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65. Squier E g. Nicaragua; its People, Scenery,
Monuments, and the Proposed Interoceanic Canal. Two
volumes, octavo, original gilt cloth, complete with folding
frontispiece, folding maps, sepia plates, neat contemporary signature
on fly, text in clean condition, covers mottled. First and best edition,
New York, 1852
$150 – $250
66. (Thomas Julian). Holy Tonga by the Vagabond. 78
pp, printed wrappers; Melbourne, (1889]. A critic of the influence
of the Missionaries; Baker, Rev W Shirley. An English and
Tongan Vocabulary and also a Tongan and English Vocabulary.
Octavo, stiffened blue gilt cloth. Auckland 1897; Codrington
R.H…A Dictionary of the Language of Motu, 1896, and
another re Tonga. octavo, (4)
$100 – $200
67. Turner george T. Nineteen Years in Polynesia:
Missionary Life, Travels, Researches. Octavo, original purple gilt
cloth, coloured frontispiece, vignette title, illustrations, folding table
of dialects. London, John Snow1861; Samoa A Hundred Years
Ago, notes on the cults and customs of 23 other Islands in the
Pacific. Octavo, original red gilt cloth, plates, map. London 1884;
Churchward William Brown. My Consulate in Samoa.
Octavo, original gilt cloth, covers marked. London1887; (3)
$100 – $400
68. Tyerman Daniel. Voyages and Travels Round the
World by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet Esq
deputed from the London Missionary Society to visit their
various stations in the South Sea Islands, Australia, China,
India, Madagascar and South Africa between 1821 and 1829
compiled by James Montgomery. Octavo, original cloth, portrait
frontispiece, 12 plates. Second edition London 1840. Bagnall
5668 Fergusson 3105
$50 – $100
69. Wawn William T. The South Sea Islanders and
the Queensland Labour Trade, Voyages and Experiences in
the Western Pacific from 1875 to 1891. Original gilt cloth,
dedication to the Sugar-Planters of Queensland, plates, map.
London 1893. Fergusson 18256
$100 – $300
70. Wild John James. At Anchor a Narrative of
Experiences Afloat and Ashore during the voyage of “H.M.S
Challenger” from 1872 to 1876. With Illustrations by the
Author. Large quarto, green pictorial gilt cloth, 13 coloured
chromolithograph plates, chart, some isolated light spotting on
margins, fly and half title spotted, gilt on covers shelf worn. London
1878.
$500 – $800
71. Williams John. A Narrative of Missionary
Enterprises in the South Sea Islands. Large octavo, contemporary
brown gilt cloth, rebacked with original spine cover, portrait and
13
Baxter print (repeated as a plate in the text) frontispieces, vignette
title, map, plates, inner joints repaired with black tape. Fifth
Thousand, London 1837
$120 – $240
72. (Wilson William). A Missionary Voyage to the
Southern Pacific Ocean performed in the years 1796, 1797,
1798, in the Ship Duff commanded by Captain James Wilson.
Compiled from the Journals of the officers and missionaries.
With a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of
the South Sea Islands and an Appendix including details never
published before on the natural and civil state of Otaheite.
Quarto, 7 charts (5 folding) and 13 plates as listed in text, original
boards, rebacked in early nineteenth century leather spine cover, some
paper bruising on title page. London S. Gosnell for T.Chapman,
1799. Appears to be a variant of the First Edition.
$800 – $1200
Australia
73. Bonwick James. Discovery and Settlement of Port
Phillip; Being the History of the Country now called Victoria.
Octavo, 142p, title page Melbourne, Printed by Goodall &
Demaine. Published for The Author by George Robertson, First
Edition, 1856. (Fergusson, 7198. As originally bound in light
blue printed paper wrappers Printed by Wm. Goodhugh & Co,
1859 for the Second Edition and published as in (Fergusson
7199) without map.
$500 – $800
74. Byrne J C. Twelve Years Wanderings in the British
Colonies from 1835 to 1847. Two Volumes, octavo, original gilt
cloth, folding maps by James Wyld of New Zealand and Australia
in front pockets of both volumes. London 1848. Bagnall. 858,
Fergusson 4725
$300 – $500
75. Collins David. An Account of the English Colony
in New South Wales…. to which are added particulars of
New Zealand, (Within the second volume) An account of a
voyage performed by Captain Flinders and Mr Bass; by which
the existence of a strait separating Van Dieman’s Land from
the continent of New Holland was ascertained. Two volumes,
quarto, volume 1 with 2 engraved maps, one folding, 18 plates, and
illustrations in the text, volume 2 with engraved frontispiece, map
and 4 plates ( 3 hand coloured) illustrations in the text ( 2 hand
coloured) uniform contemporary sprinkled calf, spines panelled with
gilt ornaments, black labels, spines rebacked with original covers,
slight browning on title page of Vol 1. First Edition London 1798-
1802. Fergusson 263 Bagnall 1341
A nice set in matching contemporary bindings, information on
New Zealand supplied by the Maori flax dressers Huru and
Tuki while on Norfolk Island, with Tuki’s map of the North
Island.