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Map of Part of South East New Guinea embracing its Northern and Southern Waters: compiled from surveys and explorations made by the Government of British New Guinea, from the Admiralty charts and from the explorations of Messrs. H.O. Forbes, F.R.G.S., and W.R. Cuthbertson
by Forbes H.O.; Cuthbertson, W.R.
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- 1889
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Brisbane: Queensland. Surveyor General's Office, 1889. First printing. Two sheet map, of which the NLA has only the right hand sheet with the title, part of the Daisy Bates collection of maps.
This map focuses on the southern coast including the capital Port Moresby, with the northern regions left mostly blank. There are four inset drawings of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mappe-monde ou description du globe terrestre, assujettie aux observations astronomiques par le Sr. Janvier Geographe. Avec privilege du Roi. 1762
by Janvier, Jean
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- 1762
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€706.88
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Paris: Lattre, 1762. Otherwise very good condition. Engraved double hemisphere outline color map printed on the eve of Captain Cook's momentous first voyage of discovery.
The map still incorporates the French imagined east coast to New Holland. Note that North America has an original green color wash, and shows the Great North West Coast Inland Sea.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Asia
by Hondius
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- 1637
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€212.06
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London: Hondius, 1637. Map. Very good condition. Attractive small copper engraved map centering on Asia. China, Japan, Corea (as an island), Java Major, Borneo, Mundanoa, Gilolo, Luconia, India, Arabia, Russia & Armenia. Copper engraved, 7 1/2 x 6", with margins, printed on laid paper. Text on the verso in English "Asia, and the Provinces and Cities of Trade… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Volume 38, 1911, July - Dec
by Royal Geographical Society. Gregory, J. W., Rawling, C. G., Nordenskjold, O., Lee, Ida
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- 1911
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London, 1911. Hardcover. Important volume of the RGS journal including important content on Australia, Antarctica and New Guinea: Canning's Expeditions in Western Australia, The Flowing Wells of Central Australia by J. W. Gregory (2 articles); Maps: Sketch Map of Northeastern Australia, Sketch-map of the Murray and Darling rivers; Exploration in Dutch New Guinea by C. G. Rawling; Antarctic Nature… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Volume 38, 1911, July - Dec
by Gregory, J. W., Rawling, C. G., Nordenskjold, O., Lee, Ida
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London: Royal Geographical Society, 1911. Hardcover. Important volume of the RGS journal including important content on Australia, Antarctica and New Guinea, such as: Canning's Expeditions in Western Australia, The Flowing Wells of Central Australia by J. W. Gregory (2 articles); Maps: Sketch Map of Northeastern Australia, Sketch-map of the Murray and Darling rivers; Exploration in Dutch New Guinea by… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cassell's Picturesque Australasia, With Original Illustrations. 4 volumes in 2
by Morris, E. E., ed
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- 1890
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London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1890. Hardcover. Very good overall. Much important material on Australia contained in these 4 profusely illustrated volumes bound in two. Includes Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Hobart, Gold, Adelaide, Ballarat, Eureka Stockade, Bush Life, explorers, Rockhampton, Western Australia, Aborigines, land explorations, and more. Also includes Fiji, New Guinea, and New Zealand.
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Real photo postcard of two Papua New Guinea tribesmen
by [New Guinea]
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- 1920
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1920. Very good overall. One b&w split back post card with image of two New Guinea hunters holding bows and arrows, wearing decorated chestplates, and one with shells at his waist and a nautilus shell in his bowhand.
Not stamped but addressed to Miss Helen Loenstein in New York City. 3.5 x 5.5", b&w, one corner… Read more about this item Item Price
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Papuan Pictures
by Dauncey, H. M.
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- 1913
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London: London Missionary Society, 1913. Hardcover. Very good condition. New Guinea native life, from games to school, feasting, etc. Meggitt copy; Meggitt was a noted Australian anthropologist, recognized for his research on Papua New Guinea and Aboriginal Australia.
8vo, viii, 184pp, color frontispiece, 3 color plates, b&w plates in text. Green pictorial stamped cloth; boards slightly sunned.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Original Frank Hurley large silver tone Photograph of New Guinea, main street of Mailu Village
by [New Guinea] Hurley, Frank
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- 1923
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1923. Very good condition. Original publicity photograph by James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) the Australian photographer, filmmaker and writer known for his Antarctic photographs, including the destruction of Ernest Shackleton's ship 'Endurance'. Hurley undertook two long expeditions to the Torres Strait and New Guinea between 1920 and 1923. From this, he developed a successful anthropological film, 'Pearls and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ozeanische Kunst
by Schmitz, Carl A; F. L. Kenett
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- First German edition
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- 1962
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Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1962. First German edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Folio, (xv), 32 plts. Pictorial hard board covers, lower corners bumped, o/w g+ cond. Item Price
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Australia and New Guinea Photograph Albums by "The Vagabond"
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- 1938
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1938. Very good condition. Two unusually artistic photograph albums filled with collage photographic images of New South Wales, the South coast, and New Guinea. Adorned with poetry, philosophy, wit and wisdom, and the author's personal commentary written in gold ink to accompany the photographs of a man identifying himself as 'The Vagabond', in his travels through Australia and… Read more about this item Item Price
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In the Land of Pearl and Gold. A Pioneer's Wanderings in the Backblocks and Pearling Grounds of Australia and New Guinea
by Macdonald, Alexander
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- 1907
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€23.56
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London: Blackie & Son, 1907. Hardcover. Good +. Original publisher's decorated blue cloth, spine sunned, front endpaper missing. Scattered foxing. Item Price
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Transformation Scene. The Changing Culture of a New Guinea Village
by Hogbin, H. Ian
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- 1951
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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Proofread copy, by Mervyn Meggitt, with his signature at front free end paper, and, in the same pen, corrections and annotations. Meggitt was a noted Australian anthropologist, recognized for his research on Papua New Guinea and Aboriginal Australia.
Summary of the effects of German, Japanese… Read more about this item Item Price
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In the Land of the Golden Plume. A Tale of Adventure
by Johnstone, David Lawson
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- 1894
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London: Chambers, 1894. Hardcover. Good +. Set in North Queensland & Papua New Guinea. Muir 3809 cites Muir copy only. 312pp + 32pp ads, b&w frontis + 5 b&w plates by W. S. Stacey. Pic cloth covers with beautiful Bird of Paradise, marked & rubbed at extremes. Lacks front free endpaper. Item Price
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![Merou Mille-Etoiles, Merou Mouchete, Merou Gaimard, Merou Boelang. [Stipple engraving of fish from the South Pacific]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/589/437/822437589.0.m.1.jpg)
Merou Mille-Etoiles, Merou Mouchete, Merou Gaimard, Merou Boelang. [Stipple engraving of fish from the South Pacific]
by [Dumont D'Urville] Bevalet pinx; Schmel sc
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- 1835
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Paris: Remond, 1835. Very good overall. Exquisite stipple engraving of fish discovered on Dumont D'Urville's "Voyage de l'Astrolabe -- Zoologie". The French voyages in this period benefited from the French expansive world view, that saw artists & scientists accompanying the sailors on French voyages of exploration, recording scientific detail and assembling natural history collections. Jules Dumont D'Urville visited… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Confluence of Powers: Entropy and Importation Among the Chambri
by Errington, Frederick & Deborah Gewertz
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- 1986
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€14.14
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Oceania, 1986. Paperback. Very good. Oceania, 57, 1986. pp99-113, initialed by one author, stapled. Item Price
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Tambu: A Primitive Shell Money
by Epstein, A.L.
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- 1963
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Discovery, 1963. Paperback. Very good. Extracted from: Discovery, Vol. XXVI, No. 12, Dec. 1963. Large 4to, pp28-32, b&w ills in text, pic paper wrps, stapled. Item Price
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Plant Classification and Nomenclature in Ndumba, Papua New Guinea Highlands
by Hays, Terence E.
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- 1979
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Ethnology, 1979. Paperback. Very good. Signed by author,. Reprinted from: Ethnology, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, July 1979. pp253-270, b&w figures & tables in text, stapled. Item Price
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The Papuas of Waropen
by Held, G.J.
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- 1957
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€65.98
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The Hague: Nijhoff, 1957. Hardcover. Very good. An important study written in 1942 & held throughout WWII as a manuscript in a prison camp. (xvi) 384 pp, 33 plts & 2 maps. Green gilt cloth, spine lt. sunned, o/w vg cond. Spine starting & stain on title page. Item Price
€65.98
Papua New Guinea. Nation in the Making
by Gordon, Robert J.
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- 1982
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€11.31
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National Geographic, 1982. Paperback. Very good. Vol. 162, No. 2, August 1982. pp141-171, orig. printed wrps. disband, stapled. Item Price
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