition. Folio (315 x 210 mm), contemporary limp vellum (lacking ties, some age staining, small loss at front bottom corner), spine with title in manuscript in black ink; printed on rice and …
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# 49558
SHEARSTON, John S.
H.M.S. “Nelson” : an account of her first commission on the Australian Station. The voyage out – arrival at Sydney – description of the ship – cruises and doings out here; with a detailed account of the establishment of British protectorate at New Guinea in 1884.
Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885. First edition. Octavo (212 x 142 mm), original printed pink wrappers (light stains); pp.78; title-page with off-setting, else contents clean and sound; [TOGETHER WITH] An albumen print photograph (c.1885) by Charles Bayliss of HMS Nelson alongside the ferry Brighton in Sydney Harbour, inscribed verso in period hand ‘From …
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# 50346
BACQUART, Jean-Baptiste & Bernard DE GRUNNE
The Peter Hallinan Collection of Melanesian Art. Sotheby’s, London, 7 December 1992.
London : Sotheby’s, 1992. Auction catalogue. Large quarto (280 x 215 mm), decorated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; pp. 199, [3 bibliography]; 166 lots, illustrated in colour; an excellent copy.
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# 14845
COXE, William (1748-1828)
Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America.
To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China. London : J. Nichols, 1780. First edition. Quarto, full polished calf (a couple of scuffs to the boards), spine extensively decorated in gilt, contrasting morocco title label, expertly rebacked, folding frontispiece map of the Russian …
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# 50099
ANSON, George, Baron (1696-1762); WALTER, Richard
A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. (Large paper copy)
By George Anson Esq; Commander in Chief of a squadron of His Majesty’s ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from the papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty’s ship the Centurion, in that expedition. …
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![[TAHITI] Tomb of Queen Pomare IV at 'Outu'ai'ai point, Arue.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2708-300x300.jpg)
# 50117
SPITZ, Charles Georges (1857-1894)
[TAHITI] Tomb of Queen Pomare IV at ‘Outu’ai’ai point, Arue.
[Circa 1885]. Albumen print photograph, 193 x 152 mm; verso with fully contemporary caption in pencil: Pomare’s tomb – Tahiti; a strong print with dark tones; the print has some light creasing but is otherwise in very good condition; unmounted. [TOGETHER WITH] A smaller albumen print, 110 x 165 mm, with another view of the …
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![[COOK; TAHITI] Photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving, "Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des morais de O-Taiti"](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/04/2026_DSFB_2703-300x300.jpg)
# 50118
[HOARE, Sophia, photographer]; WEBBER, John (1752-1793) (artist); BERNARD, Robert (1734-1777) (engraver)
[COOK; TAHITI] Photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving, “Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des morais de O-Taiti”
Papeete, Tahiti : Mrs. Sophia Hoare, [between 1880 and 1889]. Albumen print photograph of a copperplate engraving, 110 x 207 mm; unmounted; verso with the wet stamp of ‘Mrs. S. Hoare, Photographer, Papeete, Tahiti’; in good condition with an expected amount of very light creasing. Sacrifice humain qui eut lieu dans un des marais de …
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# 48397
HAWKINS, Sir Richard, c. 1562 - 1622
The observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, Knight, in his voyage into the south sea : Anno Domini 1593.
London : Printed by I. D[awson] for John Jaggard, and are to be sold at his shop at the Hand Starre in Fleete-streete, neere the Temple Gate, 1622. Folio, finely bound in full crushed blue Morocco, elaborate gilt rules and tooling, spine in compartments with raised bands, tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled …
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# 50060
ROGERS, Captain Woodes
A cruising voyage round the world : first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish’d in 1711.
Containing a journal of all the remarkable transactions; particularly of the taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the Acapulca ship, and other prizes : an account of Alexander Selkirk’s living alone four years and four months in an island; and a brief description of several countries in our course noted for trade, especially in the …
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# 49994
SHELVOCKE, George
A voyage round the world by way of the Great South Sea
Perform’d in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22, in the Speedwell of London, of 24 guns and 100 men, (under His Majesty’s Commission to cruize on the Spaniards in the late war with the Spanish Crown) till she was cast away on the Island of Juan Fernandes, in May 1720; and afterwards continu’d in the …
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# 50045
BULKELEY, John & John CUMMINS
A voyage to the South-Seas, in the years 1740-1.
Containing, a faithful narrative of the loss of His Majesty’s ship the Wager on a desolate island in the latitude 47 south, longitude 81:40 west: with the proceedings and conduct of the officers and crew, and the hardships they endured in the said island for the space of five months; their bold attempt for liberty, …
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# 49471
BLIGH, William (1754-1817)
A narrative of the mutiny on board His Majesty’s ship Bounty;
and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship’s boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. Illustrated with charts. London : George Nicol, 1790. Quarto, half-calf over marbled papered boards, gilt-decorated spine with contrasting morocco title labels, folding engraved frontispiece of the …
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# 50046
[GOULD, John]
History of the Otaheitean Islands, from their first discovery to the present time.
Including an account of the institutions, government, manners, customs, religion, & ceremonies of the people inhabiting the Society, the Friendly Islands, and the Marquesas. With an historical sketch of the Sandwich Islands. To which is added, an account of a mission to the Pacific Ocean, in the years 1796, 97, 98. Edinburgh : Printed by T. …