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Title: Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas. Africa and the East Indies, A catalogue of rare books and pamphlets, original paintings in oils and water colours, manuscript journals, letters and documents of great historical interest, and rare maps and engravings.
Description: London, The Museum Book Store. 1927, First Edition. Soft cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, 160 pages, lists 1627 items. Sections on Principla voyages to the South Seas; New South Wales; Queensland and Northern Australia; South Australia; Victoria; Western Australia; Tasmania; Transportation' Polynesia; Sandwich Islands; Fiji, New Guinea; Samoa; Society Islands; Africa; East Indies; India. The catalogue includes paintings by Edward Roper: New Zealand and Victoria; William Leigh's drawing books; Captain Westmacott's original drawings; the drawings of Jean Eugene von Guerard; and many portraits of Maori chiefs, Maori women and scenes, including a collection of 37 water colour drawings of tattooed Maori heads and 3 drawings of Maori tattoo patterns by General H.G. Robley. Good.

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