Papua New Guinea

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James CHALMERS (1841-1901)

• Adventures in New Guinea

George COLLINGRIDGE (1847-1931)

• The first Discovery of Australia and New Guinea

H M DAUNCEY

• Papuan Pictures

J. W. (John William) LINDT (1845-1926)

• Picturesque New Guinea
  (includes photographs by J.W. Lindt during Sir Peter Scratchley's Expedition)

John MacGILLIVRAY (1822-1867)

• Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 1846-50, Volume 1
• Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, 1846-50, Volume 2
  The above ebooks include details of discoveries and surveys in New Guinea.

Nikolai Nikolaevich (Nicholas) MIKLOUHO-MACLAY (1846-1888)
Wikipedia -- Australian Dictionary of Biography

• New Guinea Diaries (1871-1883) [External link: PDF file 7mb.]
  (Translated from the Russian with biographical and historical notes by C.L. Sentinella)

John MORESBY (1830-1922)

• Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea and the D'Entrecasteaux Islands

J. H. P. (Sir John Hubert Plunkett) MURRAY (1861-1940)

• Papua or British New Guinea

W. D. PITCAIRN

• Two Years Among the Savages of New Guinea (1891)

Sir Ernest SCOTT (1868-1939)

• A Short History of Australia (Chapter XXV, Papua and the Pacific)

H. Wilfrid WALKER

• Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines (1909)
  (Parts IV and V)

Robert Wood WILLIAMSON, 1856-1932

• The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea

George Arnold WOOD, (1865-1928)

• The Discovery of Australia (There are many references to "New Guinea" and "New Britain" in this work.)

Maps

Hammond's map of Australia and New Guinea,
showing British and German annexations.
Published 1885.

Papua or British New Guinea c.1887