Search Results: NEW GUINEA from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Brisbane: R.G.S. of Australasia, 1895. Paperback. Good + overall. Article pp 46-70, 3 plts, 1 colored plate of rock art. Also article "Kamilaroi Class System" by Mathews; Thomson, J.P. "A Survey of Recent Exploration in British New Guinea", 17pp; De Vis, C.W. "On the Word 'Kangaroo'", 10pp. Proc. & Trans. of the Queensland Branch of the R.G.S. of Australasia. 10th Session 1894-95. Vol. X. 8vo, iv + 144pp. 1 color fold-out plate. Grey paper wrapper w/ black printing on cover, spine crack, a little marked & mild exlib, slt. chipped.

Brisbane: Queensland Parliamentary Report, 1897. Good + overall. Largely reports on river exploration of New Guinea, most by Wm. Macgregor, the administrator of the territory, while on board the S.S. "Merrie England". One section on missions, and a 20pp appendix on native dialects. Folio, (xxxvi), 120pp, 3 maps (1 folding). Printed self wraps, stapled as issued, front cover detached. Trove 1053953.

Leiden: EJ Brill, 1920. Wraps. Good +. Followed by an Essay on the Anthropology of the Papuans. Ex- William K. Gregory copy, signed "With the compliments of Prof. G. Bolk". Lge 4to, 95pp, 4 b&w photographic plates, 3 maps, illus in text. Orig. pp wrps chipped at the edges, spine lacking, taped & labeled by the previous owner (Mervyn Meggitt). Some light pencilling, somewhat fragile binding. Rare piece.

UK: Shire Publications, 1988. Paperback. Very good. 72pp, b&w ills in text, vgc. Inscribed by the author to Mervyn Meggitt.

Paris: Musee de l'Homme, 1967. Paperback. Very good. 4to, pictorial stiff papered boards. Unpaginated, c. 175pp, b&w ills throughout, very slt. bumped o/w vgc.

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 Thereof". Very slt. browned at edges o/w vgc.

Antwerp: Plantin, 1574. Maps. Very good overall. The map of Asia from Ortelius' groundbreaking 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', considered the first modern geographical atlas, 'produced in thirty-one editions between 1570 and 1612' (David Parry: 'The Cartography of the East Indian Islands', 2005). Covering the area from the Middle East to Nova Guinea, with part of the coast line of Australia ('Terrae Incognitae Australis Pars') in the lower right corner. Based on Ortelius' own 1567 wall map of Asia, from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Van den Broecke Ort #6 "Occurrence in Theatrum editions and page number: 1574L3 (175 copies printed) (large page number, 11 mm, last line, centered like 2 lines above it: nem in maiori Tabula ante tres annos edidimus". It has the capital "F" in La Farfana, and the town "Ara" is still present above Aden. A total of only 1,675 of this edition were printed, compared to the more common Ort 7 edition. Image size:19 3/4 x 14 3/4". With an ornate cartouche and sailing ships. Latin… Read More

London: J. Arrowsmith, 1842. Inset of Singapore lower left, with descriptive text. 23 3/4 x 19 1/2". Original outline and wash color. Map centered on the Philippines and Indonesia, but includes Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Southern China, New Guinea and the north of Australia. Best sea routes to and from Hong Kong are given for Singapore, Straits of Sunda, Dampier Strait, Europe. Published 15 Feby. 1842. Sml. adhesion with lower margin with no text loss o/w good + condition.

London, 1811. Hardcover. Very good. Disbound from Pinkerton's Voyage, this is the Australasia section extracted. Includes the introduction by De Brosses, and the voyages of Francis Pelsart, Capt. Abel Jansen Tasman, and Capt. William Dampier; and a copper plate engraving, titled "Dory Harbour, New Guinea". Small 4to, pp 421-498, copper engraved plate. Rebound blue buckram, gilt title at spine; some fox spotting to margins of engraved plate and offsetting to facing plate.

New York: Columbia, 1951. Hardcover. Very good. 301pp, 1 map, green cloth, vgc.

Paperback. Royal Geographic Society, London Dec. 1961. 8vo, pp 427-435. (+) Holdgate, M. Man and Environment In the South Chilean Islands. pp 401-416. (+) Bird, E. The Coastal Barriers of East Gippsland, Australia. pp 460-468. (+) Brookfield, H. The Highland Peoples of New Guinea: A Study of Distribution and Localization. pp 436-448, w/ fold-out map. Ills in text. Orig. blue wrps, a bit ruffled and marked o/w g+.

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 New Guinea in 1936 and 1938. The author of these albums is unidentified except by his pseudonym. There are several snapshots of the man, who looks to be in his 50's or 60's, or lived hard in the years he's wearing. Several of the poems give us clues that he is an American, working and traveling in Australia in 1936 and 1938. "I've swum the Colorado where it runs down near to hell, I've been jerked around with many a locoed (?) cow I've mixed it with some tough Guys down along the Rio Grande But You ought to get an eyeful of me now. The Vagabond" The albums are inscribed to two different women - 'Bettie' in 1936 and… Read More

London: B. B. Ltd.. A smiling young male face in color with light silhouette of slouch hat and above a gilt embossed 1917 insignia "Australian Commonwealth Military Forces", and text 'Australian Expeditionary Force' at bottom of card. Light fox spotting at base of card, o/w very good. 3 1/2" x 5 1/4" color postcard. With a short message addressed from England, signed "from your aff Bro, Garnett", and dated 22.10.07, but unposted.

London, 1913. Hardcover. Very good condition. Belief among the aborigines of Australia, Torres Strait Islands, NG & Melanesia. Publisher's original cloth, 495 pp, vol. 1. Complete in itself.

London: Macmillan, 1913. Hardcover. Very good. Vol. I: The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia. The Gifford Lectures, St. Andrews 1911 - 1912. 8vo, xxi, 495pp, ads (ii). Blue cloth covers, with title in gilt on spine. Covers only gently rubbed at edges. Internally, very good, with pages only lightly toned and no fox spotting. Owner's bookplate, Edward Clowes Chorley, Rector of St. Phillip's Church in the Highlands, inside front cover.

The Journal of the Polynesian Society, 1965. Paperback. Very good. Reprinted: The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Vol. 74, No. 2, June 1965. 237-239pp, paper wrps.

London: George Philip, 1892. Hardcover. Good +. The author was an experienced explorer of Fiji, utilizes the notes and maps made by Sir William MacGregor, the British Administrator of the country. An in-depth analysis of New Guinea nine years after its annexation in 1883. Important & scarce work. Lge 8vo, xviii, 336pp, 4 pp ads, frontis & 10pp ills, 40 ills. in text, large folding color map of New Guinea. Orig. red gilt cloth. Spine dusty & gilt chipped making spine hard to read o/w good+.

Proceedings of the Anthropological Institute, 1885. Paperback. Good +. (&) Some New Britain Customs. (&) On some Ceremonies of the Central Australian Tribes. (&) Maternal Descent in the Salic Law. (&) On Some Native Trade Centres (abstract). (&) The Annual Harvest Festival in Kiriwina, British New Guinea (abstract). Extracted from: Proceedings of the Anthropological Institute, ca. mid 1880's. pp305-330, b&w tables in text, stapled.

Journal of Pacific History, 1974. Paperback. Very good. Reprinted from: The Journal of Pacific History, Vol. Nine, 1974. pp117-129, paper wrps, presentation copy.

Paris: Chez Saillant & Nyon, 1774. Very good condition. Map of Papua New Guinea & the Solomon Islands with interesting original hand color. The map extends through the tip of the Cape York, down about as far as the 12th degree of latitude, and including Isle de Wallis and Isle d' York. The hand coloring is unusual. New Guinea is left white, while the sea and islands to the north of it are washed tan, and the sea to the south is washed yellow. From 'Voyages dans la mer du Sud, par les Espagnols et les Hollandois, ouvrage traduit de l'Anglois de M. Dalrymple, par M. de Freville' (Paris: Chez Saillant & Nyon ..., 1774). In lower left margin: Grave par E. Dussy and with an inset showing northeast New Guinea, labeled "De Bry 1596". At the top of the map, at the right, above neat line: No. 125 in a contemporary hand. Copper engraving, original hand color, very good condition. 17 x 11 1/4", Libraries Australia ID 13070161. OCLC: 222056789 records one copy at the State Library of Queensland. The State… Read More