Author: Stephan, Emile & Fritz Graebner.
Title: Neu-Mecklenburg (Bismarck-Archipel). Die küste von Umuddu bis Kap St.Georg. Forschungsergebnisse bei den Vermessungs-fahrten von S.M.S. Möwe im Jahre 1904.
Description: Berlin, Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1907. 12,242,[1] pp. B./w. frontispiece, [2] b./w plts with ships, 133 b./w. text-ills, 3 plates with musical notes (= Notenbeilage I-III). Orig. hardcover (blue linen) with gilt title & cover vignette. - Some shelfwear (sl. worn, corners sl. bumped.) - [AND: (in rear pocket)] Beiheft zu Neu-Mecklenburg [...]. Idem. 1 fold. lithogr. b./w. map & 9 plates (2 col.), [11] pages with explanatory (partly on fold. lvs). Orig. wrappers. - Light shelwear; hinges strenghtened; later added endpapers (first free endpaper missing); plate VII/VIII sl. torn along the centrefold (not affect. the image; last page with explanatory text (on plate IX) sl. dam. along the edge. Rare publication on New Ireland, a large island in Papua New Guinea. It is the largest island of the New Ireland Province, lying northeast of the island of New Britain. Both islands are part of the Bismarck Archipelago, named after Otto von Bismarck. While the island was part of German New Guinea, it was named Neumecklenburg (New Mecklenburg).

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