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# 46003
TRÉHIN, Jean-Yves.
Tahiti : l’Éden à l’épreuve de la photographie : une histoire de la photographie à Tahiti et dans les îles, 1859-1940
Paris : Gallimard, 2003. Oblong quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 207, illustrated, a fine copy. Includes works by: Gustave Viaud, Paul-Emile Miot, Eugène Courret, Charles & Susan Hoare, Charles Georges Spitz, Lucien Gauthier, Roger Parry, Thérèse Le Prat, Henri Lemasson, Jules Agostini. A significant survey of early photography in Tahiti.
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# 45551
DAVIS, John
Portrait of Wellington Ngu (later Second Crown Prince of Tonga) in military uniform, c.1878.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 64 mm; verso with the back mark of ‘J. DAVIS, PHOTOGRAPHER, 21 Botany Street, near Oxford Street, SYDNEY. View of Friendly and Navigators Islands.’; a superb print with excellent tonal range; [TOGETHER WITH] another carte de visite in identical format (but for some reason without Davis’ …
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# 46004
HUNT, Susan et al.
Lure of the southern seas : the voyages of Dumont D’Urville, 1826-1840
Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 2002. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 141, illustrated.
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# 45151
FORSYTH, John Walter [INGLETON, Geoffrey C., copyist & editor]
The discovery of the mainland of New Guinea : Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón or Íñigo Ortiz de Retes?
/ by J. W. Forsyth. (Copy by G. C. I.). Manuscript in fountain pen, 67 pp., foolscap folio, written recto only on faint-ruled paper; with a page of prefatory notes by Geoffrey C. Ingleton, headed ‘Forsyth’s Paper’; complete and very well preserved; housed a custom clamshell box. ‘John Forsyth, a solicitor by profession, was an …
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# 42444
HEINE, Wilhelm
Die Expedition in die Seen von China, Japan und Ochotsk unter Commando von Commodore Colin Ringgold und Commodore John Rodgers, im Auftrage der Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten, unternommen in den Jahren 1853 bis 1856,
unter Zuziehung der officiellen Autoritäten und Quellen. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe von Wilhelm Heine. Leipzig : Hermann Costenoble (Band 1) / Otto Purfürst (Bände 2-3), 1858-59. Three volumes, large octavo (245 x 175 mm), uniform publisher’s bindings of blind-blocked pebbled cloth with gilt-decorated and -lettered spines (rubbed and lightly marked, spines sunned); Band 1. XX, 330 pp., …
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# 45110
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. LONDON YEARLY MEETING.
Tracts relative to the Aborigines / published by direction of the Meeting for Sufferings from 1838 to 1842
London : Edward Marsh, 84 Houndsditch, 1843. Series: Tracts relative to the Aborigines, nos. 1-8. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original blind-blocked green cloth with gilt-lettered spine (upper board with stain at fore-edge penetrating to pastedown and front endpaper), front free-endpaper with two early North American Society of Friends Meeting inscriptions; pp. i-xii; 1-60 (Information …
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![[TRANSPORTATION] Las colonias penales de la Australia y la pena de deportación.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/19005912/2011_DSFB_0941-217x300.jpg)
# 45577
ARENAL, Concepción
[TRANSPORTATION] Las colonias penales de la Australia y la pena de deportación.
Memoria premiada por la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas en el concurso ordinario de 1875. Madrid : Eduardo Martinez, 1877. Large octavo (255 x 170 mm), publisher’s wrappers (lightly marked, head and tail of spine chipped), 99 pp; text in Spanish; entirely unopened, a very good copy. Ferguson 6092. In 1875 the Spanish …
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# 45069
BERAN, Harry; CRAIG, Barry
Shields of Melanesia
/ Edited by Harry Beran and Barry Craig. Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai’i Press, in association with Oceanic Art Society, Sydney, 2005. Quarto (295 x 215 mm), publisher’s black cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket; pp. xix, [1], 287; illustrated in colour and b/w; maps; light handling wear, an excellent copy.
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# 17953
DAM, Meyndert van; STICHTER, Cornelis
A VOC ship’s binding from the Chamber of Amsterdam.
d’Erven Stichters Comptoir Almanach, Voor ‘t Jaar 1800. Voorzien van eene aanwyzing der Jaar-, Paarden-, Beesten- en Leermarkten, welke in de Bataafsche Republiek gehouden worden, als mede de Vacantien, het Varen der Trekschuyten en Beurtschepen, het vertrek der Posten en Postwagens. Nevens de maans op- en ondergang. Te Amsterdam : by de erfgen. van de Wed. C. Stichter, …
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# 43114
[ORSMOND, John Muggridge, 1788-1856]
Autograph letter in the Tahitian language, written by a chief of Bora Bora to the LMS missionary, Rev. John Muggridge Orsmond. Bora Bora, 1822.
Manuscript in brown ink on laid paper, 3 pp. on quarto bifolium, 175 x 150 mm; letter in the Tahitian language addressed to missionary Rev. John Orsmond at Tahiti, written entirely in the hand of an unidentified chief of Bora Bora, signed ‘Porapora’ at the foot; undated, but probably 1822 (see below); traces of original …
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# 44855
GOOS, Pieter
Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones
Amsterdam : Pieter Goos, op’t Waater inde Vergulde Zeespiegel, 1666. 430 x 538 mm (image), 465 x 555 mm (sheet), had coloured, decorative cartouche, a fine example. A fine example of Pieter Goos’ sea chart of the Pacific Ocean. Extending from Van Diemen’s Land to Japan, and from New Zealand to California, it significantly notes discoveries …
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# 44856
OTTENS, Reinier (1698 - 1750); de WIT, Frederik (1629 - 1706)
Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en ‘t Eylandt California
Amsterdam : [R. & I. Ottens, 1745]. Copperplate engraving, 490 x 560 mm (image); 565 x 665 mm (sheet), hand coloured, small repair to tear in cartouche and a couple of pinholes, else fine. A striking example of Reiner and Joshua Ottens’ chart of the Pacific Ocean, an updated state of Frederick De Wit’s chart …
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# 44895
PINNOCK, William
Panorama of the old world and the new.
Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …
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![[ULIMAROA] Daniel Djurbergs namn på Australien.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/09/2024_DSFB_5107-300x300.jpg)
# 45076
DU RIETZ, Rolf
[ULIMAROA] Daniel Djurbergs namn på Australien.
/ av Rolf Du Rietz. Stockholm : Bortzells, 1961. “Särtryck ur Ymer 1961, h. 2.” [=Reprinted from: Ymer, vol.2 (1961)]. Octavo (230 x 150 mm), printed wrappers (a little sunned), the upper wrapper with a presentation inscription by Du Rietz for Swedish academic and collector Teddy Brunius; pp. 81-100; text in Swedish, with a summary …
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# 45154
POLYNESIAN SOCIETY
Rules of the Polynesian Society
New Plymouth, NZ : Thomas Avery & Sons Limited, 1922. Third edition. Octavo, self-wrappers (lightly foxed, old fold lines), pp. 7; some spotting at margins, otherwise good.
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# 45155
POLYNESIAN SOCIETY
List of reprints from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, also of other available Maori publications.
Wellington, NZ : Polynesian Society, [1941]. Octavo, stapled wrappers (foxed, owner’s pencilled name and date ‘F. H. Molony May 1943’ to front, lower wrapper extensively annotated in pencil, paper splits at head and tail of spine); pp. 12, [2]; original owner’s marginalia, otherwise internally good. Dating based on one of the ‘New Publications’ advertised on …