Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

A$5,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

[Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington Charles Heape, 1898. Lithographed by Palmer, Howe Co., Manchester . Edition limited to 175 copies (this copy is no.123). Oblong folio, [xii], 225 sheets, lithographed recto only, illustrated; includes Australia (leaves 95-146) and New Zealand (leaves 147-225); first couple of leaves foxed, otherwise clean and bright throughout; housed in the original blue and black portfolio box with working brass clasp, pictorial title label to lid; a fine example. With all the Additional notes for all three volumes, dated 1899, not always present. The third of the three magnificent ethnographical albums produced by British ethnologist Edge-Partington between 1890 and 1898, this portfolio contains illustrated plates of artefacts from Tahiti, the Hawaiian Islands, the Marquesas, the Fijian Islands, the Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, Micronesia, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Australia, and New Zealand. After well over a century, Edge-Partington s accurate line drawings remain highly valued by scholars and art connoisseurs alike. The objects were sketched first-hand by him during his tour of the major Australian and New Zealand

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