New Zealand
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![[NEW ZEALAND] De nagemaakte wilden](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/02/04143408/2016_DSFB_5231-224x300.jpg)
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PELLERIN & CIE.
[NEW ZEALAND] De nagemaakte wilden
[=The Counterfeit Savages]. Paris : Pellerin & Cie., [c.1902]. Series: Épinal no. 45. Lithographed print with hand colouring, folio sheet (400 x 295 mm); a graphic narrative with 16 illustrations; text in Dutch; unmounted; fine. This Épinal print, originally issued around 1850, tells the story of a sideshow attraction in which two young men con …
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![[MAORI] Children brought to Christ. = Ka mau-ria nga ta-ma-ri-ki ki Te Ka-rai-ti.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/07/03144139/2020_DSFB_4717-300x300.jpg)
# 26476
[JONES, William]
[MAORI] Children brought to Christ. = Ka mau-ria nga ta-ma-ri-ki ki Te Ka-rai-ti.
[Sydney, N.S.W. : Jones, Printer, Bridge Street, c.1833]. Broadsheet, 450 x 390 mm, letterpress printed; old horizontal and vertical crease, pale foxing, a very good example. Text in English and Māori. A rare broadside printed around 1833 by William Jones of Bridge Street, Sydney, for use in Church Missionary Society schools. It is a lesson …
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![Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2020/07/03144202/2020_DSFB_4720-300x300.jpg)
# 26492
JONES, William (printer)
Morning Prayer [and] Evening Prayer.
Sydney : [William] Jones, Printer, Bridge-street, [circa 1835]. Pair of broadsides, each 450 x 390 mm, printed on letterpress; both examples with an old central horizontal fold and toning, the Morning Prayer sheet with some insect damage around the fold and at top right corner (no loss of text); both unmounted. These rare companion broadsides were …
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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.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16163345/2015_DSFB_1551-186x300.jpg)
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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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![[NEW GUINEA] Ocean and isle. (First edition, signed by the author)](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/02/11120351/2022_DSFB_0835-300x300.jpg)
# 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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# 32899
HUDSON, G. V. (George Vincent)
An elementary manual of New Zealand entomology.
/ Being an introduction to the study of our native insects. With 21 coloured plates. London : West, Newman, & Co., 1892. First edition. Octavo (225 mm), publisher’s navy cloth over boards (rubbed and with a few light marks), spine lettered in gilt; offsetting to endpapers, front free-endpaper with early ownership signature; 128 pp, illustrated …
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# 33832
MATSON LINES
Fares & Sailings. Hawaii – New Zealand – Australia
San Francisco : Matson Line, 1938. Quarto, folded in half to narrow octavo, self-wrappers, pp. [16], schedules of sailings from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Honolulu, with itineraries of Pacific cruises visiting Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Suva, etc. Usefully, the regulations included also give detail of what discounted fares may be applied to one’s servants …
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# 33880
COWAN, James
The Maori
[Wellington?] : New Zealand Government Publicity Production, 1928. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (foxed, silverfished), string bound, pp. [32], photographically illustrated, light foxing.
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# 33623
GILFILLAN, John Gordon (1839-1875), attributed
Lamb Hill, Wanganui. From nearly north east.
Wood engraving, 165 x 230 mm (image), 200 x 260 mm (sheet); titled in the image Lamb Hill Wanganui, with subtitle in contemporary manuscript From nearly north east; initialled in the image lower left J.G.G.; light edge wear, else very good condition; unmounted. An early wood-engraved view of the first Lamb Hill homestead, Warrengate, done around 1865 by …
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# 33869
POUCHET, F. A. (1800-1872)
The Universe : or, the infinitely great and the infinitely little. (Presentation binding of Auckland College, New Zealand).
Illustrated by 343 engravings on wood and four coloured plates. From drawings by A. Faguet, Mesnel, Emile Bayard, and J. Stewart. London : Blackie & Son, 1875. New edition, embodying the author’s latest improvements. Thick octavo, presentation binding from Auckland College & Grammar School, New Zealand, gilt stamp on upper board, full polished calf, ruled …
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# 13842
EYMERY, Désirée
Le tour du monde pittoresque
Paris : Désirée Eymery, n.d. [c.1838]. Oblong octavo, contemporary plain card covers with early calligraphic manuscript title and ownership signature to front (ink marks and some staining), engraved title page, pp 78 (but appears to lack a small number of pages from [79]), [9] engraved plates each with four illustrations of peoples in traditional costume …
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# 33506
ROBLEY, Horatio Gordon (1840-1930) (artist); MONKTON, Charles Henry (1840-1890)
Gateway of Maketu Pa
[Title from inscription on mount]. [Wanganui : C. H. Monkton, circa 1865]. Albumen print photograph of a watercolour sketch by Horatio Gordon Robley, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘London Photographic Company, C. H. Monkton, Manager’; both the albumen print and the mount are in very good condition; …
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# 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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# 33427
LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY
John Williams ships : 100 years at sea. A service commemorating the LMS ship centenary, 1844-1944.
At foot of title: A leaflet for Sunday School teachers and leaders. London : LMS, 1944. Single sheet (190 x 375 mm), folding to 190 x 125 mm, [6] pp, illustrated front; a fine copy. In all, (up until the last was decommissioned in 1968) seven incarnations of the London Missionary Society ship John Williams carried …
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# 33340
WHARTON, Captain W. J. L.
Captain Cook’s journal during his first voyage round the world made in H. M. Bark “Endeavour” 1768 – 71.
A literal transcription of the original MSS. With notes and introduction. Illustrated by maps and facsimiles. London : Elliot Stock, 1893. Large octavo, publisher’s green cloth (hinges strengthened), armorial bookplate of George Herbert Wailes to front pastedown, fore and lower edges uncut, pp. lvi; 400; maps and plates, including three large folding charts in rear …
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# 26885
THOMPSON, Sergt. E. H.
Light diet : a collection of caricatures & sketches
London : New Zealand War Records, [1918]. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (stained and edge worn), pp. [44], illustrated. Cover subtitle: 150 caricatures and sketches perpetrated by a New Zealand artist in and out of hospital. Satirical caricatures of military personalities.