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TAHITI & INDOCHINA. Voyage of a libertine, late 1930s. Pacific and Far East campaign, December 1935-February 1938. Travel album containing 195 vintage silver prints in various formats, concerning Tahiti (97) and Indochina (98), most of them depicting women, more or less venal. Some fifty prints are "female nude studies"...

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TAHITI & INDOCHINA. Voyage of a libertine, late 1930s. Pacific and Far East campaign, December 1935-February 1938. Travel album containing 195 vintage silver prints in various formats, concerning Tahiti (97) and Indochina (98), most of them depicting women, more or less venal. Some fifty prints are "female nude studies"...

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Oceania - MOERENHOUT (Jacques-Antoine). Voyages aux îles du Grand Océan, containing new documents on the physical and political geography, language, literature, religion, manners, usages and customs of their inhabitants and general considerations on their trade, history and government, from the earliest times to the present day. With map and plates. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1837. 2 vol. in-8 of xv, 574 pp. ; vii, 520 pp. Bradel green percaline boards, rocaille irons, gilt title and tomaison on spine (period binding). Spines slightly faded. Covers and spines rubbed. First edition, illustrated with 4 out-of-text lithographs (O'tahitienne and Tati, principal chief at Papara, Otahiti - Baie de Maïrépéhé and Montagnes de Taïarabou - Pafaï, chief at Otaïti, and Adams, sole survivor of the rebels from the English warship Bounty found on Pitcairn Island - Papaïti Bay in Otaïti) and 1 fold-out map drawn by Ambroise Tardieu based on the map drawn in 1824 by Captain Duperrey and Moerenhout's observations. "One of the best works on ancient Tahiti. Moerenhout was in contact with many natives [...] he knew the survivors of the first generation of missionaries [...] he is therefore a first-rate witness to life on the island from 1828 to 1834 [...] Voyages aux Iles du Grand Océan provides first-hand documentation on French Polynesia and Tahiti [....] The history and ethnography of Tahiti in particular are abundantly dealt with [...] Les Voyages aux Iles du Grand Océan was for a long time an unobtainable book [before the Maisonneuve reissues of 1942 and 1959]" (O'Reilly, Bibliographie de Tahiti et de la Polynésie française, no. 876). "Excellent work, very important for history and ethnography" (Chadenat, n°135). A few scattered freckles, one browned section, a few cuts to the map and folds, otherwise a very good copy of this essential work on Tahiti and Polynesia, extremely rare in its original edition.

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