Pacific

  • A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768 and 1769.

    # 29091

    BOUGAINVILLE, Louis-Antoine, Comte de (1729-1811)

    A voyage round the world performed by order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768 and 1769.

    / by Lewis de Bougainville, Colonel of Foot, and Commodore of the Expedition, in the Frigate La Boudeuse, and the Store-dhip L’Etoile. Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. London : Printed for J. Nourse, Bookseller to His Majesty, in the Strand; and T. Davies, Bookseller to the Royal Academy, in Russel-Street, Covent-garden, …

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  • A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world;

    # 30173

    VANCOUVER, George (1757-1798)

    A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and round the world;

    in which the coast of North-West America has been carefully examined and accurately surveyed. Undertaken by his Majesty’s command principally with a view to ascertain the existence of any navigable communication between the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans; and performed in the year 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, in the Discovery sloop …

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  • A Pacific bibliography

    # 35274

    TAYLOR, C. R. H.

    A Pacific bibliography

    Printed matter relating to the native peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. Oxford : Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1965. Second edition. Thick octavo (240 mm), publisher’s blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine, 692 pp, 1 fold-out map; a beautifully fresh and bright copy, without the dust jacket; from The Papuan Collection of Charles …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC; MARQUESAS] Gesang von der Insel Nukahiwa / Chant de Nukahiva

    # 34606

    BEYER, Ferdinand (1803-1864)

    [SHEET MUSIC; MARQUESAS] Gesang von der Insel Nukahiwa / Chant de Nukahiva

    Mainz : bei B. Schott’s Söhnen ; Brüssel : bei Gebrüder Schott ; London : bei Schott & Cie., [1855?]. Series: Vaterlandslieder / Chants patriotiques / Für das Pianoforte bearbeitet von Ferd. Beyer. No. 45. Folio (330 x 260 mm), bifolium (detached), [4] pages, the front with title and imprint and a colour design featuring a French tricolour …

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  • Fiji before Civilization ... Dawn of Civilization ... Advance of Civilization ... Glorious Result of Civilization

    # 15593

    Maker unknown.

    Fiji before Civilization … Dawn of Civilization … Advance of Civilization … Glorious Result of Civilization

    [Crystal Palace, London : Machinery Department, c.1879]. Cotton handkerchief, 570 x 580 mm, lithograph printed in brown and red; old fold lines and some insignificant toning and spotting; a very well preserved example. These satirical cotton handkerchiefs lampooning the effects of the introduction of Western civilisation into a “primitive” society in the South Seas were printed in colour in the machinery …

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  • [MARQUESAS] Ueber den Ursprung des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Staatsform in den Südsee-Inseln, und zwar auf der Insel Nuckahiwah, einer der Washington-Inseln. 

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    TILESIUS VON TILENAU, Wilhelm Gottlieb (1769-1857)

    [MARQUESAS] Ueber den Ursprung des bürgerlichen Lebens und der Staatsform in den Südsee-Inseln, und zwar auf der Insel Nuckahiwah, einer der Washington-Inseln. 

    pp 133-168 in: Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pőlitz (editor), Jahrbücher der Geschichte und Staatskunst : eine Monatsschrift. Leipzig : Hinrichs, May, 1828. Octavo (215 x 130 mm), original printed wrappers, pp 113-224, partially uncut; with folio size folding lithographic plate of Marquesan tattoo designs at rear; a fine copy. Text in German in Fraktur. The German naturalist and explorer …

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  • Studio portrait of Melanesian missionary John Richardson Selwyn. Auckland, New Zealand, early 1870s.

    # 33507

    PULMAN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO [PULMAN, Elizabeth]

    Studio portrait of Melanesian missionary John Richardson Selwyn. Auckland, New Zealand, early 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 64 mm (mount), recto of mount imprinted in bottom margin ‘Photographed by G. Pulman [i.e. Elizabeth Pulman], Auckland’; verso blank; both the albumen print and the mount are in very good condition. ‘John Richardson Selwyn (1844-1898) was an Anglican priest who became the second Bishop of Melanesia and then the second Master of Selwyn …

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  • [EASTER ISLAND] La herencia musical de Rapanui : etnomusicologia de la Isla de Pascua

    # 21143

    CAMPBELL, Ramón

    [EASTER ISLAND] La herencia musical de Rapanui : etnomusicologia de la Isla de Pascua

    Santiago de Chile : Editorial Andrés Bello, 1971. First edition. Large octavo, pictorial wrappers (edges chipped), 594 pp, plus staple-bound abstract in English (10 pp, rear poket), illustrated with black and whitew and colour photographic plates and line drawings in the text, musical notation, bibliography; a very good copy. Scarce. An important study of the …

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  • Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    # 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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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Ukulele dream girl.

    # 32642

    LOW, Reg (words & music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Ukulele dream girl.

    Words & music by Reg. Low. Arrangement for ‘banjulele’ banjo and ukulele by Kel Keech. Cover: A new haunting Hawaiian fox-trot song. Sung by Iza Crossley and Jock Thompson of Pat Hanna’s “Diggers” Costume Comedy Co. / Featured by Queenie & David Kaili with Kaai’s Hawaiian Troubadors / Delightfully featured by Jack Blake on Columbia …

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  • Melanesia : Art and Encounter

    # 32748

    BOLTON, Lissant (and others, editors)

    Melanesia : Art and Encounter

    Edited by Lissant Bolton, Nicholas Thomas, Elizabeth Bonshek, Julie Adams and Ben Burt. London : The British Museum Press, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 384, illustrated. New copy. The British Museum’s uniquely important Melanesian collection is pre-eminent among early collections, and the 20,000 items it comprises are core to understanding the cultures of the …

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  • Royal Princess's Theatre, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday! Or Harlequin King Hoop-de-Dooden-Doo & the Savages of the Desolate Island.

    # 31950

    ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, EDINBURGH; [BYRON, Henry J.]

    Royal Princess’s Theatre, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh. Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday! Or Harlequin King Hoop-de-Dooden-Doo & the Savages of the Desolate Island.

    The Overture and Music Composed, Selected, and Arranged by Mr R. B. Stewart. The whole produced under the entire direction of Mr J. W. Kimber, and Personal Supervision of Mr W. Paterson … … Edinburgh : [s.n.], 1864 [5 – 30 January]. Playbill, 760 x 255 mm; lithograph printed recto only, with an illustration by …

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  • Studio portrait of three Kanak men, one holding a human skull. New Caledonia, late 1870s.

    # 31394

    DUFTY, Walter Frederick (1854-1919)

    Studio portrait of three Kanak men, one holding a human skull. New Caledonia, late 1870s.

    Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 106 x 63 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘W. Dufty & Cie., Photographes, Noumea, N. C.’; the print is a little pale but is in good condition, as is the mount. Walter Dufty, one of four English-born brothers who were pioneers of photography in the islands …

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  • Voyages chez les peuples sauvages, ou l’homme de la nature : histoire des peuples sauvages des deux continens et des naturels des isles de la mer du Sud.

    # 31177

    RICHARD, Jérôme; [Babié de Bercenay, François, 1761-ca. 1830, editor]

    Voyages chez les peuples sauvages, ou l’homme de la nature : histoire des peuples sauvages des deux continens et des naturels des isles de la mer du Sud.

    Paris : Laurens aîné, 1808. Second edition. Three volumes, octavo, contemporary calf-backed papered boards (rubbed), spines with contrasting leather labels lettered and numbered in gilt, hinges a little weakened, pp xxxi, 464; 566; 480; illustrated with engraved plates; second volume with mild water stain at centre margin of first few leaves (not affecting legibility of …

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  • [LA PEROUSE] Voyage de M. de Lesseps du Kamtschatka en France

    # 31173

    [LESSEPS, Jean-Baptiste Barthélemy de]

    [LA PEROUSE] Voyage de M. de Lesseps du Kamtschatka en France

    avec une préface par Ferdinand de Lesseps. Paris : Maurice Dreyfous, [ca.1860]. Octavo (190 x 120 mm), pictorial gilt red cloth boards (fine and bright), all edges gilt; 248 pp, illustrated with 11 engravings; third plate (Kamtschatka volcano) has a 40 mm tear at fore-edge, occasional light foxing, but an excellent example. Scarce. Jean-Baptiste Barthélemy …

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  • Copper halfpenny token for Robert Heslop, dealer in natural curiosities, Finsbury Square, London, 1790s.

    # 30262

    HESLOP, Robert

    Copper halfpenny token for Robert Heslop, dealer in natural curiosities, Finsbury Square, London, 1790s.

    London : Robert Heslop, n.d. [c.1795]. Æ halfpenny, diameter 29.7 mm. Obverse: A male contortionist and a monkey. Around the perimeter: CAN YOU DO SO. Reverse: An inscription on six lines THE FIRST SHOP IN LONDON FOR NATURAL CURIOSITYS PAINTINGS COINS COLOURS FOR ARTISTS &c. Around the perimeter: R. HESLOP NO. 86 CHISWELL STREET FINSBURY …

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