Australia, New Zealand & Pacific

A HAOLO [= BATES, George Washington]. Sandwich Island notes.
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1854. 8vo. Full-page wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Alexander Liholiho and 21 wood-engraved illustrations (9 full-page) in text. 20th-century blue half cloth. 493, [1] pp. Full description

ARAGO, Jacques Etienne Victor. Souvenirs d'un aveugle, voyage autour du monde. Ouvrage enrichi de soixante dessins et de notes scientifiques.
Paris, Hortet and Ozanne, 1839. 4 volumes. 8vo. With 2 engraved portraits, of Jacques and François Arago, and 60 full-page lithographed plates, all after drawings by the author. Contemporary green half sheepskin, gold-tooled spines. [4], 400; [4], 423 [1 blank]; [4], 399, [1 blank]; [4], 451, [1 blank] pp. Full description

[AUSTRALIA - PILOT GUIDE]. The Australia directory; volume 1. Containing directions for the southern shores of Australia, from Cape Leeuwin to Port Stephens, including Bass' Strait and Van Diemen's Land.
London, J. Hartnell for the Hydrographic Office, 1830. 8vo. Contemporary half calf. [8], 248, [8] pp. Full description

[AUSTRALIA - PHOTOGRAPHY]. PAINE, John & Steven SPURLING II. [Photograph album containing pictures of New South Wales and Tasmania].
[Australia, 1870s-1880s]. 16.5 x 37 cm. With 34 mounted albumen prints, mostly between 10 x 15 cm and 18 x 23.5 cm, with the smallest ca. 7 x 10 cm, most of them captioned underneath in ink. Oblong half morocco photo album, titled "Queensland" on the front. 18 ll. Full description

[BAGHDAD - WORLD WAR I - PHOTOGRAPHY]. [Album with photographs of Baghdad after its capture by the British in 1917].
Baghdad and Samarra, [1917-]1918. 17 x 24 cm. With 163 sepia tone photographs (ca. 6.5 x 4 cm) mounted on cloth-backed paper, a few captioned in ink on the page. Side-stitched. 25 ll. Full description

BAMBRIDGE, William and Robert MAUNSELL (translator). He whakapapa ara. Nga mahi me nga aha noa a te Atua raua ko tana Hahi (= A record. The works and the dealings of God with his Church).
Auckland, J. Williamson for the Church Mission, 1847. 12mo. Blue paper wrappers. 45, [3 blank] pp. Full description

BEATTIE, John Watt. [Album with 32 photographs of Tasmania].
Hobart, [ca. 1895]. Oblong folio (30 x 41cm). With 32 original photographs (ca. 17 x 23 cm), pasted on paperboard. Later gold-tooled red morocco. Full description

BECHTINGER, Joseph. Ein Jahr auf den Sandwich-Inseln. (Hawaiische Inseln.) ... Memoiren. - Band I. [all published].
Vienna, for the author (colophon: printed by W. Jacobi), 1869. 8vo. With wood-engraved frontispiece, 7 illustration plates (showing 14 numbered wood-engravings with letterpress captions), 3 woodcuts in the text, and a tinted lithographic folding map. Original publisher's yellow printed-paper wrappers with wood-engraved vignette. [7], [1 blank], 202, [4] pp. Full description

BEECHEY, Frederick William. Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F.W. Beechey,, ... in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28.
London, Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley (back of the title-page in vol. 2: printed by Thomas Davison), 1831. 2 volumes. Large 8vo. With 3 lithographed maps (2 large folding), 20 engraved plates (mostly views), 3 two-page folding plates of fossils and 1 engraved illustration in the text. Contemporary half green morocco, marbled edges. XXVI, [1], [1 blank], 472; IV, 330, [1], 331-452 pp. Full description

[BESNARD, Thomas Pope]. A voice from the bush in Australia: shewing its present state, advantages, and capabilities, in a series of letters from an Irish settler and others in New South Wales. With appendices ...
Dublin, William Curry junior & Co.; London, Smith, Elder & Co.; Edinburgh, John Johnstone, 1839. 12mo. With wood-engraved frontispiece, nearly full-page wood-engraved illustration on page 25 and a letterpress folding table. Modern marbled wrappers. 108 pp. Full description