Pacific
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# 44317
REEVES, Edward
Brown men and women or The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896
London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1898. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial maroon cloth gilt (light rubbing, corners slightly bumped, head and tail of spine a little softened, spine lightly sunned), 60 photographic illustrations, folding map, bookplate to front pastedown, small paper flaw to frontispiece, internally fresh and clean, a very good copy. Memoir of …
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![[WHALING] Pratique de la pèche de la baleine dans les mers du sud.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/05/2024_DSFB_2637-300x300.jpg)
# 43311
LECOMTE, Jules
[WHALING] Pratique de la pèche de la baleine dans les mers du sud.
Paris : Lecointe et Pougin, 1833. First edition. Octavo (225 x 145 mm), original yellow wrappers lettered in black, the upper wrapper with a presentation inscription from the author to his friend: ‘offert par l’auteur a son ami Edouard Launet(?)’; title-page with vignette engraving of a a whaling scene, pp. xvi, 280; text in French; …
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# 41879
DELATTRE, Charles
Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.
Paris ; Limoges : Martial Ardent, 1850. Octavo (187 x 11 3 mm), publisher’s original embossed cloth over boards gilt (corners worn, spine with small loss at head and with loss to cloth at tail), front paste-down with original owner’s name, lithographed frontispiece with ethnic types of the Americas and Oceania (including natives of the …
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# 44022
BAKER, Beatrice Shirley
English and Tongan Conversation Book. Ko Tohi Lea Faka Bilitania Mo Faka-Toga
Auckland : The Brett Printing and Publishing Company, 1918. Octavo, lettered cloth flush cut wrappers (lightly marked), pp. 24, text in English and Tongan.
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# 44025
HURST, Norman and Nadine
Polynesia : objects of daily life
Cambridge MA : Hurst & Hurst, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (marked), pp. [32], illustrated. Fish hooks, cememonial objects, domestic objects and weapons from Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
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# 44023
POWELL, Jane P.; FRIEDMAN, Martin L.
Primitive Art of the Pacific Islands
New York : Brooklyn Museum, 1957. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked), pp. [16], illustrated with tribal artefacts from New Ireland, New Guinea, Cook Islands, Gilbert Islands, Marquesas Islands, Easter Island, New Zealand and the Admiralty Islands.
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# 42547
COATES, Ian (editor)
Endeavour voyage : the untold stories of Cook and the first Australians
Canberra, ACT : National Museum Of Australia, 2020. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 200, illustrated. ‘The Story of Cook and 1770 marks the first moment of British contact with the east coast of the continent we now know as Australia. It is one of our nation’s origin stories, although remembered very differently by Anglo-Australians and by …
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![[DUMONT D'URVILLE] Louis-Auguste de Sainson, artist on the Astrolabe expedition : autograph letter signed, dated August 1831.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_DSFB_5792-300x300.jpg)
# 41476
SAINSON, Louis-Auguste de (1800-1874)
[DUMONT D’URVILLE] Louis-Auguste de Sainson, artist on the Astrolabe expedition : autograph letter signed, dated August 1831.
Manuscript in ink written on 2 sides of a quarto bifolium, 240 x 185 mm; dated at Paris, 18 August 1831, and signed at the foot ‘De Sainson, painter du voyage de l’Astrolabe, rue St. André des arts 55’, the letter is addressed to ‘monsieur le Baron’; de Sainson writes to ensure that a promise obtained …
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# 41551
SPARRMAN, Anders (1748-1820)
Un compagnon suédois du capitaine James Cook au cours de son deuxième voyage. (Presentation copy for Francis Edwards)
Oslo : La Coquille qui Chante, 1939. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies. (This copy is no. 29). Presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page by the work’s translator for London bookseller Francis Edwards: ‘Francis Edwards, with the compliments of Bjarne Kroepelien’. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), white pigskin over papered boards, spine with raised bands …
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![Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 - Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2024/02/2024_DSFB_0789-300x296.jpg)
# 42916
[Società Geografica Italiana]
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].
Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …
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# 15728
MANLEY, Admiral Isaac (1755 - 1837)
A set of books from the library of Admiral Isaac Manley, the last surviving crew member on Captain Cook’s Endeavour voyage
Paris and the Parisians, in 1835. London : Richard Bentley, 1836. Two volumes, octavo, publisher’s cloth (spines defective), pp. xv; 418; vii; 412; Manley’s armorial bookplate to front pastedown of volume 1 (bearing the family motto Manus hæc inimica tyrannis – This hand is hostile to tyrants), each volume signed on the title page ‘Admiral Manley’. Born in London …
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# 41616
BLIGH, William [BURNEY, James]
Engelske capitainens Wilhelm Blighs resa genom södra werlds-hafvet, tolf hundrade sjömil i öpen båt, från Tofoa till Timor.
Upsala : J. Edmans enka, 1792 [but 1793]. Duodecimo (150 x 90 mm), contemporary half-calf (worn), spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt lettering (tear to leather on lower section of spine, the front outer hinge starting to loosen); front pastedown with early acquisition note ‘Joh: Erik Sundberg er retta egaren till denna bok Boda …
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# 41533
VANCOUVER, George, 1757-1798; SPARRMAN, Anders, 1748-1820
En upptäckts-resa till Norra Stilla Hafvet, och kring jordklotet : att på Kongl. Engelsk befallning och omkostnad i synnerhet forska efter något segelbart sammanhang imellan Norra Stilla och Norra Atlantiske Hafven förrättad åhren 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, under commando af Capitain George Vancouver. Ifrån engelskan i sammandrag utgifven af Anders Sparrman.
Scarce Swedish edition of Vancouver’s voyage account, being Anders Sparrman’s abridgement of Voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world (1798). Stockholm : Anders Zetterberg, 1800. Two parts in one volume, small octavo, contemporary half calf over speckled papered boards, spine ruled in gilt with title labels (spine and edges worn and rubbed); contemporary …
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# 42450
BROUGHTON, William Robert (1762-1821)
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean … Performed in His Majesty’s Sloop Providence and her Tender, in the years 1795, 1796, 1797, 1798.
London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804. Quarto, full contemporary calf, spine renewed in period style; pp. xx, 393, [1], [2 publisher’s advertisements]; with three charts and six plates and views (most folding); a fine wide-margined copy, with fresh plates and maps. Broughton’s A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean is an acknowledged …
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![[NEW HEBRIDES; MISSIONS] A dictionary of the Aneityumese language. (Presentation copy from the author to Rev. Clark of Williamstown).](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_DSFB_6559-300x300.jpg)
# 41696
INGLIS, Rev. John
[NEW HEBRIDES; MISSIONS] A dictionary of the Aneityumese language. (Presentation copy from the author to Rev. Clark of Williamstown).
In two parts. I. Aneityumese and English. II. English and Aneityumese. Also outlines of Aneityumese grammar. And an introduction, containing notices of the missions to the native races, and illustrations of the principles and peculiarities of the Aneityumese language. By the Rev. John Inglis, thirty-three years a missionary, first of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland, …
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![[QUEENSLAND; BLACKBIRDING; MISSIONS] The slave trade in the New Hebrides : being papers read at the annual meeting of the New Hebrides Mission held at Aniwa, July 1871,](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/10/2023_DSFB_6486-300x300.jpg)
# 41699
KAY, Rev. John
[QUEENSLAND; BLACKBIRDING; MISSIONS] The slave trade in the New Hebrides : being papers read at the annual meeting of the New Hebrides Mission held at Aniwa, July 1871,
and published by the authority of the Meeting. Edited by the Rev. John Kay, Coatbridge, Secretary to the Foreign Mission Committee of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Edinburgh : Edmonston & Douglas, 1872. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), disbound; pp. [i]-iv, [5]-91; last few leaves with some marginal toning, otherwise fine condition throughout. Rare.