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# 26003

ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

The Orient Steam Navigation Company, Limited. Prospectus.

London : The Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 13 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C., [1880]. Folio (420 x 265 mm) bifolium, 3 pp, folding to 265 x 105 mm with printed title to outer side; original share application form still loosely enclosed; outer side a little dusty, but a near fine example. ‘The Orient Steam Navigation Company …

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# 26018

LANYON-ORGILL, Peter A.

[NEW GUINEA] A dictionary of the Mailu language.

Edited and enlarged from the researches of the Rev. W. J. V. Saville and the Comte d’Argigny by Peter A. Lanyon-Orgill … With a foreword by Ernst Schwarzenburg … London : Luzac & Co., 1944. Octavo (215 x 140 mm), original printed blue wrappers (sunned, upper wrapper with nick at bottom edge, spine with paper …

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# 25768

HUGHAN, Allan (1834-1883)

Two views of the Kanak village at Gouars, New Caledonia, 1874.

I. Albumen print photograph, 203 x 153 mm, inscribed in the negative at bottom right ‘Hughan 4-74’, laid down on its original board mount, 370 x 240 mm, the lower margin with contemporary caption in ink in a neat hand: ‘Cases au village de Gouars. Côte Sud Ouest’. II. Albumen print photograph, 153 x 199 …

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# 25770

HUGHAN, Allan (1834-1883)

Kanak men by the waterfall at Canala, New Caledonia, 1874.

Albumen print photograph, 199 x 151 mm, inscribed in the negative at bottom left ‘Hughan 6-74’, laid down on its original album page of thick card, 320 x 250 mm, verso with contemporary caption in pencil in ink in a neat hand: ‘Cascade à Canala’; a strong print with rich tonal range and excellent clarity; the …

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# 25797

METHODIST CHURCH (NEW GUINEA)

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] A Methodist hymn book in pidjin English for use in mission services held for indentured labourers.

Cover title: A Metodist him buk. Malakuna, Rabaul : Printed and published by the Methodist Mission, 1932. First edition (?). Duodecimo (155 x 105 mm), original printed brown wrappers (stained, paper loss along spine), original stitch binding (loosened), pp [4], 12; leaves detached from wrappers, but contents complete; (the substantially contents from a second copy …

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# 25186

BRIGHAM, William T.

[HAWAII] A handbook for visitors to the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History.

Honolulu : Bishop Museum, 1903. First edition. Small oblong quarto (170 x 270 mm), original pictorial stiff wrappers, pp 106, profusely illustrated with b/w photographic plates; a very good copy. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum was founded in 1889, and houses the world’s largest collection of Polynesian cultural artefacts and natural history specimens, in addition …

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# 25188

WEST, Thomas, Rev.

Ten years in south-central Polynesia : being reminiscences of a personal mission to the Friendly Islands and their dependencies.

London : James Nisbet & Co., 1865. Octavo, original blind blocked green cloth over boards (rubbed), spine with gilt lettering and ornament, hinges cracked, verso of frontispiece with presentation inscription ‘Presented to Master Percy Lone for diligence in collecting for Wesleyan Missions, Christmas 1871’, and beneath it a later ownership inscription dated 1957; frontispiece lithographed …

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# 25112

PULSFORD, Edward (compiler)

Special Record of the Proceedings of the Geographical Society of Australasia, in fitting out and starting the Exploratory Expedition to New Guinea. July, 1885.

Sydney : Geographical Society of Australasia, 1885 First Edition. Octavo, original printed brown wrappers (spine with some paper loss), 80 pp; scattered foxing, occasional marginal annotations in blue pencil; a good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), and accompanied by his bookplate. The New Guinea Exploring Expedition – also known as The …

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# 25122

YOUNG, Maribelle (translator)

[NEW GUINEA] Bwaidoka tales

: collected and translated by Maribelle Young. Canberra : ANU, Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1979. Series: Pacific Linguistics, Series D – no. 16. Quarto, stiff wrappers, pp viii, 136, 10; a fine copy, with the bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne) to the front free-endpaper. Bwaidoka is an Austronesian language spoken …

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# 24465

FITZPATRICK, James A.

[NEW GUINEA: EARLY FILM FOOTAGE] Papua and Kalabahai : Weird haunts of strange people. A FitzPatrick Travel Talk.

[Beverly Hills, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1933]. From the series Traveltalks : The Voice of the Globe. One reel of 16 mm film (possibly a copy print?) with approximately 8 mins 30 secs of footage, in an Eastman Kodak Company metal can, later (early 1970s) printed label to front of the secondhand and collectable 16 mm film …

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# 24869

MONTROUZIER, Xavier (1820-1897)

[NEW GUINEA; NATURAL HISTORY] Essai sur la faune de l’ile de Woodlark ou Moiou.

Lyon : Imprimerie de F. Dumoulin, 1857. Octavo (235 x 160 mm), contemporary marbled papered boards (rubbed, corners bumped) with cloth spine (splits, small loss to cloth at head and tail); pp 226, [7] (index); hinges cracked, foxing to title page (also a small amount of silverfishing at top edge) and last few leaves, otherwise …

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# 15736

Gendron, Ernest

[MANUSCRIPT] Campagne de la Corvette à Voiles l’Alcméne. Commandée par Mr. Coudein, Capitaine de Frégate, à destination des Mers du Sud et Océanie.

[Libourne, France, between 1882 and 1887]. Folio, 270 x 215 mm, manuscript, [159] pp, in 4 stitched sections of 23, 38, 48 and 50 pages respectively, the third section with 2 pencil and wash drawings in the text, the fourth section with 3 pencil and wash drawings in the text and one laid down on thick paper (a …

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# 11209

Chase, H. L. (attrib.) & Williams, J. J. (attrib.)

Photographs of Hawaii, 1870-1883

Eleven albumen print photographs mounted recto and verso of [7] pages removed from a nineteenth century travel album, all in format 175 x 235 mm, contemporary captions in French and English in ink beneath each image, the prints attached to the leaves with the original double-sided adhesive tape at each corner, occasional foxing and mild …

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# 23805

LOEWECKE, Eunice; MAY, Jean

[NEW GUINEA] General grammar of Fasu (Namo Me).

Ukarumpa, PNG : Summer Institute of Linguistics, [1981?]. Reprinted from Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Linguistics, volume 27, 1980. Royal octavo (210 x 165 mm), printed wrappers, 106 pp; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the inside of the upper wrapper. Fasu is spoken in the Southern …

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# 23775

METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AUSTRALASIA

[NEW GUINEA] Taparoro ana buki bapuna : taparoro ana wona : pana panaeati.

First Catechism and Hymns, translated into the language of Panaeati, Papua. Melbourne : Spectator Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd., [1918]. Octavo (182 x 123 mm), string bound, original cloth backed printed blue papered boards, 72 pp; a superb copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. Copies are recorded in …

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# 23769

SENFT, Gunter

[NEW GUINEA] Kilivila : the language of the Trobriand Islanders

Berlin ; New York ; Amsterdam : Mouton de Gruyter, 1986. First edition. Series: Mouton Grammar Library, 3. Thick octavo, publisher’s gilt-lettered red cloth over boards, pp xiii, 598; with line-drawn illustrations and maps; a fine, bright copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to front free-endpaper.

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