Nouvelle guinee

Picturesque New Guinea. With an Historical Introduction and Supplementary Chapters on the Manners and Customs of the Papuans

1887 · 136622 — London: Longmans Green and Co 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London Longmans Green and Co. 1887. Quarto xviii 194 pages plus 50 plates each with a captioned tissue-guard 'fifty full-page autotype illustrations from negatives of portraits from life and groups and landscapes from nature'. Green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and lettered and decorated in gilt on the front cover later recased with new endpapers; cloth a little marked and rubbed at the extremities with expert conservation to the ends of the spine; top edge gilt others uncut; occasional light foxing; minimal signs of age and use; overall an excellent copy. The half-title is inscribed 'Presented to Carl H.F. Werner Esq by the Writer February 1910'. This book was published to wide critical acclaim. Lindt was awarded a gold medal at the 1888 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition 'with special mention for his ethnological photographs landscapes and photographs from shipboard; they are simply unique. From a technical point of view the mentioned pictures may be considered as the best in this Exhibition. The ethnological illustrations from New Guinea are even more interesting .' judges' report. Provenance: Carl Heinrick Ferdinand Werner 1852 1861-1922 was the founder of a dynasty of Australian optometrists established in Ballarat in 1889 and still functioning today in suburban Toorak as C Werner & Co. 'It was Carl Werner who really made global history for Australian eye care. He sailed to London in 1896 and sat the examination for Fellowship of the Spectacle Makers Company in 1898. He was the very first to qualify for the Fellowship of the Spectacle Makers Company and was awarded certificate No. 1' Professor Barry Cole: A History of Australian Optometry 2015. Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover