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  • [IMAGINARY VOYAGES; NEW ZEALAND] Den unga vilden.

    # 41555

    LEJEUNE, Augustin-Laurent

    [IMAGINARY VOYAGES; NEW ZEALAND] Den unga vilden.

    Öfversättning af Joh. P. Renmark. I-II. Stockholm : C. F. Marquard, 1802. Octavo (172 x 106 mm), handsome contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with gilt rule and contrasting title- and number-pieces in gilt; pp. [2], 176 + 240; separate title-pages for each part; some browning and very occasional and minor marginal stains; early …

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  • [COOK] Sammandrag af Capitain Jacob Cooks åren 1772, 73, 74 och 1775 omkring Södra Polen förrättade resa :

    # 41536

    COOK, James, 1728-1779; FORSTER, Georg, 1754-1794; FURNEAUX, Tobias, 1735-1781

    [COOK] Sammandrag af Capitain Jacob Cooks åren 1772, 73, 74 och 1775 omkring Södra Polen förrättade resa :

    hwarwid Herrar Forsters och Furneaux journaler blifwit jämnförde och nyttjade : Innehållande det hufwudsakeligaste af de på denna resa gjorda nya uptäckter i söderhafwet, Rörande Södra Polens Ishaf nya uptäckte Öars naturalier och Inwånarnes Tänkesätt, Seder, Klädedrägt, m.m. Upsala [Sweden] : Johan Edman, 1783. Octavo, nineteenth century papered boards with title label to spine (edges …

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  • [LA PÉROUSE; BOTANY BAY] Poems, original and translated, by E. H. Smith, A. B., Incumbent of Killamarsh. / "Sweet heart-soothing poesie!"

    # 41725

    SMITH, Edward Herbert; [BRUGUIÈRE, Antoine André, Baron de Sorsum, 1773-1823]

    [LA PÉROUSE; BOTANY BAY] Poems, original and translated, by E. H. Smith, A. B., Incumbent of Killamarsh. / “Sweet heart-soothing poesie!”

    Foolscap folio (189 x 285 mm), full maroon calf (boards worn and scuffed), spine with gilt decoration; front pastedown with armorial bookplate with the motto VIRTUS INCENDIT VIRES and initials FLS below the coat of arms; manuscript in ink in the author’s own hand, [6] 147 [5] pp; the preliminaries comprise a title leaf and 3-page index …

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  • [NEW ZEALAND] The new London spelling book: or, The young gentlemen and ladies guide to the English tongue ...

    # 41724

    VYSE, Charles (active 1770-1815)

    [NEW ZEALAND] The new London spelling book: or, The young gentlemen and ladies guide to the English tongue …

    A new edition, with alterations, improvements and additions. London : printed for G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, by J. Crowder and E. Hemsted, Warwick-Square, 1803. Small octavo, contemporary brown cloth boards (rubbed and stained), pastedowns and front endpaper with contemporary child’s scribbling, front endpaper with modern biro inscription dated 1984; frontispiece engraved portrait of Charles …

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  • Franska capitainens och riddarens Jean François de Survilles upptäckts-resa i Söderhafvet, på egen och med-interessenters bekostnad anställd år 1769.

    # 41601

    FORSTER, Johann Georg Adam (1754-1794)

    Franska capitainens och riddarens Jean François de Survilles upptäckts-resa i Söderhafvet, på egen och med-interessenters bekostnad anställd år 1769.

    Öfversättning. Nyköping : J. P. Hammarin, 1795. Octavo (170 x 107 mm), disbound; pp. 96 (including title-page); text in Swedish; scattered light foxing, a vertical tear in the fore-edge margin of p. 15; title-page with contemporary ink signature. Slightly abridged Swedish translation (by Carl Fr. Landell) of Forster’s 1793 German version of the voyage account of Surville, …

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  • [GEOGRAPHY] Lärobok i allmänna geographien, enligt de nyaste politiska förändringarne,

    # 41472

    STEIN, Christian Gottfried Daniel (1771-1830)

    [GEOGRAPHY] Lärobok i allmänna geographien, enligt de nyaste politiska förändringarne,

    af. Chr. Gottfr. Dan. Stein; efter 9:de upplagan af år 1819, översätt och försedd med en serskild artikel öfver Skandinavien, af C. Netherwood. Med ett fullständigt Register, som säljes särskildt, och varigenom arbetet tillika kan begagnas som Lexicon. Stockholm : Zacharias Haeggström, 1819. Small octavo (146 x 113 mm), contemporary half-calf over marbled papered boards (lightly …

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  • En utvandrares äfventyr samt efter skeppsbrottet. Två berättelser från Australien.

    # 41554

    LISTNER, Carl & GERSTÄCKER, Friedrich

    En utvandrares äfventyr samt efter skeppsbrottet. Två berättelser från Australien.

    Öfversättning. [=An emigrant’s adventure and After the shipwreck. Two stories from Australia. Translation]. Stockholm : S. Flodins boktryckeri, 1873. Small octavo (183 x 120 mm), contemporary marbled papered boards, black leather spine repaired with black tape; pp. [4], 95; text in Swedish (translated from the German); inner hinges a little weak, front pastedown with mark caused …

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  • [NEW HEBRIDES; MISSIONS] Memoirs of Rev. S. F. Johnston, the Rev. J. W. Matheson, and Mrs. Mary Johnston Matheson, missionaries on Tanna.

    # 41701

    PATTERSON, George

    [NEW HEBRIDES; MISSIONS] Memoirs of Rev. S. F. Johnston, the Rev. J. W. Matheson, and Mrs. Mary Johnston Matheson, missionaries on Tanna.

    : with selections from their diaries and correspondence, and notices of the New Hebrides, their inhabitants and missionary work among them / by Rev. George Patterson, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Green Hill, Pictou, N.S. Philadelphia : W. S. & A. Martien, [1864]. First edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked purple pebbled cloth (corners …

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  • Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 - 1804

    # 41798

    HUNT, Susan and CARTER, Paul

    Terre Napoleon. Australia through French eyes 1800 – 1804

    Sydney : Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales in association with Hordern House, 1999. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 150, gift inscription to title page, extensively illustrated. Art from the Baudin voyage to Australia.

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  • [FIJI] Studio portrait of a man known as "Cannibal Tom". Suva, 1906.

    # 41367

    LE FAIVRE, O. J.

    [FIJI] Studio portrait of a man known as “Cannibal Tom”. Suva, 1906.

    Printing-out-paper print photograph, 202 x 150 mm; inscribed in negative ‘Protected / O. J. Le Faivre 19.11.06’; verso with oval wet stamp worded ‘More copies of this / Photo can be had from / Le Faivres Art Studioes [sic] / SUVA, FIJI’; superb clarity and tonal range; a couple of nicks to the left-hand edge …

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  • [QUACK MEDICINE; HYDROTHERAPY] Songs of the Pacific : or, Light on the Samoan question.

    # 41334

    HENDERSON, Marc Antony (pseud. of STRONG, George Augustus 1832-1912]

    [QUACK MEDICINE; HYDROTHERAPY] Songs of the Pacific : or, Light on the Samoan question.

    San Francisco, Cal. : Pacific Bank, 1889. Small octavo (170 x 105 mm), original stitched yellow wrappers printed in black (light staining), the lower wrapper with an advertisement for the Pacific Bank; pp. 56; early pencilled calculations to inside of upper wrapper, otherwise internally clean and sound, a very good copy. A vicious satire on …

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  • Portrait of a Fijian man probably associated with the Wesleyan Methodist mission. Fijian Islands, circa 1907.

    # 40974

    Photographer unknown.

    Portrait of a Fijian man probably associated with the Wesleyan Methodist mission. Fijian Islands, circa 1907.

    Large format silver bromide print photograph, 290 x 245 mm, on its original board mount, 450 x 385 mm; the print is a little over-exposed but is in good condition; the verso is annotated in pencil by a picture-framer with the customer name ‘Danks’, and the instruction ‘1 pol[ished] oak, at once’; the print was removed …

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  • [SAMOA] Lt. Gaunt's squad drilling. (Apia, 1899).

    # 41103

    BURTON BROTHERS

    [SAMOA] Lt. Gaunt’s squad drilling. (Apia, 1899).

    Albumen print photograph, 145 x 200 mm, laid down on its original card mount, 245 x 295 mm; ms. caption in the negative reads: ‘6395. Lt. Gaunt’s Squad drilling. Burton Bros. Dunedin. Protected, Oct. ’99’; the print is in good condition; the mount is sunned at the edges and has a tiny amount of insect damage at …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Leonora, or, That dreamy Honolulu rag.

    # 41147

    ARMSTRONG, Tom (words & music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Leonora, or, That dreamy Honolulu rag.

    Cover: Tome Armstrong’s very latest bewitching rag song. Also sung with great success by Les Warton at Rickards’ Tivoli Theatres. Melbourne : A.M. Dinsdale, [ca.1911]. Series: Dinsdale’s Popular sixpenny edition, no. 169. Folio, illustrated wrappers with vignette portrait of Australian vaudeville star Tom Armstrong, [3] pp of music notation; a fine copy. Trove locates only the NLA …

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  • Australian Rare Books 1788 - 1900

    # 40193

    WANTRUP, Jonathan

    Australian Rare Books 1788 – 1900

    Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on …

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  • The three voyages of Captain James Cook

    # 36977

    HAWKESWORTH, John (1715-1773); COOK, James (1728-1779); KING, James

    The three voyages of Captain James Cook

    1. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and …

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