New Guinea

  • [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Buki tabu lowaenei : Nugana, Si apwesa, Loina, Ruta, Esiteri, Salamo, Isaia, Iona.

    # 34530

    British and Foreign Bible Society.

    [NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Buki tabu lowaenei : Nugana, Si apwesa, Loina, Ruta, Esiteri, Salamo, Isaia, Iona.

    [=Old Testament. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Ruth, Esther, Psalms, Isaiah, and Jonah in Dobu]. London : British and Foreign Bible Society, 1919. Octavo (210 x 140 mm), original limp black roan, spine titled in gilt, 361 pp; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. Dobu (or …

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  • [NEW GUINEA; CATHOLIC MISSIONS] Massacre at Woodlark Island, (of crew and passengers of brig "Gazelle.")

    # 34022

    New South Wales. Legislative Assembly.

    [NEW GUINEA; CATHOLIC MISSIONS] Massacre at Woodlark Island, (of crew and passengers of brig “Gazelle.”)

    Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to be printed, 27 February, 1857. Sydney : Government printer, 1857. Foolscap folio, string bound, pp [1], 15; marginal water damage at top edges, else fine. ‘Return to an Address from the Honorable the Legislative Assembly, dated 10 February, 1857, requesting that His Excellency the Governor General would be pleased …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local "workboys", Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.

    # 33738

    Photographer unknown.

    [NEW GUINEA] Australian District Officers Linehan and Ryan with local “workboys”, Manus Island (former German New Guinea), circa 1916.

    Two sepia tone gelatin silver print photographs on card stock, in identical 88 x 140 mm format, one with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil verso ‘W. O. Linehan, Lt. Ryan & some native workboys at Manus’; both in excellent condition. In 1916 Australian soldiers Warrant Officer N. C. Linehan and Lieutenant Harold Ryan were …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Art styles of the Papuan Gulf. (Ian Hogbin's copy, inscribed by Douglas Newton)

    # 33975

    NEWTON, Douglas (1920-2001)

    [NEW GUINEA] Art styles of the Papuan Gulf. (Ian Hogbin’s copy, inscribed by Douglas Newton)

    New York : Museum of Primitive Art, 1961. First edition. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher’s pictorial black papered boards printed in white (corners bumped, spine with a few small abrasions), a significant association copy, the front free-endpaper with the ownership signature of Australian anthropologist Ian Hogbin, inscribed below by the author, renowned ethnographer and …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] La Nouvelle-Guinée : IIIe notice : le fleuve Augusta

    # 34010

    BONAPARTE, Roland Napoléon, 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano (1858-1924)

    [NEW GUINEA] La Nouvelle-Guinée : IIIe notice : le fleuve Augusta

    Paris : Imprimé pour l’auteur, Mars 1887. Large octavo (235 x 180 mm), original printed stiff wrappers (unevenly sunned, old wet stamp of the Royal Society of Edinburgh to front); pp viii, [1 blank], 16, with a folding colour map at rear; text in French; internally fine, a very good copy. A work on the …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] The 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, Papua.

    # 33980

    TAYLOR, G. A.

    [NEW GUINEA] The 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington, Papua.

    Canberra : Government Printer, 1958. “Bulletin Number 38 of the Department of National Development, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics”. Quarto (250 x 180 mm), printed green wrappers (spine and edges sunned), pp [iv], 115, plus 157 illustrations and plates (including 9 folding data charts and maps), errata slip tipped-in on inside front wrapper; …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Mountains, gold and cannibals

    # 34006

    BOOTH, Doris R. (Regina) (1895-1970)

    [NEW GUINEA] Mountains, gold and cannibals

    Sydney : Cornstalk Publishing Company, 1929. First edition. Octavo (205 x 140 mm), publisher’s patterned blue cloth lettered in navy (rubbed, spine sunned and marked), front free-endpaper with early gift inscription, frontispiece photographic portrait of the author, xix, 203 pp, index, numerous b/w photographic plates; glossary of pidgin-English terms; occasional light foxing, otherwise clean and …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Plumes from paradise : trade cycles in outer Southeast Asia and their impact on New Guinea and nearby islands until 1920.

    # 34083

    SWADLING, Pamela

    [NEW GUINEA] Plumes from paradise : trade cycles in outer Southeast Asia and their impact on New Guinea and nearby islands until 1920.

    / Pamela Swadling. With contributions by Roy Wagner and Billai Laba. Boroko : Papua New Guinea National Museum in association with Robert Brown & Associates (Qld) Pty Ltd, 1996. First edition. Small quarto (270 x 195 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards in the original dust jacket; pp 352, profusely illustrated with colour and b/w plates; maps, …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Ocean and isle. (First edition, signed by the author)

    # 34015

    GEIL, William Edgar (1865-1925)

    [NEW GUINEA] Ocean and isle. (First edition, signed by the author)

    Melbourne : Wm. T. Pater & Co., 1902. First edition. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher’s maroon cloth over boards with gilt-lettered spine (a few light marks, spine ends softened), patterned endpapers, first blank with a Biblical quote (Luke 19:13) inscribed by the author in ink and with his signature beneath in pencil, frontispiece photographic …

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  • [NEW GUINEA; GOLD MINING] Ok Tedi : the pot of gold

    # 34232

    JACKSON, Richard

    [NEW GUINEA; GOLD MINING] Ok Tedi : the pot of gold

    Boroko, PNG : The University of Papua New Guinea, [c.1980]. Octavo (210 mm), pictorial card covers, 200 pp, illustrated with 16 pp of colour and b/w photos, maps, index; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. ‘The dramatic story of the Ok Tedi gold/copper …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Recent prehistory in Southeast Papua

    # 34234

    EGLOFF, Brian

    [NEW GUINEA] Recent prehistory in Southeast Papua

    Canberra : Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1979. Series: Terra Australis 4. Foolscap folio (290 x 210 mm), pictorial stiff wrappers, pp xvi, 164; photographic and line-drawn illustrations, maps; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front endpaper. ‘Terra Australis …

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  • The trader : a venture in New Guinea

    # 34013

    ROSS-JOHNSON, Cecil

    The trader : a venture in New Guinea

    London : Duckworth & Co, 1909. First edition. Crown octavo (195 x 130 mm), publisher’s red cloth (very lightly marked) with lettering and pictorial device in black, spine lettered in gilt (sunned), pp 301, 2 maps; a very good copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. Scarce …

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  • The Australian frontier in New Guinea 1870-1885

    # 34012

    GORDON, Donald Craigie

    The Australian frontier in New Guinea 1870-1885

    New York : Columbia University Press, 1951. First edition. Series: Studies in history, economics and public law. Edited by the Faculty of Political Science of Columbia University. Number 562. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), publisher’s green cloth over boards with gilt-lettered spine; frontispiece folding map, pp 301; a fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of …

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  • Pastels from the Pacific

    # 34151

    LENWOOD, Frank

    Pastels from the Pacific

    London (etc.) : Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917. First edition. Small square quarto (215 x 175 mm), publisher’s decorated cloth over boards; pp xii, 224; illustrated with 41 plates, many reproducing the author’s pastel drawings (12 in colour), but also including numerous b/w photographic plates; one small map (p. 128) and a large folding …

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  • [NEW GUINEA] Nya Guinea färden

    # 34005

    LANDTMAN, Gunnar (1878-1940)

    [NEW GUINEA] Nya Guinea färden

    Helsingfors [Helsinki] : Söderstrom & Co., 1919. Second edition. Octavo (230 x 160 mm), publisher’s gilt-decorated brown cloth over boards (bright and unrubbed), marbled endpapers, [2], 222 pp, photographic illustrations and text figures, map; text in Swedish; an exceptionally fine copy; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free-endpaper. …

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  • [TORRES STRAIT; PAPUAN GULF] Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Volume II. December 10, 1913.

    # 34355

    HAMLYN-HARRIS, R. (editor)

    [TORRES STRAIT; PAPUAN GULF] Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. Volume II. December 10, 1913.

    Brisbane : Queensland Museum, 1913. Small quarto (245 x 185 mm), original printed green wrappers with old paper reinforcement along spine,   pp 38, with 17 full-page b/w photographic plates of ethnographic artefacts (a stone “god” from Darnley Island, Torres Strait; Papuan Gulf masks and headdresses; Queensland bullroarers) which accompany essays by Hamlyn-Harris (Director of …

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