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NEW GUINEA and PAPUA continued...

Books (Non-Philatelic) continued...

LotNo.

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Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1613

1922 'Last Days in New Guinea, being further Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate' by Captain CAW Monckton (1922 first edition, h/b 280+ pages with numerous illustrations & two foldout maps), signed by the author on the title page, very fine inscribed copy. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1614

1937 'The New Guinea Handbook' compiled under the authority of the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth and published by the Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra (1937 h/b 550 pages with many b/w illustrations plus map & statistical supplement), some wear to the covers, very minor splitting along the spine but all pages in place & very fine. A wealth of statistical & other official information plus many fascinating advertisements.

Grade B (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19) (Image20) (Image21) (Image22) (Image23) (Image24) (Image25) (Image26) (Image27) (Image28) (Image29) (Image30) (Image31) (Image32) (Image33) (Image34) (Image35) (Image36) (Image37) (Image38) (Image39) (Image40) (Image41) (Image42) (Image43) (Image44) (Image45) (Image46) (Image47) (Image48) (Image49) (Image50) (Image51) (Image52) (Image53) (Image54) (Image55) (Image56) (Image57) (Image58) (Image59) (Image60) (Image61) (Image62) (Image63) (Image64) (Image65) (Image66) (Image67) (Image68) (Image69) (Image70) (Image71) (Image72) (Image73) (Image74) (Image75) (Image76) (Image77) (Image78) (Image79) (Image80) (Image81) (Image82) (Image83) (Image84)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1615

1940 'Exploration of Unknown New Guinea', exceptional official report by JL Taylor published as four articles in 'The Pacific Islands Monthly' (Mar-June 1940), in a specially commissioned binding with title on spine 'Taylor Patrol, NG, 1938-39, Westwards of Mt Hagen', with chart of the Fly River, generally very fine. Rare. Ex Geoffrey Ingleton. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$120.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1616

1961 'Art Styles of the Papuan Gulf' by Douglas Newton (1961, 100 pages with 263 photographs & map), ownership signature of Australian anthropologist "Ian Hogbin", inscribed below by the author 'with love from Douglas', very fine. Another very scarce title. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1617

1984 'Sepik Diary' by Frank Hodgkinson (Sydney, 1984) with handwritten text and monocolour or watercolour illustrations throughout, the deluxe edition #87/100 plus tipped-in crocodile etching #7/100 signed on the limitation page by the author/artist "Frank Hodgkinson" and for Reid Books and Touche Ross (accountants), some very minor foxing; with the illustrated slipcase. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$180.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1618

1996 'Plumes from Paradise: Trade Cycles in Outer South-East Asia and their impact on New Guinea and Nearby Islands until 1920' by Pamela Swadling (1996, first edition h/b 352 pages with photographic plates & maps), largely very fine. [Current online prices for "good used" copies range from $158 to $505!] (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

Estimate AU$100

SOLD for AU$75.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

Documents & Ephemera

LotNo.

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Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1619

1875 Greek Psalter, endorsed within "Albert Maclaren, from Revd J Scarr, August 26 1875'; housed in a box titled 'Presented by Bishop R Butterrs to ABM National Office August 10th 1991', wear to the cover, the pages generally very fine. [Reverend Albert Maclaren was ordained Deacon in 1878, and founded the New Guinea Mission on 10th August 1891] (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$200.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1620

1899 British New Guinea Mining Ordinance with the enormous Territory seal in red & signed "GR Le Hunte", very fine. [George Ruthven Le Hunte was Lieutenant-Govenor of British New Guinea 1898-1903 and Governor of South Australia 1903-09] (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1621

1900 'British New Guinea Government Gazette' for 23rd June 1900 with 'BNG Mining Act - Dredging for Gold', with the enormous Territory seal in red & signed "GR Le Hunte", very fine. (Image1)

Estimate AU$500

SOLD for AU$380.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1622

1923 largely typed letter on Territory of Papua, Mines Department letterhead, mentioning the printing of 'The Geology of Papua' by Evan Stanley, signed "Staniforth Smith", very fine. [Miles Staniforth Cater Smith was occasional Administrator during absences of Lieut-Governor Hubert Murray, and a sometime explorer of limited talent] (Image1)

Estimate AU$50

SOLD for AU$40.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1623

1926-27 'Official Correspondence of JHP Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of the Territory of Papua', archival slipcase containing three 1926-27 official letters to the Minister of State for Home & Territories in Melbourne re a series of inter-tribal murders & the bravery of the native police, all signed "JHP Murray" ; together with duplicate copies on onion paper; generally fine to very fine. (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5) (Image6) (Image7) (Image8) (Image9) (Image10) (Image11) (Image12) (Image13) (Image14) (Image15) (Image16) (Image17) (Image18) (Image19)

Estimate AU$750

SOLD for AU$600.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1624

1942 'Allied Geographical Section, South-West Pacific Area. Terrain Study No.28, Main Routes Across New Guinea' under the name of General Douglas Macarthur (Melbourne, 1942). with photographs & maps, housed in a clear plastic folder to preserve the original covers. [An important Kokoda Trail document] (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$200.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

Annual Reports

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Lot Description

Estimate in AU$'s

1625

1886 56pp plus detached foldout map of Port Moresby & its environs including settlements of Granville East & West, and revealing an annual budget of only £10,000. Commisioner John Douglas comments "Sir Peter Scratchley died 2.12.1885...[I travelled] to confer with the Australian Governments contributing to the maintenance of the Protectorate [itemised in an appendix]...contract with Messrs Burns Philp for a service from Thursday Island to Port Moresby & Dinner Island [Samarai]..." Further commentary on the lay of the land in the new Protectorate and an extensive report by Douglas on 'Native Policy' stating "[Scratchley's policy that] New Guinea must be governed for the natives and by the natives would be a costly & chimerical experiment...inevitably resulting in failure".

Grade A- (Image1)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1626

1887 70pp (pp50-68 missing) plus two large detached foldout maps of the Baxter & Chester Rivers Expedition and SE Papua with Owen Stanley Range & inset topographical sketches. Commisioner John Douglas comments that South Australia failed to pay its annual contribution; BNG had an exhibit at the 1887 Colonial Exhibition in London; the Western Division is administered from Thursday Island & the curious statement "The natives are a fine race and hopeful savages" (!?). Re Port Moresby: "The township of Granville has been formed at Paga Point" with a single-room Post Office located there. Re the local natives: "[They] no longer bury their dead in the immediate vicinity of their houses", and water has been piped to the native village. The mission reports include one from Yule Island, in French!

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1627

1888-1889 (the next issue, with the reporting year now ending 30 June) 68pp plus map (missing) Administrator Sir William McGregor appointed 4.9.1888 comments on his first act being to declare the Queen's sovereignty; that "natives" means all residents of non-European descent; that purchase of land from natives is prohibited, as is the supply to them of firearms, explosives, liquor and opium. Detailed report of tours of inspection. Customs Officer notes "...a much larger quantity of gold was procured than has been declared...from Sudest & St Aignan [Misima]". Scientific reports about birds, butterflies & reptiles.

Grade B (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1628

1892-1893 132pp plus three foldout maps (two regarding the revised boundary with Dutch New Guinea). Administrator Sir William McGregor comments on regulating the cutting of indigenous timber, & his visitation reports mention witchcraft, polygamy, cannibalism, infanticide, and inheritance. Hundreds of unfamiliar placenames plus extensive report on native vocabulary & grammar. Brief postal report advises of letters sent x4011 (2587 in 1888-89) & letters received x4679 (2366 in 1888-89).

Grade A (Image1) (Image2) (Image3)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1629

1893-1894 136pp plus seven foldout maps. Administrator Sir William McGregor advises of 13 death sentences, all but one commuted to long prsion terms, and that all Port Moresby prisoners were taken to Samarai to drain the swamp there. Extensive visitation reports generally comment favourably on behaviour of natives, conduct of missions, and erection of new buildings. Interesting commentary on tabu (taboo) & sorcery, and interesting 16pp native dictionary.

Grade A (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$250

SOLD for AU$190.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1630

1894-1895 74pp, last leaf detached. Acting Administrator Francis Winter (the Chief Judicial Officer) has spent the year travelling extensively but has relatively little to report apart from several parties of miners from Queensland who all enjoyed very little success, and the London Missionary Society having established a training college at Kapa Kapa.

Grade A (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$150

SOLD for AU$115.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1631

1895-1896 156pp plus one map within, one of the most expansive and historically significant of all the annual reports. Lieutenant-Governor William MacGregor comments there is "...no real settlement by Europeans in the Western District...most serious industrial disadvantage by its natural fishing grounds being practically all held by Queensland". In the Eastern District "...the lowest village on the Mambare...deserted, the inhabitants having been driven out...[by tribes] not clear whether [they] are British or German subjects" and a lengthy report on expedition to the same area to arrest natives implicated in the murder of miner George Clark: "...The half-dozen constabulary...were not sufficient to arrest as many of these natives as I deemed necessary...nothing has been seen or heard of the two Queensland aborigines that accompanied Mr Clark".

Grade A (Image1) (Image2)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM

1632

1896-1897 122pp plus five large foldout maps (the last detached). Another very expansive report with lengthy despatches and the first to be interspersed with numerous skillful drawings of natives, customs, graves, animals & topography. Lieutenant-Governor William MacGregor. Contains a lengthy ornithological report & the comment "The miners' camp on Woodlark Island...no wonder the men suffer from fever...it is absurd to live in a tent in [British] New Guinea".

Grade A- (Image1) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

Estimate AU$200

SOLD for AU$150.00
Closing..Jun-28, 08:00 PM