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1943211Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1943. Quarto original decorated cloth 172 pp. frontispiece and photo plates. Some spotting and foxing otherwise a good copy. Written and illustrated by men of the frontline forces. Angus & Robertson unknown
1943304Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1943. Small quarto original decorated cloth 172 pp. frontispiece and photo plates. Bottom edge of front board lightly bumped yet an attractive copy. This book attempted to record the life of the Anti-Aircraft Brigade which comprised of American and Australian Artillerymen. It covers the successes and operations conducted by this brigade within the confines of New Guinea. Angus & Robertson unknown
1920233581920. 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. <br /> <br /> Not stamped but addressed to Miss Helen Loenstein in New York City. 3.5 x 5.5" b&w one corner creased otherwise very clean. unknown
192928493Philadelphia 1929. Photography. Good overall. Striking large silvertone portrait of a Native in ceremonial dress with portable drum. The image is a private snap shot printed on Photographic paper with a place name coligraphered at the bottom in the margin. This is one of a series of views that were printed on the Cope's return to the USA after their yacht cruse throughout New Zealand Australia Fiji Java and Sumatra in the late 1920's. <br /> <br /> Francis R. Cope Jr. noted American naturalist was deeply involved in his community. The family was active in many civic educational and charitable projects including the development of Fairmount Park the City's Waterworks the Philadelphia Zoo and Haverford College. An early supporter of the conservation of wild lands Francis donated the tract of land that is now Woodbourne Forest & Wildlife Preserve to the Nature Conservancy the 4th preserve established by the Nature Conservancy. Francis traveled the world with his daughter Theodora Cope later Stanwell-Fletcher a.k.a. Theodora Gray then a recent graduate of Mt. Holyoke with a passion for natural history and later a founding member of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology where she earned a Ph.D. in Vertebrate Ecology.<br /> <br /> Image 8 1/4 x 10 1/4" black border and calligraphy title below printed on card 13 3/8 x 10 3/4". Image has a 2" closed tear at top center. unknown
1942136750London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. London Hodder and Stoughton Limited 1942. Octavo 253 pages with 2 maps one double-page plus 24 plates and rear endpaper maps. Cloth lightly bumped; top edge lightly foxed; an excellent copy with the price-clipped dustwrapper a little marked creased and chipped. John Lloyd Preece 1895-1969 one of the sons of the noted Adelaide bookseller and publisher F.W. Preece was himself an influential bookseller publisher and proprietor of Preece's Gallery. He 'studied English at the University of Adelaide . In 1926 he visited Italy with Lionel Lindsay. Three years later he launched "Desiderata" an elegant and stylishly illustrated literary magazine which appeared for ten years and brought together notable Australian and overseas contributors. At a time of general philistinism it contained enthusiastic notices of modern art and literature: in 1939 there were two favourable reviews of Patrick White's first novel "Happy Valley". In 1934-40 John Preece ran a branch of F.W. Preece & Sons Ltd in Victoria Arcade Sydney. As "Lloyd Rhys" he wrote three books about New Guinea and about small ships in World War II reflecting his travels and his temporary civilian work for the Defence Department at Garden Island. In 1946 he returned to Adelaide' and the family firm not retiring until 1957 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. The small paper label of 'F.W. Preece Ltd. Booksellers Adelaide' is mounted at the foot of the front pastedown. Hodder and Stoughton Limited hardcover
2019134816Adelaide: No Publisher 2019. Near fine. Adelaide No Publisher 2019. Foolscap folio ii 332 pages with a colour illustration from a photograph on the title page. Comb-bound clear plastic front and card rear cover as issued; a near-fine copy. 'Irmgard Horndasch nee Marek was born and raised in East Berlin and came to the West before the building of the Wall. She met and fell in love with Heinrich Bergmann a missionary's son. They married in New Guinea in 1958 and the following year Heinrich was killed in an accident. As a widow Irmgard remained in New Guinea opening a school and founding women's education. In 1975 she married the widow Helmut Horndasch and continued working with him in New Guinea until the end of the century' from the preface. Translated from the German by Erich Flierl. No Publisher unknown
1953136760Kokopo: Printed at the Catholic Mission Vunapope 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Kokopo Printed at the Catholic Mission Vunapope 1953. Octavo iv 65 pages. Pictorial wrappers slightly marked with trifling surface loss at the rear; light vertical crease throughout where folded; mild signs of age and use; a very good copy. A handbook for missionaries: not least 'Cargo Madness' pages 58-65. Loosely inserted is an autograph letter signed from a Sister M. John Baptist 'down from Rabaul for a holiday' in Adelaide sent to a local friend in November 1962. Printed at the Catholic Mission Vunapope paperback
1948105763Hamburg: Cram de Gruyter and Co 1948. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Hamburg Cram de Gruyter and Co. 1948. Quarto xvi 264 pages with a map and 99 illustrations plus 23 pages of plates. Binder's cloth lettered in gilt on the spine retaining the original printed card covers the front one lightly stained and creased; minor signs of use confined mainly to a few leaves; a very good copy with ownership details in ink on the inside front cover. Monographien zur Volkerkunde Number 1. This is the first of three volumes on the Mbowamb Mount Hagen tribes in East Central New Guinea. The date of publication is printed '1943-1948'. Apparently this volume was published in 1948; the other two volumes appeared in 1943 Band II: I. Gesellschaft. II. Religion und Weltbild; Band III: Mythen und Erzählungen. Cram, de Gruyter and Co paperback
1940180557Circa1940s. Carbon typescript title-page 238 pages 35 x 22.5 cm manila card wrappers marked D.A.S.F. Rabaul in red pencil bound into a green pebbled cloth Penfold's springback letter file slightly scuffed edges of the typescript a little ragged but in very good condition. Translation from the German of Richard Parkinson's scarce work on the Bismarck Archipelago first published in 1907. This recently discovered typescript by translator and Rabaul resident Noel C. Barry is based on the second edition published in 1926. <br> <br>Barry began work on his translation in the 1920s after returning from service in WWI and completed it in the 1940s before War again intervened. The scholarly edition by John Dennison and J. Peter White of Parkinson's original work published in 1997 and online in 2010 by Sydney University made note of Barry's work observing "For many people this Barry translation became the sole avenue into Parkinson’s book." <br> <br>This copy with an early New Guinea provenance is from the collection of R. L. Pulsford a colleague of Noel Barry's at the Department of Agriculture Stock and Fisheries Rabaul has the errors in transcription mentioned in the Sydney University edition and as such is a valuable insight into the publishing history of a foundation work on the Pacific. . hardcover
18975535Brisbane: 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. Queensland Parliamentary Report paperback
1887136622London: 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
