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# 45944

A. LION (publisher)

[GAME] Nouveau jeu de Loto Géographique et Universel, ou Tableaux des capitales de l’univers.

[Paris] : [A. Lion], n.d. [c.1845]. Original box of thick card, 230 x 290 x 40 mm, the lid with paste-down chromolithograph; containing 18 sections of playing board (each 125 x 215 mm), each with a paste-down lithograph illustrating five different locations, mostly major cities (all 90 locations illustrated are briefly described in an accompanying …

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# 49242

TRENDELL, A. J. R.

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.

A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …

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# 47645

d'EICHTHAL, Gustave

[POLYNESIAN MIGRATIONS + LANGUAGES] Histoire et origine des Foulahs ou Fellans.

Paris : Librairie orientale, 1841. Series: Mémoires de la Société ethnologique. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers (darkened and with minor stains, lengthy paper split along spine, dog-eared corners); half title with the author’s presentation inscription in ink; pp. xii, 296, folding map of Africa at rear; pale water stain to fore-edge margin …

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# 47522

REIMERS, J. W.

[TASMANIAN ABORIGINES; MAORI] Handbill advertising J. W. Reimers’s Anatomical and Ethnological Museum in Saville House, Leicester Square, London. September, 1853.

Never Before Exhibited in London. Saville House, Leicester Square. Open every day. Reimers’s Anatomical & Ethnological Museum, consisting of upwards of Several Hundred Magnificent Preparations in Wax, &c. … Anatomical Figures … Human Brain and Five Sense … Gallery of All Nations … Great Human Family … For Gentlemen Only…. London : J. W. Peel, …

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# 48706

HERRERA Y TORDESILLAS, Antonio de.

Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del Mar Oceano,

Escrita por Antonio de Herrera coronista mayor de Sv Md. de las Indias y sv coronista de Castilla. En quatro decades desde al año de 1492 hasta el de 531. Decada primera al rey Nuro Señor. Madrid : Officina Real de Nicolas Rodriguez Franco, 1726 – 1730. Eight volumes (decades) bound in five, with the …

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# 33117

Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)

Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

[Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …

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# 16544

Quirós, Pedro Fernández de [Queirós, Pedro Fernandes de], 1563-1615

Relation Herrn Petri Fernandes de Quir, Spanischen Hauptmans [et]c. So er König. May. in Spanien [et]c. : Von dem new erfundnem vierten theil der Welt (so bissher in Mappis oder Landtafflen Terra Australis incognita genannt) vnd desselben Länder, Reichtumb vnd Fruchtbarkeit u. vbergeben : In Spanischer Sprach zu Pampelona mit dess Koniglichen Raths erlaubnuss getruckt jetzo aber meniglich zu gutem ins Teutsch gebracht.

Augspurg [i.e. Augsburg] : bey Chrysostomo Dabertzhofer, 1611. Small quarto, recent marbled papered wrappers, all edges blue; pp. [2], 9, [1], title-leaf with woodcut printer’s device, engraved headpiece with Jesuit trigram, historiated initial; a fine copy, housed in a custom blind-tooled morocco clamshell box. Rare first German edition of the Eighth Memorial of the explorer …

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# 14834

TENCH, Captain Watkin (1758-1833)

A narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay;

with an account of New south Wales, its production, inhabitants, &c. To which is subjoined, a list of the civil and military establishments at Port Jackson. London : J. Debrett, 1789. Second edition. Octavo, half calf over marbled boards, spine in compartments with gilt fleurons, gilt-lettered morocco title label; pp. [12] (including the half-title), 146; …

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# 47283

A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)

The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.

[Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …

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# 48262

HEERMANN, Ingrid (ed.)

Form colour inspiration : Oceanic Art from New Britain

Stuttgart : Arnoldsche, [2001]. Large quarto (300 x 230 mm), publisher’s boards in pictorial dust jacket; pp. 218, profusely illustrated in colour; with essays by Philippe Peltier, Christian Kaufmann, Ingrid Heermann, Monique Jeudy-Ballini, Ulrich Menter, Philip J. C. Dark, Chantal Knowles and Chris Gosden, and Julie To’Liman-Turalir; text in English; a brand new copy in the …

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# 48451

[CLIFT, Horace William]

[INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world

Calcutta : printed at the Calcutta School-Book Society’s Press, and sold at their Depository, Circular Road, 1846. Sixth edition. Octavo (177 x 110 mm), original plum cloth (faded and with scattered stains); ownership inscription to front free endpaper: ‘R. Moore of the 1 Company 6 Bn. Bengal Artillery Feby. 12 the [sic] 1857 Anno Domino …

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# 48624

African & Oceanic Art : Property of Henri Lecler. December 7, 1968. Park-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York.

New York, NY : Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1968. Auction catalogue. Small quarto (260 x 180 mm), stapled printed wrappers, pp. 37, 104 lots, b/w photographic illustrations; a very good copy, with the printed prices realise sheet loosely enclosed.

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# 48627

FAINELLO, Robert and Christine DAVIES

Tribal Art. Sotheby’s, London, 24 March 1986.

London : Sotheby’s, 1986. Auction catalogue. Large quarto (270 x 210 mm), printed green wrappers; pp. 55, 141 lots, illustrated in b/w and colour; an excellent copy, with the printed price list loosely enclosed. Among the highlights of the Oceanic art section is an astonishing Fijian wooden figure (19 cm high), which sold for £33,000 …

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# 48626

FAINELLO, Robert and Christine DAVIES

Tribal Art. Sotheby’s, London, 30 March 1987.

London : Sotheby’s, 1987. Auction catalogue. Large quarto (270 x 210 mm), printed green wrappers pp. 54, 113 lots, illustrated in b/w and colour; an excellent copy, with the printed price list loosely enclosed. Among the highlights of the Oceanic art section are a superb Malaita bowl with mother of pearl inlay, an important Easter …

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# 47042

[Anon.]

Tableau géographique des quatre parties du monde;

orné de treize gravures coloriées, représentant les costumes des Peuples qui habitent les différentes parties du Globe; suivi d’un Traité de la Grammaire française, d’Arithmétique ancienne et décimale; de principes d’Écriture et de Dessin, gravés d’après les meilleurs maîtres … … A Paris : chez L. Duprat-Duverger, rue des Grands-Augustins, n. 21, 1811. Duodecimo (170 x …

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# 29076

BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777)

Histoire des navigations aux terres australes

: contenant ce que l’on scait des moeurs & des productions des contrées decouvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Paris : Chez Durand, 1756. First edition. Two volumes, quarto (260 x 200 mm), contemporary full calf (boards …

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