Franconésie Catalogue #22: Pacific Islands

65316
ACOSTA, Jose Juan Suarez, LORENZO, Felix Rodriguez & PADRON, Carmelo L. Quintero
CONQUISTA Y COLONIZACION
$20.00 AUD

Centro de la Cultura Popular Canaria. Santa Cruz de Tenerife. 1988. 1st Ed. No. 2 in the Historia Popular de Canarias series. 112 PP, (3 index), (2 authors) with 2 b/w plates and b/w illustrations (graph, maps & plans). Pictorial soft cover. Spanish text. Very good. 21 x 15. 8440412517

65236
ADAMS, Henri
LETTRES DES MERS DU SUD, Traduites de l'Américain avec des Notes et une Introduction par Evelyne de Chazeau
$35.00 AUD

Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1974. Publication No. 34, translated from the American, annotated and introduced by Evelyne De Chazeaux. XXXII, 446 PP, plus 1 folded map, 4 colour plates on full page, and 24 pages with 33 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, dj. Many pages uncut. Dust jacket rubbed. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. French text. 25 x 16.4.

Sixty-six letters written by this American historian while travelling the Pacific in 1890-91 with his friend, the painter John La Farge (many of the illustrations are by this painter).

52346
AMIOT-ROLLAND, Denise, ANOUYA, GODARD, Philippe, HARBULOT, Geneviève et al.
DU ROCHER A LA VOILE - Recueil de récits et nouvelles
$25.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2006. 1st Ed. No. 3 in Collection Lettres du Pacifique. Preface by Hélène Colombani. 206, (2) PP with 6 head pieces and 12 portraits. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747582604

33 short stories or narratives set in New Caledonia.

52292
ANGLEVIEL, Frederic, & TERRIER, Christian (editors)
HISTOIRE DE LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE. Approches croisées
$50.00 AUD

Les Indes Savantes / Pacific History Association. Paris. 2007. 1st Ed. Volume 1 of Proceedings. 307, (3) PP with 2 maps, 4 graphs, 4 tables and 26 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Texts in English or French with abstracts in other languages. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17. 2846541558

Proceedings of the 16th Pacific History Association conference, Noumea/Kone (6-10 Decembre 2004). Volume 1: 22 papers (17 in French and 5 in English).

67130
ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric
GRAVURES CALEDONIENNES D'ANTAN: Du temps des Austronésiens à la Colonisation Libre (1100 ans avant J.- C. à 1903)
$100.00 AUD

Editions Footprint Pacifique. Nouméa. 2015. 1st Ed. 208 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. French text. Fine. 29.7 x 23.7. 9782908166002

54241
ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric (editor)
LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE, TERRE DE METISSAGES
$30.00 AUD

Les Indes Savantes / Groupe de Recherche en Histoire Océanienne Contemporaine. Paris. 2004. 1st Ed. Volume 1 in Annales d'histoire calédonienne. 274 PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 22 x 15.8. 2846540950

15 papers on: New Caledonia, a land of cross breeding: biological (different races) and cultural (different backgrounds). Authors: Eddy Wadrawane, Luc Legeard ... Philippe Palombo... Jerry Delathière... Hamid Mokkadem ...

64125
ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric & PAPILIO-HALAGAHU, Bernadette
WALLIS ET FUTUNA, 3500 ans d'Histoire
$75.00 AUD

Comité du Cinquantième / GRHOC. Noumea. 2014. 1st Ed. 120 PP with 2 maps, b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. Oblong: 22.3 x 22.5. 9782953990805

A French dependancy in the central Pacific: archipelago north of Fiji and south of the Equator.

65802
ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric, BOUBIN-BOYER, Sylvette, LAGARDE, Louis and LEGEARD, Luc
HISTOIRE DU PAYS KUNIE (L'Île des Pins) - De la terre de tous les exils à l'île la plus proche du Paradis
$45.00 AUD

Mairie de l'Ile des Pins et Editions du GRHOC. Nouméa. 2014. 1st edition with foreword by Sarah and Hilarion Vendégou. 120 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards. French text. New. 22.5 x 22.5. 9782953990867

57281
ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric, DUGAST, Stephane, HUETZ DE LEMPS, Christian ...
ILES FUNESTES, ILES BIENHEUREUSES (in Chemins d'étoiles)
$40.00 AUD

Transboréal. Paris. 2004. Issue No. 12, August 2004. 269, (3) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 2913955264

Clipperton, by Stéphane Dugast. Kerguelen, by Christophe Houdaille. Vanuatu, by Virginie Lanouguère-Bruneau. ...

65179
APIKAOUA, Roch & BRISEUL, Jean-Paul
LE PRÊTRE ET LE JUGE - Le Père Roch Apikaoua s'entretient avec le Juge Jean-Paul Briseul
$20.00 AUD

Le Corridor Bleu. Saint Pierre. 2014. 1st Ed. Preface by Jean-Yves Faberon. 246, (10) PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 21.5 x 14.5. 9782914033428

Interviews of a Catholic Priest of Kanak origin on the problems of New Caledonia, conducted by a French Judge.

11929
ARAMIOU, Sylvain & EURITEIN, Jean
KE YU MÊRÊ A'JIË - Langue A'Jië - Propositions d'Ecriture
$30.00 AUD

F.E.L.P./Section des Langues Vernaculaires. Houaïlou. 1986. 1st Ed., Volume 1 in Collection Bweweye (Allée Centrale). 75 PP with 2 maps, plus 1 errata page for 18 corrections. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Text in French and A'jië. 24 x 15.5.

Deals with one of the 28 languages of the Kanaks, written by and for the Kanaks.

47772
ARAMIOU, Sylvain, & EURITEIN, Jean (editors)
PECI I BWEEYOUU ERIJIYI / CAHIERS DE BOESOU EURIJISI. Pèci ka baayê 1915-1920 / Première série 1915-1920
$30.00 AUD

F.E.L.P. / Section des Langues Vernaculaires. Houaïlou. 2002. 1st Ed., No. 7 in Collection Bweweye - Allée Centrale. 180 PP with 1 photo, 2 pages (facsimile of original manuscript) and 6 b/w drawings. Pictorial soft cover. A'Jie text with French abstracts. Fine. 24 x 15.5.

64155
ARCHIVES DE LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE & CORRE, Bruno
COLLECTION SCHELER (dite La Collection Amsterdam) - Exposition Organisée par le Service Territorial des Archives de Nouvelle-Calédonie (Inventaire)
$10.00 AUD

Archives Territoriales de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 1993. Booklet "Inventaire" with a foreword by Alain Christnacht: 58 PP with 10 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. French text. Format: 22 x 15.

Collection Scheler (referred to as the Collection Amsterdam) on the political convicts (communards), deported / exiled to New Caledonia between 1872 and 1878.

64156
ARCHIVES DE LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE & VITTORI, Pascal
COLLECTION SCHELER (dite Collection Amsterdam), Exposition Organisée par le Service Territorial des Archives de Nouvelle-Calédonie - "Catalogue"
$10.00 AUD

Archives Territoriales de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 1993. Booklet "Catalogue" with a foreword by Alain Christnacht. 84 PP with 10 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. French text. 22 x 15.

Collection Scheler (referred to as the Collection Amsterdam) on the political convicts (communards), deported/exiled to New Caledonia between 1872 and 1878.

65756
ARMSTRONG, Anne (editor)
THE ISLAND ARK - Operation New Life on Guam, USA
$20.00 AUD

Marianas Naval Officers Wives Club. Agana, Guam. 1975. 1st Ed. 64 PP with over 120 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (Vietnamese refugees on one of the "Sealift" transport). Slight insect damage on front cover, o/wise near fine. 26.6 x 20.2.

Vietnamese refugees arriving on Guam: Airlift and Sealift. Settlement, life in camps, processing and departure for mailand USA.

38620
AUPLAT, Elisabeth
PAROLES OCEANIENNES / PACIFIC VOICES: VIIIe Festival des Arts du Pacifique (23 Octobre - 3 Novembre 2000)
$30.00 AUD

COFAP / Comité Organisateur du Festival des Arts du Pacifique. Nouméa. 2000. 1st Ed. 60, (14 adv.) PP with 1 map and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. French and English text. Fine. 27 x 27.

8th Festival of Pacific Arts, on the themes: Pacific Cultures on the move together. Presentation of the 24 participating countries (Aoteroa, Australia, Cook, Kiribati, Norfolk... Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna).

65801
AUPLAT, Elisabeth & GRANDCLER, Myriam
60 ANS DANS LE CIEL CALEDONIEN - 1954-2014 De La Transpac à Air Calédonie
$100.00 AUD

Air Calédonie. Nouméa. 2014. 1st Ed. Editorial by Samuel Hnepeune. Prefaces by Herbert Coursin and Louis Eschembrenner. 184 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus 2 illustrated plates with signed dedicatory notes by Herbert Coursin and Louis Eschembrenner. Hard cover, illustrated front. Small scratch/bump on bottom side edge, o/wise near fine. French text. 29.7 x 25.5.

The national airline of New Caledonia, linking Noumea to the major townships of mainland and the outlying archipelagoes of Belep, Loyalty and Isle of Pines.

11641
AUSTRALIAN AIRLINES
BICENTENNIAL Issue - The Australian Way
$10.00 AUD

Australian Airlines. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. 140 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Bonaparte Map circa 1695). Near fine. 29.7 x 22. 008189161

Special issue for the passengers of Australian Airlines (calendar for the bicentennial year). A vision of Eden, by Manning Clark. The next 200 years by Phillip Adams... Scientific beginnings by Robyn Williams...

66104
BAERT, Annie
MARQUISE DE LA MER DU SUD - Les premiers voyages espagnols en Océanie... racontés par l'une de leurs actrices, doña Isabel Barreto
$60.00 AUD

Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2011. 1st Ed. 286, (2) PP with tables and 3 maps. Pictorial stiff covers. Title page with dedicatory note signed by the author. French text. Fine. 22.6 x 14.5. 9782915654851

13762
BANQUE NATIONALE DE PARIS
EARLY FRENCH VOYAGES TO AUSTRALIA - LES PREMIERES EXPEDITIONS FRANCAISES VERS L'AUSTRALIE (A portfolio of reproductions)
$450.00 AUD

Banque Nationale de Paris. Melbourne. 1981. Limited edition of 2300 copies. Special folder containing: An 8 PP text book with a preface by Rodney Davidson, 2 colour reproductions of invitations to attend State banquets marking the Centenary of Settlement in NSW (1888) and the opening of the Commonwealth Parliament (1901) and on title page (protected by tissue guard): Frontispiece of "Atlas du Voyage de La Pérouse, 1797". As well as 17 facsimiles of plates (4 of them on double page) from the atlases from Bougainville's Voyage until that of Dumont d'Urville's Second Voyage. Original blue stiff folder. Letter from Banque Nationale de Paris to previous owner loosely inserted. Fine. French & English text. Large folio (47.3 cm x 65.6cm). This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote.

66267
BARBANCON, Louis-José
L'ARCHIPEL DES FORCATS - Histoire du bagne de Nouvelle-Calédonie (1863-1931)
$60.00 AUD

Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. Lille, France. 2003. 1st Ed., in Histoire et Civilisations series. 448 PP with over 10 tables, 3 maps, 47 graphs, and 16 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note on preliminary page signed by the author. Near fine. French text. 24 x 15.8. 285939785X

History of the convict settlements of New Caledonia.

11688
BARRETT, Charles
THE ISLAND WORLD - An Anthology of the Pacific
$15.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1944. 1st Ed. 185 PP with 16 line drawings, plus 8 pages with 6 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): Red Bird of Paradise. Cloth cover, dj with a few chips. War economy paper. Name of previous owners on front endpaper, o/wise very good. 19 x 12.5.

An anthology of the Pacific, dedicated to the men of the fighting services: Australians, New Zealanders & Americans in the Pacific zone.

40813
BAUDCHON, Gérard (editor)
TABLEAUX DE L'ECONOMIE CALEDONIENNE 1997 - TEC 97
$25.00 AUD

I.T.S.E.E. Nouméa. 1997. 1st Ed. 224 PP with maps, graphs and tables. Inside covers: 14 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 23.8 x 15.7.

New Caledonia - Facts and Figures 1997. Economic and social study, as well as statistics for New Caledonia up to December 1997.

65661
BEARDSLEY, Charles
GUAM PAST AND PRESENT
$10.00 AUD

Charles E. Tuttle. Tokyo. 1965. 2nd printing of the 1964 original. 262 PP with 15 b/w photos, plus 1 folded map. Eps: Maps Isle de Guahan ou Isle St Jean. Cloth cover, device (outrigger canoe) on front board. Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 21.5 x 14.

46518
BELLWOOD, Peter (editorial co-ordinator)
INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY 1990 - Volume 1
$40.00 AUD

Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 1991. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, No. 10 - 1991. (8), 405 PP with tables and figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.

40 papers of the proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 26 August to 2 September 1991.

54935
BELLWOOD, Peter (editorial co-ordinator)
INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY 1990 - Volume 2
$35.00 AUD

Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 1991. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, No. 11 - 1991. (8), 411 PP with tables and figures. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on preliminary page, o/wise near fine. 25 x 17.

38 papers of the proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 26 August to 2 September 1991.

56193
BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, ALLEN, Jane... (Editorial Team)
INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Melaka Papers - Volume 4
$45.00 AUD

Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2000. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 20. (4), 170 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.

16 papers of the Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Melaka, Malaysia, 1-7 July 1998.

56194
BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, GLOVER, Ian... (Editorial Team)
INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Melaka Papers - Volume 5
$45.00 AUD

Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2001. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 21. (4), 169 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.

24 papers of the Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Melaka, Malaysia, 1-7 July 1998.

56195
BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, GLOVER, Ian... (Editorial Team)
INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Melaka Papers - Volume 6
$45.00 AUD

Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2002. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 22. (4), 180 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.

19 papers of the Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Melaka, Malaysia, 1-7 July 1998.

56197
BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, KEATES, Susan ... (Editorial Team)
INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Taipei Papers - Volume 2
$45.00 AUD

Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2004. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 24. (4), 168 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.

19 papers of the Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Taipei, Taiwan, 9 to 15 September 2002.

56196
BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, PEARSON, Richard ... (Editorial Team)
INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Taipei Papers - Volume 1
$45.00 AUD

Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2003. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Volume 23. (4), 200 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.

20 papers of the Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Taipei, Taiwan, 9 to 15 September 2002.

36473
BENCIVENGO, Yann
LA MINE EN NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE
$40.00 AUD

Editions Ile de Lumière. Nouméa. 1999. 1st Ed. Volume 2 in the "101 mots pour comprendre" series. 268 PP with b/w & colour illustrations and 2 folded colour maps. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French text. 19 x 13. 2912429072

Mines and mining industry in New Caledonia.

42697
BENNETT, George
WANDERINGS IN NEW SOUTH WALES, BATAVIA, PEDIR COAST, SINGAPORE AND CHINA; being the journal of a Naturalist in those countries during 1832, 1833, and 1834 (in two volumes)
$120.00 AUD

Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1967. Facsimile reprint of the 1834 original, No. 115 in the Australiana Facsimile Editions series. Volume I: (2), XVI, 440, (1) PP with 4 drawings. Fp: Bugong Mountain. Volume II: (2), VIII, 428 PP. Fp: Dutch & English portion of the European Factory at Canton. Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on spine. Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 22.2 x 14.5.

39923
BERGER, Bernard
LA BROUSSE EN FOLIE - Tome 8: ON A MARCHE SUR LA GOLCOSSE
$45.00 AUD

Editions Brousse en Folie. Nouméa. 1998. Reprint of the 1994 original. Volume 8 in "La Brousse en Folie" series. 52 PP of comic strips by Bernard Berger. Eps: The farm. Pictorial laminated boards. French text. Fine. 29.2 x 22.6.

Holidays on the Gold Coast.

65143
BERGER, Bernard
LE PAYS D'ENTRE-DEUX - La Fabuleuse Histoire du Destin Commun, Livre Deux: 1900-1957
$85.00 AUD

Editions La Brousse en Folie. Nouméa. 2014. 1st Ed. 164 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, comic strips and cartoons). Illustrated endpapers. Pictorial boards. French text. Fine. 29.2 x 22.6. 9782914544566

57890
BERNDT, Ronald M. & LAWRENCE, Peter (editors)
POLITICS IN NEW GUINEA, Traditional and in the Context of Change some Anthropological Perspectives
$20.00 AUD

University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 1971. 1st Ed. XVIII, 430 PP with 3 tables, 7 maps and 8 diagrams. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket with traces of water damage, o/wise very good. 24.8 x 17.8. 0855640537

66130
BESLU, Christian
TRANCHE DE VIE A MORUROA
$100.00 AUD

Société des Etudes Océaniennes & Editions Le Motu. Papeete. 2003. 1st edition in Collection Passé Présent. 128 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (charts, ephemera, maps and plans, newspaper clippings and photos). Laminated pictorial boards. Dedicatory note on front endpaper dated and signed by the author. French text. Fine. 28 x 24.8. 291510509X

Some aspects of life on Mururoa Atoll (French nuclear testing ground).

65836
BONNE, M.
ATLAS MARITIME OU CARTES REDUITES DE TOUTES LES CÔTES DE FRANCE, avec des Cartes particulières des Isles voisines les plus considérables, suivies des Plans des principales Villes Maritimes de ce Royaume
$4500.00 AUD

Chez Lattré. Paris. 1762. 1st Ed. Avertissement, 6 Mars, 1762, by Bellin. 8, (30 plates on double page), 46, 4 PP with 32 colour plates (Title page, Dédicace au Roi and 30 colour plates on double page (1 Chart of France, 6 charts on the Atlantic Coast, 2 charts on the Mediterranean Coast, 3 charts on islands off the Atlantic Coast and 18 of plans). Full leather bound, gilt decorated covers, gilt title (shortened) on spine, all edges gilt, marbled enddpapers. Last plate with a short repair at fold and a few pages have small nicks at the bottom and one very small repaired closed tear. Corners of covers rubbed. French text. A near fine copy. Rare. Octavo format: 12.8 x 8.5.

Coasts and Ports of France, before the purchase of the Island of Corsica. An item for the collector. More images available upon request.

37920
BONNER, Senator N.T., et al..
THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS OF ABORIGINES AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS AND THE PRESERVATION OF THEIR SACRED SITES
$10.00 AUD

The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia / A. G. P. S. Canberra. 1974. 1st Ed. XIV, 134 PP with 10 tables. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0642005729

Second progress report from the Senate Standing Committee on Social Environment.

65044
BOOTH, Robert
THE TWO SAMOAS STILL COMING OF AGE (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1985. Volume 168, No. 4, October 1985. Contains article between pages 452 and 473 with colour illustrations (1 location map, 1 map with National Flags, and 17 colour photos by Melinda Berge. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly rubbed. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

32957
BOUDINE, Joël
LE REGIME FISCAL DES DEPARTEMENTS D'OUTRE-MER
$35.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 1998. 1st Ed., in Sociétés et Economies Insulaires series. 264 PP, (6 adv.) with tables. Card cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 16. 273846436X

The French overseas Departments (including Réunion Island, Indian Ocean) and their financial system.

11845
BRAKE, Brian, McNEISH, James & SIMMONS, David
ART OF THE PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD

O.U.P. / Arts Councils of New Zealand. Wellington. 1979. 1st Ed. Preface by Hamish Keith. 240 PP with over 180 b/w & colour illust. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 31 x 24. 0195580435

Based on items from the most comprehensive collection of Pacific art found in New Zealand. Social significance and use of the items as well as the materials employed in their manufacture (wood, bone, shell, stone).

53158
BROOKFIELD, H. C., ELLIS, F. & WARD, R. G.
LAND, CANE AND COCONUTS - Papers on the rural economy of Fiji
$15.00 AUD

Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU. Canberra. 1985. 1st Ed. Publication HG/17 by yDepartment of Human Geograph. X, 11- 251, (3) PP with 1 map, 9 figures and 17 tables. Soft cover, illustrated front. Spine lightly sunned. Near fine. 24.4 x 17.2. 0867847271

65599
BROWN, Theo W.
THE BOY AND THE SHARK
$25.00 AUD

Ataruka Publishing. Sydney. 1979. 1st Ed. (24), 183 PP with 5 maps in text plus 40 pages with 14 colour and 45 bw photos. Hard cover, dj. Dedicatory note on verso of half title page dated and signed by the author. Dust jacket is fine, hard covers are a little speckled on outer edges and with foxing spots, o/wise a near fine copy. 24.2 x 15.5. 0959943668

Account on the research for a shark repellent carried out in Rangiroa, in the Tuamotus.

65889
BRUNE, Peter
THOSE RAGGED BLOODY HEROES: from the Kokoda Trail to Gona Beach 1942
$10.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1992. Second impression of the 1992 paperback edition of the 1991 original.. Foreword by Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Honner. XVI, 309 PP with b/w illustrations (6 drawings / cartoons, 12 maps / plans and 59 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on half title page. Near fine. 23 x 15.3. 1863732640

56951
BUFFETT, Alice & LAYCOCK, Donald C.
SPEAK NORFOLK TODAY
$35.00 AUD

Himii Publishing. Norfolk Island. 1988. 2nd printing in August 1988 of the June 1988 original. Publication No. 5, of Languages for Intercultural Communication in the Pacific Area Project of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Foreword by Shirley Harrison. VIII, 78 PP with 13 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Signed on title page by Alice Buffett, co-author. Fine. 20.6 x 14.2. 0731631080

65746
BULBECK, Chilla
AUSTRALIAN WOMEN IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Colonial Passages 1920-1960
$30.00 AUD

Cambridge University Press. Melbourne. 1992. 1st Ed. XII, 327 PP with 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Two names in the biographical notes underlined, o/wise fine. 24.2 x 17.8. 0521412854

50219
BÜHLER, Alfred, BARROW, Terry & MOUNTFORD, Charles P.
OCEANIA AND AUSTRALIA - The Art of the South Seas
$40.00 AUD

Methuen. London. 1965. Reprint of 1962 edition, in the Art of the World series. 250 PP with 1 table, 4 maps (2 on double page), 94 drawings, and 63 colour photographic plates tipped in. Title page: Marine creatures, Melville Island, Northern Australia. Cloth cover, illustrated slipcase. Near fine. 24 x 18.5.

52348
CADILHAC, Dominique
LES MONTAGNES DU PACIFIQUE
$40.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed. No. 6 in Lettres du Pacifique series. Preface by Hélène Colombani. 285, (5) PP with 21 drawings by the author. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 229601769X

Novel set in the Marquesas Islands.

65787
CALVO, Msgr. Oscar L. (editor)
THE APOSTLE OF THE MARIANAS - The Life, Labors and Martyrdom of Ven. Diego Luis de San Vitores 1627-1672
$40.00 AUD

Diocese of Agana. Agana, Guam. 1970. 1st Ed. Foreword by Felixberto Camacho Flores. Translated from the Spanish by Alberto Risco, S.J. and Juan M. H. Ledesma, S.J. XVI, 234 PP, plus 64 pages with 91 b/w illustrations (charts, maps and plans, drawings & engravings, photos). Fp: Venerable Diego Luis de San Vitores. FEP: Map with route between Spain and Guam. Hard cover, dj (chipped). Slight ageing of paper. Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Dedicatory note on title page, o/wise a very good clean copy. Scarce. 22.4 x 15.5.

41139
CAPON, Edmund & PANG, Mae Anna
CHINESE PAINTINGS OF THE MING AND QING DYNASTIES - XIV-XXth centuries
$5.00 AUD

International Cultural Corporation of Australia Limited. Sydney. 1981. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 1 map, 4 figures and 100 plates in colour. Laminated boards, illustrated front cover (seal of the exhibition). Name of previous owner on Contents page, o/wise near fine. 28.2 x 21.5. 0959412204

Travelling exhibition: New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia & Victoria, between April 1981 and January 1982.

11964
CARNE, Derek
LANDRIGHTS - A Christian Perspective
$10.00 AUD

Australian Council of Churches / Catholic Commission for Justice & Peace. Sydney. 1980. 1st Ed. (4), 160 PP with 12 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 21.8 x 13.8. 0909188408

Landrights and Aboriginal culture, Europeans and the Church.

32958
CARREIRA, Ernestine
SOURCES EUROPEENES SUR LE GUJARAT
$40.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 1998. 1st Ed., No. 10 in the Société d'Histoire de l'Orient series. 210 PP with 1 map. Decorated card cover. Near fine. English & French texts. 24 x 16. 2738474101

9 papers (2 in French and 7 in English) on the European knowledge of Gujarat, one of the powerful Indian Sultanate of the 15th and 16th centuries. From the archives of Great Britain, India, Netherlands and Sweden.

65303
CASARES, Joaquin Garcia
HISTORIA DEL DARIEN: Cuevas, Cunas, Españoles, Afros, presencia y actualidad de los Chocoes
$150.00 AUD

Editorial Universitaria Carlos Manuel Gasteazoro. Panama. 2008. 1st edition limited to 500 copies. 559 PP with b/w illustrations (charts & maps, plans & sketch maps, facsimile of documents and 40 photos) plus 9 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Lower corner of front cover with small creases, o/wise near fine. Spanish text. 28 x 23.2. 9789962531586

65311
CHALIAND, Gérard & RAGEAU, Jean-Pierre
ATLAS STRATEGIQUE - Géopolitique des rapports de forces dans le monde
$10.00 AUD

France Loisirs. Paris. 1984. 2nd edition. 224 PP with graphs, tables, maps and plans in colour by Catherine Petit. Laminated boards, illustrated front. French text. Near fine. Oblong: 18.5 x 25.5. 2724220080

42839
CHANSIN, Michel
C'EST UNE TERRE MA'OHI
$40.00 AUD

Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2001. 1st Ed., in Te / Ata / Mau series. 174 PP with 94 b/w plates. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. French text. 27.5 x 22. 2909790932

Pictorial witness of Tahiti.

16619
CHEVILLON, Christophe
BIOSEDIMENTOLOGIE DU GRAND LAGON NORD DE LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE
$20.00 AUD

Editions ORSTOM. Paris. 1992. 1st Ed. in Collection Etudes et Thèses series. 224 PP with graphs, 7 tables, and 82 figures. Pict. card cover. French text. Fine. 26.8 x 20.8. 2709911000

Study of 206 sediment samples from the soft bottoms of the Great Northern Lagoon of New Caledonia. Textural and granulometric characteristics, terrigenous fraction and colour.

65594
CLARKE, Peter
HELL AND PARADISE - The Norfolk, Bounty, Pitcairn Saga
$15.00 AUD

Viking. Melbourne. 1986. 1st Ed. 189 PP with b/w & colour illust. Half-title page: Cat-o'-nine-tails. Titlespread: Matavai Bay, Island of Otahytey. FEP: Map of Norfolk Island. REP: Map of Pitcairn Island. Cloth cover, title in blind on front cover and spine, dj. Signed by the author on front endpaper and signature of previous owner. Near fine. 26 x 24.5. 0670815217

Two small islands in the South Pacific, miles apart, but linked by a common history and the descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty.

65823
COCKCROFT, John
ISLES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC - Papua and New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville
$5.00 AUD

Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1968. 1st Ed. 136 PP with 1 map, 29 drawings by Faye Owner, 70 b/w and 16 colour photos (caption of photographs in English and Pidgin). Hard cover, device on front board. Name of previous owner on title page. Covers with rubbed patches and repaired at head of spine. Very good. 28.7 x 22.

35497
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
DEFENCE REPORT 1990-91
$15.00 AUD

A.G.P.S. Canberra. 1991. 1st Ed. VI, 300 PP with graphs, tables, organigrams and 263 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 24.9 x 17.5.

57598
CONNELL, John
NEW CALEDONIA OR KANAKY? The Political History of a French Colony
$40.00 AUD

ANU. Canberra. 1987. 1st Ed. Volume 16 in the Pacific Research Monograph series. XX, 493 PP (28 pages of references) with 22 tables, 18 maps, and 6 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly sunned and with creases. Near fine. 24.5 x 17.5. 0731505123

From the first settlers, Melanesians, to the 1987 "Fabius Plan", towards autonomy and independence.

66099
CORNET, Claude
LA GRANDE REVOLTE 1878 - Comptes-rendus officiels, Extraits de presse, Lettres et documents inédits
$65.00 AUD

Editions de la Boudeuse. Nouméa. 2000. 1st Ed. 313, (3) PP with 4 maps, 15 facsimile of documents and 16 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Dedicatory note on front endpaper signed by the author. French text. Fine. 21 x 15.

Kanak rebellion of 1878 against French settlers and troops, through official documents, newspaper reports ...

66100
CORNET, Claude
COMMUNARDS, PUIS CALEDONIENS - La vie et la descendance des déportés politiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie
$40.00 AUD

Editions de la Boudeuse. Nouméa. 1999. 1st Ed. 161, (3) PP with 12 b/w photos and 23 facsimile of documents. Pictorial card cover. Dedicatory note on front endpaper signed by the author. French text. Fine. 21 x 15.

Some of the Communards (political deportees) settled in New Caledonia, after the general Amnesty of 1878. Their life then and their lineage in New Caledonia today.

47514
CROCOMBE, Ron
THE NEW SOUTH PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD

Reed Education / University of the South Pacific. Wellington / Suva. 1978. Reprint of the 1973 original. VIII, 130, (3) PP, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Islands of the Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.2 x 13.8. 0589011049

Cover the indigenous traditions of the past and the impact of changes to the way of life. Future trends & developments.

65205
DALMAYRAC, Dany
L'ILE MONDE - Nouvelles
$40.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2004. 1st Ed. No. 2 in Collection Lettres du Pacifique. 156 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note dated and signed by the author. Near fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747582604

4 short stories set in New Caledonia.

54145
DAMM, Hans
KANAKA - Menschen der Südsee
$15.00 AUD

Veb F. A. Brockhaus Verlag. Leipzig. 1959. 1st Ed. 372 PP with 32 text illustrations (drawings, maps), plus 1 folded map, 8 colour plates and 20 plates with 31 b/w photos. Cloth cover, decoration on front cover, dj (chipped). German text. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 20.5 x 14.5.

65145
DAVAR
AGRICULTURE CALEDONIENNE - Mémento Agricole Données 2013 / Agricultural Memento Data 2013
$10.00 AUD

DAVAR (Direction des Affaires Vétérinaires, Alimentaires et Rurales). Nouméa. 2014. July 2014 edition. 2 folded brochures (French and English): 4 folds with graphs and tables. Pictorial front. Text in French or English. Fine. Small format: 16 x 11.5..

2013 state of agriculture in New Caledonia: in graphs and tables.

13714
DE CURTON, Emile
TAHITI 40 - Récit du Ralliement à la France Libre des Etablissements Français d'Océanie
$45.00 AUD

Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1973. 1st Ed. Publication de la Société des Océanistes No. 31. 178 PP with 2 maps, plus 32 pages of Annex with documents & 20 pages with 57 b/w photos. Card cover, dj. Near fine. French text. 25 x 16.2.

The involvement of a doctor to rally French Polynesia to join the fighting forces of the free-French of De Gaulle. He later became Governor there.

65257
DE CURTON, Emile
TAHITI
$25.00 AUD

Office Français d' Edition / Service des Publications de la France Combattante. Alger. 1945. 1st edition limited to 3000 copies, published in London. 141, (3) PP with 3 head pieces, 4 maps and 37 b/w photos. Fp: large folded map. Illustrated soft cover. Lower part of 10 last leaves and rear cover slightly damaged (not allecting text or photos). Very good. French text. 21 x 15.8.

The involvement of a doctor to rally French Polynesia to join the fighting forces of the free-French of De Gaulle. He later became Governor there.

12688
de DECKKER, Paul (editor)
LE PEUPLEMENT DU PACIFIQUE ET DE LA NOUVELLE CALEDONIE AU XIXè SIECLE, Condamnés, Colons, Convicts, Coolies, Chân Dang
$50.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 1994. 1st Ed. 432 PP with 1 map. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on top outside edge, o/wise fine. French text. 24 x 16. 2738423582

The various phases of settlement in New Caledonia. Penal & political deportees, work force (coolies, indentured labour) and development of the Territory: white settlers & colonialism with their impact...

65189
DESCHAMPS, Charles
LES PATTES JAUNES - Itinéraire d'une jeune fille de Bourail
$45.00 AUD

Author. Nouméa. 2011. 1st Ed. (14), 235, (7) PP with 1 drawing of a "Acridotheres tristis" (Merle des Moluques). Pictorial soft cover. New. French text. 21 x 15. 9782955052105

Novel set in New Caledonia.

53259
DESCOMBELS, Alain, & LAGADEC, Gaël
QUELLE ECONOMIE POUR LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE ?
$30.00 AUD

Author. Nouméa. 2007. 1st Ed. 210, (2) PP with diagrams, graphs and tables. Pict. soft cover. Fine. French text. 21 x 15. 2952995405

How to prepare New Caledonia for 2018 (end of the Nouméa Accord).

66362
DESTREMAU, Maxime
REGARDS PACIFIQUES: Campagne de Polynésie (1913-1915)
$25.00 AUD

A La Frontière. Lardy, France. 2014. 1st Ed. 136 PP with 1 b/w photos, 1 facsimile of a letter to his wife and 12 b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, sketches) by the author. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 22 x 15 9782918665038

32 letters (never published) to his wife. Crossing from France to Sydney, via Suez Canal, on the passenger ship Calédonien. Joining the French warship Zélée. Crossing: Sydney, Nouméa, Wallis Island, Tahiti. Cruising French Polynesia. WWI and defence of Papeete against the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau ...

66105
DEVATINE, Flora, BAERT, Annie, TCHERKEZOFF, Serge, et al.
L'ESPACE-TEMPS (in Bulletin du LARSH No. 2)
$35.00 AUD

ISEPP / Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2005. Bulletin No. 2, du LARSH (Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Humaines de Polynésie Française). 428 PP, (4 publications) with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note on front endpaper dated and signed by Annie Baert, co-author. French text (with abstracts in English, French and Ma'ohi). A few foxing spots on outside top edge, o/wise fine. 22.3 x 14.5. 2909790185

19 papers on anthropology, culture, ethnology and linguistics, sociology...

14097
DIOLE, Philippe
THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD

Cassell. London. 1977. 1st UK edition. 302 PP with b/w illustrations & colour photos. Cloth cover, dj. Light foxing on outside page edges, otherwise near fine. 26.5 x 18.5. 0304298999

The tribes of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands & Vanuatu (New Hebrides). 42 pages on discovery & exploration.

11925
DOUMENGE, Jean-Pierre
PAYSANS MELANESIENS EN PAYS CANALA, Nouvelle Calédonie
$10.00 AUD

C.E.G.E.T. / CNRS. Talence. 1975. 1st Ed. IV, 220 PP with 25 tables, and 50 b/w or colour figures (graphs, maps, plans) b/w illust. plus 20 full-page plates with 38 photos. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing. Very good. French text with one-page summary in English. 29.8 x 21.2. 2222016460

A study of the agricultural society on tribal lands in the region of Canala.

34308
DOUSSET-LEENHARDT, Roselène
TERRE NATALE TERRE D'EXIL
$35.00 AUD

Maisonneuve & Larose. Paris. 1998. Reprint of the 1976 original. 316 PP with 1 musical score, 3 b/w illust. and 5 maps, plus 1 map and 6 b/w plates. Pictorial card cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16. 2706813164

The Kanak uprising of 1878: roots and reasons, chronology...

13078
DRIVER, Marjorie G.
CROSS, SWORD, AND SILVER: THE NASCENT SPANISH COLONY IN THE MARIANA ISLANDS
$50.00 AUD

Micronesian Area Research Center. Guam. 1990. 1st edition by M.A.R.C. (reprint from Pacific Studies, Volume 11, No.3, July 1988). (4), 31 PP with 1 map of Guam, 1679. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on first page. Dedicatory note on title page, dated and signed by the author. Near fine. 21.6 x 14.

Settlement of the Marianas in 1668, over a century after the first foothold of Spain in the Philippines in 1565...

65404
du PREL, Alex W.
TAHITI PACIFIQUE. Mensuel d'information & d'économie - Volume 23, 2013
$100.00 AUD

Tahiti-Pacifique Magazine. Papeete. 2013. Volume 23 with 11 issues: 259 (January 2013) to 269 (December 2013). 11 issues for a total of 572 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. French text. Fine set. 29.8 x 21.

The year 2013 in Tahiti. Issue No. 264 covers June and July 2013.

66113
du PREL, Alex W.
LE PARADIS EN FOLIE, Histoires des Iles de Polynésie
$10.00 AUD

Editions de Tahiti. Papeete. 1994. Revised edition of the 1989 original. 140 PP, (1 adv.). Pictorial soft cover. Covers lightly soiled. Dedicatory note on page 5 dated and signed by the author. French text. Near fine. 19 x 11.5. 2907776096

Seven delightful tales of Tahiti.

66112
DUBOIS, Jean-Marie & FREMY, Marie-Noëlle (editors)
LA POLYNESIE FRANCAISE
$40.00 AUD

Editions Ile de Lumière. Nouméa. 2004. 1st edition. Volume 7 in the 101 mots pour comprendre series. 250 PP with 2 maps in colour, 6 colour illustrations, 3 b/w and 25 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note on page (2), dated and signed by co-author Annie Baert. French text. Fine. 19 x 13. 2912429196

101 Words (explanations) to understand and discover French Polynesia.

40914
DUGARD, Martin
FARTHER THAN ANY MAN - The Rise and Fall of Captain James Cook
$5.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2001. 1st Australian edition. XIV, 287 PP with 1 map on double page. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Very good. 23 x 15.2. 9781865086316

65293
DUNLOP, Eric W. & PIKE, Walter
AUSTRALIA - Colony to Nation
$15.00 AUD

Longmans. Melbourne. 1960. 1st Ed. (6), 250 PP with 40b/w illustrations (diagram, drawings, maps & plans, sketches). Hard cover, Title on font board and spine. Name of previous owners on front endpaper. Top and bottom outside edges inscribed "Australie". Occasional foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.

Chapter II: Winged boats and White strangers. Chapter III: Founding the convict colony. ... Chapter XI: Changes in Communication and Transport.

66993
DUNMORE, John & DE BROSSARD, Maurice
LE VOYAGE DE LAPEROUSE 1785-1788 (in Two Volumes)
$450.00 AUD

Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. 1985. 1st edition in Voyages et Découvertes series. Tome I: XIII, 315 PP with 75 b/w & colour illustrations, plus a folded chart (in three parts) in rear pocket. Tome II: XIII, 512 PP with 192 b/w & colour illustrations. Both volumes bound in blue cloth with colour vignette on front cover, gilt title on front board and spine, and contained in an illustrated cloth slipcase. Dedicatory note on half title page of Volume I, dated and signed by the author. Endpapers of Volume II split at the gutter. Faint foxing. French text. A near fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 30.5 x 22. 2110808578

38205
DUPEYRAT, André
VINGT ET UN ANS CHEZ LES PAPOUS
$10.00 AUD

La Colombe. Paris. 1957. Reprint of the 1952 original. Preface by Paul Claudel. (4), III, 4-240 PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 39 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing, o/wise very good. French text. 21.2 x 14.

Mitsinari - Twenty-one years with the Papuans.

65762
DUVIC, G.-O.
SUFFREN ET LA CAMPAGNE DES INDES
$20.00 AUD

Librairie Larousse. Paris. 1952. 1st Ed. in "Contes et Gestes Héroiques" series. 144 PP with 58 b/w illustrations (head pieces, tail pieces, text), plus 4 plates with 4 colour illustrations. All illustrations by Maurice Toussaint. Hard cover, illustrated front. Copy lacking the free fly of front endpaper and with name of previous owner on half title page. French text. Very good. 19.5 x 14.2.

Anglo French wars in India and the Indian Ocean.

66169
DUYKER, Edward
UN ACCENT SUR LE FRANCAIS / WITH A FRENCH ACCENT (in National Library of Australia News - 1994)
$10.00 AUD

National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1994. Article pulled out from the July 1994 issue. Pages 12 to 15 with 3 b/w and 3 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.

On the first French contacts in Australia.

52892
ECREPONT, Jean-Marie (editor)
HORIZONS CALEDONIENS
$10.00 AUD

Jeune Chambre Economique de Nouméa. Nouméa. 1977. 1st Ed. Introduction by Jean-Gabriel Eriau, High Commissioner. 72 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Covers with light creases. French text. Very good. 27.7 x 21.

Mines, Industry, Trade, Agriculture, Fauna, Flora, Tourism..., in 1977. Published for the National Congress of the Jeunes Chambres Economiques Françaises held in Nouméa in August 1977.

52369
EDRIDGE, Sally (compiler)
SOLOMON ISLANDS BIBLIOGRAPHY TO 1980
$20.00 AUD

Institute of Pacific Studies (USP) / Alexander Turnbull Library / The Solomon Islands National Library. Suva / Wellington / Honiara. 1985. 1st Ed. XVI, 476 PP. Eps: Map of the Solomon Islands. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Near fine. 25.8 x 19.5. 0908702035

Over 12,300 entries: Voyages, Earth Sciences... Arts.

65827
ELDREDGE, Dr. Lucius G.
INSIDE THE REEF
$25.00 AUD

Pacifica Graphics. Agana, Guam. 1975. 1st bilingual edition. (5), III, 171, II, (3) PP with 83 colour plates by Ted L. Tansy. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Dust jacket with light wear and a few creases around the edges. Text in English and Japanese. Dedicatory note to previous owners on front endpaper signed by the author and his family. Near fine. Oblong: 18.5 x 21.

66357
ERICKSEN, Hilary, FOX, Paul, HOBAN, Mary ...
2008 COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN STAMPS
$100.00 AUD

Australian Postal Corporation. Melbourne. 2008. Edition of the 2008 Collection. 56 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus the 5 stock sheets with the 123 mint stamps including the 4 miniature sheets issued for 2008 (face value 99.50 A$).. Hard cover, illustrated front board, with matching slip case. Fine (as new condition). 31 x 21.5.

Centenary of Scouting in Australia.

66358
ERICKSEN, Hilary, FOX, Paul, HOBAN, Mary ...
2009 COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN STAMPS
$100.00 AUD

Australian Postal Corporation. Melbourne. 2009. Edition of the 2009 Collection. 54, (2) PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus the 4 stock sheets with the 115 mint stamps including the 9 miniature sheets and 3 sheetlets issued for 2009 (face value 89.10 A$).. Hard cover, illustrated front board, with matching slip case. Fine (mint condition). 31 x 21.5. 9780642368393

Australia Post - 200 Years. Queensland 150 years.

65919
EWER, Dr. Peter
WOUNDED EAGLE - The Bombing of Darwin and Australia's Air Defence Scandal
$30.00 AUD

New Holland Publishers (Australia). Sydney. 2009. 1st Ed. 240 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map of Australia, 1 plan of Darwin and 17 photos. Hard cover, illustrated front. As new. 22.5 x 18.5. 9781741108255

49249
FAESSEL, Sonia & PEREZ, Michel (editors)
EROS ET THANATOS DANS LE PACIFIQUE SUD
$30.00 AUD

CORAIL & Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2001. 1st Ed. 224 PP. French text with English abstract and Englih text with French abstract. Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 2951558015

16 papers (2 in English and 14 in French) presented at the 2000 seminar organised by the CORAIL group.

10295
FAHEY, Stephanie & DUGGAN, Stephen
PACIFIC PEOPLE AND PLACE, The Pacific in the 20th Century
$35.00 AUD

C.U.P. Cambridge. 1993. 1st Ed. (6), 74 PP with 49 figures in text. Ep: Map of Pacific islands. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 26 x 21. 0521376262

Development, changing nature of people and environment. Impacts on urbanization, trade, foreign aid, tourism.

65611
FAHEY, Stephanie, PEAKE, Martin & QUANCHI, Max
THE SOUTH PACIFIC - Contemporary Issues: Peace and Development
$25.00 AUD

Peace Education Resource Centre (Ministry of Education) & Pacific History Association. Melbourne. 1989. 1st Ed. (4), 120 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Soft cover, spiral bound. Fine. 29.5 x 21.

Tourism - Culture - History ... Australia and the Pacific - Nuclear issues.

11818
FISCHER, P.-H.
LA FRANCE, SES RAPPORTS HISTORIQUES AVEC LES AUTRES PEUPLES (Two Volumes)
$250.00 AUD

Surrey Beatty. Chipping Norton. 1989. 1st limited edition of 100 copies, this one is No.51 & signed by the author. Volume I: X, 424 PP. Volume II: VI, P.425-811. Hand-bound two part buckram, gilt-engraved raised spine. Fine. French text. Scarce. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 25.5 x 19. 0949324167

Two massive volumes treating France's relations with the other nations of the world (in alphabetical order). Written by a former Sorbonne Professor living in Australia.

65881
FLANNERY, Tim
THROWIM WAY LEG: An Adventure
$10.00 AUD

Text Publishing. Melbourne. 1998. 1st Ed. (10), 326 PP with head pieces and 8 maps (1 on double page), plus 16 pages with 28 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on title page. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 23.3 x 15.3.. 1875847626

Discoveries and studies on the Island of New Guinea (Irian Jaya & Papua New Guinea).

65603
FORD, Herbert
THE MISCELLANY OF PITCAIRN'S ISLAND
$15.00 AUD

Pacific Press Publishing Association. Mountain View, Ca. 1979. 1st Ed. 206 PP. Soft cover, illustrated front. Slight ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Newspaper cutting loosely inserted. Very good. 21.5 x 14.5.

A brief sketch of its geography and history then: airplanes, animals ... Whales, Wind power, Women...

40667
FORTUNE, Félix-Hilaire
LES ILES FRANCAISES D' AMERIQUE - De la vision géopolitique de Richelieu à l'Union Européenne
$30.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2000. 1st Ed. 531, (4 publications) PP with 11 tables. Soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 16. 2738492983

History of the French speaking islands of the American continent: Martinique, Guadeloupe. Insular empire started by Cardinal Richelieu in 1626 with the island of St Christope (St Kitts)...

50892
FRANCOIS, Auguste
LE MANDARIN BLANC. Souvenirs d'un consul en Extrême-Orient 1886-1904
$45.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2006. 1st Ed. Texts compiled and presented by Pierre Seydoux. 380 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 2296002919

French consul and explorer in Tonkin and southern China.

50893
FROMENT-MEURICE, Henri
JOURNAL D'ASIE: Chine - Inde - Indochine - Japon 1969-1975
$45.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed., in l'Asie à l'Harmattan series. 490 PP, (6 publications). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16. 2747582701

French diplomacy in action to reach a cease fire, a peace and an end to the Vietnam War.

66747
FROST, Alan
THE PRECARIOUS LIFE OF JAMES MARIO MATRA, Voyager with Cook, American Loyalist, Servant of Empire
$50.00 AUD

The Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1995. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. No.6 in the Miegunyah Press series. XIV, 264, (2) PP, plus 12 b/w plates (6 of them maps & charts). Cloth cover, dj, ribbon page-marker. Fine. 24.3 x 16. 052284667X

First voyage with Captain Cook and first account of this voyage with a concise vocabulary of the language of Otahitee. His proposals to establish a settlement in NSW. His diplomatic posting at Tangier...

51348
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES [THE]
THE AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHER, Vol.III, No.1, May 1936
$10.00 AUD

The Geographical Society of New South Wales. Sydney. 1936. 32 PP with b/w photos. Stapled soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, few foxing spots. Near fine. 24.8 x 18.5.

Articles: The Ramu and Wahgi Valleys of New Guinea by A.J. Bearup, The Water Conservation Schemes of Burrinjuck, Hume and Wyangala, by Elizabeth F. Lawrence.. Image lists all articles.

65142
GHIONE, Sergio
TURTLE ISLAND A Journey to Britain's Oddest Colony
$20.00 AUD

Allen Lane / The Penguin Press. London. 2002. 1st UK edition, translated from the 2000 Italian original by Martin McLaughlin. (14), 158 PP with 1 diagram and 1 map with location map. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 22.4 x 14. 0713995475

53967
GILBERT AND ELLICE ISLANDS COLONY and the Central and Southern Line Islands
ANNUAL REPORT 1972
$20.00 AUD

G. & E. I. C. Government. Tarawa. 1973. 1st Ed. (4), 139 PP with over 40 tables. Stapled wrappers, typescript on recto only. Very good. 29.6 x 20.7.

Kiribati and Tuvalu in 1972.

55507
GODARD, Philippe & DE KERROS, Tugdual
1772: THE FRENCH ANNEXATION OF NEW HOLLAND: The Tale of Louis de Saint Aloüarn
$30.00 AUD

Western Australia Museum. Perth. 2008. 1st English edition. Translated from the 2002 French original, by Odette Margot, Myra Stanbury & Sue Baxter. (10), 269, (3) PP with 2 tables and b/w illustrations (18 head pieces, 17 facsimile of documents), plus 48 PP with 68 b/w or colour plates. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.6 x 15.3. 9781920843984

51788
GODDIO, Franck & GUYOT DE SAINT MICHEL, Evelyne Jay
GRIFFIN, on the Route of an Indiaman
$75.00 AUD

Periplus. London. 1999. 1st English edition. Translated from the French original by Ludwig von Bomhard and Leonard Harrow. XVI, 351 PP with 10 maps, 11 diagrams, 47 b/w or colour illustrations, 145 photos and 70 plates. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine, dj, ribbon page-marker. Fine. Large format: 34.52 x 24.5. 1902699009

The Route to India, the Griffin, from shipwreck to excavation, the Wreck, from reality to the documents, the history of a cargo, . ...

53414
GRAND, Simone
TAHU'A, TOHUNGA, KAHUNA - Le Monde Polynésien des Soins Traditionnels
$50.00 AUD

Au Vent des îles. Papeete. 2007. 1st Ed. 354, (6 publications) PP. Pictorial stiff cover. French text. Fine. 22.5 x 15. 2915654264

Diseases and medicine in Polynesia, with the traditional doctors: Tahu'a in Tahiti, Tohunga in New Zealand, Kahuna in Hawai'i.

48539
GRANDJEAN, Philippe
L' INDOCHINE FACE AU JAPON 1940-1945. Decoux - de Gaulle, un malentendu fatal
$30.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2004. 1st Ed., in Recherches Asiatiques series. 298, (1) PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747568571

Indochina between Japanese and the French government's conflicting policies (Vichy of Marshall Pétain and Free French of General de Gaulle).

64875
GREY, Zane
TALES OF TAHITIAN WATERS
$100.00 AUD

Derrydale Press. Lyon, Miss. USA. 1991. Deluxe, leather-bound reprint of the original in a limited edition of 2500 hand numbered copies (No. 947/2500). Special Introduction and signed by Dr.Loren Grey, son of author Zane Grey. (4), VI, 303 PP, plus 52 pages with 47 b/w illustrations (2 watercolour and 45 photos). Fp: The Zane Grey Outfit at Flower Point Camp, Vairao, Tahiti. Endpapers with photos by the author. Leather bound, raised bands on spine, gilt decoration on covers, gilt title on front cover and spine. All edges gilt. Fine (mint condition). 27 x 19.5.

65864
GRINNELL-MILNE, Duncan
BADEN-POWELL AT MAFEKING
$15.00 AUD

The Bodley Head. London. 1957. 1st Ed. Foreword by General Sir A. Godley. 224 PP with facsimile of a document, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustions (1 drawing and 14 photos) and a folded map "Mafeking and Surrounding" at rear of book. Fp: portrait of colonel Baden-Powell. Eps: map of southern Africa. Hard cover, gilt title on a sunned spine. Book plate of previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.5.

49002
GUIART, Jean
L'ENFER EXPATRIE. Réflexion sur la guerre dans le Pacifique Sud (1941-1945)
$30.00 AUD

Le Rocher-à-la-Voile. Nouméa. 2005. 1st Ed., No. 5 in "Essais pour servir à l'intelligence du temps présent" series. 117 PP with 8 maps and 16 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 20.8 x 15. 2952197016

On the War in the Pacific (1941-1945)

53100
GUIART, Jean
UNE CLE DE LA SOCIETE CANAQUE, Les réseaux d' identité partagée
$30.00 AUD

Le Rocher-à-la-Voile & les Editions du Cagou. Nouméa. 2005. 1st Ed., No. 11 in "Essais pour servir à l'intelligence du temps présent" series. 204 PP with 4 maps, 10 tables, and 24 genealogy trees. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 20.8 x 15. 2952197032

53102
GUIART, Jean
DU SANG SUR LE SABLE. Le vrai destin de Jean-Marie Tjibaou
$40.00 AUD

Le Rocher-à-la-Voile & les Editions du Cagou. Nouméa. 2007. 1st Ed., No. 8 in "essais pour servir à l'intelligence du temps présent" series. 392 PP with 3 maps. Fine. French text. 20.9 x 15.

9782952197045

58597
GUIGUENO, Vincent & VATTIER, Valérie
LE PHARE AMEDEE - Lumière de Paris & de Nouvelle-Calédonie
$85.00 AUD

Musée de l'histoire maritime de Nouvelle-Calédonie / Editions Point de Vues. Nouméa / Paris. 2010. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jean-Paul Mugnier. 144 PP with location map & charts, maps & plans, b/w and colour photos. Pictorial boards. French text. Fine. 36 x 25.5. 9782915548372

Metallic Lighthouse: built 1862 in Paris then knocked down. Shipped to New Caledonia, then erected in 1865.

54240
GUILLAUME, Sylvie (editor)
LES ASSOCIATIONS DANS LA FRANCOPHONIE
$25.00 AUD

Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine. Bordeaux. 2006. 1st Ed. Preface by Pierre Singaravélou. 333, (3) PP with figures, maps, tables. Soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 15.8.

Francophone networks in Oceania, by Frédéric Angleviel & Claire Laux. ... Francophone Identitiy in Québec (4 papers), by Sylvie & Pierre Guillaume, Gwenael Lamarque, & Christian Poirier.

55706
GUILLIN, Jean
L'ARCHIPEL DES TUAMOTU ET DES GAMBIER
$60.00 AUD

Editions A. Barthélemy & Le Motu. Paris. 2004. 1st Ed. 216 PP with tables, b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, plans, maps, and photos). Eps: sketch map of French Polynesia. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. French text. 23.3 x 17. 287929204X

Traditional society, first contacts, French colonization. Guide to each island of these archipelagoes.

50515
GUILLOU, Jean
DES JALONS DE L'HISTOIRE (Plats et Bouteilles Historiques)
$10.00 AUD

Editions de l'Etrave. Le Fresne, France. 2004. 1st Ed. 148 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, maps, plans and photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22 x 15.5. 2909599701

Historical pewter plates and sealed bottles, used by discoverers and explorers, as a testimony of their call, act of ownership, distress...

65306
GUILLOU, Jean
L'INDIAN PACIFIC: une Source d'Histoire Australienne
$10.00 AUD

Société d'Etudes Historiques. Nouméa. 1982. Reprint from Issue No. 52, (3rd quarter 1982). No pagination, 20 PP with b/w illustrations (5 maps and 14 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Near fine. 27.5 x 17.5.

Crossing the Australian Continent on the Indian Pacific train.

65308
GUILLOU, Jean
QUEEN EMMA, Reine des Mers du Sud
$10.00 AUD

Société d'Etudes Historiques. Nouméa. 1980. Reprint from Issue No. 44, (2nd quarter 1980). No pagination, 23 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps and 24 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Near fine. 27.5 x 17.5.

47369
HAMMATT, Charles H.
SHIPS, FURS, AND SANDALWOOD: A Yankee Trader in Hawai'i, 1823-1825
$15.00 AUD

University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 1999. 1st Ed. Edited by Sandra Wagner-Wright. XXXII, 96 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14. 0824822587

65901
HARKNESS, Chris & Louise
NEW GUINEA - THE WAHGI IMPACT
$20.00 AUD

Robert Brown & Associates (Queensland) Pty Ltd. Brisbane. 1994. 1st printing, edited by Norm Camps. 383 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map, 2 plans, 2 facsimiles of a letter and front page of a newspaper, 5 tail pieces, 19 head pieces and 29 photos. Pictorial soft cover. Ageing of first and last leaves. Scoring in front of 3 names of the Index. Name of previous owner on half title page, o/wise near fine. 21 x 13.7. 1862730792

Life in the Highlands of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. The Wahgi - a valley in the clouds.

56925
HEENAN, David
DUNK ISLAND AND BEAVER CAY
$10.00 AUD

Glenmede. Brisbane. 1994. 1st Ed., in Australia's Great Barrier Reef series. 48 PP with 1 map with 2 insets on double page, 8 b/w and 74 colour photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 29.4 x 21.5. 0646168495

Holiday resort, research station...

34708
HENRY, Teuira
TAHITI AUX TEMPS ANCIENS
$100.00 AUD

Musée de L'Homme. Paris. 1962. Reprint of the 1951 original. Publication de la Société des Océanists No. 1, translated by Bertrand Jaunez from the 1928 English edition published by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum (bulletin No. 48). Publications de la Société des Océanistes, No. 1. 672 PP. Soft cover. Tear and small pieces missing at top of spine. Ageing of paper on the outside edges. Very good. French and Maohi text. 25.2 x 16.4.

Ancient Tahiti: as related to J.M. Orsmond, Missionary of the London Mission Society between 1824 and 1834, then updated and corrected by his grand daughter Teuira Henry.

33190
HERDT, Gilbert H. (editor)
RITUALIZED HOMOSEXUALITY IN MELANESIA
$25.00 AUD

University of California Press. Berkeley. 1984. 1st Ed. XX, 409 PP with 3 maps and 9 head pieces. Eps: Map of Melanesia. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 23.6 x 15.5. 0520050371

Seven leading anthropologists studying cross-cultural variations in homosexual behaviour in a non-western culture area.

66085
HETHERINGTON, Michelle & MORPHY, Howard (editors)
DISCOVERING COOK'S COLLECTIONS
$25.00 AUD

National Museum of Australia. Canberra. 2009. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Craddock Morton, and introduction by Michelle Hetherington & Howard Murphy. (VI), 130 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 21.5 x 24 9781876944575

7 papers: Looking across the Beach, by Greg Dening. Cook the Discoverer, by Nigel Erskine. ... by: Paul Turnbull - Adrienne L. Kaeppler - Lissant Bolton - Paul Tapsell - Doreen Mellor.

66945
HILL, Chris
LORD HOWE ISLAND: South Pacific paradise on our doorstep (in Australian Geographic No. 28, October-December 1992)
$10.00 AUD

A.G.S. Sydney. 1992. Contains article pages 32 to 53 with 2 maps, 2 b/w and colour 36photos, plus large folded map of "Lord Howe Island". Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.

66375
HILLIER, R. S.
THE NORFOLK ISLAND BOOK
$15.00 AUD

Anson Publications. Norfolk Island. 1984. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 106 colour photos. Fp: View on Nepean and Philip Islands. Eps: Seal of Norfolk Island. Hard cover, dj. Title page signed by author, and with a dedicatory note to previous owner signed by the publisher. Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Light foxing of inside of dust jacket, o/wise very good. 28.5 x 21.6.

54146
HONFFO, Sidney
SPAS DE TAHITI ET SES ILES / SPAS OF TAHITI AND HER ISLANDS
$30.00 AUD

Editions Le Motu. Papeete. 2007. 1st Ed. 65, (5) PP with colour photos by Danee Hazama. Pictorial soft cover, spiral bound. As new. French and English text (translation by Anne Rocca). 23 x 23.

31773
HUNT, Susan & CARTER, Paul
TERRE NAPOLEON - Australia through French Eyes 1800-1804
$25.00 AUD

Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Jacqueline Bonnemains. (8), 148 PP with b/w and colour illust., and 46 plates in b/w and colour. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 31 x 24.7. 0949753874

French exploration of Australian shores (1801 to 1803) led by Captain Nicolas Baudin. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Sydney from 27th February to 30 May 1999.

66745
HUNT, Susan, TERRY, Martin, & THOMAS, Nicholas
LURE OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS - The Voyages of Dumont d'Urville 1826-1840
$45.00 AUD

Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. Foreword by Mary-Louise Williams and Peter Watts. Preface by Monique Ducreux. 144 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside front cover: Portrait of Contre-Amiral Jules Dumont d'Urville. Inside back cover: Common Spotted Cuscus. Pictorial soft covers. Fine (as new condition). 30 x 23.6. 9781876991005

45250
I.T.S.E.E.
NEW CALEDONIA FACTS & FIGURES - TEC 97
$25.00 AUD

ITSEE / Institut Territorial de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques. Nouméa. 1997. 1st Ed. 224 PP with maps, graphs and tables. Inside covers: 14 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.8 x 15.7.

New Caledonia - Facts and Figures 1997. Economic and social study, as well as statistics for New Caledonia up to December 1997.

65667
IBANEZ DEL CARMEN, Father Aniceto, RESANO, Father Francisco & others
CHRONICLE OF THE MARIANA ISLANDS
$60.00 AUD

Micronesian Area Research Center. Guam. 1976. 1st English edition, translated from the original Spanish text and introduced by Marjorie G. Driver. No. 5 in the MARC Publications series. XVI, 94 PP with 8 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Covers lightly rubbed, slight ageing & foxing of paper. Name of previous owner on title page. Dedicatory note to previous owner inside front cover, dated and signed by the editor / translator. Near fine. 23 x 15.

48946
ILLOUZ, Charles
DE CHAIR ET DE PIERRE. Essai de Mythologie Kanak (Maré - Îles Loyauté)
$25.00 AUD

Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. Paris. 2000. 1st Ed. 190, (2) PP with 5 figures (3 maps) and 2 diagrams. Pictorial soft cover. Light foxing on covers and prelims, o/wise fine. French text. 23 x 15. 2735108783

65146
INSTITUT D'EMISSION D'OUTRE-MER
LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE - Rapport Annuel 2013
$75.00 AUD

Institut d'Emission d'Outre-Mer. Nouméa. 2014. June 2014 edition. 203, (3) PP with graphs and tables, plus 1 folded map in colour and 4 pages with 8 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16.

Annual report for 2013: Population, Economy, Salaries, Welfare ... Industry, Mining... Budget.

65284
INSTITUT D'EMISSION D'OUTRE-MER
LA POLYNESIE FRANCAISE - Rapport Annuel 2013
$75.00 AUD

Institut d'Emission d'Outre-Mer. Papeete. 2014. June 2014 edition. 194, (2) PP with graphs and tables, plus 1 map in colour, 1 folded map in colour and 4 pages with 8 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 23.7 x 16.

Annual report for 2013: Population, Economy, Salaries, Welfare ... Industry... Budget.

46434
IRVINE, Lucy
FARAWAY
$10.00 AUD

Doubleday. London. 2000. 1st paperback edition. XIV, 386 PP with 5 maps, plus 32 pages with 13 b/w and 73 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover.with a few light creases, spine slightly creased. Ageing of paper and faint foxing, otherwise contents are near fine. 23.3 x 15.5. 0385601808

Adventures and life in the second half of the 20th century on the faraway island of Pigeon Island, Lom Lom group, Reef Islands, Solomon.

53929
ISRAEL, Henri
UNE HISTOIRE DU MOUVEMENT SYNDICAL EN NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE
$50.00 AUD

Ile de Lumière. Nouméa. 2007. 1st Ed. Preface by François Chérèque. 426 PP with 90 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 16. 9782912429179

Workers Unions in New Caledonia: USOENC, USTKE... First Union launched in 1902

45961
JOHNSON, Lawrence M. & DAHL, Richard J. (editors)
NEW CALEDONIA ECONOMIC REPORT - June 1999 / Rapport Economique sur la Nouvelle-Calédonie Juin 1999
$15.00 AUD

Bank of Hawaii. Nouméa. 1999. 1st Ed. 44 PP with 2 maps, graphs, tables and 5 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. English and French text. 28 x 21.5.

49394
JOLLY, Roslyn (editor)
THE CRUISE OF THE JANET NICHOL AMONG THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. A Diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson
$20.00 AUD

University of Washington Press & University of New South Wales Press. Seattle & Sydney. 2004 1st Ed. 205 PP with 1 map and 27 b/w photos. Fp: Fanny Stevenson with two Pacific Islanders. Hard covers, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 22 x 16. 0295983701 / 0868406066

45202
KAAHWA, Théodore Braïno
LES CAHIERS DE THEODORE BRAINO KAAHWA
$30.00 AUD

Le Rocher-à-la-Voile. Nouméa. 2002. 1st Ed., No. 5 in "dossiers pour servir à l'intelligence du temps présent" series. Edited by Jean Guiart. 151 PP with 2 maps, 3 colour and 11 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 20.8 x 15.

Two diaries written in 1940/1941 and relating daily life and events in the area close to La Foa, New Caledonia.

73702
KLEIN, Florence
NOUMEA LE TEMPS D'UN REGARD
$50.00 AUD

Footprint Pacifique. Nouméa. 1989. 1st edition with an introduction by Max Shekleton. 224 PP with colour photos & postcards. Eps: Children at the opening of the South Pacific Games. Hard cover, dj. French text. Near fine. 31 x 24. 2908186004

Noumea and its surroundings seen through the eyes & camera lens of various photographers. Changes in the city: daily life, sports, entertainment..

71287
KLING, Georges
NOUVELLE CALEDONIE, Iles Loyauté, Ile des Pins
$25.00 AUD

Librairie Hachette. Paris. 1964. 1st Ed., in "Les Guides Bleus Illustrés". 218 PP with b/w ilustrations (2 diagrams, 6 maps), plus 12 b/w plates, 1 folded plan in colour and 1 large folded map in colour tipped inside back cover. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. French text. 16 x 10.5.

65180
KOTRA, Walles
ANTOINE KOMBOUARE - Paroles d'un Footballeur Kanak
$35.00 AUD

Au Vent des îles. Papeete. 2014. 1st Ed. 273, (11 publications) PP with 3 b/w and 13 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 21 x 13. 9782915654585

47760
KURTOVITCH, Ismet
A CALEDONIAN PASTORAL
$20.00 AUD

Grain de Sable / Institute of Pacific Studies (USP). Nouméa / Suva. 2002. 1st English edition, translated from the French by Roy Benyon. Collection Words on stage. 64 PP with 10 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 15 x 11. 9820203589

Theatre play, performed in July 2001.

11039
LABOUTE, P., FEUGA, M., & GRANDPERRIN, R.
NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE - LE PLUS BEAU LAGON DU MONDE
$55.00 AUD

Editions des Alizes. Nouméa. 1991. 1st Ed. 272 PP with maps & colour photos. Eps: Gorgones & Crinoïdes. Hard cover, dj. Fine. French text. 29.3 x 21.5. 2950578403

New Caledonia is almost completely surrounded by a barrier reef inside of which is one of the biggest & most beautiful lagoons in the world: fauna, flora & underwater world (coral, fishes, shells...). 7 pages glossary and scientific/common names.

53254
LACABANNE, Sonia
LES PREMIERS ROMANS POLYNESIENS. Naissance d'une Littérature de langue Anglaise 1948-1983
$40.00 AUD

Musée de l' Homme. Paris. 1992. 1st Ed. Publication de la Société des Océanistes, No. 43. 170, (8) PP. Soft cover, dj. French text. Near fine. 25 x 16.5.

11470
LAL, Brij V. & NELSON, Hank (editor)
LINES ACROSS THE SEA, Colonial Inheritance in the Post Colonial Pacific
$30.00 AUD

Pacific History Association. Brisbane. 1995. 1st Ed. XVI, 231 PP with 6 figures & 19 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed, otherwise fine. 28 x 21.5. 0646246402

Twenty of the papers presented in December 1993 at the conference Colonial Inheritance: The Pacific Islands Experience, hosted by the Division of Pacific and Asian History, RSpacS, ANU.

12001
LAL, Brij V. (editor)
PACIFIC ISLANDS HISTORY, Journeys and Transformations
$25.00 AUD

Journal of Pacific History. Canberra. 1994. Reprint of 1992 opriginal. Preface by Daniel Denoon. XIV, 258 PP with 12 line drawings. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0959547762

14 "essays", presented at the workshop held in Canberra , A.N.U. to mark the 40 years of the formal discipline of Pacific Islands historians.

64269
LANGDON, Robert
FORGOTTEN FRENCH NAVIGATOR BLAZED NEW TRAILS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC (in Pacific Islands Monthly - Vol 37, No.5)
$10.00 AUD

Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1966. May 1966. Edited by Stuart Inder. 156 PP. Contains article from P. 81 to 85 with 1 chart and 3 portraits (Matthew Flinders, Governor King & J. S. C. Dumont d'Urville). Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24.2 x 18.

12242
LAPLACE, Cyrille Pierre Théodore
VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE par les Mers de l'Inde et de Chine Executé sur la Corvette de l'Etat LA FAVORITE Pendant les Années 1830, 1831 et 1832 sous le Commandement de M. LAPLACE ... TOME I
$70.00 AUD

Archival Facsimiles. London. 1987. A reproduction of the copy in the British Library of the original edition published in Paris in 1833 by Imprimerie Royale. (8), XLII, 558 PP with 10 tail-pieces, plus 1 large folded map at rear. Slate blue Irish linen buckram, gilt title on green vignette on spine and front cover. Fine. French text. 22.5 x 14. 1852970014

Volume I of the world voyage of La Favorite. France to Macao with calls at Goree (off Senegal), Mauritius and La Réunion, Seychelles, French settlements in India, Malacca, Singapore, Manilla.. P.482 to 525: interesting notes on the British attack on Isle de France in 1810.

42737
LAVERY, H. J. (editor)
EXPLORATION NORTH - Australia's Wildlife from Desert to Reef
$10.00 AUD

Richmond Hill Press. Melbourne. 1978. 1st Ed. 244, 6 index) PP with sketches, maps, b/w and colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Presentation plate by the Queensland Minister for Culture, National Parks and Recreation tipped in on front endpaper. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 24.7 x 17.5. 0908157002

The Explorers by H.J. Lavery. The Mulga, Land of the Bulloo by M.J.S. Denny. The Bush by G. Gordon. The Rainforest by J. W. Winter. The Swamps, by J. G. Blackman. The Reef, Uncertain Land of Plenty, by C. J. Limpus.

56848
LEBLIC, Isabelle
VIVRE DE LA MER, VIVRE AVEC LA TERRE... EN PAYS KANAK. Savoirs et Techniques des Pêcheurs Kanak du sud de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
$80.00 AUD

Société des Océanistes. Paris. 2008. 1st Ed. No.1 in Collection Travaux & Documents Océanistes. 283, (3) PP with 16 figures, 19 tables, and 685 b/w or colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 27.6 x 18. 2854300114

40012
LEENHARDT, Raymond-H.
UN SOCIOLOGUE CANAQUE: LE PASTEUR BOESOOU ERIJISI 1866-1947 - Houailou, Nouvelle-Calédonie
$10.00 AUD

Cahiers d'Histoire du Pacifique. Paris. 1976. Reprint from Cahier No. 4. No pagination, 40 PP with 2 sketches and 2 b/w photos. Soft cover. Near fine. French text. 21 x 15.

Boesoou Erejisi, Kanak, sociologist and minister.

45362
LEFEVRE, Françoise
LA CUISINE TAHITIENNE
$10.00 AUD

Editions Orphie. Sainte Clotilde, Ile de la Réunion. 2002. 1st Ed. in the "Savoir Cuisiner" series. 94 PP with colour photos. Laminated pictorial boards. French text. Near fine. 20.8 x 10.5. 2877631494

Recipes on Tahitian cooking, by Françoise Lefèvre, and Pascal, chef of "Le Cocotier", Maharepa, Moorea.

44462
LEMAITRE, Yves
LEXIQUE DU TAHITIEN CONTEMPORAIN - Tahitien / Français Français / Tahitien
$20.00 AUD

Editions de l'IRD (ex Orstom). Paris. 2000. Reprint of the 1995 edition (original of 1973). 205, (3) PP. Soft cover. As new. French & Maohi text. 20.7 x 13.5. 2709912473

French-Maohi and Maohi-French lexicon.

65276
LESBROS, Jean-Louis & Association Île de Pâques
ÎLE DE PÂQUES: à la rencontre du Mana
$30.00 AUD

Albin Michel. Paris 1993. 1st Ed. Forewords by Paul Emile Victor & Alberto Hotu. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings / rongo rongo scripts) and colour illustrations (5 maps, 6 paintings by Robert Agussan & over 200 photos by Daniel Monconduit). FEP: Painting by Robert Agussan. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. French text. Fine. Oblong: 23.8 x 32. 2226064818

47545
LEWIS, Albert Buell
DECORATIVE ART OF NEW GUINEA - Incised designs
$25.00 AUD

Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago. 1925. 1st Ed., No.4 in the Anthropology Design series. (2), 2 PP with 2 b/w photos, plus 52 b/w plates. Rebacked copy, retaining original front cover. Internally fine. 30.5 x 22.7.

65262
LEWON, Michèle
DE TAHITI A SHANGHAI: dans le Sillage des TUPUNA - d'après le Journal de Bord de Hiria Ottino
$80.00 AUD

Haere Po. Papeete. 2012. 1st Ed. Preface by Keitapu Maamaatuaiahutapu. 126, (2) PP with 1 map, sketch plans of 'O Tahiti Nui Freedom", and 150 colour photos by Hiria Ottino. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.7. 9791090158078

On the tracks of the first Austronesians: Tahiti, Cook Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomons, New Britain, Palau, Philippines, China.

58823
LEXTREYT, Michel
LA NOUVELLE-ZELANDE, à la croisée des chemins
$40.00 AUD

SCEREN / CDP Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2005. 1st Ed. 40 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 18 colour transparency sheets. Contained in a colour folder with clear plastic cover and pockets. Fine. French text. 30.5 x 21.5. 9782913090705

47751
LUCAS, Alan
CRUISING NEW CALEDONIA AND VANUATU (New Hebrides)
$40.00 AUD

Horwitz Grahame. Melbourne. 1981. 1st Ed. (12), 192 PP with maps, plans & b/w photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Spine lightly sunned. Foxing spots on outsided edges, both endpapers, and on first and last leaves. Very good. 22 x 14. 0725510676

General information on New Caledonia and Vanuatu ports and anchorages.

11651
MACKANESS, George
SOME PROPOSALS FOR ESTABLISHING COLONIES IN THE SOUTH SEAS
$15.00 AUD

Review Publications. Dubbo, NSW. 1976. Reprint of 1943 Ed. Volume XI in the Australian Historical Monographs new series. 62 PP with 5 b/w illust. Stapled card cover. Very good. 21.4 x 13.7.

52323
MALHERBE, Michel
PARLONS MAORI
$45.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2007. 1st Ed., in the Parlons series. 190, (2) PP with 2 maps. Pictorial soft cover. French & Maori text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.6. 2296027558

Polynesian language of New Zealand. Pages 77 to 104: Lexicon French / Maori. Pages 105 to 185: Lexicon Maori / French.

49124
MARDEN, Luis
TAHITI, Finest Island in the World (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 122, No. 1, 1962)
$10.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1962. Volume 122, No. 1, July 1962. Contains article between P.1 and 47 with 3 maps and 53 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly rubbed. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.

42084
MARIELLO, Philippe
NOS DEPARTEMENTS ET TERRITOIRES D'OUTRE-MER, en questions-réponses
$30.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2001. 1st Ed. 204, (3) PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Light foxing on top outside edges, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747513815

Questions and answers, on France's overseas departments and territories.

45530
MARIOTTI, Jean
SANS TITRE
$35.00 AUD

Association pour l'édition des oeuvres de Jean Mariotti / Editions Grain de Sable. Nouméa. 2001. Reprint of the 1969 original. Edited by Dominique Jouve. 208 PP. Illustrated soft cover. French text. Fine. 22 x 14. 2841700690

Poems.

65011
MATHER, Patricia (editor)
A TIME FOR A MUSEUM: The History of the Queensland Museum 1862-1986
$25.00 AUD

Queensland Museum. Brisbane. 1986. 1st Ed. Volume 24 of the "Memoirs of the Queensland Museum". Preface by the Honorable Peter McKechnie. X, 386 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 18.5. 0724216456

... Chapter 10: People and lifestyle / Anthropology, by M.C. Quinnell. Chapter 12: Pandora Box / Maritime Archaeology, by R. A. Coleman.

65296
MEHAUT, Catherine
MER ET OUTRE-MER - "Bibliographie des Travaux intéressant l'Histoire Maritime publiés en France de 1962 à 1975"
$25.00 AUD

Les Editions de l'Erudit. Paris. 1984. 1st ed. Preface by Jean Baillou. (6), X, 376, (2) PP with 2571 titles listed. Soft cover, illustrated front. Title page rubbed at top and with name of previous owner. French text. Very good. 21 x 14.5. 2868160042

65050
MEISSAS, Achille & MICHELOT, Aug.
NOUVELLE GEOGRAPHIQUE METHODIQUE, suivie d'un petit Traité sur la Construction des Cartes, par M. Charle
$50.00 AUD

Chez L. Hachette, Libraire de l'Université Royale de France. Paris. 1845. 24th edition. XVI, 368 PP, plus 2 folded plates with 22 figures at rear of book. Hard cover, cloth spine. Covers slightly rubbed. Slight ageing of paper. French text. Very good. 18 x 11.

51555
MERLE, Jacques
OCEAN ET CLIMAT
$20.00 AUD

IRD Editions. Paris. 2006. 1st Ed. 222, (2) PP with b/w and colour illustrations (26 photos and 104 figures) and 15 windows. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 26 x 17. 2709915847

Interaction: Weather and Ocean.

13197
MICHEL, Marc & PAILLARD, Yvan G. (editors)
AUSTRALES, Etudes Historiques Aixoises sur l'Afrique Australe et l'Ocean Indien Occidental
$70.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 1996. 1st Ed. 388 PP with tables, graphs, maps and bw illust. in text. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Light foxing. Near fine. 24 x 16. 2738444733

15 papers on political and institutional evolution of South Africa, theories of the origins of the Malagasy: the 19th century British school (only text in English), the Petits Blancs des Hauts (half-casts) on the island of La Réunion...

44409
MILLS, Richard Charles
THE COLONIZATION OF AUSTRALIA (1829-42) - The Wakefield Experiment in Empire Building
$20.00 AUD

Sydney University Press. Sydney. 1974. Facsimile edition with a note by S. J. Butlin, of the 1915 original with an introduction by Graham Wallace. In the Australian Historical Reprints. XX, 363 PP. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22 x 14. 0424000040

15637
MOLLAT, Michel
LES EXPLORATEURS DU XIIIè AU XVIè SIECLE, Premiers Regards sur des Mondes Nouveaux
$20.00 AUD

Editions du C.T.H.S. / Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques. Paris. 1992. 1st Ed. No. 9 in the C.T.H.S. Format series. 258 PP with 8 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of half title page. Spine lightly sunned, faint foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. French text. 18.5 x 12. 2735502511

Land routes in Asia (towards Cathay), in Africa (Ibn Batoutah ...). Sea discoveries around Africa, towards India, to America & circumnavigation up to the 16th century.

48491
MORRISON, James
JOURNAL DE JAMES MORRISON, Second Maitre à bord de la Bounty
$30.00 AUD

Editions Ouest-France. Paris. 2002. Reprint of the 1966 original, translated from the English by Bertrand Jaunez. 328, (6) PP with the facsimile of the title page of the 1790 French original, 3 plans and 6 maps. Card cover. Fine. French text. 23 x 15.3. 237330785

Account of the voyage, and the mutiny of the Bounty by one of the participants. He remained in Tahiti and was captured by H.M.S. Pandora...

51784
MU-LIEPMANN, Véroniqe & MAS, Mahé (editors)
ROGER PARRY, 1932: au delà du mythe tahitien
$60.00 AUD

Musée de Tahiti et des Iles / Te Fare Manaha & Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2006. 1st Ed., with a preface by Jean-Marc Pambrun. 160 PP with 8 head pieces and 109 b/w illustrations (9 drawings and 100 photos). Pictorial boards. Fine. French text. 30.2 x 24.2. 2915654166

Published in 2006 to accompany the exhibition Beyond the Tahitian Myth, as perceived by a French photographer in 1932. Musée de Tahiti et des Iles 0ctober 2006 to January 2007.

65060
MWA VEE
REVUE CULTURELLE KANAK - No. 10
$10.00 AUD

Mwà Véé / ADCK. Nouméa. 1995. Reprint of issue No. 10 (September 1995). 84 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 33 x 24.

20 years anniversary of "Melanesia 2000".

65061
MWA VEE
REVUE CULTURELLE KANAK - No. 9
$10.00 AUD

Mwà Véé / ADCK. Nouméa. 1995. Issue No. 9 (June 1995). 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 35.7 x 25.5.

65062
MWA VEE
REVUE CULTURELLE KANAK - Nos. 15 - 18 / 1997
$30.00 AUD

Mwà Véé / ADCK. Nouméa. 1997. Issue No. 15 to No. 18. 4 issues : 286 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 35.7 x 25.5.

65063
MWA VEE
REVUE CULTURELLE KANAK - Nos. 31 - 34 / 2001
$30.00 AUD

Mwà Véé / ADCK. Nouméa. 2001. Issue No. 31 to No. 34. 4 issues : 248PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 33 x 24.

65064
MWA VEE
REVUE CULTURELLE KANAK - No. 19
$10.00 AUD

Mwà Véé / ADCK. Nouméa. 1998. Issue No. 19 (January 1998). 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 35.7 x 25.5.

65065
MWA VEE
REVUE CULTURELLE KANAK - No. 21
$10.00 AUD

Mwà Véé / ADCK. Nouméa. 1998. Issue No. 21 (July 1998). 72 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 35.7 x 25.5.

65066
MWA VEE
REVUE CULTURELLE KANAK - No. 22
$10.00 AUD

Mwà Véé / ADCK. Nouméa. 1998. Issue No. 22 (October 1998). 68 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 35.7 x 25.5.

65067
MWA VEE
REVUE CULTURELLE KANAK - No. 29
$10.00 AUD

Mwà Véé / ADCK. Nouméa. 2000. Issue No. 29 (July 2000). 68 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 35.7 x 25.5.

65068
MWA VEE
REVUE CULTURELLE KANAK - No. 30
$10.00 AUD

Mwà Véé / ADCK. Nouméa. 2000. Issue No. 30 (October 2000). 56 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 35.7 x 25.5.

65069
MWA VEE
REVUE CULTURELLE KANAK - No. 80
$10.00 AUD

Mwà Véé / ADCK. Nouméa. 2013. Issue No. 80 (April 2013). 60 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 35.7 x 25.5.

46858
N/A
ECHO DU MONDE. Panorama Economique, historique et culturel de tous les pays hors l'Europe (in 3 volumes)
$75.00 AUD

Editions Metz. Zurich. 1964. 1st French edition translated by E. B. Stefan. Volume I: (8), 360 PP with tables and 34 location maps, plus 114 plates with 345 b/w photos and 4 colour plates on full page. Volume II: 374 PP with tables and 21 location maps, plus 136 plates with 323 b/w photos and 4 colour plates on full page. Volume III: (8), 392 PP with tables and location maps, plus 132 plates with 317 b/w photos and 3 colour plates on full page. Eps: maps of the world. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good set. French text. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 28.7 x 21.5.

Cultural, Historic and Economic briefs, on the countries of the world outside Europe.

51397
N/A
AUSTRALIAN EXTERNAL TERRITORIES. Volume 9, No. 2
$10.00 AUD

Department of External Territories. Canberra. 1969. 2, May 1969. 44 PP with 1 map, 3 cartoons and 15 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.7.

The 1966 census of Papua and New Guinea. H. D. Eve, Surveyor. Chinese festivals in Christmas Island.

51398
N/A
AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES. Vol. 1, No. 5
$10.00 AUD

Department of Territories. Canberra. 1961. August 1961. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Fine. 23.4 x 14.8.

The future of the Missions. The Election in Papua and New Guinea. Native ex-Servicemen share in credit scheme. Reptiles in New Guinea.

51400
N/A
AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES. Vol. 2, No. 2
$10.00 AUD

Department of Territories. Canberra. 1962. March 1962. 44 PP with b/w illustrations. Fine. 23.4 x 14.8.

Local Government and Community Development in rural Areas of Papua and New Guinea. Designs for a Patrol Officer's Quarters in New Guinea. Survey of the Adelaide River. Savings and Loan Societies. Aid Posts. ...

51401
N/A
AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES. Vol. 2, No. 4
$10.00 AUD

Department of Territories. Canberra. 1962. July 1962. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Fine. 23.4 x 14.8.

Pushing back the frontier. Cargo Cults in Papua and New Guinea. Traditions and Trends in agriculture. Botany in the Northern Territory ...

51402
N/A
AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES. Vol. 3, No. 1
$10.00 AUD

Department of Territories. Canberra. 1963. January 1963. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Fine. 23.4 x 14.8.

The contibution of the Missions to Education in Papua and New Guinea. The development of a cattle industry in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Progress in the Lufa area...

51403
N/A
AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES. Vol. 3, No. 2
$10.00 AUD

Department of Territories. Canberra. 1963. March 1963. 44 PP with b/w illustrations. Fine. 23.4 x 14.8.

Planning welfare development in the Petermann Ranges, N. T. The Native Loans Board of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea ... The growth of a Town - from Stuart to Alice Springs. A Patrol into the Porgera-Strickland Gorge area.

51404
N/A
AUSTRALIAN TERRITORIES. Vol. 5, No. 1
$10.00 AUD

Department of Territories. Canberra. 1965. January 1965. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Marginal annotations and a stamp on title-page, o/wise near fine. 23.4 x 14.8.

THe War Effort of the Northern Territory Aborigines. Mushrooms and Collective Hysteria. Record Sepik Voyage by Army Landing Ship, by Captain W. M. Blumenfeld, Master of the Bridenell White. ...

63594
N/A
GEO - Australia's National Geographic - Vol. 1, No. 3, 1979
$10.00 AUD

Magazine Division / Paul Hamlyn. Sydney. 1979. 138 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.6 x 20.2.

Articles by: Derek Roff on Red Centre Rocks. Gregory Forth on the Horsemen of Sumba Island, Indonesia. Jennifer Isaacs on the Visitors who reached Australia on "Praus" of Asia.

63778
N/A
EU Common Security and Defence Policy - CSDP newsletter (issue 12)
$10.00 AUD

Council of the European Union. Strasbourg. 2012. Issue No. 12, Winter 2012 / 2013. Editorial by Catherine Ashton. 36 PP with colour illustrations (maps & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Text in either French or English. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.

64504
N/A
SHIPPING AND COMMERCE OF AUSTRALIA - 1967-68
$35.00 AUD

Shipping Newspapers Limited / The Daily Commercial News and Shipping List. Sydney. 1967. Special Issue of D.C.N., December 1967. 168 PP, XXIV (Commonwealth exports), with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Lufthansa Boeing 747 over Sydney) with light wear/soiling and a few small creases. Very good. Large format: 36.5 x 25.

Shipping and trade review, by J. R. Moylan. Shipping Trends in Australia, by Hon. Gordon Freeth .... The role of Quarantine in Trade and Travel, by Dr. A.J. Forbes. ...

64140
NETTELBECK, Colin
AN ARCHIVE OF FREEDOM - Collection of French broadsides on Post-Occupation France (in The National Library of Australia Magazine - Vol 6, No. 1, March 2014)
$5.00 AUD

National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2014. Vol. 6, No. 1, March 2014. 32 PP. Contains article between P.6 and 9 with 5 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Wind Map). New. 29.8 x 21.

58819
NOUMEA AGREEMENT
PREAMBULE ILLUSTRE DE L'ACCORD DE NOUMEA
$35.00 AUD

Association Graphynord / Mêrê a' xé-ré. Hienghène, New Caledonia. 2009. 1st Ed. Preface by Gilles Reiss. 36 PP with 15 b/w and 13 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.8. 9782953444629

The illustrated preamble to the "Agreement on New Caledonia signed in Nouméa on 5th May 1998". Based on the French Republic Gazette of 27 May 1998.

11368
O'REILLY, Patrick
BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE L'OCEANIE 1950
$10.00 AUD

Musée de l'Homme. Paris. 1951. Extrait du Journal de la Société des Océanistes, Tome VII, Déc. 1951. 44 PP (327-370). Soft cover, staples. French text. Near fine. 24 x 15.

65111
OPPENHEIMER, Melanie
AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS: 100 Years On (in The National Library of Australia Magazine - Vol 6, No. 2, June 2014)
$10.00 AUD

National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2014. Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2014, edited by Susan Hall. 32 PP. Contains article between P. 2 and 7 with 3 b/w and 6 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Red Cross Nurse) . New. 29.8 x 21.

65443
ORIENT LINE
PORT OF CALL INFORMATION: NOUMEA
$10.00 AUD

Orient Line Cruise. Sydney. c. 1957. Folded brochure (4 folds) with History, places of interest etc... and 1 plan of Noumea. Fine. Small format: 18.7 x 12.5.

Gives places of interest and information for passengers.

47245
ORLIAC, Catherine & Michel
L'ILE DE PAQUES. Des Dieux regardent les Etoiles
$10.00 AUD

Gallimard. Paris. 2004. Reprint of the 1988 original, in Découvertes Gallimard series. 144 PP with 140 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. Small format: 18 x 12.5. 2070314154

Easter Island.

37318
OSBORNE, Elizabeth
TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER WOMEN AND THE PACIFIC WAR
$10.00 AUD

Aboriginal Studies Press. Canberra. 1997. 1st Ed. XV, 271 PP with 4 maps and 20 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0855753137

Living between 1942 and 1945 on Australia's front line during the Pacific campaigns.

64426
PACHECO, Diego
A FUNDACÃO DO PORTO DE NAGASAQUI e a sua cedência a Sociedade de Jesus/ THE FOUNDING OF THE PORT OF NAGASAKI and its cession to the Society of Jesus
$30.00 AUD

Centro de Estudos Maritimos de Macau. Macau. 1989. Trilingual edition of July 1989. 67, (3) PP. Text in Portuguese (pages 7 to 25), in English (pages 27 to 45) and Japanese (pages 47 to 67). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 18.

47241
PARDON, Daniel
GUIDE DE L'ILE DE PAQUES - RAPA NUI
$35.00 AUD

Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2003. 1st Ed. 272 PP with 1 location map in colour, 5 b/w illustrations and 225 colour photos. Inside front cover: Map of Easter Island. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 14.5. 290979041X

64702
PERRY, Roland
PACIFIC 360°
$45.00 AUD

Hachette Australia. Sydney. 2012. 1st Ed. (12), 500 PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 33 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Rubbed patch at top corner of front endpaper, o/wise fine. 25 x 15.7. 9780733627040

Australia's battle for survival in World War II.

66657
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 36, No. 8, August 1965
$10.00 AUD

Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1965. Edited by Stuart INDER & Robert LANGDON. 152 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 24 x 18.5.

The News Magazine of the South Pacific. Pages 81 to 88: The true story of how Britain got hold of Ocean Island, by Robert Langdon. Fiji - The real Islands (pages 113-117).

66658
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 36, No. 9, September 1965
$10.00 AUD

Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1965. Edited by Stuart INDER & Robert LANGDON. 152 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 24 x 18.5.

The News Magazine of the South Pacific. Forgotten Genius put new colour into South Seas Pictures, by Robert Langdon. Queen Emma (pages 93 & 94, by R.W. Robson. Moorea - A World Apart (pages 113-115).

11672
PINELLI, J.D. & GOURMEL, G.
AU PAYS DES TROIS ROYAUMES
$40.00 AUD

Association Pacifique. Paris. 1991. 1st Ed. Volume No. 2 in the Collection Pacifique. Foreword by Louis Le Pensec. 174 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 29.5 x 21. 2908668017

The Country with 3 kingdoms: Wallis, Alofi & Sigave. (The islands of Wallis & Futuna, French Overseas territory in the central Pacific).

65215
PITOISET, Anne & WERY, Claudine
SECRETS DE CAMPAGNES: Municipales et Provinciales 2014
$45.00 AUD

Le Rayon Vert. Paris. 2014. 1st Ed. 169, (3) PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 22 x 14.5. 9782953319835

The 2014 elections in New Caledonia: City Council and Provinces.

37252
PONCET, Mgr Alexandre
HISTOIRE DE L'ILE WALLIS - Le protectorat Français
$30.00 AUD

Musée de l'Homme. Paris. 1972. 1st Ed. No. 23 in Publications de la Société des Océanistes series. (8), 234 PP. Soft cover. Near fine. French text. 25.2 x 16.5.

History of the Island of Wallis (Uvea) during the French Protectorate, between 1844 and 1959.

65496
PONIATOWSKI, Michel
HISTOIRE DE LA RUSSIE D'AMERIQUE ET DE L'ALASKA
$20.00 AUD

Horizons de France. Paris. 1958. 1st Ed. Preface by Michel de Saint-Pierre. XVI, 363 PP with 1 location map and 4 maps, plus 10 pages with 14 b/w illustrations. Eps: Ville de St-Pierre et St-Paul au Kamchatka (Petropavlosk). Decorative cloth covers. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise near fine French text. 21.3 x 15.5.

11554
PONS, Xavier
A SHELTERED LAND
$10.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1994. 1st Ed. XVI, 350 PP with 12 tables in text and 1 table in the endnotes section. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing. Fine. 23 x 15.2. 1863736395

Australia: Creation of a no risk society built behind a wall of protection, either militarily (UK, then USA) or with tariffs and trade barriers. Attempts at a welfare state, which have not wiped out poverty and inequalities... Sweeping reassessment of Australia's past - a new vision of Australia's future.

66345
PRINGLE, John Douglas
THE SHOREBIRDS OF AUSTRALIA
$40.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson Publishers / The National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife. Sydney. 1987. 1st Ed. Foreword by Ronald Strahan. (26), 692 PP with 2 figures and colour illustrations (105 location maps and over 600 photos). Hard cover, dj. Slight insect damage on edges of covers. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a very good clean copy. Scarce. 29.6 x 22. 0207153485

65317
PUIG-SAMPER, Miguel & PELAYO, Francisco
EL VIAJE DEL ASTRONOMO Y NATURALISTA LOUIS FEUILLEE A LAS ISLAS CANARIAS (1724)
$20.00 AUD

Ayuntamiento de la Laguna / Centro de la Cultura Popular Canaria. Tenerife, Gran Canaria. 1997. 1st Ed., in the Taller de Historia series. 207 PP with 45 b/w plates (charts, coastal views, ... and 27 of plants). Pictorial soft cover. Spanish text (Appendix is in Spanish "Historia Antigua y moderna de las Islas Canarias" and French " Histoire Ancienne et Moderne des Isles Canaries", by le Reverend Père Louis Feuillée). Near fine. 21 x 15. 8479262532

Voyage of 1724 to the Canary Islands.

39645
PUTIGNY, Bob & TIRMONT, J.
O TAHITI
$10.00 AUD

Editions de la Pensée Moderne. Paris. 1962. 1st multilingual edition. No pagination, 64 PP with 29 b/w and 22 colour photos. Title spread: the Bounty in Matavai Bay. FEP: World map locating Tahiti. REP: Map of Tahiti and Moorea. Hard cover. Small rub on front endpaper, edges of covers rubbed. A good copy. Text in French, English, Spanish and German. Oblong: 21.8 x 23. 20.8 x 15.5.

Tahiti, when Faaa airport was opened.

66430
QUANCHI, Max & SHEKLETON, Max
POSTCARDS FROM OCEANIA: Port Towns, Portraits and the Picturesque during the Colonial Era
$75.00 AUD

University of the South Pacific Press. Suva. 2015. 1st Ed. 202 PP with b/w or colour illustrations of 221 postcards. Pictorial soft cover. Note on title page signed by the authors. New. 25 x 17.5. 9789820109414

50900
RAU, Eric
INSTITUTIONS ET COUTUMES CANAQUES
$25.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2005. Facsimile edition of the 1944 original with a foreword by René Maunier. Edited and annotated by Régis Lafargue in Collection Fac-similés Océaniens. XXXIV, 200 PP with 3 b/w photos, plus 1 map and 6 plates with 24 b/w illustrations (6 photos and 18 from paintings by P. & R. Mascart). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5.

History of New Caledonia. Kanaks (inhabitants). Society and Tribe (governing, justice, war...). Life with the Tribe...

47378
RAUZON, Mark J.
ISLES OF REFUGE: Wildlife and History of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
$25.00 AUD

A Latitude 20 Book / University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2001. 1st Ed. X, 206 PP with 11 maps (1 general, 10 location), b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, paintings and photos). Fp (in colour): Laysan Albatross sails toward Nihoa. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 24.3 x 21.3. 0824822099

40158
REED, A. H.
SAMUEL MARSDEN - Greatheart of Maoriland
$20.00 AUD

Pickering & Inglis. London. 1947. Reprint of the 1939 original, in the Memoir of Mighty Men and Women series. 95 PP with 10 drawings. Fp: Portrait of Samuel Marsden. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 19 x13.

65733
REED, A. H.
THE STORY OF HAWKE'S BAY
$45.00 AUD

A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1958. October 1958 edition, with a foreword by the Right Hon. Walter Nash, Prime Minister of New Zealand. 312 PP, plus 24 pages with 79 b/w illustrations. FEP: Napier in the earlier Seventies (1870). REP: Map and sketch plan of Hawke's Bay. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket chipped at head and foot of spine. Signed by the author on title page. Card "With Greetings", signed by the author, loosely inserted. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22.3 x 14.5.

17275
REGNAULT, Jean-Marc
TE METUA, L'échec d'un Nationalisme Tahitien 1940-1964
$60.00 AUD

Polymages. Papeete. 1996. 1st Ed. 239 PP with 2 bw photos and 7 tables in text. Pict. card cover. Near fine. French text. 22 x 13.7.

Story of the Tahitian Nationalist movement led by Senator Pouvanaa A Oopa between 1940 and 1964. Failures at the time of the 1958 referendum offering no real alternative to either immediate independence or closer links with France. Arrival of the C.E.P., building of the nuclear testing base at Mururoa.

47383
RENSEL, Jan, & RODMAN, Margaret (editors)
HOME IN THE ISLANDS: Housing and Social Change in the Pacific
$15.00 AUD

University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 1997. 1st Ed. VII, 264 PP with 7 tables and 39 figures (maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0824819349

Housing: Rotuma Island... Papua New Guinea... New Zealand... Hawaii.

65054
ROBINSON, J. S.
ARMS IN THE SERVICE OF QUEENSLAND 1859-1901
$100.00 AUD

J. S. Robinson / S.F.R. Enterprises. Brisbane. 1997. Special Presentation Edition limited to 20 hand numbered copies (No. Ten). 240 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, plans, photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Dedicatory note on title page signed by the author. Fine. 24.6 x 18.7. 0949749346

Section 4: Forts and Ships / H.M.Q.S. Gayundah, Paluma, Mosquito, Otter ...

65254
RODRIGUEZ, Maximo
LES ESPAGNOLS A TAHITI (1772-1776)
$20.00 AUD

Musée de l' Homme. Paris. 1995. 1st Ed., Société des Océanistes, publication No. 45. Translated and annotated by Horacio Belçaguy, and with a preface by Claude Robineau. 232 PP with 4 figures. Pictorial card cover. French text. Name of previous owner on half title page. Near fine. 24.8 x 16.

65196
RONSIN, Albert (editor)
1507 - BAPTEME DE L'AMERIQUE à Saint-Dié / THE BAPTISM OF AMERICA in the City of Saint-Dié / AMERIKAS TAUFE zu Saint-Dié
$50.00 AUD

Imprimerioe Municipale de Saint-Dié. Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. 1982. Trilingual edition limited to 1500 copies. (4), 54, (1 colophon) PP with 20 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front (Cosmographiae Introdu.). Text in French, English and German. Near fine. 21 x 15. 290030136X

25th April 1507: 1st naming (baptism) of "America" the continent. Comments on 10 documents exhibited in the "Treasure Room" of the Municipal Library of Saint 'Dié.

11950
ROUTLEDGE, David (Edit.)
THE FIJI AND NEW CALEDONIA JOURNALS OF MARY WALLIS 1851-1853
$30.00 AUD

Institute of Pacific Studies / USP & Peabody Essex Museum. Suva & Salem. 1994. 1st Ed. XLIV, 225 PP with 6 maps and 22 b/w illustrations. Fp: Portrait of Mary Davis Wallis. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 20.9 x 14.7. 982020092X

The journal of the third voyage of Mary Wallis who sailed in 1853 on board the "Maid of Orleans", captained by her husband with calls in Fiji and New Caledonia (July to October, 1852).

66364
ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS
DOCTORS AND AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE
$20.00 AUD

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Sydney. 1980. 1980 edition, with a preface by Alison Holster, and introduction by Michael Hoare. 40 PP, plus 1 page "Addenda and Corrigenda" tipped in on page 5. Soft cover, staples. Covers with slight insect damage and some ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 22.5 x 17.8. 090978308X

Catalogue of an exhibition held at The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney, 24-29 February 1980. 70 items: manuscripts, books, periodical articles, photographs and medals.

64952
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - JOURNAL - Vol. IV, No. 4
$25.00 AUD

The Historical Society of Queensland (Inc.). Brisbane. 1951. Journal Vol. IV, No. 4, December 1951. Foreword by G. Greenwood. 447-590 PP with 2 b/w plates. Soft covers, browning around edges and spine. Ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 21.4 x 13.7.

8 papers read to the Society in 1951 "The Jubilee Year" (Second half-century of Australia existence) by: Allan A. Morrison, Clem Lack, Glenville Pike, C.G. Austin, Arthur Laurie... Image shows list of all contents.

64957
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND
THE JOURNAL OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - Year-book of Proceedings : Vol. IX, No. 4 - 1972-73
$15.00 AUD

The Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1972-73. 177 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 21.3 x 13.7.

10 papers. "Queensland - Harbours, Rivers and Marine" & "Captain Charles Smith: A Master of Enterprise", by Norman S. Pixley. Two Brisbane Shipowners of the last century, by G. Roderick McLeod. ... A Thumbnail history of Numismatics pertaining to Queensland, by George D. Dean. German New Guinea: A Diplomatic, Economic and Political Survey, by Peter Overlack ...

64965
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND
SPECIAL JOURNAL "Centenary of Queensland 1859-1959": Vol. VI, No. 1
$50.00 AUD

The Royal Historical Society of Queensland. Brisbane. 1959. 293 PP. Hard cover, title on front board, cloth spine. Near fine. 21.2 x 13.8.

16 papers read to the Society in 1958 and 1959. "The Discovery of Australia" / "Wild White Men in Queensland", by Sir Raphael Cilento. Some Reminiscences of Early Queensland, by E.C. Davies. Queensland-One Hundred Years of Defence, by Commander N.S. Pixley. The Taming of the Great Barrier Reef (lighthouses on the coast)", by Clem L. Lack. ... Tug-Boats of the Brisbane River, by A.A. Jordan.

65033
ROYAL PACKET STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
ISLES OF THE EAST - An illustrated guide to Australia, Papua, Java, Sumatra, Singapore etc.
$300.00 AUD

KPM / Royal Packet Steam Navigation Company. Batavia. 1912. Deluxe edition of January 1912. Edited by W. LORCK. LII (adverts), 244 PP, followed by LIII-CXXI (adverts) and b/w and colour illustrations, plus 1 b/w plate : portrait of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; 1 plate "Time Table 1912; 1 folded plate "Accommodation plan of KPM Steel Screw Steamer "Tasman" and 2 colour plates: painting by C. H. Hoyt "Middle Harbour, Sydney, from Mosman Heights, and "Samples of Javanese Art Work..." . Papered boards with a colour illustration on front board by Tindall, cloth spine. Front cover with small pieices missing at corners of front edge. Spine has been reinforced (crudely). The first few pages (up to VIII) are somewhat damaged at the gutters (without loss) and most of Page III/IV has been torn off. The guide was published on superior glossy paper thus conserving its clarity and brightness. A very good copy of quite a rare item. 25.3 x 15.5.

Section I, Chapter 1 (P. XXXIII to L): The "KPM": A Twenty Years' Record. Chapter III (P 38 to 155): A trip to Java by a KPM Steamer (Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville, Port Moresby ... Borneo, Celebes, Singapore). Section II,Chapter 1 (P.156-243): Commercial Section - Rotterdamsche Lloyd, The Railways of Java, Sumatra Railways, Batavia, The Tea Industry, Bandoeng, Soerabaya.. Chapter II (P.LIII - CXXI): Advertisements: period advertisements for hotels, transport companies, import/export, ... Gives an insight to life in these areas at the time.

67100
S.E.H.
BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE D'ETUDES HISTORIQUES DE LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE - S.E.H. No. 158
$10.00 AUD

Société d' Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2009. No. 158 (1st term 2009). Edited by Gabriel VALET. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Near fine. 27.5 x 17.5.

No. 158: La Passerelle Marguerite, un modèle de pont Gisclard, by Jerry Delathière. Sur l'ilot Konienne, by Wilfred G. Burchett. Histoire des Mines de Kouaoua (part 2), by Luc Legeard.

67103
S.E.H.
BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE D'ETUDES HISTORIQUES DE LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE - S.E.H. No.157
$10.00 AUD

Société d' Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2008. No. 157 (4th term 2008). Edited by Gabriel VALET. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Near fine. 27.5 x 17.5.

No. 157: Le commandant Erskine (HMS Havannah) dans le lagon de Nouvelle-Calédonie en 1849, by Jean-Claude Estival. Histoire des Mines de Kouaoua (part 1), by Luc Legeard.

67104
S.E.H.
BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE D'ETUDES HISTORIQUES DE LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE - S.E.H. No.156
$10.00 AUD

Société d' Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2008. No. 156 (3rd term 2008). Edited by Gabriel VALET. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Near fine. 27.5 x 17.5.

No. 156: L'oeuvre Guyannaise de Louis Tardy de Montravel, by Luc Legeard. La Nouvelle Calédonie in Walkabout (translated by Max Shekleton), by Stephen Henty. La prise de possession des Îles Chesterfield, by Daniel Morignat.

67105
S.E.H.
BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE D'ETUDES HISTORIQUES DE LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE- S.E.H. No.159
$10.00 AUD

Société d' Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2009. No. 159 (2nd term 2009). Edited by Gabriel VALET. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Near fine. 27.5 x 17.5.

No. 159: Une conséquence de l'insurrection de 1878: la création de centres agricoles auprès des postes militaires, 1878-1883, by Benoit Delvinquier. Dans les Mers du Sud françaises: Walkabout Magazine, April 1938 (translated by Max Shekleton), by Elizabeth Nicholls. Doniambo, 1er Novembre 1943: souvenir d'une vision apocalyptique, by André Jacquier.

65218
SALAUN, Marie
DECOLONISER L'ECOLE ? - Hawai'i, Nouvelle-Calédonie: Expériences contemporaines
$40.00 AUD

Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Rennes. 2013. 1st edition in "Collection Essais". 304 PP with b/w illustrations (1 photo, diagrams, graphs, 2 maps, 8 tables). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 23 x 14. 9782753521650

65188
SAND, Christophe, TEREBO, Malia & LAGARDE, Louis
LE PASSE DE DEVA - Archéologie d'un domaine provincial calédonien
$60.00 AUD

Institut d'Archéologie de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et du Pacifique. Nouméa. 2013. 1st Ed., October 2013, "Archeologia Pasifika" No. 2. 80 PP with colour illustrations (1 location map, 1 map, drawings and over 80 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 23.5. 9782954167510

66041
SAUNDERS, David
DUBAI - The Arabian Dream
$25.00 AUD

TransGlobe Publishing. London. 2003. 1st Ed. Foreword by Abdullah Mohamed Saleh, National Bank of Dubai. Welcome address by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, The Crown Prince of Dubai. 208 PP with 14 b/w photos and colour illustrations ( 1 map and photos). Hard cover, gilt decoration and title on front board and spine, dj. Note on front endpaper. Fine. 27.8 x 27.8. 0954508300

33303
SCHAPPER, Henry P.
ABORIGINAL ADVANCEMENT TO INTEGRATION - Conditions and plans for Western Australia
$20.00 AUD

ANU Press. Canberra. 1970. 1st Ed., No. 5 in Aborigines in Australian Society series. XXII, 196 PP with 47 tables, plus large folded map at rear of book. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Near fine. 22.2 x 14. 070810391X

65859
SHORT, Fred. G.
KANT AMONG THE NUDES - Poems, Stories and Essays
$30.00 AUD

Jomaru Press. Robina, Qld. 2002. 1st Ed. 200 PP with 8 drawings "Nataraja". Dated and signed by the author on the title page. Fine. 21.6 x 14. 0958637318

76 of them, including "Recollections of Old Santo," (the New Hebrides in late 1920s and early 1930s).

40033
SLESIN, Suzanne, CLIFF, Stafford, BERTHELOT, Jack, GAUME, Martine & ROZENSZTROCH
CARIBBEAN STYLE
$10.00 AUD

Thames and Hudson. London. 1992. Reprint of the 1985 original. 290 PP, lavishly illustrated with 1 map, 9 pages of plans and over 600 colour photos. Cloth cover (lightly soiled), dj (lightly rubbed). Near fine. 25.8 x 25.5. 0500234558

The islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, St.Barthélémy, Antigua, Nevis, Monserrat, Barbados, Haiti and Jamaica. Island vegetation and colour, plantation houses, town houses, popular houses, contemporary houses and gardens. Plans and information on different types of houses on the various islands.

56180
SMITH, Anita
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF WEST POLYNESIAN PREHISTORY: Terra Australis 18
$45.00 AUD

Pandanus Books / RSPAS, ANU. Canberra. 2002. 1st Ed. , Volume 18 in the Terra Australis series. XVI, 230 PP with 69 tables and 26 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 01740760190

63490
SOCIETE DES ETUDES OCEANIENNES
BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE DES ETUDES OCEANIENNES - No. 302 "Iles Marquises"
$25.00 AUD

Société des Etudes Océaniennes. Papeete. 2005. No. 302, May 2005. Edited by Simone Grand. 176 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. French text (occasional text in Reo Mao'hi). Pages 98 & 99 misbound (photocopy of pages tipped in). Fine. 22 x 14.

No. 302- Special issue: Marquesas Islands - 6 papers (pages 6 to 125) by Fr. Joseph Le Port, Pierre Ottino, Sidsel Millerström, Robert Suggs, Emily Donaldson & Robert Koenig.

63491
SOCIETE DES ETUDES OCEANIENNES
BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE DES ETUDES OCEANIENNES - No. 303/304
$20.00 AUD

Société des Etudes Océaniennes. Papeete. 2005. No. 303/304, December 2005. Edited by Simone Grand. 132 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. French text (occasional text in Reo Mao'hi). Fine. 22 x 14.

... Rapa iti, 40 years later, by Allan F. Hanson. ...

66443
SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES
JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES - No. 140: "Integration Régionale des Territoires Français dans le Pacifique Sud"
$60.00 AUD

Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 2015. No. 140, 2015 - 1. Edited by Isabelle Leblic. 184, (2) PP with tables, b/w and colour illustrations. Soft cover, pictorial front. French texts with 2 papers in English. Covers with a few small bumps or rubs, o/wise fine. 27.5 x 18.

Special issue "French Territories and the South Pacific", edited by Rudy Bessard and Nathalie Mrgudovic: 8 papers (7 in French and 1 in English) ...

67156
SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES
JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES - No. 141: "Nouveaux Regards sur les Chefferies Fidjiennes"
$60.00 AUD

Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 2015. No. 141, 2015 - 2. Edited by Isabelle Leblic. 186-386 PP with tables, b/w and colour illustrations. Soft cover, pictorial front. French texts with 4 papers in English. Fine. 27.5 x 18. 9782854301267

Special issue "New Approach to Fijian Chiefdoms", with 7 texts (2 of them in English) edited by Simone Pauwels. ... Some Australian official views of New Caledonia's Melanesians, 1941 to 1953, by Stephen Henningham.

14846
STAHL, Paul-Jean
1942-1945 LES AMERICAINS EN NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE
$50.00 AUD

Les Editions du Santal. Nouméa. 1994. 1st Ed. 139 PP, (5 PP for epilogue, chronological events & bibliography) with 2 maps, 8 b/w, 8 colour illustrations and 210 b/w photos. Soft cover, dj. Fine. French text. Oblong: 20.8 x 28. 2950873901

During WWII, the U.S. Forces had large bases in New Caledonia, preventing invasion by the Japanese and preparing the counter attacks on Guadalcanal, etc... The impact of the Americans on the Territory was important and brought about many changes.

33139
STANLEY, David
TAHITI - Polynesia Handbook
$10.00 AUD

Moon Publications. Chico, Ca., USA. 1992. 2nd edition of the 1989 original. (12), 214, (14) PP with b/w illust. (maps, photos, engravings), plus 8 pages with 31 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 18.7 x 13. 0918373875

64991
STEWART, Desmond
L' AUBE DE L' ISLAM
$10.00 AUD

Collections Time-Life. Amsterdam. 1969. 1st French edition in "Les Grandes Epoques de l'Homme" series, of the 1967 US original. Preface by Jacques Berque. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, illustrated front board. French text. Near fine. 27.3 x 22.

65870
STONE, Andrew J.
A WALK IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS: A Kokoda Trail Experience - A Modern Soldier's Personal story
$20.00 AUD

Australian Military History Publications. Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed. X, 102 PP with 2 maps and 44 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Signature of previous owner on title page, o/wise fine. 21 x 15. 0958669341

48542
TCHERKEZOFF, Serge
FAA-SAMOA, UNE IDENTITE POLYNESIENNE (économie, politique, sexualité). L'anthropologie comme dialogue culturel
$20.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2003. 1st Ed., in Collection Connaissances des Hommes. 546 PP with 2 maps and few text drawings. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16. 2747552195

Samoan way of life: their economy, politics, sexuality.

51779
Te Reo o te Tuamotu
NAKU TEIE HAKARI, na toku tupune - Le Cocotier aux Tuamotu, quête identitaire et transmission du patrimoine
$45.00 AUD

Association Culturelle Te Reo o te Tuamotu / Haere Po. Papeete. 2006. 1st Ed. 196, (2) PP with 2 b/w illustrations (1 drawing and 1 map), 2 maps in colour and hundreds of colour photos. Text in French and in Reo o te Tuamotu. Pictorial card covers with light wear, o/wise fine. 27 x 20.8. 2904171503

Coconut tree and heritage in the Tuamotu archipelago.

47683
THOMAS, Larry
OUTCASTS / LES EXCLUS
$20.00 AUD

ADCK / Grain de Sable. Nouméa. 2004. 1st French edition, translated by Sonia Lacabanne from the 1995 edition (University of the South Pacific). 179, (3) PP with 12 portraits and 11 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 15 x 11. 2909407314

Theatre play.

65208
THRELFALL, Neville
ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN THE ISLANDS: The Methodist/United Church in the New Guinea Islands Region 1875-1975
$40.00 AUD

Toksave na Bul Dipatmen. Rabaul, PNG. 1975. 1st Ed. Foreword by Saimon Gaius. 288 PP with b/w illustrations (vignette on title page, 1 map, facsimile of document, 1 tail piece, portraits and photos). FEP: Map of the Bismarck Archipelago. REP: Map of North East Gazelle Peninsula. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22.8 x 14.4. 0869380168

65791
UNIVERSITY OF GUAM
GUAM RECORDER - Volume 3 , No. 1, 1973
$10.00 AUD

University of Guam / Micronesian Area Research Center. Agana. 1973. Volume 3, No. 1, January-March 1973. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers have insect damage, but contents clean and intact. Very good. 28 x 22.

From the outrigger to the satellite: Guam becomes a Pacific Communications center.

66288
VAN WYCK, Susan & GRANT, Kirsty
FOLLOW THE FLAG: Australian Artists and War 1914-1945
$45.00 AUD

National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne. 2015. 1st Ed. Message from The Hon. George Brandis, Australian Government Minister for the Arts. Foreword by Tony Ellwood. X, 134 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Card cover, stiff dust jacket. Fine. 27 x 24 9780724104055

58604
VAUTRIN, Felix
SIX FRERES DANS LA GRANDE GUERRE (1915-1918)
$85.00 AUD

Cercle du Musée de la Ville de Nouméa. Nouméa. 2009. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jerry Delathière. 204 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 21. 9782953506907

World War One, through the letters and writings of 6 brothers from New Caledonia.

66111
VERIN, Pierre & VECCELLA, Robert (editors)
L'AMERIQUE HISPANIQUE ET LE PACIFIQUE. Hommage à Hugo Neira
$40.00 AUD

Karthala. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed. 211, (5) PP with tables and 6 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note on title page dated and signed by co-author Annie Baert. French & Spanish texts. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.5 13.5. 2845867123

2 texts in Spanish and 9 in French. ... Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza and the naming of the Marquesas Islands by Annie Baert.

11557
VERNIER, Henri
AU VENT DES CYCLONES - Puai Noa Mai Te Vero - Histoire des Missions Protestantes et de l' Eglise Evangélique à Tahiti et en Polynésie Française, Une Eglise Polynésienne 1797-1963, 1985
$30.00 AUD

Eglise Evangélique de Polynnésie Française. Papeete. 1986. 1st Ed. (16), 466 PP with b/w illust. (paintings & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 15.8. 2905832002

History and changes of the Protestant Church in Tahiti and in French Polynesia, since the arrival of the London Missionary Society.

55592
VIENNE, Bernard
GENS DE MOTLAV - Idéologie et pratique sociale en Mélanésie
$45.00 AUD

Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1984. 1st Ed. Publication No. 42. 434, (2) PP with 17 genealogical trees, 63 tables,and 58 figures (maps, graphs, organigrams). Pictorial stiff covers. French text. Fine. 24.5 x 16. 2854300009

11826
VILLARET, Bernard, BATAILLE, M. C., et al...
LES ILES DU PACIFIQUE
$10.00 AUD

Larousse. Paris. 1980. 1st edition in Collection Monde et Voyages. 240 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Title Page: Nguzu Nguzu of the Solomon Islands. FEP: Outrigers from New Caledonia. REP: Spear fisherman. Pictorial laminated boards a little worn. Foxing spots on first and last leaves, o/wise very good. French text. 26.5 x 22.5. 2030532223

The islands of the Pacific Ocean: geography & discovery. The Galapagos to Australia, Hawaii to New Zealand & Easter Island.

37237
VILLEMINOT, Jacques
BOOMERANG - l'Australie Primitive
$10.00 AUD

René Julliard. Paris. 1954. 1st Ed. 213 PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 21 b/w photos. Soft cover. Very good. French text. 19 x 14.

Australia in 1953: perceived after a stay of 8 months - Primitive Australia.

44075
VINCENT, Rose (editor)
PONDICHERY, 1674-1761 - L'Echec d'un rêve d'empire
$35.00 AUD

Editions Autrement. Paris. 1993. 1st Ed., No. 24 in Série Mémoires. 262, (2 publications) PP with 5 maps and 31 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 24.8 x 17. 286260433X

Rush to India. French East India Company... Wars with Great Britain and loss of a potential French empire.

65749
WARLPIRI LITERATURE
JUNGA YIMI - Vol. 4, No. 1
$10.00 AUD

Warlpiri Literature Production Centre. Yuendumu, Northern Territory. 1983. Volume 4, No. 1, March 1983. No pagination, 24 PP with b/w illustrations. Text in English and Warlpiri. Soft cover, pictorial front, staples, cloth spine. Very good. 29.7 x 21.

65597
WELSH, Kathleen (editor)
NORFOLK ISLAND COOKERY BOOK
$15.00 AUD

Greenways Press / Sunshine Club. Norfolk Island. 1984. Reprint of original edition. Foreword by Margaret Wordsworth. (4), 48 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.5 x 12.5.

Recipes with avocado, bananas, coconut... kumeras, paw paw... Three last pages: Norfolk words and phrases explained.

44369
WENZ, Paul
L'ECHARDE
$50.00 AUD

Les Editions de la Vraie France. Paris. 1931. 1st Ed., with a preface by Firmin Roz. IV, 242 PP. Cloth cover bound copy retaining the original soft covers. Ageing of paper. Very good. French text. 19.3 x 12.4.

The author was born in Reims, France, in 1869. In 1892 he visited Australia where he spent two years as a jackaroo. He returned as a settler/grazier in 1898, purchasing a property on the Lachlan River in NSW. L'Echarde recounts his experiences as a grazier and relives his childhood memories.

44371
WENZ, Paul
SOUS LA CROIX DU SUD
$50.00 AUD

Librairie Plon. Paris. 1910. 1st Ed. (6), 304, (4) PP. Cloth cover bound copy retaining the original soft covers. Some pencil underlining of text and notes in the margins. Ageing of paper, and foxing. Very good. French text. 19.3 x 12.4.

Short stories set in Australia, by a French novelist who settled there in 1898.

65855
WHEELER, Margaret (editor)
A BOOK OF ARCHAEOLOGY - Seventeen Stories of Discovery
$15.00 AUD

Cassell & Company. London. 1959. 2nd edition of the 1957 original. XII, 178 PP with 4 b/w illustrations (1 drawing, 1 plan, and 2 maps), plus 12 pages with 22 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Slight ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Note on front endpaper. Very good. 22 x 14.5.

65917
WILLIAMS, Kerry
NORTHERN TERRITORY / OUTBACK AUSTRALIA
$10.00 AUD

Barker Souvenirs. Darwin, NT. 1983. 1st Ed. Introduction by Wendy Kirke, on the inside of front cover. No pagination, 104 PP (4 pages loosely inserted), with 1 map on the inside of back cover, and colour photos, by Kerry Williams. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 28 x 21.5.

65721
WRIGHT, Malcolm
THE GENTLE SAVAGE
$25.00 AUD

Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1966. 1st Ed. Foreword by Commander Eric Feldt. (10), 172 PP, plus 12 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: The approaching monsoon seen from a New Guinea beach. Eps: map of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Name of previous owner on title page. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Occasional foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14.

47866
ZAMBUCKA, Kristin
FACES OF FIJI
$15.00 AUD

A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wellington. 1974. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 14 pastel portraits in colour. Fp: Lima Bulamaibau. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with a closed tear on front cover. Near fine. 24.5 x 18.5. 589008692