Pacific
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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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![[TAHITI; MISSIONS] Saturday Magazine. No. 87. November 9th, 1833.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16160939/2015_DSFB_2711-209x300.jpg)
# 11016
[TAHITI; MISSIONS] Saturday Magazine. No. 87. November 9th, 1833.
London : John William Parker, West Strand, 1833. Quarto, disbound, 8 pp, printed in double columns, a fine copy. Includes the third part of an article titled Polynesia, an account of the first missionaries in Tahiti (five columns; with woodcuts of a Hawaiian burial ground and an outrigger canoe).
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![[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] The Papuans : a people of the South Pacific.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/07/22104616/2020_DSFB_5377-300x300.jpg)
# 26915
STONE-WIGG, Montagu, Right Reverend
[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] The Papuans : a people of the South Pacific.
By the Right Rev. Montagu John Stone-Wigg, M.A. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1898-1909). With later additions by the Right Rev. Henry Newton, D.D. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1922- ). Sydney : Australian Board of Missions, 1933. Second edition. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers, stapled, slightly worn, pp 76, photographic frontispiece and 3 full-page photographic illustrations, full-page …
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![[OCEANIC ART] Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/11/21144241/2017_DSFB_4744-300x300.jpg)
# 16856
KERSTEN, Wim; OUDSHOORN, G.
[OCEANIC ART] Kunst uit Nieuw Guinea
Amsterdam : Museum Fodor, 1963. Small quarto, pictorial wrappers (lightly marked), 24 pp, illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates; a good copy. Catalogue produced for Museum Fodor’s exhibition of objects from the astonishing private collection of Peter Kohler, Ascona (Switzerland), staged from 22 May to 30 June 1963. It features many sculptural masterpieces from the Sepik, …
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# 51201
[Unknown collector]
Album of pressed ferns collected in New South Wales and Fiji, c.1880.
Quarto (295 x 230 mm), original leather over boards with gilt-embossed decoration (rubbed); all edges gilt, watered silk pastedowns and endpapers; containing a chromolithographed title-leaf worded ‘Album’ and a further 25 leaves of thick card with lithographed borders in red, each with a pressed native fern specimen skilfully mounted on the recto; every specimen is accompanied by …
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# 51284
DUFTY, E. H. (Edward Henry)
Photographic portrait of two Kanak men. Noumea, New Caledonia, late 1870s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 65 mm (mount); verso with studio imprint of ‘E. H. Dufty, Photographer, Noumea, Nouvelle Caledonie’; the albumen print is in excellent condition, with very slight fading at the upper and lower edges; the gold-bordered mount is clean and stable. Edward Henry Dufty (1850-1905), the son of …
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# 51285
ROSE STEREOGRAPH CO.
The chief of one of the fortified islands in the Langa Langa lagoon, Malaita, Solomon Islands.
Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London : The Rose Stereograph Co., [c.1911]. Stereoscopic gelatin silver print photograph (mount 95 x 175 mm), printed title beneath each image preceded by the serial no. 12,273, mount also imprinted at left and right margins The Rose Stereographs Melbourne ; Sydney ; Wellington ; London; verso blank; in fine condition.
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# 51030
LUBACH, D. & LOGEMAN, W. M.
Panorama der bewoonde aarde. Eene afbeelding en beschrijving van de merkwaardigste voortbrengselen der aarde en hare bewoners, naar de verschillende aardgordels.
/ door D. Lubach en W. M. Logeman. Schoonhove : S. E. van Nooten, 1851. First edition. Quarto (295 x 225 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked green cloth (boards rubbed and with scattered marks), spine lettered in gilt (sunned, ends frayed, outer hinge split near head); both inner hinges split; pp. i-xxviii, 1-180; illustrated with 10 folding …
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![[HAWAII] Archive of original photographs taken (and collected) by a US sailor in Hawaii in 1945.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/08/2026_DSFB_5516-300x300.jpg)
# 51308
[Photographer unknown]
[HAWAII] Archive of original photographs taken (and collected) by a US sailor in Hawaii in 1945.
Group of 120 gelatin silver print photographs in snapshot format, approx. 115 x 67 mm; the majority taken by an unidentified US serviceman using a personal Kodak camera, the remainder commercial photos obtained by him at the time; a small number with handwritten captions verso; a few images duplicated; in uniformly good condition, with a …
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# 51229
LANGSDORFF, Georg Heinrich von
Bemerkungen auf einer Reise um die Welt in den Jahren 1803 bis 1807,
von G. H. von Langsdorff, Kaiserlich-Russischen Hofrath, Ritter es St. Annen-Orens zweiter Classe, Mitglied mehrerer Akademien und gelehrten Gesellschaften … … Frankfurt am Mayn : Im Verlag bey Friedrich Wilmans, 1812. Two volumes, quarto (270 x 220 mm), contemporary uniform bindings of half calf over marbled papered boards (rubbed, corners somewhat worn), spines in compartments …
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# 51227
[HARTGERS, Joost]
Wonderlijcke Voyagie, by de Hollanders gedaen, door de Strate Magalanes, ende voorts den gantschen kloot des Aertbodems om, met vier Schepen : onder den Admirael Olivier van Noort,
uytghevaren Anno 1598. Hier achter is by-gevoeght de tweede Voyagie an Iacob van Neck, naer Oost-Indien. t’Amstelredam : Joost Hartgerts, 1648. Quarto (240 x 185 mm), later vellum-backed marbled papered boards; pp. 88; title with large woodcut, one foldout plate with 6 woodcuts; decorated initials, tailpieces; a very good copy with wide margins. The fourth European …
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# 48533
LABILLARDIERE, [Jacques Julien Houten de].
Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse,
fait par ordre de l’Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et la 2me année de la République Francoise. Paris : Chez H. J. Jansen, an VIII de la République Francoise [1800]. Two volumes quarto plus atlas folio, the two text volumes in early quarter papered boards with gilt-lettered calf spines …
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![An Appendix to the Former Work [Cosmographie], endeavouring a discovery of the unknown parts of the World, especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_3991-300x300.jpg)
# 50566
HEYLYN, Peter
An Appendix to the Former Work [Cosmographie], endeavouring a discovery of the unknown parts of the World, especially of Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern Continent.
By Peter Heylin. London : Printed for Henry Seile, 1652. [Extracted from the first edition of Heylyn’s Cosmographie]. Disbound folio, 340 x 235 mm; title-leaf, pp. 191-7, [1 Emendation of the Errata in the Fourth Book]; browned at the edges, some very early annotations and pen trials on the last side. The idiosyncratic geography of English …
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![[CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/06/2026_DSFB_4001-300x300.jpg)
# 50537
Anon.
[CHILDREN’S] L’Océanie d’après les voyageurs les plus célèbres, par un homme de lettres
Lille : L. Lefort, 1849. First edition. Small octavo, publisher’s papered cartonnage binding with gilt decoration, frontispiece (Prise de possession des Iles marquises), previous owner’s name to front pastedown, pp. 201,a fine copy. Accounts of European exploration and discovery of and early settlements in the Pacific, with chapters on the Malay archipelago, Melanesia (includes New …
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![Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fretum, in Magnum Mare Australe detexit, totumq[ue] Orbem terrarum circumnavigavit. Quas Insulas, & regiones, & populos viderit, & quæ pericula subierit.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2026/02/2017_DSFB_4022-300x300.jpg)
# 16547
SCHOUTEN, Willem Corneliszoon (c.1567-1625)
Diarivm vel descriptio laboriosissimi, & molestissimi itineris, facti à Gvilielmo Cornelii Schovtenio, Hornano, annis 1615. 1616. & 1617. Cum à parte Australi freti Magellanici, novum ductum, aut fretum, in Magnum Mare Australe detexit, totumq[ue] Orbem terrarum circumnavigavit. Quas Insulas, & regiones, & populos viderit, & quæ pericula subierit.
Amsterdami : apud Petrum Kærium, 1619. Second Latin edition. Small quarto, contemporary papered boards (rubbed); pp [8], 1-24, 17-71, nine folding maps and plates; title with large vignette of ships and a city and original owner’s annotation ‘This is in Dutch in ye. long booke pa : 145, 3 G.’; as in other copies, pages 14 and …
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# 48825
THÉVENOT, Melchisédec (1620-1692)
Relations de divers voyages curieux,
qui n’ont point esté publiees, ou qui ont esté traduites d’Hacluyt, de Purchas, & d’autres Voyageurs Anglois, Hollandois, Portugais, Allemands, Espagnols; et de quelques Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux. Enrichies de Figures de Plantes non décrites, d’Animaux inconnus à l’Europe, et de Cartes Geographiques de Pays dont on n’a point encore donné de Cartes. Paris : Jacques Langlois, …