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# 30340

SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed)

[TAHITI] The Diadem taken from the top of Mount Aorai, circa 1885

Albumen print, 107 x 166 mm, verso wet stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: ‘The Diadem taken from the top of Aorai’; unmounted, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs of Tahiti, the Marquesas and …

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# 30341

SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed)

[TAHITI] Papeete from the Signal House, circa 1885

Albumen print, 128 x 216 mm, verso wet stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with a fully contemporary pencilled caption: ‘Papeete from Signal House, right side’; unmounted; a strong print with rich tonal range, in good condition with some very light creasing. Provenance: Found loose at the rear of an album of photographs …

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# 30685

Esménard, J. (Joseph), 1767-1811

[LA PEROUSE] La navigation : poëme

Half-title: La navigation, poëme en six chants, avec des notes historiques et géographiques. A Paris : Chez Giguet et Michaud, 1806. Second edition. Octavo, fine contemporary full speckled calf with gilt borders, spine with gilt decoration and brown morocco label with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece (arrival of Cleopatra at Tarsus), xiv, 412 pp, …

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# 30687

SAUVIN, Georges

[HAWAII] Un royaume polynésien. Îles Hawaï

Paris : E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie., 1893. Octavo, colour printed pale blue wrappers, 321 pp, folding map. A lovely copy. A French visitor’s impressions and analysis of Hawaiian society.

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# 29593

VON TILZER, Albert (music); BROWN, Lew (words)

[SHEET MUSIC] Oh gee! Say gee! You ought to see my gee gee from the Fiji isle! : song fox-trot

/ written by Lew Brown ; composed by Albert Von Tilzer. Cover: Sung by Leyland Hodgson in Harry G. Musgrove’s Tivoli show, ‘All the winners’. Sydney : J. Albert & Son, [1920]. Folio (340 mm), disbound, illustrated wrappers with idealised depiction of an exotic dancer from the South Seas and vignette illustration of Leyland Hodgson; 5 pp, …

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# 29335

CHAUVET, Stéphen

[EASTER ISLAND] L’Ile de Pâques et ses mystères. (Original prospectus)

Paris : Editions Tel, 1935. Bifolium, 270 x 135 mm, [4] pp, text in French printed on all sides, with 3 photographic illustrations of an archaic wooden statue in profile and a stone statue (front and rear views) both in the collection of the British Museum; front with ‘Septembre’ crossed out and wet stamped ‘Octobre’ …

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# 29058

Anon.

The cyclopedia of Fiji (illustrated).

Published under the patronage of His Excellence the Governor of Fiji, the Administrative and Legislature of the Colony and the Wardens and Town Councils of Suva and Levuka. A complete historical and commercial review of Fiji. An epitome of progress. A compendium of statistics and data concerning the group never yet compiled or brought together …

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# 29208

UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND, LTD.

Islands of the South Seas : Society Islands (Tahiti), Cook Islands (Rarotonga), Fiji Islands, Tongan Islands, Samoan Islands, Hawaii.

[Dunedin, N.Z.?] : The Company, n.d. [c1925]. Small quarto, 230 x 205 mm, designed to be folded in half, pictorial wrappers, 15 pp, magenta-toned photographic illustrations, map; a fine copy. Beautifully designed and well-illustrated Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand travel brochure for South Seas cruises. The National Library of Australia holds a copy …

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# 28162

SPITZ, Charles Georges (1857-1894)

Studio portrait of a tattooed Marquesan dancer.

[Circa 1887]. Albumen print photograph, 200 x 140 mm, unmounted; verso with fully contemporary caption in pencil: Marquesan dancer; a strong print with rich tonal range and excellent clarity and contrast; the print is in very good condition, with the tiniest of nicks at two of the corners and some insignificant light creasing to the …

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# 27241

KEYSSER, Christian (1877-1961)

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Ankunft und Anfangseindrücke in Neu-Guinea.

[=Arrival in and first impressions of New Guinea]. Palmer, Iowa : Missions-Hilfsverein, 1923. Series: Die offene Tür in Neu-Guinea, Nummer 2. Octavo (222 x 147 mm), publisher’s pictorial wrappers (chipped at top corner) with original owner’s name Bodensieck to front, stapled; pp 16, with several full-page photographic illustrations, lower wrapper with map; text in German, …

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# 26940

SPITZ Charles Georges (1857-1894); YOUNG, James Lyle (1849-1929), collector (attributed)

Atiu gathering. Cook Islands, circa 1885.

Albumen print, 170 x 215 mm, verso wet stamped ‘G. Spitz, Papeete, Tahiti, Photographie Instantanée’, and with pencilled captions in two different hands: ‘Atiu gathering (Cook Islands)’ and, probably slightly earlier in date than the larger caption, ‘The Himare [?] of the Atiu (Cook Islands)’; unmounted, loss at bottom corners, 50 mm vertical tear running …

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# 26941

Photographer unknown.

Mission house. Rarotonga, Cook Islands, circa 1890.

Albumen print, 190 x 235 mm, laid down on a nineteenth-century album page with slightly later caption in ink beneath the image ‘Mission House Raratonga [sic] 1890 (?)’; tiny amount of loss at top left corner, mild wrinkling, otherwise an unfaded print with nice tones.

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# 26813

COLE, William Washington (1847-1915)

South Sea Savages, or Maori War Dancers. The List including a Troupe of Genuine South-Sea Savages tattooed from head to foot, and faithfully giving The Great Maori War Dances.

[Advertised and illustrated on] A double-sided poster for W. W. Cole’s World-Famous, Five-Continent New Mammoth Circus, appearing at Binghamton, New York on Monday, April 24, 1882 (the location and date are wet stamped at foot of the verso). Buffalo, NY : The Courier Company Show Printing House [for W. W. Cole], [1882]. Lithograph printed in black …

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# 26921

TINDALE, Norman B.

Some polychrome incised pottery ware from Mt. Turu, New Guinea.

Adelaide : The Hassell Press, [1941]. Offprint from Records of the South Australian Museum, vol. VI, no. 4, February 28th, 1941. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), original printed buff wrappers, pp 357-362, with line-drawn text illustrations plus [2] full-page photographic plates; very short tear at top edges of leaves, else a good copy. A …

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# 25915

[HOARE, Sophia, photographer]; HODGES, William, 1744-1797 (artist); WEBBER, John, 1752-1793 (artist); BERNARD, Robert, 1734-1777 (engraver)

[COOK] Four nineteenth-century photographs of eighteenth-century engravings of Tahitian subjects.

Papeete, Tahiti : Mrs. Sophia Hoare, [between 1880 and 1889]. Four albumen print photographs of copperplate engravings, 130 x 203 mm (1. and 2.) / 167 x 130 mm (3.) / 110 x 210 mm (4.); unmounted; versos all with the wet stamp of ‘Mrs. S. Hoare, Photographer, Papeete, Tahiti’; (1.) and (2.) with mild …

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# 26915

STONE-WIGG, Montagu, Right Reverend

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] The Papuans : a people of the South Pacific.

By the Right Rev. Montagu John Stone-Wigg, M.A. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1898-1909). With later additions by the Right Rev. Henry Newton, D.D. (Bishop of New Guinea, 1922- ). Sydney : Australian Board of Missions, 1933. Second edition. Octavo, original printed paper wrappers, stapled, slightly worn, pp 76, photographic frontispiece and 3 full-page photographic illustrations, full-page …

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