A Prehistory of Australia, New Guinea and Sahul
Sydney, Academic Press, 1982. With the contemporary pencilled ownership signature of anthropologist Peter Sutton. More
Anthropology
The Australian Aboriginal Heritage. An Introduction through the Arts
Sydney, Australian Society for Education through the Arts/ Ure Smith, 1978 (second, amended and corrected, edition)/ 1973. With a one-page foreword to this edition by Ronald Berndt (who has also added references which bring the book up to date). Aside from the editors, contributors include Catherine H. Berndt, Catherine Ellis..... More
Art in North-East New Guinea
Budapest, Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1961. The author was Director of the Ethnographical Museum of Budapest; translated by Eva Racz. More
Kunst und Kultur aus der Südsee. Sammlung Clausmeyer Melanesien
Köln, Stadt Köln, 1987. Text in German. Extensive catalogue of the Clausmeyer collection from the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne. More
Voyageurs et Curieux. Arts Primitifs, Curiosités, Livres Anciens. Regard sur les Îles Salomon
Paris, Voyageurs et Curieux, 2002. Text in French. A catalogue of Solomon Islands artefacts. More
The Lost World of Irian Jaya
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1985 (third impression)/ 1983. A significant work, published posthumously (the author died of leukaemia at the age of thirty in 1977). More
Prehistoric and Primitive Art
London, Thames and Hudson, 1969. More
'Artificial Curiosities'. Being an Exposition of Native Manufactures collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook RN ...
Honolulu, Bishop Museum Press, 1978. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Number 65; an impressive catalogue prepared for the bicentennial of the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands by Captain Cook (18 January 1778). More
Authority and Ornament. Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea
Basel, Tribal Art Centre, 1985. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, from January 1985 to November 1988. More
The Fuller Collection of Pacific Artifacts
London, Lund Humphries, 1971. 'Although the Fuller Collection is pan-Pacific ..., its three main segments are derived from Polynesia, Melanesia and Australia. The areas most amply represented - and, consequently, those treated most extensively in this volume - are New Zealand and the Solomon Islands' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Africa. Tribal Art of Forest and Savanna
London, Thames and Hudson, 1980. 'Over two hundred treasures of art, drawn from private collections and never before made available to the public, have been superbly photographed by the collector, Arnold Bamert' (dustwrapper blurb). More
Melanesians of the South-east Solomon Islands
London, Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1972 (facsimile edition)/ 1927. More
Ethnology of Vanuatu. An Early Twentieth Century Study
Bathurst, Crawford House Press, 1991 (first edition in English)/ 1923. Translated by D.Q. Stephenson, 'this rich documentation [is] the result of Swiss anthropologist Felix Speiser spending more than two years in the field [from] May 1910 to July 1912'. More
Kula. Myth and Magic in the Trobriand Islands
Wahroonga, Cowrie Books, 1998. Signed by the author in ink on the title page. The Trobriand Islands are north-east of mainland Papua New Guinea, and north of Fergusson Island. More
New Ireland. Art of the South Pacific
Paris/ Milan, Musée du quai Branly/ 5 Continents Editions, 2006. Catalogue to accompany the exhibition at the St Louis Art Museum, (15 October, 2006 - 7 January, 2007). More
Faces of Papua New Guinea
Darlingurst, Emperor Publishing, 1990. More
The Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Bathurst, Robert Brown and Associates, 1983. More
L'Ile de Paques et ses Mystères. La Première étude réunissant tous les documents connus sur cette île mystérieuse
Paris, Editions Tel, 1935. Text in French. Preface by E. Loppé. The trade edition of the first illustrated book on Easter Island. Although Stéphen-Charles Chauvet (1885-1950) 'derived much of his information from sources of mixed reliability, his book remains an important work, in particular, because of the copious illustrations, some..... More
Art of the Pacific
New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979. 'Conversations by James MacNeish, with commentary by David Simmons'. More
Oceanic Art
Cologne, Konemann, 1995. Dated (16 February 1997), signed and warmly inscribed in ink by the author on the half-title, with an ink drawing by the author. Text in English, German and French. More
Heirs to the Silk Road. Uzbekistan
London, Thames and Hudson, 1997. 'The young republic of Uzbekistan, with its ancient urban cultural centers of Bukhara, Chiwa and Samarkand, is the heartland of the Silk Road. The artistic and cultural history of the region, through more than two millennia, is represented here in four main sections ...' (from..... More
New Guinea Art. Masterpieces of the Jolika Collection of Marcia and John Friede
San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco/ 5 Continents Editions, 2005. Presentation copy, dated (19 December 2005), signed and warmly inscribed in ink by John Friede on the half-title. Includes an essay by Robert L. Welsch. More
Aboriginal Australia
Sydney, Australian Gallery Directors Council, 1981. An important catalogue of an exhibition that toured the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Australian Museum and the Queensland Art Gallery in 1981 and 1982. More
Man as Art. New Guinea Body Decoration
London, Thames and Hudson, 1981. More
Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and the Americas. The James Hooper Collection
London, Hutchinson, 1976. When the book was published, the collection, formed over a period of sixty years, was 'the least known and least published of the great collections made this century (Oldman, Beasley, Fuller and Hooper) and the last to remain in private hands... (Hooper's) particular love was for the..... More