Pacific

  • [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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  • Memoir of Thomas Hamitah Patoo : a native of the Marquesas Islands, who died June 19, 1823, while a member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut.

    # 34378

    [PAGE, Harlan]

    Memoir of Thomas Hamitah Patoo : a native of the Marquesas Islands, who died June 19, 1823, while a member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut.

    New York : American Tract Society, 144 Nassau-street, [1829]. At foot of wrapper title: Series IV., no. 1. Duodecimo (132 x 85 mm), illustrated yellow wrappers, stitch bound; original owner’s name (Charles A. Pierce, Groton, Mass.) to both sides of the upper wrapper; lower wrapper with publisher’s advertisement and Fanshaw, printer at foot; pp 36, …

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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. 

    # 10668

    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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  • L’art autochtone de Nouvelle-Calédonie.

    # 33732

    GUIART, Jean

    L’art autochtone de Nouvelle-Calédonie.

    [Nouvelle-Caledonie] : Éditions des Études Mélanésiennes, [1953]. Octavo, publisher’s illustrated wrappers, 49 pp, illustrated with 27 plates (2 colour), line drawings in the text, folding colour map, bibliography; a fine copy. Text in French. An important and scarce reference work on the indigenous art of New Caledonia.

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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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  • 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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  • Fares & Sailings. Hawaii - New Zealand - Australia

    # 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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  • The South Seas book

    # 33811

    REASON, Joyce (editor)

    The South Seas book

    London : Livingstone Press, 1946. Small quarto, illustrated papered boards (edges slightly rubbed, lightly bowed), presentation bookplate from the London Missionary Society to Iris Pepper on the front free endpaper, pp. 96, illustrated. A book for children about the missionary activities in the South Sea islands, with descriptions of local people and their customs, including …

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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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  • Christie's South Kensington. Tribal art. For sale by auction. Tuesday, June 24, 1986 at 10.30 a.m.

    # 34263

    CHRISTIE'S SOUTH KENSINGTON LTD.

    Christie’s South Kensington. Tribal art. For sale by auction. Tuesday, June 24, 1986 at 10.30 a.m.

    London : Christie’s South Kensington Ltd., 1986. Small square quarto, colour pictorial wrappers, staple bound; pp 25, [5]; descriptions of 348 lots, approximately 50 of which are illustrated in b/w; Australian Aboriginal, Maori, New Guinea, Micronesian, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, New Caledonian, Fijian, Indonesian, Native American, and West African artefacts and historical photographs; a good …

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  • History of the Sandwich Islands

    # 33864

    DIBBLE, Sheldon (1809 - 1845)

    History of the Sandwich Islands

    Lahainaluna : Press of the Mission Seminary, 1843. Octavo, full calf with flat panelled spine, ruled in gilt with contrasting morocco title label, gilt lettering (the binding with edge wear, recently polished, joints expertly repaired), posthumous bookplate (dated 1912) for the library of distinguished Hawaiian businessman and diplomat Henry Alpheus Pierce Carter (1837 – 1891) …

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  • [HAWAII; CALIFORNIA] Viaggio intorno al globo principalmente alla California ed alle isole Sandwich negli anni 1826, 1827, 1828 e 1829

    # 33504

    DUHAUT-CILLY, Auguste Bernard (1790-1849)

    [HAWAII; CALIFORNIA] Viaggio intorno al globo principalmente alla California ed alle isole Sandwich negli anni 1826, 1827, 1828 e 1829

    di A. Duhaut-Cilly con l’aggiunta delle osservazioni degli abitanti di quei paesi di Paolo Emilio Botta ; traduzione dal francese nell’ italiano di Carlo Botta. Torino : Stabilimento Tipografico Fontana, 1841. First Italian edition. (Note: although the imprint on the bindings is dated 1843, the title pages of both volumes have the date 1841). Two …

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  • Westminster Abbey. Order of service of Thanksgiving and Dedication to Commemorate the Independence of the Kingdom of Tonga. Thursday 4 June 1970 at 10.30 a.m.

    # 33630

    Westminster Abbey. Order of service of Thanksgiving and Dedication to Commemorate the Independence of the Kingdom of Tonga. Thursday 4 June 1970 at 10.30 a.m.

    Hove, Sussex : The Hove Shirley Press, 1970. Octavo (240 mm), self-wrappers, stapled, 12 pp; small mark to front, else fine.

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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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  • Aboriginal and Oceanic decorative art

    # 33779

    RYAN, Judith et al.

    Aboriginal and Oceanic decorative art

    Melbourne, Vic. : National Gallery of Victoria, 1980. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 56, illustrated. Foreword by Judith Ryan. Aboriginal and Oceanic decorative art : travelling art exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, 28 Feb.- 28 Mar., touring Victorian country centres 1 Apr.- 15 Dec. 1980 / introduction by J. Davidson. Includes detailed descriptions of the Manggalili …

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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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