Pacific
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# 20204
BROUGHTON, William Robert (1762 - 1821)
Voyage de Découvertes dans la partie septentrionale de L´Ocean Pacifique, fait par le capitaine W. R. Broughton, commandant la corvette de S. M. La Providence et sa conserve, pendant les années 1795, 1796, 1797 et 1798;
dans lequel il a parcouru et visité la côte d’Asie, depuis le 35e degré nord, jusqu’au 52e; l’île d’Insu, ordinairement appelée Jesso; les côtes nord, est et sud du Japon; les îles de Likeujo et autres îles voisines, ainsi que la côte de Corée. Tr. par odre de S.E. le ministre de la marine et …
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# 20075
WALCH, Johannes (1757-1824)
Allgemeiner Atlas. Nach den bewährtesten Hülfsmitteln und astronomischen Ortsbestimmungen,
nebst allen neuen Entdeckungen, Säkularisationen, und Entschädigungen. Augsburg : im Verlag bei Johannes Walch, 1812. Small oblong quarto, original cloth backed papered boards (heavily rubbed, corners worn), hand coloured copper engraved title leaf with original owner’s signature, followed by [35] engraved maps, all with some degree of contemporary hand colouring; manuscript foliation and a few …
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# 20066
MURRAY, Rev. Thos. Boyles
[BOUNTY] Pitcairn : the island, the people, and the pastor.
To which is added a short notice of the original settlement and present condition of Norfolk Island. London : Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, [1858]. Tenth edition. Duodecimo, original blind blocked blue cloth boards (lightly rubbed) with gilt design of the Bounty to upper board and gilt lettering and designs of breadfruit and Norfolk Island …
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# 20246
SAINT-YVES, G. (Georges)
L’Océanie
Tours : Alfred Mame et Fils, [c.1900]. Quarto, publisher’s pictorial red percaline decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, pp 398, [1], wood engraved illustrations, maps; text in French; a superb copy. This strikingly beautiful and lavish fin de siècle French children’s book has much significant Australian content. The first 150 pages are devoted to …
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# 20168
KAEPPLER, Adrienne L. (editor)
Cook voyage artifacts in Leningrad, Berne, and Florence Museums.
Honolulu, HI : Bishop Museum Press, 1978. First edition. Series: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 66. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, colour frontispiece plate, pp x, 186, photographic illustrations (some colour), a fine copy.
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# 20178
VAUGHAN, Thomas
Captain Cook, R. N. : the resolute mariner: an international record of oceanic discovery
Portland : Oregon Historical Society, 1974. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. xiv; 97, extensively illustrated with photographs of artefacts etc.
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# 20070
WOLF, Sara J. (compiler); HILL, Thomas A. (photographer)
Highlights of the collection of the Fiji Museum : a photographic catalogue
Suva : Fiji Museum, 1980. First edition. Series: Fiji Museum Special Publication no. 2. “… with special thanks to Fergus Clunie”. Quarto, pictorial stiff wrappers (rubbed), pp 62, profusely illustrated in black-and-white; bibliography; a very good copy. A great reference work on traditional Fijian artefacts, including illustrated descriptions of a number of unique and important …
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# 20184
INUIT GALLERY OF VANCOUVER
Asmat art
Vancouver : Inuit Gallery, 1990. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, [28] pp, 61 objects described and photographically illustrated; printed price list loosely enclosed. Catalogue of an exhibition of Asmat art from West Papua (then Irian Jaya), held Jan. 27 – Feb. 15, 1990. Includes, shields, ancestor figures, soul boats, mbis poles, canoe prows, bone daggers etc.
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# 20199
Pacific Islands. Vol. I. (Western groups). Sailing directions for the south east, north east and north coasts of New Guinea, also for the Louisiade and Solomon Islands, the Bismark Archipelago, and the Caroline and Mariana Islands
London : The Hydrographic Offic, Admiralty by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1908. Fourth edition. Octavo, flushcut orange cloth, lettered in gilt (stained), portion of the front free endpaper removed, the coupons redeemable for supplements intact, pp. xx; 504, three folding charts, very good. Detailed sailing directions for mariners, including details about the local inhabitants. A single …
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# 20010
Pan American World Airways
Fly to the South Pacific by Pan Am
United States : Pan American World Airways, 1956. Tourist brochure, single sheet folded to DL size, illustrations. Focusses on Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti, Australia and New Zealand. ‘You’ll say “down under” is worth going to see because you’ll want to go off “Waltzing Matilda” yourself … out into the “out-back’ and up where painted “blackfellows” wield …
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# 20009
Tahiti Tourist Development Board
Tahiti and French Polynesia
Papeete : Tahiti Tourist Development Board, December 1968. Tourist brochure, DL size, colour wrappers, pp. 16, map of Papeete and of Tahiti.
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# 17236
MELLOR, Dorothy
Enchanting Isles
Sydney : Howard, Whyte & Coy., 1934. First edition. Octavo, half cloth marbled boards (minor chipping, stained, spine sunned), pp 112. With six illustrations by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.
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# 13672
CHARPENTIER, Henry (1889-1952)
Océan Pacifique : poème
Paris : [Loius Kaldor], 1925. First edition, limited to 200 copies. This copy is one of 100 numbered examples on Arches (no. 141) and bears a lengthy presentation inscription on the front free-endpaper from the author to Georgine Boucher Normandin, dated 16 November 1929; 5 copies were also printed on Chine, 15 on Japon and …
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# 19633
GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, Jacques (1757 - 1810)
Tableau des decouvertes du Capne. Cook & de la Perouse
Paris : chez l’auteur, rue Coqueron Mon. de France ; Bordeaux : chez le Cne. S. Sauveur sous le peristyle de la Grande Comedie, l’an 7 de la Republique Francaise [1798 or 1799]. Aquatint with hand colouring, 430 x 534 mm (sheet), old mount burn to margins, a very good copy with vibrant original colour. …
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# 19407
CRAWFORD, Marian (1955 - )
Memory work
[Melbourne : the artist, 2018]. Artist’s book. Octavo (21cm tall), self-wrappers, blue cellophane dustjacket, pp. [48], printed letterpress, relief and intaglio. Unique edition. A contemporary photobook created by Melbourne artist Marian Crawford, drawing on her memories growing up on Babana, or Ocean Island (contemporary Kiribati) and using historical photographs of what was at the time …
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# 18727
Mappe-Monde. Ou carte générale de toutte la terre, dressée sur les observations de Mrs. de l’Académie Royale des Sciences,
Mise en jeu, Ouvrage aussi utille que curieux, et qui donnera une connaissance exacte du Monde entier. A Paris : [Imprimerie Royale Academie Royale des Sciences, circa 1768]. Copperplate engraving, measures 430 x 550 mm (plate line), 532 x 632 mm (paper), original hand colouring, old fold lines, small pin holes along the folds, old …