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Nuevas Cartas de William Cobbett a los Ministros de la Iglesia de Inglaterra e Irlanda, ó sea, Continuación de la Historia de la Reforma. Traducción de Nicolás de Castro Palomino.

Barcelona, Imprenta de los Herederos de la Viuda Plá, 1850. 12vo.; 432 pp. Encuadernación en piel marbreada, de la época. Tras la obra de Cobbett y ocupando la mitad del volúmen se halla la traducción de la Disertación leída en Roma en 1830 por el Cardenal Wiseman que recoge interesantes datos sobre las Misiones en la India e Islas del Pacífico. Dicha traducción fue abruptamente titulada por los hispánicos editores como "Esterilidad de las Misiones Protestantes para la conversión de Infieles".

Librerías Hesperia Libros · Zaragoza, ES48,00 €

[NEW SOUTH WALES].MareMagnum

Nova Galles do Sul. Estudos Coloniaes. [Editado con motivo de la Exposición Internacional de Sidney de 1879].

Lisboa, Imprenta Nacional, 1879. 4to.; 39 pp. Cubiertas originales en papel impresas.

Librerías Hesperia Libros · Zaragoza, ES35,00 €

STRONG, W. M.MareMagnum

Notes on the North-Eastern Division of Papua (British New Guinea).

5 page, plus a large fold-out colour map, measuring approximately 15 x 23 inches (38 x 58cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. Brief yet captivating expedition notes to accompany the important map which was the primary outcome of a series of journeys made by the author from 1908 to 1912, while he was posted as medical officer to the Northern Division and Resident Majistrate for the North-Eastern Division of Papua. Together with his map, Strong remarks on the most remarkable geographical features, indigenous Papuan custom and ethnography, and how former female infanticide impacted the population's gender ratio.

Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts · West Vancouver BC, CA73,25 €

BENSON, Professor W. N.MareMagnum

Notes on the Geographical Features of South-Western New Zealand.

9 pages, including a full-page sketch map. Plus photographic plate and a fold-out diagram. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a fascinating expedition report on one of the most beautiful parts of New Zealand - the south western extremity often known as Fiordland. Most of it was then difficult to access, incompletely mapped or unexplored, and geologically but little known. Among subjects discussed include a brief history of exploration and mapping, topography, vegetation, the valley-system, and coastal plateau. Accompanied by diagrams showing Dusky and Breaksea Sounds, Milford Sound, and Tutoko Peak, plus spectacular photographs, some depicting Homer's Saddle, Hall Arm in Doubtful Sound, Grave Talbot Pass, and Hollyford Valley.

Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts · West Vancouver BC, CA32,45 €

FORBES, Henry O.MareMagnum

Notes on the Cocos or Keeling Islands.

8 pages. Plus a fold-out colour map, measuring approximately 8.25 x 9 inches (21 x 23cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a fascinating expedition report on the Malay Archipelago, specifically the Cocos or Keeling Islands, accompanied by a visually appealing and valuable fold out colour map for illustration. Charles Darwin formulated a theory of the origin of coral reefs, This report mentions Darwin's theories and observations frequently, and is an excellent example of how early and how widely Darwin's work and theories were accepted by all his peers regardless of the apparent controversy he stirred up.

Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts · West Vancouver BC, CA73,25 €

HOOD, Thomas H.MareMagnum

Notes of a Cruise in H. M. S. 'Fawn' in the Western Pacific in the Year 1862

8vo [21.5 x 15 cm]; xi, 298 pp, 14 plates including frontis, including 9 tinted lithographed plates, 5 engraved plates, other engraved illus, folding map showing route of ship, plan of ruins at Ascension, appendix. original pebbled cloth, gilt spine title lettering, edge lightly rubbed, light wear of lower corner, internal hinge cracked but firm, interior clean, frontis with tissue guard, very good+, complete with all plates, etc, as per list. A picture of this book Taylor 113. Ferguson 10528. The Fawn sailed from Sydney Australia and visited Niue, Samoa, Tutuila, Pago-Pago, Upolu, Apia, Savail, Uea, Moa, Fiji, Kunaie, Norfolk Island, Pitcairn, etc and provides interesting information on the peoples, geography, conditions, customs, etc. The appendix is on fossils in New Zealand, treatment of females in Niue, cannibalism in Fiji, Tokilau, etc.

Horizon Books · Toronto ON, CA237,37 €

TOPINARD Paul -MareMagnum

Note sur le Métis d'Australiens et d'Européens.

Paris, 1875, estratto originale con copertina, pp. 243/249

Libreria Piani · Monte San Pietro, IT16,00 €

GENTILLI J. -MareMagnum

Note di geopolitica australiana.

Firenze, 1954, 8vo stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 359/368 con 16 tavole fotografiche. - !! ATTENZIONE !!: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo, completo in se, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che provenga direttamente da una rivista. Le pagine sono indicate come "da/a", ad esempio: 229/231 significa che il testo è composto da tre pagine. Quando la rivista di provenienza non viene indicata é perché ci è sconosciuta. - !! ATTENTION !!: : NOT A BOOK : “extract” or “excerpt” means simply a few pages, original nonetheless, printed in a magazine. Pages are indicated as in "from” “to", for example: 229/231 means the text comprises three pages (229, 230 and 231). If the magazine that contained the pages is not mentioned, it is because it is unknown to us.

Libreria Piani · Monte San Pietro, IT16,00 €

Tinley, LynneMareMagnum

Not on Your Nelly! : Australian Animal Sketches and Sayings

Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Faint crease to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 55pp. Australian language and birds and animals.

Godley Books · Hyde, GB7,11 €

MARSHALL, A. J.MareMagnum

Northern New Guinea.

18 pages, including an in-text sketch map. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a most captivating travel account featuring remote villages and the indigenous people and of New Guinea, describing the devastation and damage caused by an earthquake in the Torricelli Mountains, and revealing European influence. Marshall imparts his observations on the Wapei people, whom he greatly enjoyed spending time with, on their customs, ceremonies, sparse dress, superstition, hunting, agriculture, trade , and their villages which were usually built along a ridge and sometimes by excavating holes in the sandstone. While recounting various routes of exploration, he also shares knowledge gained of the Bogasip people who were yet uninfluenced by the European, and of the people of the Vanimo district in Dutch New Guinea.

Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts · West Vancouver BC, CA37,08 €

REYNOLDS HenryMareMagnum

NORTH OF CAPRICORN. The untold story of Australia’s North.

In-8, cartonato editoriale, sovracoperta, pp. XVI,220, con numerose illustrazioni in bianco e nero nel testo. In ottimo stato (nice copy).

Bottega delle Occasioni · Milano, IT11,40 €

COOK, James.MareMagnum

Norfolk Isle.

London, 1777, mapa grabado en cobre de 21 x 19 cm. (Descubierta en 1774, el mapa de la Isla de Norfolk, territorio australiano en el oceano Pacífico, se publicó por primera vez en el segundo viaje de James Cook el año de 1777).

Mateos · Malaga, ES209,00 €

Frost, Lucy [ed]MareMagnum

No Place for a Nervous Lady: Voices from the Australian Busht

First hand accounts in letters and diaries of the conditions experienced by the women who settled the Australian Bush in the 19th century. "From Annie Baxter, writing to sustain herself through a miserable marriage to a military man and failed farmer, to Ellen Moger, whose letter to her parents told of the death of three of her four young children from starvation on the journey out, women wrote to keep in touch with their old lives and to make some kind of private sense of the new. Yet all would have agreed with Annie Baxter when, after being bled with a penkife, she wrote to a friend, "Oh! ye nervous ladies, never come to the bush!"" 284p. illus bibliography. Donor inscription. else fine. Book

Kalamos Books · STREETSVILLE, CA25,50 €

KIRCH, Patrick VintonMareMagnum

Niuatoputapu; The Prehistory of a Polynesian Chiefdom

4to [28 x 21.5 cm]; ix, 287 pp, frontis, 137 illustrations including photos, maps, drawings, some full page, 53 tables, appendices, detailed bibliog. original pictorial heavy paper wraps, title lettering on spine and cover, fine, clean and unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Based on the 1976 Bishop Museum Tongan expedition, this work is a detailed and definitive archaeological study of Niuatoputapu prehistory. Very well-illustrated.

Horizon Books · Toronto ON, CA23,18 €

BASTIN, John; and Bea BrommerMareMagnum

Nineteenth Century Prints and Illustrated Books of Indonesia

4to [29.5 x 21 cm]; [xiv], 386 pp, 107 colored illustrations on plates, 371 monochrome illustrations on plates, bibliography, index. original brown cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, slight stain at lower spine else near fine in very good dj (short tear, light stain at edge). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A profusely illustrated work based on the collection of the Tropen museum in Amsterdam but with consultations of collections in Netherlands and United Kingdom. It discusses each of the hundreds of prints and books, that were published in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Indonesia in the nineteenth century, with collations, details of publication, artists, engravers, biographical information, etc, with a section on early lithographic printing in Indonesia.

Horizon Books · Toronto ON, CA203,99 €

TURNER, GeorgeMareMagnum

Nineteen Years in Polynesia: Missionary Life, Travels, and Researches in the Islands of the Pacific

8vo [23.5 x 16.5 cm]; xii, 548, 16 [publisher's ads] pp, plates and illus, color frontis of Samoan Orator in color photocopy, map, extra illustrations not in list of illus, folding table at end (often lacking). new cloth preserving the original cloth of covers and gilt lettering of spine, stains on title page, few marginal pencil notes on few leaves, spine label removed, solid and tight copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Hill p. 295. Mostly on Samoa and New Hebrides, the author describes the peoples, their customs, society, wars, mythology, language, canoes, clothing, food, amusements, as well as his activities there. The very large folding table compares the dialects for 24 islands for about 120 words. An appendix gives the meteorological data averaged over seven years for each month of the year.

Horizon Books · Toronto ON, CA171,53 €

Walker Egbert H.MareMagnum

NEW ZEALAND, A BOTANIST'S PARADISE.

(Codice VI/0190) In 8° 31 pages with 10 plates and 2 figures. Excerpt with paper covers. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA

Bergoglio Libri d'Epoca · Rivalba, IT7,00 €

Pascoe, JohnMareMagnum

New Zealand in Colour - Volume Two

Photographs by Kenneth and Jean Bigwood, part of dust jacket stuck down on inside covers. eng

Gravity Books · Bridlington, GB1,28 €

Baxter, James K.MareMagnum

New Zealand in Colour

Photographs by Kenneth and Jean Bigwood, previous owner name on front endpaper, part of dust jacket stuck down on inside covers. eng

Gravity Books · Bridlington, GB1,10 €

MareMagnum

NEW ZEALAND FACTS AND FIGURES - 1936.

(Codice VI/0238) In 16º 48 pp. Illustrated with 2 maps and 23 b/w photo plates. Stapled paperback; the softcover is lightly worn, foxing, staples rusted causing holes to spine, internally very good. ~~~ SPEDIZIONE IN ITALIA SEMPRE TRACCIATA

Bergoglio Libri d'Epoca · Rivalba, IT30,00 €

STEVENS, Henry N., George F. BarwickMareMagnum

New Light on the Discovery of Australia as Revealed by the Journal of Captain Don Diego de Prado Y Tovar

8vo [22 x 14 cm]; xvi, 261 pp, complete with the 5 maps including 4 folding (two in rear pocket), 2 plates are reproduced from Prado's Relacion manuscript, index. original blind-stamped cloth, gilt vignettes on covers, gilt spine title lettering, spine lightly rubbed and lightly faded, fine and clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Based on the recovery of the long-lost manuscript of Captain Don Diego de Prado Y Tovar, who accompanied Pedro Fernandez de Quiros on his famous voyage of exploration in the South Seas in 1605-6, which was the most important find of virgin historical material in modern times. It provides a detailed account of the discovery of Torres Strait and north most Australia. The appendix includes copies of the original letters related to the voyage.

Horizon Books · Toronto ON, CA105,70 €

Von Hugel, Charles (Hnatiuk, Roger)MareMagnum

New Holland Journal : November 1833-October 1834 (Miegunyah Press Series; No. 17)

Numerous exquisitely beautiful colour plates and b/w text illustrations, 4 maps, gilt lettering to spine. Gift-note to David Butler on half-title page, text and illustrations are clean, bright and tight throughout. Heavy! Clean Copy

Psychobabel & Skoob Books · Didcot, GB155,34 €

THOMSON, Basil H.MareMagnum

New Guinea: Narrative of an Exploring Expedition to the Louisiade & D'Entrecasteaux Islands.

17 pages. Plus a large fold-out colour map measuring approximately 8.25 x 13.25 (21 x 34cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a most captivating expedition account of the author's adventurous explorations of the islands of the Louisiade and D'Entrecasteaux Archipelagoes, inhabited by head-hunters and cannibals, included in the possession of British New Guinea. Accompanied by a charming fold-out colour map, showing Thomson's travel routes. Sir Basil Home Thomson was British colonial administrator in Fiji, Tonga and New Guinea between the years 1883 and 1893. Thomson begins his expedition from Port Moresby, traversing seventy miles on horseback to reach the coastal villages of Motu, Saroa, and Loyalupu tribes. Here he makes interesting remarks on the tribal trades, native canoes, polygamy, intertribal feuds, head-hunting practices, superstitions and witchcrafts, and common diseases. Then he proceeds towards Sudest Island, the largest of the Louisiades, here he finds some 400 miners prospecting for gold. The island was very sparsely inhabited, and the native have for years been the prey of the head-hunting parties from Brooker Island. From Sudest Island, accompanied by twenty miner, he sails towards the mysterious and dangerous Rossel Island, where its unsurveyed barrier reefs have caused so many shipwrecks. After landing on the island the expedition party proceeds towards Dixon Bay, then passes through the treacherous forest where they visit several villages, some deserted and some inhabited by cannibals and headhunters, which contained human skulls and bones , with huts filled with hunting spears, arrows, and much more. Afterwards he visits the island of Joannet, and the unexplored and densely populated island of St. Aignan (Misima), with about thirty villages, inhabited by industrious and skilful cultivators as well as head-hunters. Anchors on the north-east Point of Normanby Island, the most easterly of the D'Entrecasteaux Group, also densely populated, with remarkably clean villages. Here he sees a species of the Birds of Paradise and collects some species of Orchids. He also explores Ferguson Island, the largest of the D'Entrecasteaux - where he visited Kilkerran and Maybole mountain rangers - Goulvain and Welle Islands, and Goodenough Island.

Voyager Press Rare Books & Manuscripts · West Vancouver BC, CA73,25 €