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# 26813
COLE, William Washington (1847-1915)
South Sea Savages, or Maori War Dancers. The List including a Troupe of Genuine South-Sea Savages tattooed from head to foot, and faithfully giving The Great Maori War Dances.
[Advertised and illustrated on] A double-sided poster for W. W. Cole’s World-Famous, Five-Continent New Mammoth Circus, appearing at Binghamton, New York on Monday, April 24, 1882 (the location and date are wet stamped at foot of the verso). Buffalo, NY : The Courier Company Show Printing House [for W. W. Cole], [1882]. Lithograph printed in black …
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# 25912
[HOARE, Sophia]
The tattooed leg of Queen Vaekehu of Nuka Hiva, Marquesas Islands.
[Papeete, Tahiti : Sophia Hoare, between 1880 and 1888]. Albumen print photograph, 142 x 102 mm; unmounted; verso blank; an exceptionally strong print with beautiful tones; some very mild creasing at the corners, and a tiny nick at bottom edge, otherwise in fine condition. This rare photograph by English-born Papeete photographer Mrs. Sophia Hoare is …
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# 27013
[HOARE, Sophia, photographer]; HODGES, William, 1744-1797 (artist); BERNARD, Robert, 1734-1777 (engraver)
[COOK] Photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving of Marquesan artefacts.
Papeete, Tahiti : Mrs. Sophia Hoare, [between 1880 and 1889]. Albumen print photograph of a copperplate engraving, 182 x 132 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. Title: Ornemens et Armes de l’Isle des Marquises. Engraved by Robert …
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# 26841
UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited. Time table for November, 1877.
Dunedin, NZ : Fergusson & Mitchell (printers), 1877. Duodecimo card (112 x 225 mm), folding to form [6] panels (each 112 x 75 mm), with a map of New Zealand indicating ports of call, a list of all agencies in New Zealand, Australia and the Western Pacific (including Sydney, Newcastle and Noumea), a guide to …
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# 25701
DIETRICH, Johann Christian (1722-1800) (publisher); RIEPENHAUSEN, Ernst Ludwig (1765–1840) (engraver); CHODWIECKI, Daniel (1726-1801) (engraver)
[HAWAII; TAHITI; HOGARTH] Almanac de Goettingue pour l’année 1785.
Göttingen : Chez I. C. Dietrich, [1784?]. Duodecimo (100 x 65 mm), contemporary marbled card covers with gilt borders (light creasing, rear cover with small loss at fore-edge), all edges gilt; engraved title page, [14] leaves of plates (the first twelve depicting the latest European men’s and women’s fashions, the last two, by Riepenhausen after …
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# 26920
MURRAY, Leonard
[NEW GUINEA; QUEENSLAND] Sailing directions.
Port Moresby : Government of Papua, 1930. Second edition. Large octavo (235 x 153 mm), original printed buff wrappers with ownership signature of Earl G. Griffith, 1st Lt. C. E., pp 42, with line-drawn illustrations of coastal profiles and marine hazards; corners a little dog-eared, but internally clean and sound, a good copy. Official government …
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# 26530
GOYZUETA, C. A. de
[MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION] Letter from the Consul and Commissioner General for Italy in Melbourne addressed to the Commissioner for New Caledonia, regarding mineral specimens presented to the Italian government during the Exhibition. July, 1881.
Bifolium, 260 x 210 mm, manuscript in ink on paper watermaked ‘A. Pirie & Sons 1880’, written on first side only, headed ‘Italian Consulate, Melbourne, 8th July 1881’, signed at the foot ‘Yours truly, A. de Goyzueta, Consular Commissioner General for Italy’, and addressed to ‘W. J. Daly Esqre., Commissioner for New Caledonia, M. I. …
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# 26919
WILMOT, Chester
Two women and a baby cross the Owen Stanleys in New Guinea : being an address broadcast through the A.B.C. by Mr. Chester Wilmot.
[Melbourne] : Australian Board of Missions, [1943]. Small octavo (180 x 115 mm), pictorial green wrappers (sunned at top edges and spine), pp 8; a good copy. Contemporary publication of the story of a dramatic escape from the Japanese forces in New Guinea. Trove locates only three copies (Libraries Tasmania; University of Melbourne Library; Monash …
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# 26921
TINDALE, Norman B.
Some polychrome incised pottery ware from Mt. Turu, New Guinea.
Adelaide : The Hassell Press, [1941]. Offprint from Records of the South Australian Museum, vol. VI, no. 4, February 28th, 1941. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), original printed buff wrappers, pp 357-362, with line-drawn text illustrations plus [2] full-page photographic plates; very short tear at top edges of leaves, else a good copy. A …
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# 26922
TINDALE, Norman B.; BARTLETT, H. K.
Notes on some clay pots from Panaeati Island, south-east of New Guinea.
Adelaide : The Authors, [1937?]. Offprint from Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. lxi, 1937. Small quarto (240 x 190 mm), original grey wrappers (sunned) printed on front “With the Compliments of the Author”, pp 159-162, with line-drawn text illustrations plus [2] full-page photographic plates; a good, clean copy. A study by …
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# 14764
ADAMS, Tate; SANBERGS, Jan; BUSH, Stephen
[POSTER]. Africa & Oceania (screenprint and original texta design)
Melbourne : RMIT Faculty of Art Gallery, 1978. Screenprint on paper, 600 x 750 mm (image), lightly creased, showing a Massim canoe splashboard from the Trobriand Islands (south-east of the island of New Guinea), accompanied by the original large format black texta mockup design by Tate Adams for the poster. ‘Designed by Tate Adams and …
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# 26999
[HOARE, Sophia, photographer]; HODGES, William, 1744-1797 (artist); BERNARD, Robert, 1734-1777 (engraver)
[COOK] Photograph of an eighteenth-century engraving of Māori artefacts.
Papeete, Tahiti : Mrs. Sophia Hoare, [between 1880 and 1889]. Albumen print photograph of a copperplate engraving, 180 x 130 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. Title: Ouvrages des Insulaires de la Nlle. Zélande. Engraved by Robert …
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# 25915
[HOARE, Sophia, photographer]; HODGES, William, 1744-1797 (artist); WEBBER, John, 1752-1793 (artist); BERNARD, Robert, 1734-1777 (engraver)
[COOK] Four nineteenth-century photographs of eighteenth-century engravings of Tahitian subjects.
Papeete, Tahiti : Mrs. Sophia Hoare, [between 1880 and 1889]. Four albumen print photographs of copperplate engravings, 130 x 203 mm (1. and 2.) / 167 x 130 mm (3.) / 110 x 210 mm (4.); unmounted; versos all with the wet stamp of ‘Mrs. S. Hoare, Photographer, Papeete, Tahiti’; (1.) and (2.) with mild …
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# 26916
LAHDENTAUSTA, Heli, et al.
Satumaa ja sen asukkaat : Gunnar Landtman Papua-Uudessa-Guineassa 1910-1912 = Paradise and the people who lived there : Gunnar Landtman in Papua New Guinea 1910-1912
[Helsinki] : Museovirasto, [2001]. Small quarto (240 x 170 mm), pictorial wrappers, staple bound, pp 74, profusely illustrated with Landtman’s superb b/w photographs (many reproduced full-page, one double-page); a fine copy of a lovely little catalogue produced by the Museum of Cultures in Helsinki to accompany its exhibition celebrating the work of Landtman in the …
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# 26914
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Papuan Pastor : the story of George Ambo, Auxiliary Bishop of New Guinea.
[Lae, P.N.G. : Anglican Mission, 1969]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, stapled, pp 27, with b/w photographic illustrations, map; a very good copy. Trove locates four copies (NLA; State Library of Queensland; University of Melbourne Library; St. Mark’s National Theological Centre Library)
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# 26917
PARLIER, Judy
[NEW GUINEA] Managalasi 6.
Ukarumpa, P.N.G. : Summer Institute of Linguistics, [1966?]. Square octavo, pictorial wrappers, staple bound, pp [2], 26, with line-drawn illustrations; a very good copy. ‘This is the sixth in a series of primers prepared for the Managalasi people located west of the Hydrographer mountains in a Popondetta Sub-District. The number of Managalasi speakers is about …