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Oceania.- Forrest - A Voyage to New Guinea, and the

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Oceania.- Forrest - A Voyage to New Guinea, and the

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( Capt. Thomas) A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan , second edition, engraved portrait frontispiece and 32 plates, maps and plans, offsetting (including portrait on to title), contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, corners repaired, covers marked, [Hill p.108], 4to, G.Scott, 1780. Early work on New Guinea, with a vocabulary of the Magindano tongue at end.