Polynesie

Polynesie — marelibri

Interesting Collection of Two Folders with over 150 Original Film Negatives Taken by a French Traveller in Tahiti in the 1930s Showing Native Women in Traditional Costumes Dancers Fishermen Families Villages Beaches Mountains and Forests the Compiler and His Friends a City Embankment with a Naval Ship Likely in Papeete “Saint Lazare” Church Coastal Views Sailing Voyage on a Schooner &c. Ca. 1930s.

Best.-Nr. PF31Two folders for film negatives. Folder 1: 85x9x35 cm 3 ¼ x 3 ½ x 1 ¼ in; with ca. 96 negatives each 6x6 cm 2 ¾ x 2 ¾ in all inserted into tissue paper pockets with printed numbers in the upper corners. No captions. Period brown full cloth folder with silver-lettered title “Album/Classeur/6x6.” Several negative slightly faded but overall a very good folder. Folder 2: ca. 8x85x3 cm 3 x 3 ¼ x 1 ¼ in; with ca. 60 negatives each 6x6 cm 2 ¾ x 2 ¾ in all inserted into tissue paper pockets with printed numbers in the upper corners. No captions. With several pieces of paper with period ink captions in French referring to the previously removed negatives. Period light brown folder with cloth spine and card covers; gilt-lettered title “Classeur/Film/6x6” on the spine. Housed in the original brown card clamshell box. The box is partly cracked on folds several negatives mildly faded otherwise a very good internally clean folder. Interesting extensive collection of over 150 original film negatives taken by a French traveller in French Polynesia in the 1930s. The negatives include portraits of the compiler and his wife or girlfriend posing in various settings on the beach and in their residences wearing pareos and swimsuits dining and having fun on the beach with their friends. Numerous negatives portray native women wearing traditional pareos and lei playing musical instruments guitar accordion piano combing hair posing on the beach and among palms &c. There are also lively beach and village scenes with local couples and families dancers in traditional costumes fishermen people in outrigger canoes views of residences taken from the sea forest and mountains a portrait of a fisherman fixing his net several scenes taken on board a schooner “goélette” a view of a city embankment and a naval ship in harbour likely in Papeete an image of a church building with the sign “Saint Lazare” &c. Several paper labels with period manuscript captions to the previously removed negatives indicate that they were taken by “Andre” in 1938 in Papeete and during a sailing voyage to Raiatea. Overall a lively collection of original film negatives showing Tahiti and its people in the late 1930s. hardcover

Globus Rare Books & Archives · Vereinigte Staaten1.500,00 $≈ 1.337,49 €

Asia / Polynesia - Tallis, John / Rapkin, John (1817 - 1876)Biblio.com

Polynesia or Islands in the Pacific Ocean with New Guinea Caroline Islands Nippon New Hebrides Society Islands Sandwich Islands with beuatiful Vignettes and illustrations of Kalakakooa Sandwich Islands Hawaii Otaheite Harbour of Dory New Guinea Resolution Bay Marquesas and the Northwest tip of Australia and California shown in the outskirts of the map.

1851Best.-Nr. 2027AG1851. London & New York J & F. Tallis 1851. Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. Plate Size: 35.7 cm x 25.8 cm. Sheet Size: 37.5 cm x 27.3 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition. John Tallis 7 November 1817 3 June 1876 was an English cartographic publisher. His company John Tallis and Company published views maps and atlases in London from roughly 1838 to 1851. Tallis set up as a publisher with Frederick Tallis in Cripplegate in 1842; the business moved to Smithfield in 1846 and was dissolved in 1849. From 1851 to 1854 Tallis operated as John Tallis and Company. He started The illustrated news of the world and national portrait gallery of eminent personages in 1858 selling it for £1370 in 1861; it folded in 1863. Wikipedia The most important project John Tallis undertook was the 'Illustrated Atlas' from 1851. The original map we offer here was part of this exceptional Atlas and all the maps it contained are still today considered as the last reminder of an era of lavish map production. Tallis worked the project together with John Rapkin 1815-1876 and it was Rapkin's style and talent that we have to thank for when we marvel at these maps today. What makes these maps so special is the detail of engraved vignettes that surround the map and often show indigenous scenes people in their environment and even more so historical buildings or historical views of towns and cities architecture and landscape. The project of 'The Illustrated Atlas' was designed to be finished just in time for the anxiously awaited "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations" or The Great Exhibition sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition in reference to the temporary structure in which it was held was an international exhibition that took place in Hyde Park London from 1 May to 11 October 1851. It was the first in a series of World's Fairs exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century and it was a much anticipated event. The Great Exhibition was organized by Henry Cole and Prince Albert husband of the reigning monarch Queen Victoria. It was attended by numerous notable figures of the time including Charles Darwin Samuel Colt members of the Orléanist Royal Family and the writers Charlotte Brontë Charles Dickens Lewis Carroll George Eliot and Alfred Tennyson. Music for the opening was under the direction of Sir George Thomas Smart and the continuous music from the exhibited organs for the Queen's procession was "under the superintendence of William Sterndale Bennett". Wikipedia unknown

Inanna Rare Books Ltd. · Irland275,00 €

DOMENY DE RIENZI Grégoire LouisMareMagnum

OCEANIA. O quinta parte del mondo. Rivista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia, sui resultati dei viaggi e delle scoperte dell’Autore e de’ suoi predecessori e colle nuove classificazioni e divisioni di quelle contrade. Traduzione di A. Francesco Falconetti, adorna di trecentododici incisioni.

In-8 (mm. 232x146), 3 volumi, mz. pelle coeva (piatti con abrasioni), fregi e titolo oro al dorso, pp. (4),416; (4),411; (4),624; testo su due colonne; molto ben illustrato da 294 (su 312) tavole numerate e inc. in rame, di cui 5 (a noi mancanti) sono carte geografiche (del Borneo, della Melanesia, della Polinesia e Micronesia, della Malesia, dell'Oceania in genere). Le pregevoli tavole, poste al fine del 1° e 2° vol., raffigurano: vedute, usi e costumi, sculture, ritratti dei nativi, templi, flora e fauna locali, strumenti musicali, ecc. Le pp. 81-84 del I vol. sono di trascrizione musicale (con tanto di notazione) di canti malesi, giavanesi, melanesiani e polinesiani e le pp. 278-79 contengono lo "Schizzo d'un prospetto poliglotto comparativo di 21 lingue e specialmente delle lingue tzengari ed altre che derivano dal sanscrito". Tavole dei capitoli sono poste al fine dell’ultimo volume. "Prima versione italiana", di A. F. Falconetti. L’autore fu gran viaggiatore in Oceania e in Oriente, letterato, geografo, deputato e membro di accademie francesi, inglesi e italiane. L’opera fa parte della Collana “L’Universo o storia e descrizione di tutti i popoli, ecc.”. Cfr. “The Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages”, n. 485 per l’ediz. francese del 1836-37: “Domeny de Rienzi (1789-1843) gathered a particularly important collection of material on Malaysia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Melanesia. The work contains a thorough discussion of the area’s peoples, natural history, geography, and commerce, as well as the history of its exploration. This edition also contains handsome illustrations and maps”. Prime 160 tavole con aloni; testo pressochè intonso e ben conservato.

Libreria Antiquaria Malavasi · Milano, IT300,00 €