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55. North Marianne. Recollections of a Happy Life.
The Autobiography edited by her sister Mrs John Addington
Symonds. Two volumes; Some Further Recollections of a
Happy Life. Frontispiece portraits, plates, maps, matching green
gilt pictorial cloth decorated with botanical studies, some shelf fading,
MacMillan, London 1893. A noted flower painter, one of the
most talented women of her time. Commemorated by the North
Gallery at Kew Gardens. Visited New Zealand in 1880. (3)
Bagnall N3842
$100 – $300
56. Palmer george. Kidnapping in the South Seas, a
narrative of three months cruise of H.M. Ship Rosario. Octavo,
original gilt cloth, plates, author’s presentation inscription Nov 1 st
1873 on sub title also neat pencil notes re book, lacking 2 plates.
Edinburgh 1871; Thomas Julian. Cannibals and Convicts,
personal experiences in the Western Pacific. Octavo, red gilt
cloth, frontispiece, map, covers worn, 1886; Spry W.RN. The
Cruise of the “Challenger”. Octavo, folding map, plates, pictorial
gilt cloth, light spotting on map and neat tape repair to reverse, spine
cover worn and cover slightly marked. London 1877 (3)
$100 – $300
57. Pembroke, 13th Earl. South Sea Bubbles by The
Earl and The Doctor (George Kingsley). Octavo, original red
gilt decorated cloth, title page printed in red and black, some spotting
on title and sub title, Also Geo Graham’s signature, adverts at back.
London, Richard Bentley 1872.
$80 – $120
58. Pim Commander Bedford. The Gate of the Pacific.
Octavo, original pictorial gilt cloth complete with plates, folding
maps, spine cover faded and cracking along joints, old reading club
label on front cover. London 1863
$80 – $200
59. Reeves Edward. Brown Men and Women or The
South Sea Islands In 1895 and1896. Octavo, original gilt
pictorial cloth, frontispiece, folding map, illustrations, some fading
and wear to extremities of spine cover. London, Swan Sonnenschein,
1898; David Mrs Edgeworth. Funafuti or Three Months
on a Coral Island: An Unscientific Account of a Scientific
Expedition. Octavo, original pictorial gilt cloth, map, illustrations,
title and fly spotted, shelf wear to front cover. London 1899 (2)
$100 – $300
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60. Romilly Hugh Hastings. Letters from the Western
Pacific and Mashonaland 1878-1891. Octavo, original gilt cloth,
17 plates. First edition David Nutt London, 1893. Inserted a
9 page signed letter from the author to Sir Arthur Hamilton
Gordon, dated Matupi N.B Aug 26/83 re the labour trade…
disagreements with Sir George Des Voeux Governor of Fiji,
murder of a half caste named Ludlow, the ship the Stanley,
kidnapping natives from New Ireland and other lurid details, an
excellent letter.
$300 – $500
61. Routledge Mrs Scoresby. The Mystery of Easter
Island the Story of an Expedition. Octavo, original pale blue gilt
cloth, frontispiece plate, portrait of author, illustrations, maps, plan.
London 1919.
$150 – $300
62. Rowan Ellis. A Flower-Hunter in Queensland &
New Zealand. Octavo, original pictorial gilt green cloth, plates,
folding map, contemporary news clippings re author and family
mounted on fly and subtitle, notes re book on endpaper. London,
John Murray 1898. Bagnall R1073
$150 – $300
63. Savage Stephen, (Tivini Haueti) E Tuatua Taito
(also) Tuatua no tangia ariki ( Cook Islands History). In
Rarotongan, title, presentation inscription on flyleaf in Rarotongan,
preface with signed and printed autograph signatures, Tivini Haueti.
Text 56p, annotations and corrections to text in author’s hand,
bound in old stiffened brown paper. S Savage Government Printer,
Raratonga June 30, 1908. Stephen Savage, 1875 -1941 the
author of the Dictionary of the Maori Language of Raratonga,
an interesting item and three early pamphlets re the Pacific (4)
$200 – $400
64. Stoddard Charles W. Summer Cruising in the
South Seas. Octavo, green gilt pictorial cloth, frontispiece, vignette
title, plates, Chatto & Windus, first Edition 1873; Wood C.F.
A Yachting Cruise in the South Seas. Octavo, green gilt cloth.
London, Henry S King, 1875. Both in nice condition. .(2)
$120 – $240