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12882
ABORIGINALS IN AUSTRALIA TODAY
$15.00 AUD
Dept. of Aboriginal Affairs / AGPS. Canberra. 1981. 1st Ed. (2), 30 PP with 3 maps, 3 tables, 3 b/w and 40 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 0642068577
An outline of what has been done for and by aboriginals since the Federal Government took charge of Aboriginal affairs in 1968.
74014
ALLEN, Percy S. (compiler)
NEW HEBRIDES - British and French (Dual Control)
$20.00 AUD
Colin Hinchcliffe, "Empire Books". York, UK. c.1995. Facsimile transcript of an article compiled for "Stewart's Hand Book of the Pacific Islands", 1918. 15 PP (recto only). Soft covers, title on front cover, spiral bound. Near fine 29.9 x 21.
42422
AMIRIE, Abbas (editor)
THE PERSIAN GULF AND INDIAN OCEAN IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
$15.00 AUD
Institute for international Political and Economic Studies. Tehran. 1975. 1st Ed. (4), VII, (2 blank), 417 PP. Eps: Map of the Indian Ocean. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16.5.
Papers presented at an International Conference on the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, in March 1975.
37124
AMMANN, Raymond
KANAK DANCE AND MUSIC - Ceremonial and intimate performance of the Melanesians of New Caledonia, historical and actual
$15.00 AUD
A.D.C.K. / Kegan Paul International. Noumea & London. 1997. 1st English edition. Editorial assistance for the English text: Helena E. Reeve-Brinon. XIV, 285 PP with labanotations and musical scores, 5 maps, 83 b/w illust. (engravings and photos by David Becker). Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 24 x 15.5. 0710305869
74056
ANDERSON, Hugh
PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA: 1828 - 1940
$30.00 AUD
Hill of Content. Melbourne. 1973. Hill of Content Archive. Archive folder containing 14 items: 1 booklet with 72 PP / 1 booklet "No Guns for Misssionaries" with 8 PP / 6 folded broadsheets / 4 reproductions of early engravings & 2 folded posters (The Administration & New Guinea Life). Folder and content in near fine condition. Oblong:: 21.5 x 33. 085572476
74026
ANGELO, Denise, COLEMAN, Carolyn, ....
AUSTRALIAN PHRASEBOOK
$10.00 AUD
Lonely Planet Publications. Melbourne. 1998. 2nd edition of original. 254, (1 publication) PP with c. 10 maps and some drawings. Stiff covers. Fine. 13.8 x 9.2. 0864425767
Understanding Aussies & their Culture.
75447
ARTLESS, Stuart W. (editor)
THE CHURCH IN MELANESIA
$60.00 AUD
Melanesian Mission. Sydney. 1936. 1st Ed. Foreword by Charles Stepney. (4), VIII, 106 PP with 13 b/w photos, plus 1 folded "Map of the enlarged diocese" and 1 b/w photo of Rt. Rev. Walter Hubert Baddeley, Bishop of Melanesia (post card format) pasted down on page 100 opposite the Dates of Interest index. Fp: "Southern Cross No. VII". Hard cover, cloth spine, title on front board, dj. A near fine copy of a rare item. 19.4 x 13.
The Islands of Melanesia, by the Rev. Dr. W. Ivens.
73230
ATTALI, Yves & MOSER, René
NOUVELLE CALEDONIE - NEW CALEDONIAN
$30.00 AUD
Editions Delroise / Vilo. Paris. 1974. 1st Ed. 152 PP with colour photos. Eps: Landing of European discoverers. Hard cover, clear plastic protection. Very good. French text (English translation of text & legends of photos between pages 129 and 151). Image shows part of the endpapers. 27.8 x 21.5.
Photographic voyage through the island of New Caledonia in the mid-1970's.
67741
AUSTIN, L.- J.
PAUL BOURGET, sa Vie et son Oeuvre jusqu'en 1889
$100.00 AUD
Librairie E. Droz. Paris. 1940. 1st Ed. (8), 260, (2) PP. Soft cover, title on front cover and spine. Covers a little worn and a few dog-ears and ageing of paper. Spine lightly sunned. Stamp " M.N. Austin, Universiy of W.A." at top of half title page. Very good. French text. 25.4 x 16.6.
L.-J. Austin obtained his B.A. at the University of Melbourne.
75229
BAJAC, Quentin (editor)
LA COMMUNE PHOTOGRAPHIEE
$35.00 AUD
Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Paris. 2000 1st Ed. 128 PP with 57 pages of b/w photographs. Hard covers, dj. Light foxing, mostly on prelims. French text. Near fine. 22 x 16.3. 9782711840076
Exhibition held at Musée d'Orsay, Paris: 14 March to 11th June 2000.
14600
BALLANDE, Henri
LE PREMIER CAP-HORNIER
$20.00 AUD
Editions du Pen-Duick / Ouest-France. Paris. 1989. 1st Ed. 115 PP, plus 16 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 23 x 15.4. 2737304539
Voyage of discovery on board Eendracht, by her ship-owner Lemaire and her captain Willem Schouten between 1615 & 1617 to round the Horn. Discovery of Futuna (or Horn) Island...
41094
BARBIER, Jean-Eudes & BOURGEOIS, Pierre (editors)
NAKAMAL - LE NEO-HEBRIDAIS : A bi-monthly magazine in French and in English - Issue No. 10
$20.00 AUD
Société de Presse et d'Editions Néo-Hébridaise. Port Vila. 1972. No. 10, November 1972. 28 PP with 15 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27 x 20.8.
Tourism in New Hebrides: So much to do. Tribune libre, or Freedom of Speech...
74044
BARDET, J.P., ARBRLLOT, G. & LEPETIT, B.
PAROISSES ET COMMUNES DE FRANCE - CHARENTE MARITIME
$60.00 AUD
Editions du CNRS. Paris. 1985. 1st Ed. 628, (2) PP with 11 b/w "ancient" maps and 10 colour maps (1 on double page): 7 on administration / authority and 3 on population / demography. Cloth covers, title in blind on front board and spine. French text. Near fine. 24 x 16. 2222035872
75266
BARKER, John
ANCESTRAL LINES: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest
$20.00 AUD
University of Toronto Press. Toronto. 2008. 1st Ed. in "Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classrooms". X, 229 PP with b/w illustrations (6 headpieces and 23 photos), plus 4 pages with 8 colour plates. Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 22.8 x 15.2. 9781442601055
75403
BARNARD, Noel & FRASER, Douglas (editors)
EARLY CHINESE ART AND ITS POSSIBLE INFLUENCE IN THE PACIFIC BASIN - Volume Three: Oceania and the Americas
$40.00 AUD
Intercultural Arts Press. New York. 1972 1st Ed. X, 533 - 896 PP with 3 tables, 9 maps, 123 figures. Red cloth cover with light wear, gilt illustration on front and gilt title on spine. A near fine copy. 23.5 x 15.5.
Symposium arranged by the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York: 21-25 August 1967. 10 papers: Both sides of the Wallace Line: New Guinea, Australia Island Melanesia and Asian Prehistory, by Jack Golson. ... Pottery in the South Pacific, by Bruce Palmer. New World perspectives on Pre-European Voyaging in the Pacific, by Clinton R. Edwards.
75350
BARROW, T.
THE DECORATIVE ARTS OF THE NEW ZEALAND MAORI
$15.00 AUD
A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1964. 1st Ed. 109, (3 index) PP with 53 b/w plates and 84 colour plates. Fp (in colour): Feather Cloak with feathers of Tui, Kereru (pigeon) and Kaka (parrot). Libary binding. Pictorial laminated boards. Ex Library copy with number on front cover, and stamps on half title and title page, o/wise contents near fine. Oblong: 17.5 x 18.2.
11825
BARROW, Terence
THE ART OF TAHITI and the neighbouring Society, Austral and Cook Islands
$10.00 AUD
Thames & Hudson. London. 1979. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w & colour illustrations Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24.5 x 19. 050006007X
Includes illustrations of the artefacts as well as pictures of Tahitian life, including contemporary engravings from Captain Cook's expedition.
40895
BATES, Marston
IFALIK, LONELY PARADISE OF THE SOUTH SEAS [in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 109, No.4, 1956]
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1956. Vol. 109, No.4, April 1956. Contains article P.546 to 571 with 2 maps, 4 b/w and 29 colour photos. Does not contain the supplement map. Soft cover. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
A trio of scientists finds ancestral ways holding their own among contented islanders of a remote Pacific Atoll.
14664
BELLWOOD, Peter
THE POLYNESIANS, Prehistory of an Island People
$15.00 AUD
Thames & Hudson. London. 1978. 1st Ed. Volume 92, in the Ancient Peoples and Places series. 180 PP with 1 table and 107 b/w illustrations (maps, graphs, drawings & photos). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Light foxing on endpapers, otherwise fine. 24.6 x 16.5. 0500020930
16350
BENOIT, Norbert (editor)
LA VIE OU LES AVENTURES DE J.B. TABARDIN DANS SES VOYAGES imaginé et commencé le premier janvier 1805 dans la Raveline de Bombay
$20.00 AUD
Editions Vizavi. Port Louis, ILe Maurice. 1993. 1st Ed. 236 PP with 5 maps & 5 colour illustrations by J.B. Tabardin. Pict. card cover. Fine. French text. 21.5 x 15. 9990337004
Jean-Baptiste Tabardin, a Creole from Mauritius, roamed the oceans as a French corsair and a libertine, fighting the British...
12023
BERNARD, Michel
HISTOIRE DE L'AUSTRALIE (de 1770 à nos jours), Naissance d'une Nation du Pacifique
$10.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1995. 1st Ed. 136 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. French text. 21.5 x 13. 2738429289
History of Australia from 1770 to the present day up to the return to power of the Labor Party (Hawke Government) and towards a multicultural society.
75378
BIRD, Isabella L.
THE HAWAIIAN ARCHIPELAGO - Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands
$25.00 AUD
Picador / Macmillan Publishers. London. 1997. New edition of the 1872 original. No. XV, in the "Picador Travel Classics" series. X, 420 PP with 1 map and 2 sketches. Eps: Map of the crater of Haleakala volcano Hawaii. Hard covers, dj, ribbon page-marker. Fine. 19 x 13.2.
The Hawaiian Archipelago in the early 1870's.
73512
BITTER, Maurice & CALE, Noël
NOUVELLE CALEDONIE, Ile de Lumière
$5.00 AUD
Editions N.C. Nouméa. 1965. 1st Ed. 134 PP profusely illustrated with b/w & colour photos plus folded plate with 2 maps at rear of book. A 4 page Addendum in English "New Caledonia, The Isle of Light" for legends and geographical data, loosely inserted. Cloth cover, device on front cover. French and English text. Faint foxing. Near fine. 27.8 x 21.2.
69508
[BLACKBIRDING]
Act for the PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF CRIMINAL OUTRAGES UPON NATIVES OF THE ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN - (27th June 1872)
$250.00 AUD
George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoods, Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. London. 1872. Chapter 19, Pacific Islanders Protection. 9 PP (A1 to B). Sitches removed. Ageing of paper, occasional foxing. Very good. A rare item. 27 x 18.
Act of the British Parliament attempting to control the infamous practice of "Blackbirding"...
74074
BOLLEE, Laurent Frédéric & NICLOUX, Philippe
TERRA AUSTRALIS
$75.00 AUD
Editions Glénat. Grenoble, France. 2013. 3rd Ed. in the Collection 1000 Feuilles. 508, (4) PP. Pictorial hard covers with a ribbon page-marker. French text. Fine. 27.2 x 20. 9782723452579
An illustrated saga of the prehistory and British settlement of Australia.
75219
BONNEMAISON, J., KAUFMANN, C., HUFFMAN, K. & TRYON D. (editors)
ARTS OF VANUATU
$100.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1996 1st US edition translated from the French original "Vanuatu Océanie". (6), 338 PP with 383 b/w & colour illustrations. Eps: Map of Central Pacific Ocean. Hard cover, dj. Small bump at top corner edge, o/wise a fine (as new) copy. Scarce. 24.7 x 22. 082481956X
The first major contemporary anthropology work including construction of canoes and of the standing slit-drums, masks and mats, the raising of tusker pigs, rock art...
71225
BONNEMAISON, Joël
THE TREE AND THE CANOE, History and Ethnogeography of Tanna
$40.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1994 1st English edition of the 1986 French original: "La Dernière Ile". Translated and adapted by Josée Pénot-Demetry. XXIV, 368 PP with 10 maps & 33 b/w photos, and 3 head-pieces. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear, otherwise fine. Scarce. 24 x 16. 9780824815257
Resistance and resilience to Western cultural contacts.
18881
BONVALLOT, J., VIGNERON, E., DUPON, J. F. et al.
ATLAS DE LA POLYNESIE FRANCAISE
$200.00 AUD
ORSTOM. Paris. 1993. 1st Ed. No pagination, 380 PP with b/w & colour maps, figures, graphs & 112 plates on full page. Cloth cover, device and title on front cover and spine. Predominantly French text but each chapter/plate has an English summary. New condition. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. Large oblong format: 36 x 53cm. 2709911477
Geography & geopolitical context, physical features, flora & fauna, human settlement & impact, economical & statistical details, present-day challenges & constraints in French Polynesia.
38150
BOUGARD, Alain, ETWAREEA, Ram & ORY, Christiane
MADAGASCAR - La Grande Ile Magique (in îles Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
Iles Magazine S.A. Lausanne. 1989. Issue No. 4, June-July 1989. Contains article from P. 4 to 35 with 1 map and 25 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French text. 27 x 20.
44461
BOULLAIRE, Jacques
TAHITI, A Sketchbook
$60.00 AUD
Editions le Motu. Papeete. 2002. Reprint of the 1988 original. English edition of the French original Carnet de Croquis, translated by Elizabeth Bonnaire & Victor Wortman. Introduction by Aiu Boullaire-Deschamps. 104 PP with b/w sketches & watercolours. Cloth cover, colour illustration pasted down on front board. Fine. 27.7 x 21.6. 2915105006
The works of the French painter who discovered Tahiti before WWII.
60887
BOULLAIRE, Jacques
Enveloppe Premier Jour d'Emission: CENTENAIRE DE LA NAISSANCE DE JACQUES BOULLAIRE
$10.00 AUD
Office des Postes et Télécommunications. Papeete. 1993. First Day Cover with franking stamp dated Papeete 6 Mai 1993. Envelope with engraving "Pahi Nuku-Hiva", and the 51 CFP Francs stamp with same illustration. Fine. Oblong: 9 x 16.5.
39003
BOURDAT, Pierre / DERIBERE, Paulette & Maurice
LOYS MASSON (1915-1969): Poète et Romancier de l'Ocèan Indien - An Indian Ocean Poet and Novelist / LES ILES MALDIVES - THE MALDIVE ISLANDS (in Courrier des Messageries Maritimes No. 141)
$20.00 AUD
Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes. Paris. 1974. No. 141, July-August 1974. Contains articles: P. 15 to 19 with 9 b/w photos / P. 20 to 29 with 1 map, 2 colour and 12 duotone illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French and English text. 30.5 x 24.
Loys Masson. Maldive archipelago, in the Indian Ocean.
41042
BOWLEY, Robert
IN SEARCH OF TRUTH - A new version of the episodes leading up to, during and following The Mutiny on the Bounty
$10.00 AUD
Rebel Publishing. Peterborough, Ontario. 1995. 1st Ed. (4), II, 102 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.8 x 21.6. 0968019706
Quest for truth, following a voyage to Pitcairn Island in September 1988 and Norfolk Island in November 1988.
31470
BREEDEN, Stanley, & WRIGHT, Belinda
PAROLES D'ABORIGENES [in GEO Magazine - Volume 118, December 1988]
$20.00 AUD
Geo. Paris. 1988. Contains article, P. 182 to 201 with 2 maps and 19 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 27 x 21.2.
The Gagadju Aborigenes of the Northern Territory, Australia: one of the Forgotten people in White Australia.
74008
BROU, Bernard
QUESTION DE PRINCIPES - Mémoires
$50.00 AUD
Société d'Etudes Historiques de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 1998. 1st Ed. 380 PP with b/w illustrations: maps, facsimile of documents and newspaper clippings and photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Dedicatory note to the previous owner on preliminary page, signed by the author. French text. Near fine. 21 x 14.8.
The author created the "Société d'Etudes Historiques de Nouvelle-Caledonie". Youth in the centre of France, World War II and Resistance to the German invaders... 10 years in New Caledonia, involvement in politics and local heritage / history.
75361
BROWN, Dorothy (compiler)
Journal of the Polynesian Society CENTENNIAL INDEX 1892-1991
$75.00 AUD
The Polynesian Society. Auckland. 1993 1st edition. Memoir No. 50 of the Journal of the Polynesin Society. Foreword by Richard Moyle. VI, 279 PP. Soft cover. As new condition. Scarce. 21 x 14.8. 0908940025
Pages 1 to 113: Author - Title - Subject. Pages 115 to 278: Book - Film - Recording - Reviews.
75366
BROWN, Paula
HIGHLAND PEOPLES OF NEW GUINEA
$20.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1979. Paperback reprint of the 1978 edition. XIV, 258 PP with 2 maps, 7 b/w photos and 8 tables. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 20.7 x 13.5. 0521292492
10090
BURT, Ben
SOLOMON ISLANDERS - The Kwara'ae
$20.00 AUD
British Museum Publications. London. 1981 1st Ed. 16 PP with 2 maps and 16 b/w photos. Inside front cover: A dancer with leg rattles and a hornbill baton. Inside back cover: Paramount Chief Osifera in his custom house. Pictorial soft cover (Timi Ko'oliu a senior priest). Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0714115657
The Kwara'ae people of Malaita island in the Solomon Archipelago.
47874
BUTLER, Leo
TASMANIA - JEWEL-BOX OF LANDSCAPE AND HISTORY (in Qantas Airways Australia)
$10.00 AUD
Qantas Airways Ltd. Sydney. 1972/73. Vol. 38, No. 8, December 1972/January 1973. 24 PP. Contains article from P.10 to P15 with with 10 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
41147
CAIGER-SMITH, Martin, DOWSON, Anna, et al..
LE ROYAUME DE L' ARABIE SAOUDITE
$10.00 AUD
Stacey International. London. 1984. Revised edition of the 1979 original. 256 PP with 25 figures, 40 maps and around 400 colour photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. French text. 31 x 26. 0905743393
Saudi Arabia.
40795
CAISSE CENTRALE DE COOPERATION ECONOMIQUE
LA CAISSE CENTRALE 1941-1991
$25.00 AUD
Caisse Centrale de Coopération Economique. Paris. 1991. 1st Ed. Edited by Manuel BRIDIER. 156 PP with graphs, maps, tables, b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 20.8 x 22.7.
Created in 1941, as the Central Bank of the Free French Movement of General De Gaulle. After World War II: tool for the development of the French Colonies, and more recently with the Less Developed Conutries.
21169
CAMPBELL, I.C.
A HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
Canterbury University Press. Christchurch. 1992. Reprint of the 1989 original. 240 PP with 3 tables and 8 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Fine (as new condition). 21.5 x 14. 9780908812233
35610
CAZES-DUVAT, Virginie
LES LITTORAUX DES ILES SEYCHELLES
$25.00 AUD
L'Harmattan / Université de la Réunion. Paris. 1999. 1st Ed. with a preface by Roland Paskoff. (10), 365 PP with 44 tables and 72 figures, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos, and 7 folded pages with maps in colour at back of book. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. French text. 24 x 16. 2738481485
Sea shores and coastal management in the Seychelles Islands.
34222
CHANG, T. C., HUANG, Shirlena et al. (editors)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WOMEN IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: PERSONS, POWERS AND POLITICS
$50.00 AUD
National University of Singapore. Singapore. c. 1998. 1st Ed. (4), 743 PP with tables, graphs and figures. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.4 x 21. 997188576X
Proceedings containing 59 papers presented between the 11th and 13th of August 1997.
40474
CHASTEL, Patrick & LEMAIRE, Philippe
LE SOURIRE DU TIKI
$30.00 AUD
Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2001. 1st Ed., in Nouvelles du Pacifique series. 210 PP with 12 tail pieces and 13 head pieces. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 21 x 12.4. 2909790878
Short stories, set in the Marquesas Islands, and other islands and atolls of French Polynesia.
11463
CHAUVET, Stephen
LES ARTS INDIGENES EN NOUVELLE-GUINEE
$230.00 AUD
SDI / Bruce Miller Pub. Bangkok. 1995. Deluxe Edition limited to 999 numbered copies (No. 501/999). Reprint of the 1930 original. (8), 350, (2), plus a folded map and 114 pages with 430 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, imitation leather, gilt title on front board and spine, contained in an illustrated slipcase which has a small repair at top. An otherwise fine copy. Scarce. French text. 32 x 23.2. 187852917X
History & study of the island. The various races, religion, daily life (houses, work, medicine). The art: study of the various "colonial" parts of the islands: Dutch, English & German.
70124
CHEESMAN, Evelyn
THINGS WORTH WHILE
$25.00 AUD
Hutchinson. London. 1957. 1st Ed. 330 PP. Fp: Author. Eps: Maps of the Pacific with author's journey. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.
Reminiscences of an entomologist during scientific surveys to the Galapagos from 1923 to 1925 / French Polynesia 1924-1925 / New Hebrides 1928-1930 and New Caledonia & Lifou 1950-1952 (P.273-308).
57595
CLARK, Thomas Blake
OMAI, First Polynesian Ambassador to England
$35.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1969. Facsimile reprint of the 1940 original. (6), 115 PP with portrait of Omai. Hard cover with light shelf wear, cloth spine, gilt title on front cover and spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24.8 x 19.8. 087022140X
The true story of his voyage there (to England) in 1774 with Captain Cook, of how he was feted by Fanny Burney, approved by Samuel Johnson, ...
75499
COALDRAKE, Canon F. W.
FLOOD TIDE IN THE PACIFIC - Church and Community Cascade into a New Age
$20.00 AUD
Australian Board of Missions. Stanmore, NSW. 1963. 1st Ed. 96 PP with tables, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 18.3 x 12.3.
Australian Board of Missions of the Church of England in Australia, and the 4 Pacific Dioceses of Australian Trust Territory / PNG, Melanesia, Polynesia and Carpentaria.
74472
COLEMAN, Neville
NUDIBRANCHS ENCYCLOPEDIA - Catalogue of Asia / Indo - Pacific Sea Slugs
$250.00 AUD
Neville Coleman's Underwater Geographic. Brisbane. 2008. New Edition. 416 PP with over 3000 colour photos. Pictorial laminated boards. Dedicatory note "Best Wishes" on front endpaper, signed by the author. Fine (as new condition). Scarce. 24 x 16.7. 9780947325411
42965
COLPANI, Satya
BEYOND THE BLACK WATERS - A Memoir of Sir Sathi Narain
$20.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1996. 1st Ed. X, 164 PP with 1 map, 1 genealogical tree, 2 facsimile of documents and 22 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9820201179
Immigrant from southern India, to successful businessman in Fiji.
37871
COLUM, Padraic
LEGENDS OF HAWAII
$25.00 AUD
Yale University Press. New Haven. 1960. Paperback edition of the 1937 original. XVI, 220, (1 publications) PP with 12 head pieces by Don Forrer. Title page: decoration. Pictorial card cover (lightly rubbed). Signatures of previous owners on front endpaper. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 20.3 x 13.
19 legends.
75294
COUNTS, Dorothy A & David R.
OL STORI BILONG LAUPU / THE TALES OF LAUPU
$45.00 AUD
Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. Boroko, Port Moresby. 2003. 2nd printng of the 1982 original. VIII, 286 PP with b/w illustrations (4 musical scores by Tim Keenan, 2 sketch maps on West New Britain and the Kaliai, and 11 photos). Stiff covers, Pictorial front. Tok Pisin and English. Fine. 21.2 x 13.8.
Tales of Laupu: Stories from West New Britain, told by Jakob Mua, Benedik Solou and Maria Sapanga.
75414
COUNTS, Dorothy Ayers and COUNTS, David R. (editors)
AGING AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS: Moving Toward Death in Pacific Societies
$20.00 AUD
University of Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh. 1985. 1st edition. No. 10 in the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania monograph series.. XII, (2), 336 PP with 2 maps, 2 figures and 5 tables. Stiff covers. Foxing spots on outside edges., otherwise fine. 22.8 x 15 082295477X
12 papers: On Maori of New Zealand, by Karen Sinclair / Michele D. Dominy. ... Ko'oua: Aging in the Marquesas Islands, by John Kirkpatrick ...
75443
CRAWFORD, R. M.
OURSELVES AND THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1967. 5th edition, revised and enlarged of the 1941 original. X, 317 PP with 5 maps. Library binding without the endpapers maps called for. Hard covers, gilt title and library number on spine. Library stamps on front endpaper, title page (recto / verso), and on Preface and Contents page. Very good working copy. 21.2 x 14.
54502
CROCOMBE, Ron, NEEMIA, Uentabo, RAVUVU, Asesela & VOM BUSCH, Werner (editors)
CULTURE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$30.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1992. 1st Ed. X, 280 PP with 1 map and 10 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.5. 9820200792
75427
CUMBERLAND, Kenneth B.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC - A Geography of Australia, New Zealand and their Pacific Island Neighbourhoods
$15.00 AUD
Whitcombe and Tombs. Christchurch. 1960. 3rd edition of the 1954 original. XVIII, 369 PP with 93 maps, plus 48 pages with 99 b/w plates. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with small chips. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Cancelled stamp on front of dust jacket and front endpaper and names of previous owners. An otherwise very good clean copy. 22 x 14.
75372
D'ALLEVA, Anne (editor)
POLYNESIA : Objects of Daily Life
$30.00 AUD
Hurst & Hurst. Cambridge, Mass., USA. 1985 1st Ed. Foreword by Norman Hurst. No pagination, 32 PP with 1 colour and 34 b/w photos by John Woolf. Title page: " Classic wood shark Hook" and a colour photo "Mamo Feather Lei", tipped in. Stiff covers, title and "Wood Gaming" piece on front cover. Near fine. Scarce. 25.5 x 20.3.
Domestic objects / Fish Hooks / Ceremonial objects, / Tapa Cloth and Tapa Tools...
75373
D'ALLEVA, Anne (editor)
ART OF NEW GUINEA
$35.00 AUD
Hurst Gallery. Cambridge, Mass., USA. 1988 1st Ed. Introduction by Norman Hurst & Anne D'Alleva. 52 PP with 2 maps, 2 colour and 92 b/w photos by J. Brownlow. Title page: " Female figure of Yuat River" in colour tipped in on title page, and 'Wood support figure of Huon Gulf' in colour tipped in on page 15. Stiff covers, title and "Wood Support figure, Rook Island, Huon Gulf" on front cover. Very good. Scarce. 25.5 x 20.5. on
New Guinea Art : Asmat / Papuan Gulf / Highland / Massim / Coastal and lower Sepik ...
71205
DALLAS, K.M.
TRADING POSTS OR PENAL COLONIES, The Commercial Significance of Cook's New Holland Route to the Pacific
$25.00 AUD
Richmond & Sons. Devonport, Tas. 1969. 1st Ed. (2), 132 PP. FEP: Sketch map of Pacific Ocean & hulk at Deptford. REP: Hulk and convicts screening ballast at Woolwich. Pictorial stiff covers. A light crease of top corner of front cover, neat stamp of previous owner on half-title page, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.
The choice of Botany Bay, the discoveries of Cook and others, fur trade of the North Pacific and whaling in the South Pacific.
75406
DANA, James D.
CORALS AND CORAL ISLANDS
$60.00 AUD
Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle. London. 1875 2nd edition of the 1872 original. XX, 348 PP with 94 b/w illustrations (drawings & sketches, charts & maps and coastal views), plus 3 plates with maps (2 of them large folded) at close of volume. Fp (in colour): 4 figures Phymactis Florida / Phymactis Clematis / Bunodes Gemma / the polyp contracted. Cloth cover, decoration in blind, gilt decoration and title on front cover and spine. Gutter of front endpaper split and top outside edge browned. Bookplate of previous owner on inside front cover, occasional foxing, otherwise a very good clean copy. 19.5 x 14.
13234
DARK, Philip J.C. & ROSE, Roger G. (editors)
ARTISTIC HERITAGE IN A CHANGING PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
Crawford House. Bathurst, NSW. 1993. 1st Australian edition. VIII, 261 PP with 210 b/w illust. (paintings, photos, maps), and 6 tables in text plus 8 pages with 20 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. 24 x 20.5. 1863330801
Twenty-two of the fifty-five papers presented at a symposium held by the Pacific Arts Association, Honolulu Academy, August 1989. Chapters on: Lapita designs & origins, Prehistory as a Work of art, Traditional Kupe'e, Marquesan art, the Pareu, PNG art, Aboriginal art...
67865
DAUCHEZ, Fabrice & DUTTON, Jacqueline
Ambiguous Australian Stereotypes in Contemporary French Literature: THE CASE OF NULLARBOR BY DAVID FAUQUEMBERG (in Explorations No. 47)
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2009. December 2009. 64 PP. Contains article between pages 3 and 21. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.5.
74005
DAUPHINE, Joël
HENRI ROCHEFORT: Déportation et Evasion d'un Polémiste
$20.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2004. 1st Ed. 340, (2 contents) PP with 4 tables and 14 b/w illustrations: facsimile of a document, 3 drawings, 4 maps and 7 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Dedicatory note to the previous owner on half title page signed by the author. Near fine. French text. 21.4 x 13.4. 9782747569675
37919
DAVIDSON, Jeremy H. C. S.
PACIFIC ISLAND LANGUAGES - Essays in honour of G. B. Milner
$25.00 AUD
University of London/University of Hawaii Press. London/Honolulu. 1990. 1st Ed. VIII, 196 PP with 2 figures and 12 tables. Fp: Portrait of G. B. Milner. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 24.8 x 16. 0824813405
75244
DAVIS, Dr. Charles M.
SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
$15.00 AUD
Nelson Doubleday. Garden City, USA. 1962 Reprint of the 1957 original. Edition prepared for the "Around the World Program" series with the American Geographical Society. 64 PP with 2 coloured maps, 12 drawings, 18 b/w photos and 23 vignettes (colour photos) pasted down. Pictorial soft cover (map of the South West Pacific). Front cover with rubbed patches close to the spine and slight insect damage. Occasional foxing, o/wise a very good clean copy. 21 x 14.
11527
de BOVIS, Edmond
TAHITIAN SOCIETY BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPEANS
$75.00 AUD
Institute for Polynesian Studies / Brigham Young University. Laie, Hawai'i. 1980. 2nd edition. No. 1 in the monograph series. Translation and Introduction, by Robert D. Craig. IV, 76 PP with 1 genealogical table. Fp: Map of the Society Islalnds. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. Scarce. 22.8 x 15.2.
Origin, population, hierarchy, customs, religion, form of government...
40658
De QUIROS, Pedro Fernandez
HISTOIRE DE LA DECOUVERTE DES REGIONS AUSTRALES - Iles Salomon, Marquises, Santa Cruz, Tuamotu, Cook du Nord et Vanuatu
$35.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2001. 1st Ed. Preface by Paul de Deckker. Translated from the Spanish and Annotated by Annie Baert. 346 PP with 3 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747504298
1st French translation of the 3 voyages by Spaniards from Peru towards the Solomon Islands, the Marquesas Archipelago... Vanuatu.
32998
DENNEMONT, Virginie & POZZOLI, Anne-Sophie
LES SEYCHELLES - Le Paradis Terrestre a enfin un Nom (in îles)
$10.00 AUD
Iles Magazine S.A. Geneva. 1999. Issue No. 62, February 1999. Special Issue on the Seychelles. 100 PP with colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French text. 27 x 20.
Paradise on earth with a name: The Seychelles.
75215
DENOON Donald, FIRTH Stewart, LINNEKIN Jocelyn, MELEISEA Malama & NERO Karen (editors)
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDERS
$60.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1997. 1st Ed. XXVIII, 518 PP with tables, 23 maps and 2 figures. Eps: The Pacific Ocean showing Exclusive Economic Zones. Hard cover, dj. Review copy slip pasted down on half-title page. A fine/as new copy. 23.5 x 15.5. 9780521441957
Prehistoric settlement, land use and production, first contacts with Europeans... Post-colonial economic and political status of the region...
33179
DERRICK, R. A.
VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission / Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1952. 1st Ed. IX, 266 PP with 2 figures, 4 maps, 7 charts, and 35 tables. Eps: Map showing area of South Pacific Commission. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dust jacket with a few small chips. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Types of training and schools. Study by territories from French Oceania to Netherlands New Guinea...
61241
DESMARQUETS, Jean-Antoine-Samson
MEMOIRES CHRONOLOGIQUES POUR SERVIR A L'HISTOIRE DE DIEPPE et a celle de la Navigation Françoise (in 2 volumes)
$150.00 AUD
Imprimerie Bertout & Amys du Vieux Dieppe. Luneray, Seine-Maritime, France. 1976. New edition of the 1785 original, with an introduction by Claude Feron. Limited & numbered edition (No. 0029). Volume I: (14), (XII), 480 PP, (2) with the Coat of Arms of Dieppe in 1782 on page (1), 1 portrait tipped in on page (XI), and 1 head piece on page 1, plus 4 b/w plates (3 of them folded) at rear of volume. Volume II, (6), 309 PP, (7) with 1 headpiece on page 1, the Coat of Arms of Dieppe on page (4), plus 4 b/w plates (1 of them folded). Soft covers, Coat of Arms on front cover, dj. Occasional foxing and few brownish stains on front outside edges, o/wise near fine. French text. 18 x 10.4.
33540
DEVERELL, Gweneth & Bruce (editors)
PACIFIC RITUALS - Living or Dying?
$10.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1987. 2nd printing of the 1986 original. XIV, 203 PP with 1 map, 1 b/w photos, musical scores and around 36 drawings. Pictorial card cover. Light foxing of edges. Near fine. 21 x 14.8.
Yaqona in Fiji, by V. Tora... Ritual of the Tiare in Raiatea, by Kiti Tchong Tai. Bride Price in New Caledonia, by Ronny Phadome. A modern Futuna Marriage, by Fiama Rakau... Tattoo ritual in Samoa, by Talalelei Tapu.
74661
DISCOVERY CHANNEL / Discovery Communications
THE HISTORY OF SINGAPORE - Lion City, Asian Tiger
$25.00 AUD
John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd. Singapore. 2010. 1st Ed. (6), 256 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 25.8 x 205. 9780470823200
11534
DJABIR, Abdou
LES COMORES - Un Etat en Construction
$15.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1993. 1st Ed. 188 PP, (2), with 3 maps, 2 tables & 4 graphs. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.2. 2738421989
The Comoros Archipelago, independent since 1975, but split with Mayotte (one of the 4 islands) opting for closer links with France. How to become a modern viable and stable State.
67720
DRAPER, Robert
MADAGASCAR'S PIERCED HEART (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 218, No. 3)
$5.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2010. September 2010. 144 PP. Contains article from page 80 to 109 with colour illustrations (1 map, 5 drawings and 18 photos by the Pascal Maitre). Soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
75364
DULY, Colin
THE HOUSES OF MANKIND
$15.00 AUD
Thames & Hudson. London. 1979. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 1 map, 5 plans and 49 b/w & 48 colour illustrations Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24.5 x 19. 0500060053
Includes illustrations and sketches of houses: Africa, The Americas, Oceania & Eurasia.
36528
DUNMORE, John
CHRONOLOGY OF PACIFIC HISTORY
$10.00 AUD
Heritage Press. Auckland. 2000. 1st Ed. 48 PP. Card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 0908708491
From the arrival of the Aborigines on the Australian continent to January 2000.
40613
DUYKER, Edward
THE WORD IN FRENCH (in National Library of Australia News - Vol XII, No. 1, October 2001)
$5.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2001. Includes article P. 7 to 10 with 6 b/w and 2 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 20.7.
The role of French books in Australian history.
75376
ELKIN, A. P. (editor)
COLLECTED PAPERS: In Memoriam - N. W. G. MACINTOSH
$50.00 AUD
Oceania / The University of Sydney. Sydney. 1979. 1st Ed. The Oceania Monographs No. 22. (2), II, 230, (2) PP with tables and b/w illustrations (graphs, maps and plans, drawings and sketches) , plus 38 plates with b/w illustrations (drawings and photos). Soft covers. Near fine condition. 24.5 x 18.
14 essays: N. W. G. Macintosh and his Works... Archaeology and Physical Anthropology in Oceania.
74023
ERRINGTON, J. Joseph
Structure and Style in JAVANESE - A Semiotic View of Linguistic Etiquette
$40.00 AUD
University of Pennsylvania Press. Philadelphia. 1988 1st Ed. XVI, (2), 290, (2) PP with 13 tables and 6 figures. Cloth cover, dj. Light foxing of endpapers, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0812281039
47935
FAIRBAIRN, Te'o I. J.
PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC: Options for Donor Assistance
$5.00 AUD
Centre for South Pacific Studies / University of New South Wales. Sydney. 1992 1st Ed. Pacific Studies Monograph No. 3. (6), 32 PP. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 20.5 x 14.8. 0733402216
11750
FALLON, Judy
PACIFIC PANTOMIME
$15.00 AUD
Andrew Melrose. London. 1952. 1st Ed. 200 PP with b/w vignette at end of each chapter. Eps: Map of New Caledonia drawn by Geoffrey Frazer. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Small pieces missing from dust jacket. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 21.8 x 14.5.
A pleasant and diverting account of life in New Caledonia after WWII.
75407
FARMER, Sarah S.
TONGA AND THE FRIENDLY ISLANDS
$40.00 AUD
Kalia Press. Canberra. 1976. Reprint of the 1855 original. No. 3 in the "Pacific Reprints / Mission History "series. (2), VIII, 427 PP with 6 b/w illustrations (2 musical scores, 4 drawings and sketches), plus 10 b/w plates (2 folded maps and 9 illustrations). Fp: "Kava Ring". Pictorial soft covers. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 17.3 x 12.
... with a sketch of their Mission History written for Young People.
42833
FIGIEL, Sia
LA PETITE FILLE DANS LE CERCLE DE LA LUNE
$15.00 AUD
Actes Sud / Hubert Nyssen Editeur. Arles. 1999. 1st French edition of the 1995 English original, The Girl in the Moon Circle. Translated from the English (Western Samoa), by Céline Schwaller. 206 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 2742723722
75397
FIRTH, Raymond
PRIMITIVE POLYNESIAN ECONOMY
$45.00 AUD
Routledge & Kegan Paul. Hamden, Conn. 1967. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1965 (original of 1939). .XIII, 385 PP with 10 tables and b/w illustrations (1 map and 12 figures), plus 1 folded plate (figure 12) and 8 pages with 11 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with small chips and in a protective sleeve, otherwise a fine copy. 24 x 16.
15655
FLEURIEU, Charles P.C.
A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD 1790-1792 PERFORMED BY ETIENNE MARCHAND (In Two Volumes)
$60.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Facsimile reprint of 1801 original English edition. Nos. 23 & 24 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. Volume I: (VIII), CXXVIII, 361 PP, plus 8 plates including 4 folded charts. Volume II: XII, 504 PP, plus 105 PP comprising the journal of the route of the ship 'Solide' in 1790, 1791 & 1792. Simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine). Fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 26 x 21.
75392
FLITSCH, Mareile
DES MENSCHEN FERTIGKEIT: Ethnologische Perspektiven einer neuen Wertschätzung praltischen Wissens / ON HUMAN SKILL: Anthropological Perspectives on a New Appreciation of Practical Knowledge
$50.00 AUD
Universität Zürich / University of Zurich. Zurich, CH. 2009. 1st bilingual edition, limited to 1000 copies. 32, 32 PP with 25 identical illustrations for each title. Soft covers, booklets bound Tête Bêche / Top to Bottom. German and English text. Staples lightly rusty, otherwise fine. Oblong: 15 x 20. 9783909105625
On the development (growth) of the Ethnographic Museum, University of Zurich. Inaugural Lecture (Antrittsvorlesung) delivered on 6th April 2009.
75404
FORGE, Anthony (editor)
PRIMITIVE ART & SOCIETY
$50.00 AUD
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research / Oxford University Press. London. 1973 1st Ed. Preface by Raymond Firth. Introduction by Anthony Forge. XXII, 286 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map, 48 figures and 71 photos), plus 16 colour plates with 23 photos. Fp: "Bukuma Wearom" & Mask of a Zogbe" . Cloth cover, title vignette on spine, pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped). Dust jacket has a few chips, otherwise a near fine copy. 25.5 x 17.5. 0182129538
14 Papers. Art History and Anthropology, by Robert Goldwater... Tikopia Art and Society, by Raymond Firth. ... Tapa Techniques and Tapa Patterns in Polynesia, by Simon Kooijman. ... Style and Meaning in Sepik Art, by Anthony Forge...
30276
FORSTER, Honore
BOTANY BAY FRANCAISE (in National Library of Australia News - Vol VIII, No. 2, November 1997)
$10.00 AUD
N. L. A. Canberra. 1997. Contains article pages 3 to 7 with 7 b/w and 3 colour illustrations. Illust. soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
The National Library's French holdings offer a fascinating perspective on Australia's convict past.
34732
FORSTER, Honore
PARADISE & NOBLE SAVAGES (in National Library of Australia News - Vol IX, No. 4, January 1999)
$10.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 1999. Contains article from P.3 to 8 with 2 colour & 6 b/w illust. Pictorial soft cover (illustration from Noa Noa by Paul Gauguin). Fine. 29.9 x 21.
Bougainville's impression of Tahiti... Melville... Gauguin.
75433
FOX, Frank
PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD
Williams & Norgate. London. 1912. 1st Ed. (6), 294 PP with, plus 1 folded map of thePacific "Cable routes, Trade routes & Naval and Coaling stations", at the end of the book. Cloth covers, gilt title on front board and spine. Occasional foxing, otherwise near fine. 22.3 x 15.
75261
FOX, James J. (editor)
THE POETIC POWER OF PLACE: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of Locality
$35.00 AUD
Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies / ANU. Canberra. 1997. 1st edition. No. 4 in the Comparative Austronesian Project. VI, 204 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (8 maps and 7 figures). Pictorial soft covers with light wear, foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24.8 x 17.5. 0731528417
75280
FREEMAN, Derek
MARGARET MEAD AND SAMOA - The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth
$10.00 AUD
Penguin Books / Pelican. London. 1985. Reprint of the 1984 "Pelican Books". XX, 379, (10 publications) PP with 1 map of "The Samoan Islands", 1 table and 5 figures, plus 6 pages with 8 b/w photos. Soft covers, Illustrated front cover. Light foxing and ageing of paper. Very good. 19.8 x 12.8. 9780140225556
73917
FROMENT-GUIEYSSE, Geoges (editor)
L'OCEANIE FRANCAISE: Possessions Françaises - Australasie - Pacifique: Bulletin Mensuel du Comité de l' Océanie Française
$20.00 AUD
Comité de l' Océanie Française. Paris. 1912. January 1912 edition, 8th year, No. 7. (4), 28, (4) PP with 1 map "Colonies Françaises du Pacifique" and 1 map "Nouvelle Guinée". Stiff covers, title on front cover. Foxing and offsetting on 10 pages. Staples removed. Covers lightly soiled. French text. Very good. 28.7 x 22.
Pages 2 to 9: New Guinea: by Gustave Regelsperger.
73918
FROMENT-GUIEYSSE, Geoges (editor)
L'OCEANIE FRANCAISE: Possessions Françaises - Australasie - Pacifique: Bulletin Mensuel du Comité de l'Océanie Française
$20.00 AUD
Comité de l' Océanie Française. Paris. 1918. June-October 1918 edition, 14th year, No. 45. (2), 37- 68, (2) PP (on 2 columns) with tables and 1 map "Archipel des Tuamotu". Stiff covers, title on front cover. Foxing.. Staples removed. Covers lightly soiled. French text. Very good. 28.7 x 22.
73040
FULLERTON, Laurie
NEW CALEDONIA - A Travel Survival Kit
$10.00 AUD
Lonely Planet Publication. Melbourne. 1990. 1st edition. 140, (4 publications) PP with b/w illustrations (maps, plans, sketches), plus 8 pages with 20 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. A few library stamps, o/wise contents near fine. 18.5 X 12.8. 9780864420909
63746
GALIPAUD, Jean-Christophe & JAUNEAU, Valerie
AU-DELA D'UN NAUFRAGE . Les Survivants de l'expédition Lapérouse
$55.00 AUD
IRD Editions / Actes Sud / Editions Errance. Nouméa. 2012. 1st Ed. 288 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16. 9782877724883
Archaeology and Lapérouse expedition: underwater on the wrecks of Boussole and Astrolabe, and ashore for the survivors and their camps ...
73039
GARANGER, J. & ROBINEAU, C.
BORA-BORA
$20.00 AUD
Nouvelles Editions Latines. Paris. c. 1974. English Version of Dossier 21, translated by Colin W. Newbury. 32 PP with 1 map of the Island of Bora Bora, 8 b/w & 26 colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 19 x 14. 272330137
Geography, history, archaeology, economy & the Bora Bora of today.
74765
GAUGUIN, Paul & THOMSON, Belinda (editor)
GAUGUIN by Himself
$20.00 AUD
Time Warner Books, UK. London. 2004. New edition of the 1993 original. 223 PP with 85 b/w or colour illustrations (4 headpieces and 81 plates). Fp (in colour): Self-Portrait. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Small bump at top of spine. Near fine. 21 x 16.2. 9780316728072
11652
GEIL, William Edgar
OCEAN AND ISLE
$50.00 AUD
W. T. Pater. Melbourne. 1902 1st Ed. (8), 309 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 sketch map and 9 illustrations of postal stamps, plus 94 b/w plates (6 of them on double page) for 100 engravings. Fp: Portrait of Geil. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, Title in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Brief note on front endpaper. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.8 x 15.5.
Voyage to study the works of Protestant missions in the Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century: organization, instruction, efforts. Descriptions of the islands and states of Oceania.
73604
GERBAULT, Alain
ILES DE BEAUTE
$10.00 AUD
NRF / Gallimard. Paris. 1941. 9th edition. 228, (4) PP. Soft covers, pictorial front. Ageing of paper and foxing on outside edges. French text. Very good. 19.2 x 14.2.
11991
GILSON, R. P.
SAMOA, 1830-1900, The Politics of a Multi-cultural Community
$50.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1970. 1st Ed. Introduction and conclusion by J. W. Davidson. XVIII, 457 PP with 4 maps in text. FEP: Map of the Pacific. REP: Map of Western Samoa. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. A near fine copy. Scarce. 25 x 14.5. 0195503015
The first general history of this archipelago: Samoan structure, discovery & mission settlement, to the implementation of the three power conference on Samoa, held in Berlin in April, 1889.
75400
GIUFFRE, Katherine
COLLECTIVE CREATIVITY: Art and Society in the South Pacific
$65.00 AUD
Ashgate Publishing Co. Farnham, Surrey. 2009. 1st edition in "Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific" series. Preface by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart. XVI, (2), 163 PP with 6 tables and 18 b/w illustrations: 1 Map, 1 sketch, 3 Graphs and 13 Sociograms. Hard covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new). 24 x 16.2. 9780754676645
75390
GLOVER, Winifred
POLYNESIA - The Polynesian Collection in the Ulster Museum, Belfast
$50.00 AUD
Ulster Museum. Belfast, Northern Ireland. 1986. 1st Ed. Ulster Museum Publication No. 255. Foreword by Laurence N. W. Flanagan. VI, 100 PP with in the introduction 3 b/w photos, and in the catalogue part 103 b/w illustrations (3 facsimile of letters and 100 photos), plus 12 colour plates.. Decorated stiff covers with small repair at top of spine and light wear, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 18.5 x 20.7.
11594
GORSKY, Bernard
ISLAND AT THE END OF THE WORLD
$10.00 AUD
Rupert Hart-Davis. London. 1966. 1st English edition. Translated from the French original "La Dernière Ile" by Alan Houghton Brodrick. 171 PP, plus 44 pages with 66 colour photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped & rubbed). Some foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.5.
A year through the outposts of the French Pacific: Tahiti, Wallis, New Caledonia (Loyalty Islands, Isle of Pines).
33458
GRAVELLE, Kim
ROTUMA - A Patch of Green
$50.00 AUD
Fiji Times & Herald. Suva. 1981. 1st Ed. 100 PP with 7 drawings, 31 b/w and 95 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 17.7.
Polynesian island, dependency of Fiji.
33464
GRAVELLE, Kim
FIJI'S TIMES - A HISTORY OF FIJI
$10.00 AUD
Fiji Times & Herald. Suva. 1991. Reprint of the re-designed and re-typeset edition of 1988. 246 PP with 84 b/w illust. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 20.7 x 15. 9822140010
50 stories from the Historical Feature series published in Fiji Times.
14706
GREENHILL, Basil
JAMES COOK - THE OPENING OF THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
National Maritime Museum / H.M.S.O. London. 1970. 1st Ed. 32 PP with b/w illust. Fp: Capt. James Cook RN FRS, painting by Nathaniel Dance. Inside back cover: A draught plan & section of the Britannia Otehite War Canoe. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. Oblong: 21.5 x 27.5.
James Cook, the man and his discoveries, published at the time of the Bicentennial.
75342
GRENFELL PRICE, A.
THE WESTERN INVASIONS OF THE PACIFIC AND ITS CONTINENTS - A study of moving frontiers and changing landscapes 1513-1958
$30.00 AUD
Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1963. 1st Ed. VIII, 236 PP with 7 tables, plus 11 plates (3 b/w photo, drawings, graphs, maps and plans). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Discreet stamp of Library of Congress on front endpaper and title page (in blind) and on the front outside edge. Near fine. Image shows title-page. 22 x 14.5.
75429
GREY, Sir George
POLYNESIAN MYTHOLOGY and Ancient Traditional History of the Maori as told by their Priests and Chiefs
$15.00 AUD
Whitcombe & Tombs. Christchurch. 1956. 1st illustrated New Zealand edition of the 1855 English edition (original Maori edition of 1854). Foreword by William W. Bird. (18), 250, (2) PP with 16 b/w illustrations by Russell Clark. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, library binding, all outside edges tinted, dj (price clipped). Neat library stamp on top outside edge and verso of title page, gilt number at foot of spine, otherwise contents are near fine. 21.7 x 14.
The formation of heaven and earth, the quarrels at Hawaiiki leading to the settlement of New Zealand ...
75393
GRIFFEN, Arlene (editor)
LALANGA PASIFIKA, Weaving the Pacific: Stories of Empowerment from the South Pacific
$75.00 AUD
Pacific Studies Programme, PIAS-DG / USP and the Commonwealth Foundation. Suva. 2006. 1st Ed. 4th volume in the "Commonwealth Foundation's Lessons in Empowerment" series. Foreword by Rudo M. Chitiga. VIII, 279 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 diagram, 6 maps, 11 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 21 x 15. 9789820203754
Ta Fihi: From Tangled Web We Weave Anew (Tonga), by Lia Maka. E Au Le Inailau A Tamatai, the Women's Row of Thatch was completed (Samoa), by Adimaimalaga Tafuna'i. ... Weaving Boungainville together, by Brenda Tohiana.
41709
GRIMBLE, Arthur
A PATTERN OF ISLANDS
$15.00 AUD
The Reprint Society. London. 1954 Reprint of the 1952 original published by John Murray. 320 PP with 13 head pieces (drawings by Tom Pomfret), plus 8 pages with 15 b/w photos. Fp: Tebutinnang - Movement of Clouds. FEP: Map of the Western Pacific. REP: Map of the Gilbert Islands. Top outside edge tinted (slightly faded). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 19 x 13.
71532
GUILLAUMIN, Emile
FRANCOIS PERON - Enfant du Peuple - Un Grand Voyage - Une Oeuvre - Une Vie
$200.00 AUD
Les Marmousets. Moulins, France. 1982. 1st edition limited to 450 copies (400 with cloth cover), with a preface by Jacques Lougnon. 154 PP with 61 b/w reproductions of original engravings. Half title page: portrait of François Péron by M. C. A. Lesueur. Title page: Canda, Jeune fille Malaise, Timor. Cloth cover, colour vignette on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. French text. Near fine. 37.8 x 27.5. 2903886040
The life and the works of François Péron and his great voyage to Australia with the Baudin expedition.
42211
HANCOCK, Kathleen
SIR ALBERT HENRY - His Life and Times
$35.00 AUD
Methuen. Auckland. 1979. 1st Ed. 158 PP with 32 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.5 x 14.8. 0456025200
Premier of the Cook Islands.
75375
HANNEMANN, E. F. (compiler)
GRASS ROOTS ART OF NEW GUINEA
$15.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1969 1st Ed. No pagination, 58 PP with 50 pages of sketches and drawings. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise near fine. 23.5 x 18..
75432
HANSON, F. Allan & HANSON, Louise
COUNTERPOINT IN MAORI CULTURE
$45.00 AUD
Routledge & Kegan Paul. London. 1983. 1st Ed., in the "International Library of Anthropology" series. (XII), 232, (16 publications) PP with 25 figures (diagrams, drawings, sketches, prints). Hard covers, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge, otherwise a fine copy. 22.3 x 14.5. 0710095465
14691
HARDY, Osgood & DUMKE, Glenn
A HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC AREA IN MODERN TIME
$30.00 AUD
The Riverside Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1949. 1st Ed. X, 752 PP with 25 maps (7 double-page) & 120 b/w photos in text. Ep: The Pacific area. Gilt-engraved cloth cover & spine. Very good. 24.2 x 16.
Geography & peoples, European discoverers & explorers, Japan & China, Post-war (WWII) Pacific, Problems of the Pacific Then: extra territoriality, opium, economics, race & culture.
60299
HEAD, Lesley
CONSERVATION AND ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS: When Green is not Black (in Australian Natural History, Vol. 23, No.6, 1990)
$10.00 AUD
Australian Museum Trust. Sydney. 1990. Includes article P. 448 to 454 with 1 Graph and 8 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.2 x 21.
33342
HEMPENSTALL, Peter & RUTHERFORD, Noel
PROTEST AND DISSENT IN THE COLONIAL PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1984 1st Ed. VIII, 200 PP with 3 maps, 4 tail pieces and 19 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers a little rubbed, otherwise fine. 22 x 14.5.
The contest of Colonial Authority in Samoa. The 1959 Fiji strike. The Spanish Micronesian wars...
74223
HENDERSON, Graeme, DE HOOP, Robert & VIDUKA, Andrew
MISADVENTURES IN PARADISE - Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island during the Dutch Era
$65.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Publishing. Perth. 2020. 1st Ed. Introduction in "The Oceans Institute Monograph" series, by Peter Veth. XII, 242 PP with over 74 b/w or colour figures. Stiff covers, pictorial front. New. 23.3 x 15.5. 9781760802301
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.
75508
HEYERDAHL, Thor
THE KON-TIKI EXPEDITION - By Raft across the South Seas
$10.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1959. 23rd impression (November 1959) of the March 1950 English original. Translated from the 1948 Norwegian original Kon-Tiki Ekspedisjonen by F. H. Lyon. 235 PP, plus 18 pages with 35 b/w photos. Fp: Map of Eastern Pacific and photo of the raft. Vignette on title page. Library binding, Hard cover, gilt title and number on spine. Ex library stamp on top outside edge, and sticker on verso of title page. An otherwise very good copy. 21.8 x 14.3.
Drifting on the raft Kon-Tiki, from Peru to the atoll of Raroia, Tuamotus archipelago.
33311
HILL, Marji & BARLOW, Alex (editor)
BLACK AUSTRALIA - An annotated bibliography and teacher's guide to resources on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
$20.00 AUD
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Canberra. 1978. 1st Ed., No. 7 in Bibliography series. XV, 200 PP. Decorated card cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21. 0855750731
Prehistory. Tradition-oriented culture. Languages. Art and material culture...
33312
HILL, Marji & BARLOW, Alex (editor)
BLACK AUSTRALIA 2 - An annotated bibliography and teacher's guide to resources on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, 1977-82
$20.00 AUD
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Canberra. 1985. 1st Ed. XV, 200 PP. Decorated card cover. Fine. 28 x 21. 0855751568
Prehistory. Tradition-oriented culture. Languages. Art and material culture... Contemporary issues...
74627
HINZ, Earl R.
LANDFALLS OF PARADISE - The Guide to the Pacific Islands
$30.00 AUD
Western Marine Enterprises, Inc. Marina Del Rey, Ca. 1986. 2nd edition of the 1981 original. 384 PP with b/w figures (92 charts, maps, plans and 158 photos). Pictorial hard covers, National Flags of Pacific Nations (in colour) on back cover. Covers with light wear, light foxing on outside top edge, o/wise near fine. 28.2 x 21.5. 093003046X
Contents: The Islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Eastern Pacific.
58479
HOCKINGS, John
TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE GILBERT ISLANDS - A Cultural Perspective
$35.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1989. 1st Ed. XII, 254 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps, 10 head pieces and 99 drawings and plans). Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 21.4 x 13.8. 9780702221798
12810
HOFER, Renato (editor)
SPECIAL OCEAN INDIEN (in îles Magazine - Issue No.37)
$10.00 AUD
Iles Magazine S.A. Lausanne. Décembre 1994. 88 PP with colour illust. (maps, watercolours, & photos). Pictorial card cover. Fine. French text. 27 x 20.
Special issue on the French-speaking islands of the tropical Indian Ocean: La Réunion, Madagascar, Mayotte and Comoros.
75374
HOLMES, Lowell D.
SAMOAN VILLAGE
$25.00 AUD
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. New York. 1974 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 111 PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps and 20 photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Scoring or brief note in the margin of 4 or 5 pages, o/wise very good. 23.5 x 15.7. 0030779251
75399
HOLMES, Lowell D.
QUEST FOR THE REAL SAMOA: The Mead / Freeman Controversy & Beyond
$25.00 AUD
Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc. South Hadley, Mass. 1987. 1st Ed. Postscrpt by Eleanor Leacock. X, (2), 209, (3 publications) PP with 8 b/w illustrations (1 map / plan and 7 photos). Fp: Samoan values are strongly situational rather than individualistic. Hard covers, gilt title on spine and gilt decoration and title on front board, dust jacket with a few small chips. Foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 23.4 x 15.7. 0897891104
74024
HOLT, Claire
XIIe EXPOSITION DES ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES DE LA DANSE: 1939 - THEATRE & DANSES AUX INDES NEERLANDAISES - Catalogue et Commentaires
$120.00 AUD
G.P. Maisonneuve / Achives Internationales de la Danse. Paris. 1939. 1st Ed. Foreword by Rolf de Maré. (4), 90 PP, plus 24 pages with 50 b/w illustrations and 1 folded map at end of book. Soft covers a little soiled with small repaired tear at top of spine, title and illustration "Golek / Marionnette de bois" on front cover. Stamp of: The Library of Congress on front cover and stamp of the Smithsonian Institute on title page. Name of previous owner at top of front endpaper. French text. Contents near fine. Scarce. 21.3 x 14.
Catalogue page 34 to 86: Java, Bali, Célèbes, Sumatra, Nias.
75411
HOOPER, Paul F. (editor)
BUILDING A PACIFIC COMMUNITY - The Addresses and Papers of the Pacific Community Lecture Series
$40.00 AUD
East-West Center / University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1987. 2nd printing of the 1982 original. Foreword by Lee-Jay Cho. XII, 176 PP. Stiff covers. Very good. 22.6 x 15.2. 0824807901
Addresses: 6 articles by Kiyoshi Kojima / Ratu Kamisese K.T. Mara / Gerardo P Sicalt... Papers: 2 articles by: Francisco Orrego Vicuña / Nam Duck-Woo.
75268
HOOPER, Steven
PACIFIC ENCOUNTERS: Art & Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860
$50.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2006. 1st US edition. Foreword by Joni Madraiwiwi. 288 PP with 10 maps in colour, 37 figures in the Essay section (15 b/w and 22 in colour), and 268 colour illustrations in catalogue. Half title page: Cook Islands "Fan". Title spread: Cook Islands "Hook". Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 27.6 x 22. 9780824830847
Exhibition held 21 May to 13 August 2006 at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
59646
HOPE, Penelope
LONG AGO IS FAR AWAY - Accounts of the Early Exploration and Settlement of the Papuan Gulf Area
$25.00 AUD
Australian National University Press. Canberra. 1979 1st Ed. XIII, 264 PP with 3 maps, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w plates. Eps: Sketch map of 1926 , Delta Division, Papua. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket a little rubbed on edges, o/wise a fine copy. 25 x 16. 070811346X
74283
HORNER, David
STRATEGIC COMMAND: General Sir John Wilton and Australia's Asian Wars
$55.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 2005. 1st edition in The Australian Army History series. XX, 452 PP with 10 maps, plus 32 pges with 58 b/w photos. Hard covers, dj. Fine (as new condition). 23.5 x 16. 978195552829
League of Nations and the Burma - China frontier, 1935-36. / Syria / Papua New Guinea ... Korean War / South Vietmam.
75435
HOUGHTON, Philip
THE FIRST NEW ZEALANDERS
$25.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. Auckland. 1980. 1st Ed. (VIII), 9-156 PP with 9 tables and 82 figures. Eps: Map of the Pacific with Insert of New Zealand. Hard covers, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges Near fine. 23.5 x 17.5. 0340252413
42007
HOWARD, Alan & BOROFSKY, Robert (editors)
DEVELOPMENTS IN POLYNESIAN ETHNOLOGY
$15.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1989. 1st Ed. X, 375 PP with 9 head pieces, 2 figures and 2 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket wish a few small nicks, and lightly sunned spine, o/wise fine. 24.2 x 16. 082481181X
12932
HOWARD, Michael C. & DURUTALO, Simione
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC TO 1945
$50.00 AUD
JCU of North Qld. Townsville. 1987. Monograph Series No.26 of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies. (3), IV, (1), 282 PP with 28 tables in text. Pict. card cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.5. 0864432534
Study of the early socio-ecnomic systems, European penetration (capitalist, then colonialist), political economy from the perspective of class formation and integration into the world system.
33631
HOWELLS, William
THE PACIFIC ISLANDERS
$10.00 AUD
Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1973. Paperback edition, in Peoples of the World series. XVI, (2), 299 PP with 6 figures and 14 maps, plus 16 pages with 30 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.6 x 13.8. 029776599X
Outlines the prehistory of Polynesia and Micronesia. The origins of these islanders with facts and interpretations from physical anthropology, archaeology and language studies, giving a picture of the past of the entire Pacific.
73057
HUG, Jacqueline
FRANCE
$10.00 AUD
La Documentation Française. Paris. 1965. September 1965 edition. 191, (3) PP with graphs, maps, tables, and b/w photos. Soft covers. Very good. 20.4 x 15.7.
Institutions (Executive Power, Legislative Power ...) / Social Questions (population, labour relations, social secirity system...) / French Economy / Culture ....
14049
IDIENS, Dale
COOK ISLANDS ART
$20.00 AUD
Shire Publications. London. 1990. 1st Ed. No.18 in the Shire Ethnography series. 64 PP with 2 maps & 46 b/w photos in text. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 0747800618
Religious and functional wood-carving. Use of stone, pearlshell, feathers,...
75387
IDIENS, Dale
CATALOGUE OF THE ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTION: OCEANIA, AMERICA, AFRICA
$25.00 AUD
Perth Museum and Art Gallery. Perth. 1982. 1st Ed. Foreword by James A. Blair VIII, 68 PP with 11 illustrations at centrefold. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Fine. 24.2 x 18.
1087 Items. Australia & Tasmania: 70. ...
73993
ISAACS, Jennifer (editor)
AUSTRALIAN DREAMING - 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History
$30.00 AUD
Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1980. 1st edition. Foreword by Wandjuk Marika. 304 PP with 192 colour photos. Half title page: Aboriginal oral tradition tells of their continued existence on this continent for over 40,000 years. Title spread: Knowledge of the location of fresh water springs passed on to children. Eps: Bark painting by Banapana Maymuru from Yirrkala, Northern Territory. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 26.8 x 25.5. 070181330X
The first Aboriginal History of the Australian continent and its people, as told by the Aboriginal story-tellers.
74013
JERSEY, M.E.
A FRENCH COLONY: NEW CALEDONIA
$30.00 AUD
Colin Hinchcliffe, "Empire Books". York, UK. c.1995. Facsimile reprint of an article published in "The Nineteenth Century", A Monthly Review - 1892. 12 PP (recto only). Soft covers, title on front cover, spiral bound. Near fine. 29.9 x 21.
The author, Lord Jersey (then Governor of Australia) and his wife Countess of Jersey arrived in New Caledonia, on board the "Armand Behic" of Messageries Maritimes. The first Australian Governor to have visited the Island: 13 July 1891.
75369
JONES, Suzi (editor)
PACIFIC BASKET MAKERS: A Living Tradition
$25.00 AUD
Consortium for Pacific Arts and Cultures & University of Alaska Museum. Honolulu & Fairbanks. 1983 1st Ed. Forword by Roy Helms & Henry S. Sablan. (2), 60 PP with 1 map of the Pacific, 23 colour photos and b/w illustrations: 4 sets of sketches on Plaiting, Twining, Coiling and Ornamentation, and 49 photos. Errata slip tipped on front endpaper. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 25.3 x 23.
Catalogue of the "1981 Pacific Basketmaker's Symposium and Exhibition" held in Anchorage, Alaska in May 1981.
75026
JOREDIE, Leopold
LA PROVINCE NORD - "Un Pays en Devenir" / NORTHERN PROVINCE - "The Land of Development"
$60.00 AUD
Province Nord. Koné. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword by Leopold Joredie, President of the Northern Province. Foder with 2 booklets of 16 PP with 26 colour photos, plus 42 colour plates on full page by Philippe Giraud. Contained in an illustrated box. French, English and Japanese text. Fine. Large format: 42 x 31.
File presented to guests/dignitaries to commemorate the township of Kone, capital of the Northern Province of New Caledonia.
75230
JULHIET-CHARVET, Céline (editor)
COURBET ET LA COMMUNE
$30.00 AUD
Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Paris. 2000 1st Ed. 120 PP with 34 b/w illustrations (cartoons, plan, poster, newspaper clippings, prints) and 30 plates in colour. Fp: b/w photo of Gustave Courbet, c. 1868. Stiff covers with light edge wear, pictorial front. Occasional foxing spots. French text. Near fine. 22 x 16.3. 9782711840069
Exhibition held at Musée d'Orsay, Paris: 13th March to 11th June 2000.
75260
KAEPPLER, Adrienne L.
THE PACIFC ARTS OF POLYNESIA AND MICRONESIA
$30.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Oxford. 2008. 1st edition in "Oxford History of Art" series. (4), 210 PP with 1 map in colour and 138 Illustrations (38 in b/w and 100 in full colour). Stiff covers, illustrated front. Fine (as new condition). 23.8 x 16.6. 9780192842381
75062
KAEPPLER, Adrienne L. (editor)
POLYNESIA - The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art
$500.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 2010. 1st limited slipcased edition of 300 copies with an illustrated flyleaf, hand numbered and signed by Adrienne Kaeppler (No. 252/300). Greetings from HRH Princess Salote Pilolevu Tuita. Foreword by Mark Blackburn. Preface by Adrienne L. Kaeppler. (Flyleaf), XXXVI, 412 PP with 804 b/w or colour illustrations. Eps: Watercolour "L'habitation du Roi des Sandwich", by Adrien Aiomé Taunay. Cloth covers, colour illustration "Patuone, Chief of the Ngapuhi Tribe" pasted down on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Contained in an illustrated slipcase. Fine/as new condition. 32 x 14.5. 9781883528409
75370
KAUFMANN, Christian
OZEANIEN / L'Océanie / Oceania
$25.00 AUD
Birkhäuser Verlag for Museum für Völkerkunde und Schweizerisches Museum für Volkskunde. Basel, CH. 1979. 1st trilingual edition. (1), 70- 84, (32) PP with 1 sketch map of the Central Pacific, 1 b/w plate with 6 photos and 15 colour plates (1 on double page and 14 on full page). Inside back cover: Bibliography. Stiff cover, decoration and title on front cover. Text in German, French and English. Fine. 26 x 23.5.
75388
KECK, Verena (editor)
COMMON WORLDS AND SINGLES LIVES: Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies
$30.00 AUD
Berg / Oxford International Publishers Ltd. Oxford, UK. 1998. 1st Ed. VI, 417 PP. Hard covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condion). 22 x 14. 9781859731642
Chapter 1: Reflections on Knowledge in an Oceanic Setting, by Raymond Firth. ... Chapter 7: "Praying Samoa and Praying Oui-Oui": Making Christianity local on Lifu (Loyalty Islands), by Anna Paini. ...
33174
KEESING, Felix M.
THE SOUTH SEAS IN THE MODERN WORLD
$10.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Relations / George Allen & Unwin. London. 1942. 1st UK Ed. Foreword by J. B. CondliffeXVI, 391 PP with 5 maps, plus 1 folded table. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Ex-library copy with 2 neat stamps on title-page and its verso and a number on spine. Contents are otherwise near fine. 21.8 x 14.5.
The islands and their people, economic perspectives, government & leadership, religion, education, health,...
42522
KENNEDY, T. F.
FISHERMEN OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
Reed Education. Wellington. 1974. Reprint of the revised edition of 1972 (original of 1962). 48 PP with line illustrations by Conrad Frieboe, and b/w photos by the author. Pictorial soft cover. Front cover with a crease. Near fine. 24.8 x 18.7. 0589046594
Fish, fishermen and fishing methods.
65527
KESSLER, Contre-Amiral Jean (editor)
FRANCAIS ET ANGLAIS EN MEDITERRANEE 1789-1830
$100.00 AUD
Service Historique de la Marine. Paris. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword and Epilogue by Vice Amiral d'Escadre Michel Tripier. Introduction by Contre-Amiral Jean Kessler. 330 PP with tables and 5 maps. Texts: 11 in English and 14 in French. Pictorial card cover. Name of previous owner at top corner of title page. Occasional faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 15.5.
3rd seminar of the Anglo-French studies of Maritime History, held in Toulon 14, 15 & 16th November 1990. 21 papers "... from the French Revolution, to the Independence of Greece ..." : 10 in French, by Jean Tulard, Jacques Ferrier, Martine Acerra ... Michèle Battesti ... and 11 in English, by Christopher Ware, Nicholas Tracy, Anthony Ryan, David J. Lyon, Brian Lavery ... John B. Hattendorf, William S. Dudley.
41128
KIM, H. Edward
KOREA - BEYOND THE HILLS
$10.00 AUD
Eulyoo Publishing. Seoul. 1986. 2nd printing of the 1985 original. 184 PP with 2 maps and 141 colour photos. Cloth cover, dj. Near fine. 27 x 22.5.
67860
KIRSOP, Wallace
THE STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA AND THE FRENCH COLLECTIONS (in Explorations No. 33)
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2003. December 2002 (issued December 2003). 28 PP. Contains article between pages 13 and 37. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.5.
38602
KLEIN, Florence
ARTS DE L'ECHANGE EN OCEANIE
$30.00 AUD
Musée de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2001. 1st Ed. 88 PP with 2 maps, 13 b/w and over 120 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 21.
Catalogue of an exhibition held in Nouméa between February and May 2001. Traditional / customary exchanges in Oceania (Palau/Belau - Papua New Guinea - Solomon Islands - Vanuatu - Fiji - New Caledonia).
75257
KNAPPERT, Jan
PACIFIC MYTHOLOGY, An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend
$15.00 AUD
Aquarian Press. London. 1992. 1st Ed. 336 PP with 1 double-page map, head-pieces for each alphabetically lettered chapter (illustrations by Elizabeth Knappert). Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Fine. 23.4 x 15.3. 9781855381339026166655X
The world of gods and heroes, mariners, spirits & ghosts in a zone covering Singapore to Panama and Japan to New Zealand.
33108
KOCH, Gerd
MATERIELLE KULTUR DER SANTA CRUZ-INSELN
$35.00 AUD
Museum für Völkerkunde. Berlin. 1971 1st Ed. 202 PP with 6 maps and 138 figures, plus 25 tables with 1 colour and 54 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. German text. Fine. 24 x 17.
The material culture of the Santa Cruz Archipelago, Solomon Islands, studied in 1966/67.
75391
KOTTEK, Karen & DAW, Robyn (editors)
CONTEMPORARY TRADITION: Material Culture in Papua New Guinea
$25.00 AUD
University of Tasmania. Newham. 1996. 1st Ed. No pagination, 16 PP (recto / verso), plus 16 plates: 1 map of New Britain and 15 artists illustrations (each of these plates with a clear plastic guard with caption). Illustrated covers, binding with a tie. Fine. Oblong: 15.2 x 21.2. 0859016684
Contemporary "Art Works" in the Siki country of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
67697
LABAYLE, Eric
DE LA REVANCHE A LA LIBERATION - L'ECOLE DES ELEVES-ASPIRANTS DE CHERCHELL-MEDIOUNA (1942-1945)
$100.00 AUD
Author. Paris. 1996. 1st edition limited to 1250 copies (No. 222/1200). Preface by Colonel Pierre Carles. 717 PP with b/w illustrations (badges, graphs, tables, maps & plans, photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title and decoration on covers and spine, ribbon bookmark. All edges gilt. French text. Fine. 30.5 x 23.5.
40933
LABOURET, Henri & RIVET, Paul
LE ROYAUME D'ARDA ET SON EVANGELISATION AU XVIIe SIECLE
$45.00 AUD
Institut d'Ethnologie. Paris. 1929. 1st Ed. Travaux et Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie No. VII. (4), 64 PP, plus 20 b/w plates (30 pages of facsimile, 2 photos, 3 engravings and 2 folded maps). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. Image is of Plate XX. French text. 27.2 x 17.7.
Christianisation during the 17th century at the Kingdom of Arda (Ouidah), Dahomey, west coast of Africa.
42133
LAL, Brij V.
MR TULSI'S STORE - A Fijian Journey
$20.00 AUD
Pandanus Books. Canberra. 2001. 1st Ed. XI, 209 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22 x 14.2. 1740760077
Autobiography: childhood in Fiji, education up to University, posting at Hawaii University...
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.
75241
LAL, Brij V. (editor)
PACIFIC PLACES, PACIFIC HISTORIES: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Kiste
$120.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 2004 1st Ed. (6), 190 PP with 16 b/w photos (including 14 headpieces). Title spread: Maipa Village. Hard covers, gilt title on cloth spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). Scarce. 23.3 x 16. 9780824827489
14 contributions, including: Playing with Canoes, by Ben Finney.
73397
LAPIERRE, Alexandra
JE TE VOIS REINE DES QUATRE PARTIES DU MONDE - L' épopée de Doña Isabel Barreto, Conquistadora des Mers du Sud, Première et seule femme amirale de l'armada espagnole
$10.00 AUD
Flammarion. Paris. 2013. 1st Ed. 573, (3) PP with 5 b/w illustrations (2 maps on double page by Clément Argouarc'h and 3 drawings by Eric Doxat). Pictorial stiff covers. French text. Foxing spots on first & last leaves, and on outside edges. Very good. 24 x 15.3. 9782081269927
Voyage of exploration: Peru, Marquesas Islands, Solomon Islands, Guam, Philippines ... Acapulco.
73176
LARSEN, May & Henry
THE GOLDEN COWRIE - New Caledonia: Its People and Places
$25.00 AUD
Oliver & Boyd. Edinburgh & London. 1961. 1st English edition of the French original "La Cyprée d'Or". XV, 187 PP with 2 maps & 2 drawings, plus 6 full-page colour photos & 28 pages with 47 b/w photos. Fp: The ROM or good spirit. Hard cover, dj. Manuscript note at top of front endpaper and half-title page, and manuscript index (more than useful) on rear endpaper Light foxing, o/wise contents near fine. 21.5 x 15.6.
An expedition by a couple of Swiss naturalists in search of the Cyprée d'Or or Golden Cowrie takes them to New Caledonia. Excellent description of daily life of the settlers and Melanesians in the 1950's.
74702
LAURENT, Arthur
LA BANQUE DE L' INDOCHINE ET LA PIASTRE
$40.00 AUD
Editions des Deux Rives. Paris. 1954. 1st Ed. 252 PP, plus 16 pages with 11 facsimiles copies of documents (including a large folded one). Soft covers. French text. Ageing of paper. Very good. 19.5 x 14.5..
Corruption at all levels during the War in Indochina (1945-1954), ended by the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
38115
LEECH, Graeme
THE FIRST BOAT PEOPLE (in The Australian Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
Nationwide News / The Weekend Australian. Sydney. 1998. The Weekend Australian, July 18-19 1998. Contains article pages 16 to 21 with 5 colour photos, by Marco del Grande. Soft cover. Fine. 31 x 25.3.
When Europe's Ice Age cavemen were making paintings of animals, someone in Australia painted a picture of a boat on a sandstone rock in the north Kimberley. It could be the first painting portraying ocean travel.
13238
LEENHARDT, Maurice
ARTS DE L'OCEANIE
$40.00 AUD
Editions du Chêne. Paris. 1947. 1st Ed. 130 PP with 11 maps and 130 bw photos in text plus 4 colour plates. Hard cover, cloth spine, gilt device on front cover. Edges of covers worn, gilt title on spine rubbed, o/wise a very good clean copy. French text. Scarce. 23.5 x 15.8.
Art in Oceania: Australia, Melanesia and Polynesia.
73067
LENOIR, Philippe
GUIDE TO MAURITIUS
$10.00 AUD
Mauritius Travel and Tourist Bureau. Port Louis. c. 1970. 1st English edition translated by Sandra Desvaux de Marigny. (4), 44 PP, (1 errata) plus 19 plates with 19 b/w photos and 1 large folded map in colour tipped in inside back cover. Stiff covers, Illustrated front. Covers with light foxing. Very good. 24 x 17.7.
Mauritius: History - Popultion - Scenery..
75297
LESCHENAULT, Théodore
THE FRENCH COLLECTOR - Journal and Letters of Theodore Leschenault, Botanist of the Baudin Expedition
$50.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Publishing. Crawley, W.A. 2023 1st Australian edition. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Paul Gibbard. X, 342, (4) PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map of "Leschenault travels, May 1801 - April 1802" and a portrait of Leschenault aboard the Géographe", by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur. Pictorial soft covers. Fine (as new condition), 23.5 x 15.7. 9781760802165
Biography of 28 of his shipmates. Chapter 3: Arrival on coast of New Holland, discovery of Geographe Bay... Chapter 5: Passage from Timor to D'Entrecasteaux Channel... Maria Island , Banks Strait and Western Port. ...
75046
LINGE, Gabriel
L'ETRANGE DESTIN DE HAWAII
$20.00 AUD
Robert Laffont. Paris. 1975. 1st Ed. 268 PP with 4 maps, plus 12 PP with 24 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear. Occasional foxing. Good. French text. 21.5 x 13.5.
From the settlement by Polynesians coming from Tahiti and the Marquesas to the discovery by Cook, then to the 50th American state.
57859
LINNEKIN, Jocelyn & POYER, Lin (editors)
CULTURAL IDENTITY AND ETHNICITY IN THE PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1990 1st Ed. VI, (2), 323, (5) PP with 3 maps. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0824812085
75428
LINTON, Ralph, WINGERT, Paul S. & D'HARNONCOURT, René
ARTS OF THE SOUTH SEAS
$30.00 AUD
The Museum of Modern Art / Arno Press. New York. 1972. Reprint of the 1946 original. 200, (4) PP with 16 maps, 184 b/w photos and 4 b/w plates by Miguel Covarrubias. Fp: Human figure surmounted by a bird, from the Sepik River, New Guinea. Hard covers, title in red lettering on front board and spine. Fine. 26 x 19.5. 0405015674
Nota: the 4 "Colour Reproductions" of the original edition by Miguel Covarrubias, were printed in b/w in this "Library Grade" edition.
71597
LIONNET, Guy, ABDELKRIM, Amar, MACTAVISH, Angela & MARTIN, Raphaël
SEYCHELLES
$50.00 AUD
Les Editions ARIS / Ministry of Education and Information. Bandol, France & Victoria, Seychelles. 1982. 1st bilingual edition with a preface by James Michel. 201, (5) PP with colour illustrations: 3 maps on double page and 192 photos. Fp (in colour): Portrait of France Albert René, President. Title page with coat of arms of the Republic of Seychelles. Cloth cover, gilt "Coat of Arms" on front board, dj. Ex library copy with stamps on library pocket on front endpaper, title page, page 123 and rear endpaper. Gift note on front endpaper (compliment of the Dept. of Administration, President's Office, Seychelles). French and English texts.(caption of some photographs in Creole). Otherwise, contents near fine. Scarce. 30.5 x 22.5. 2853010414
Independence from Great Britain: 29th June 1976. Liberation towards a Socialist Republic: 5th June 1977
75227
LISSAGARAY, Hippolyte Prosper Olivier
HISTOIRE DE LA COMMUNE DE 1871
$80.00 AUD
Editions du Trident. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1944. 1st edition published in Argentina. (reprint of the 1896 edition). 517, (7 content) PP. Rebacked copy, Half bound with marbled boards, gilt title on spine. Marbled endpapers. Page 181/182 with repaired tears. Few pages lightly soiled. French text. Very good. 19.8 x 14.3.
71852
LOFTUS HILLS, G & MILLER, A.M. (editors)
THE AUSTRALIAN DAIRY INDUSTRY (XVIII Congrès International de Laiterie )
$30.00 AUD
The Australian National Dairy Committee. Canberra. 1970. French edition translated from the Australian original by J. Adda. No pagination, 64 PP with colour illustrations (1 map with graphs "Rainfall" & "Pasture growth", and 52 photos). Hard cover, gilt title on front board, dj. Dust jacket is chipped around edges, o/wise near fine. English title, French text. 29.5 x 17.5.
Published for the French representatives attending the 1971 "XVIII International Dairy Congress".
73658
LONG, George W.
INDOCHINA FACES THE DRAGON [in National Geographic Magazine, Volume CII, No.3, 1952]
$20.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1952. September 1952. 287-430 PP with b/w and Colour illustrations. Contains article P. 287 to 328 with 13 b/w and 27 colour photos by J. Baylor Roberts. Soft covers with some wear, o/wise near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
France and her former Protectorates (Tonkin, Annam, Cochinchina, Cambodia & Laos) fight side by side to stem the Menace of Communist Forces in Southeast Asia.
41146
LUPPI, Andrea & PIZZINELLI, Corrado
THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA, as exemplified by its people and life in Taiwan
$10.00 AUD
Magnus Edizioni. Udine, Italy. 1984. 2nd edition of the 1982 original. No pagination, 32 PP with 1 b/w illustration, plus 168 pages with 179 colour photos. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, dj, pictorial slipcase. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 32 x 25.5. 8870570207
Taiwan.
11532
MAESTRI, Edmond
LES ILES DU SUD-OUEST DE L'OCEAN INDIEN ET LA FRANCE DE 1815 A NOS JOURS
$10.00 AUD
L'Harmattan / Université de La Réunion. Paris. 1994. 1st Ed. 222 PP, (2), with 2 graphs, 4 tables, 10 maps & 27 pages of facsimiles of documents. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5. 2738428398
History and changes of policy in this island of the South-west Indian Ocean since the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the Treaty of Paris of 1815.
75451
MAKIHARA, Miki & SCHIEFFELIN, Bambi B. (editors)
CONSEQUENCES OF CONTACT: Languages Ideologies and Sociocultural Transformations in Pacific Societies
$20.00 AUD
Oxford University Press, Inc. New York. 2007. 1st Ed. (10), 234 PP with 1 map on double page and tables. Illustrated stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 23.3 x 15.5. 9780195324983
10 papers. Linguistic Path to Urban Self in Postcolonial Solomon Islands, by Christine Jourdan. ... To tangle or not to tangle: shifting Language Ideologies and the Socialization of charabia in the Marquesas, by Kathleen C. Riley.
75279
MALINOWSKI, Bronislaw
ARGONAUTS OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC - An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes
$10.00 AUD
E.P. Dutton. New York. c. 1970. A Dutton Paperback edition, of the 1922 original. Preface by Sir James George Fraser. XXXII, 527 PP with 5 maps, 3 tables & 2 figures, plus 60 pages with 65 b/w plates. Fp: A ceremonial Act of the Kula. Soft covers, pictorial front. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 18.2 x 11. 0525470743
An account of native enterprise & adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea, the Trobriands, the Kula, canoes & sailing.
75091
MANGERET, R. P.
Mgr BATAILLON et les Missions de l'Océanie Centrale (in 2 Volumes)
$150.00 AUD
Librairie Générale Catholique et Classique. Lyon. 1895. New edition of the 1884 original, with a foreword by Cardinal L.-M. Caverot. Vol. I: XV, 415 PP, plus 2 maps on full page (Carte des Iles Uvea ou Wallis. / Carte des Iles Futuna with an insert "Coastal View"). Fp: portrait of le Vénèrable P.-M. L. Chanel. Vol. II: (2), 421 PP. Fp: Portrait of Mon Bataillon. Cloth covers, top edges tinted. Slight ageing of paper. Stamp of the convent of St. Mary's Hill, Paignton at lower corner of title page of Volume I. French text. A very good clean set. 21 x 14.
Bishop Bataillon, and the beginnings of the Marist Missions in the South West Pacific.
73301
MANGIN, Arthur
VOYAGES ET DECOUVERTES OUTRE-MER AU XIXe Siècle
$80.00 AUD
Alfred Mame et Fils, Editeurs. Tours. 1880. 3rd edition of the 1863 original. 1st Ed. 400 PP with 24 b/w plates illusrated by Durand-Brager. Fp: "Petersen, paralysé par son émotion...". Green cloth covers, covers with embossed decorations, gilt title on front board and spine, all edges gilt. Covers rubbed and scratched. Endpapers split at gutter. Prize plate pasted down on front endpaper. Leaf 279/280 has a rapaired tear. Heavy foxing. Very good reading copy. French text. 29.8 x 21.
French Voyages: Baudin, de Freycinet, Dumont d'Urville. Austrian circumnavigation voyage of the "Novara" by Captain Wullerstorf Urtair. Arctic expeditions and voyages by Sir John Franklin and linked to his search.
39442
MARTIN, Frank, MARTIN, Marie-Claude, FUSTEC, Bernard et al.
1949 / 1999 50ème ANNIVERSAIRE DU PREMIER VOL COMMERCIAL PARIS-NOUMEA
$10.00 AUD
Air France. Nouméa. 1999. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jacques Clabaut. 114 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. 29.8 x 21
Published in 1999, to commemorate the first commercial flight between Paris and Nouméa in 1949. Paris (21 September 1949), Tunis, Cairo, Bassorah, Karachi, Calcutta, Saïgon, Batavia, Darwin, Brisbane, Nouméa (27 September 1949).
37837
MAZERAN, Helene
GEOPOLITIQUE DE L'OCEAN INDIEN
$40.00 AUD
Centre des Hautes Etudes sur l'Afrique et l'Asie Modernes. Paris. 1994. 1st Ed. 170 PP, (4) with figures (graphs, maps) and tables. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 15.5. 2903182396
Geopolitics of the Indian Ocean. Petroleum and ore trades. Shipping routes. Strategic importance and military presence.
47934
McCALL, Grant & CONNELL, John (editors)
A WORLD PERSPECTIVE ON PACIFIC ISLANDER MIGRATION: Australia, New Zealand and the USA
$40.00 AUD
Centre for South Pacific Studies / University of New South Wales. Sydney. 1993 1st Ed. Pacific Studies Monograph No. 5. XII, 386 PP with 3 figures and numerous tables. Soft cover. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 20.5 x 14.8. 0733402852
47933
McCALL, Grant, ASHCROFT, W.D. et al.. (editors)
SYDNEY TALK: Australia in the South Pacific
$20.00 AUD
Centre for South Pacific Studies / University of New South Wales. Sydney. 1990. 1st Ed. Pacific Studies monograph No. 1. X, 196 PP with 2 figures and tables. Soft cover. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 20.5 x 14.8. 0733400752
41674
McGRATH, W. A. (compiler)
NEW GUINEANA OR BOOKS ABOUT NEW GUINEA 1942-1964
$10.00 AUD
W.A. McGrath / U.F.M. Press. Port Moresby. 1965. 1st Ed. IV, 88 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Staples removed, otherwise very good. 24.8 x 17.4.
Books about Papua and New Guinea.
74019
McKENNA, Mark
MOMENT OF TRUTH - History and Australia's Future (in Quarterly Essay 69)
$15.00 AUD
Quarterly Essay / Black Inc. Melbourne. 2018. Issue QE69. (4), 140 PP. Contains article page 1 to 86. Stiff covers, front cover with illustration and title. Near fine. 23.4 x 16.7. 9781760640507
75298
MEAD, Margaret
COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA - A Study of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Society
$10.00 AUD
Pelican Books / Penguin Books. London. 1981. Reprint of the paperback edition of 1943. Foreword by Franz Boas. 240 PP with tables. Soft covers, pictorial front. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges, o/wise fine. 18 x 11. 0140201270
75389
MEAD, Margaret
GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA - A Study of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Society
$10.00 AUD
Pelican Books / Penguin Books. London. 1981. Reprint of the 1975 paperback edition with a new Postscript. 280 PP. Soft covers, pictorial front. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges, o/wise fine. 18 x 11. 0140201173
34739
MELVILLE, Herman
TYPEE
$10.00 AUD
Heron Books. London. 1968. Reprint from the 2nd English edition of 1846. Introduction and notes by Milton R. Stern. XXX, 268 PP, plus 8 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Herman Melville, 1819-1891. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, gilt decorated front cover and spine, gilt title on spine. Near fine. 20.7 x 12.5.
Whaling, jumping ship in the Marquesas, living with the cannibals in the valley of Typee Vai on Nuku Hiva.
67866
MENGLET, Katia & NETTELBECK, Colin
CONFLICT OR SYMBIOSIS ? THE ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE MELBOURNE AND FRENCH CULTURAL POLICY SINCE 1980 (in Explorations No. 48)
$10.00 AUD
ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Melbourne. 2010. June 2010. 64 PP. Contains article between pages 3 and 20. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.5.
11865
MITCHELL, L. M. M.
PACIFIC PICTURE - Stories of Pacific Peoples
$10.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1963. 3rd reprint of the 1962 original. XII, 212 PP, plus 12 b/w plates. Card covers, pictorial front. Very good. 19.2 x 12.8.
Stories spanning the whole of the Pacific.
75382
MONTVEL-COHEN, Marvin (editor)
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF MICRONESIA
$30.00 AUD
Isla Center for the Arts / University of Guam. Agana, Guam. 1987. 1st Ed. (2), 50 PP with 20 b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 plan, 1 facsimile reprint of the poster "Micronesian Archaeological Conference, Guam / 1987", and 17 sketches). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21.4 x 13.6.
Catalogue of Exhibiton and programme of the 1987 conference, 9 to 12 September 1987.
39900
MOORE, Albert C.
ARTS IN THE RELIGIONS OF THE PACIFIC - Symbols of Life
$10.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1997. Paperback edition of the 1995 original, in Religion and Arts series. XVIII, 219 PP with 84 b/w illustrations. Fp: Mask for harvest dance, Torres Strait islands. Stiff cover, pictorial front. Fine. 24.5 x 17.5. 9780304700585
40894
MOORE, W. Robert.
GRASS-SKIRTED YAP [in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 102, No.6, 1952]
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1952. Vol. 102, No.6, December 1952. Contains article P.805 to 830 with 6 b/w and 21 colour photos. Soft cover. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
War made Uncle Sam foster parent to these far Pacific islanders, who prize old ways, taboos, and huge disks of Stone Money.
75239
MORRELL, W. P.
BRITAIN IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$25.00 AUD
Clarendon/Oxford University Press. London. 1960 1st Ed. XII, 454 PP with 6 maps on full page. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Ex-library copy, with library plate on front endpaper, and neeat small stamps on verso of title page. An otherwise near fine copy. 22 x 14.
Chapters include: European Invaders, Polynesian Missionary Kingdoms, Cakobau Rex and the Cession of Fiji, the Labour Trade, the Kidnapping Acts, the Partition of the Pacific: Great Britain and France, the Impact of Germany, etc ...
75377
MOSCHNER, Irmgard
Die Ozeanischen Sammlungen OZEANIEN AUSTRALIEN - Museum für Völkerkunde Wien
$25.00 AUD
Museum für Völkerkunde. Wien. 1967. 1st Ed. 48 PP, plus 1 folded map "South West Pacific", 1 map of New Guinea and 54 plates (6 in colour and 48 in b/w.). Stiff covers, illustrated front. German text. Fine. 23.3 x 16.
Collecton of artefacts in the Museum of Ethnology of Vienna, Austria.
11692
MOYLE, Richard
POLYNESIAN SOUND-PRODUCING INSTRUMENTS
$20.00 AUD
Shire Publications. London. 1990. 1st edition in the Shire Ethnography series. 64 PP with 41 b/w illust. (1 map & 40 photos). Card cover, pictorial front. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0747800952
Percussion, wind & stringed instruments.
40875
MULLER, Kal
TANNA AWAITS THE COMING OF JOHN FRUM (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
N.G.S. Washington. 1974. Volume 145, No. 5, May 1974. Contains article from P.706 to 715 with 1 map and 12 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.4.
A Pacific Island from the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) awaits its messiah.
30704
N/A
RECETTES CALEDONIENNES
$20.00 AUD
Groupe de Dames de la Paroisse du Vieux Temple. Nouméa. 1977. 1st Ed. 40 PP. Pictorial soft cover (rubbed). Some light foxing. Good. French text. 22.5 x 14.5.
Recipes from New Caledonia.
75344
N/A
WALKABOUT - Australia's Way of Life Magazine - Vol. 34, No. 10 - 1968
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1968. Vol. 34, No. 10, October 1968. Edited by McARDLE, Brian, & FENTON, Peter. 52 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers in colour. Near fine. Format: 33 x 26.5.
Saga of the Overland Telegraph: Todd and his Telegraph, / Afghans and Camels, by Pauline Stubbs Australian Opera commes to stay, by Pamela Ruskin. Treasures of the Mitchell Library, by Don Johnson.
75345
N/A
WALKABOUT - Australia's Way of Life Magazine - Vol. 35, No. 6 - 1969
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1969. Vol. 35, No. 6, June 1968. Edited by FENTON, Peter & HICKS, Gayle. 48 PP with b/w and illustrations. Pictorial soft covers in colour. Near fine. Format: 33 x 26.5.
Charles O'Hara Booth, benevolent martinet / Convict settlement of Port Arthur, by Lorraine Cazalar. Communications across the Nullarbor, by Warren Scott. Louis Brennan - Master Inventor and the Torpedo, by Richard Ross.
75511
N/A
WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 22, No. 8, August, 1956
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1956. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Ski instructor demonstrating a jump turn, Mt. Buller, Victoria). Very good. Format: 32 x 25.
Articles include: The Smallest Shells in the World (Charles F. Laseron), Norfolk Island - Cinderella of the Pacific (J.Y. Waterworth), Voyage to the Yasawas (Fiji Is.) by D. Hanna, Corinna by the river (Tasmania) by William Nolan, ..
75512
N/A
WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 22, No. 10, October, 1956
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1956. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Poplar Gums, Valley of Lagoons, Queensland). Light insect damage on edge of front cover, o/wise very good. Format: 32 x 25.
Articles include: The Harvest of the Seas (J.M. Thomson), New Caledonia - Australia's Exotic Next-Door Neighbour (Helen M. Wrigley), Lonely Islands of Bass Strait ...
75513
N/A
WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 22, No. 11, November, 1956
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1956. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial soft covers (An armful of koalas, Australia's cuddlesome favourites). Very good. Format: 32 x 25.
Articles include: The String-bag People (Papua) (Basil Hall), My First Voyage in Sail (Lionel Adams), The Fishermen and Dugong Hunters of Princess Charlotte Bay (Dr. Donald F. Tomson), A village Church recalls a Great Tasmanian (C.C. Lawrence), ...
75514
N/A
WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 22, No. 12, December, 1956
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1956. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w with b/w photos throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Town Hall, Melbourne). Very good. Format: 32 x 25.
Articles include: The Masked Dancers of I'Wai'i (Cape York) by Donald F. Thomson, Trout Fishing in Victoria (Basil Hall), Koala - Orphan of the Gum-Trees (Ellis Troughton ), ...
37021
NAN KIVELL, Rex & SPENCE, Sydney
PORTRAITS OF THE FAMOUS AND INFAMOUS - Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific 1492-1970
$50.00 AUD
Authors. London. 1974. 1st Ed. IV, 332 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: Colour portrait of Abraham Ortelius. Hard cover, clear dust jacket (illustrated). Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. Folio: 43 x 29. 0950376906
75368
NEICH, Roger
MATERIAL CULTURE OF WESTERN SAMOA - Persistence and change
$40.00 AUD
National Museum of New Zealand. Wellington. 1985. 1st edition. National Museum of New Zealand Bulletin 23. 66 PP with 6 tables and 51 b/w illustrations (1 map, plans, sketches and 40 photos). Soft covers, illustrated front with title. Fine. Scarce. 24.7 x 17.5.
Plaiting arts and crafts. Siapo / Barkcloth. Canoes...
42012
O'MEARA, J. Tim
SAMOAN PLANTERS - Tradition and Economic Development in Polynesia
$10.00 AUD
Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Fort Worth. 1990. 1st Ed., in the Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology series. XVII, 242 PP with 1 map, 15 figures (plan, maps graphs...), and 43 b/w photos. Fp: Map of the Pacific Ocean. Pictorial soft cover (spine lightly sunned). Some pencil annotations in margin and text underlining, o/wise very good. 23.5 x 16. 0030228476
75027
Office des Postes et Telecommunications
NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE - Le Caillou Communique / NEW CALEDONIA Calling
$40.00 AUD
OPT / N N.C. Nouméa. 1993. 1st Ed. Folder: 2 printed booklets of 16 PP with 40 colour photos, plus 16 colour plates on full page. Plain folders with marks. Contained in an illustrated box. Text in French and in English. Near fine. Large format: 42 x 31.
File presented to guests/dignitaries: detailing the "Telecommunications" system of New Caledonia.
33511
PACIFIC
PACIFIC TOURISM - As Islanders see it
$15.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1980. 1st Ed. VI, 171 PP with 1 comic strip, 6 tables, 9 maps, 12 colour and 34 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on edges. Very good. 20.8 x 14.5.
Social and cultural impact of tourism in Tonga... Urbanization, tourism and natral environment in Kiribati. Commercializing culture or culturizing commerce?, in Hawaii.
75306
PACIFIC
PITCAIRN LOG - Vol. 39, No. 2 (No. 155)
$10.00 AUD
Pitcairn Islands Study Group. Maynard, Ma., USA. 2012. Volume 39, No. 2 (April-June 2012). Edited by Ted Coulson. 20 pages with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 28.2 x 21.5.
Parkin Christian's visit to the U.S.: Dr Herbert Ford recalls 1958 visit with Pitcairn Patriarch.
74572
PACIFIC TRAVEL
ALTITUDE - Le Magazine de Bord d'Air Calédonie International - 10th Anniversay Issue (1983-1993)
$15.00 AUD
Aircalin / Air Calédonie International. Nouméa. 2020. No.150 (March-April, 2020). 130 PP with colour illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft cover. Text in French and English. Fine. 27 x 21.
Contents include: The cultural and festive agenda of New Caledonia, Lifou, the secret island...
40484
PAKEHA MAORI (MANING, Frederick Edward)
OLD NEW ZEALAND
$25.00 AUD
Whitcombe and Tombs. Christchurch. 1930. 4th impression of the 1906 edition. XXXVI, 328 PP with 17 headpieces and 19 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj (chipped). Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.3 x 15.
A tale of the good old times, together with a History of the War in the North of New Zealand against the Chief Heke in the year 1845 as told by an old Chief of the Ngapuhi Tribe, also Maori Traditions.
40695
PANOFF, Michel & PERRIN, Michel
DICTIONNAIRE DE L'ETHNOLOGIE
$35.00 AUD
Petite Bibliothèque Payot. Paris. 1973. 1st Ed. 293, (10 publications) PP with 5 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. French text. 18 x 11. 2228322407
From Aborigène to Zuni. 4 pages lexique English French.
46851
PARE, Ambroise
OEUVRES D'AMBROISE PARE
$300.00 AUD
Editions du Fleuve. Lyon, France. c. 1970. Facsimile reprint of the 4th edition of 1585 (original of 1575). Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this copy No.299), with an introduction by Paule Dumaitre. (8), (XX), MCCXLVI, (168 Index), (6) PP with 382 woodcuts. Marbled endpapers. Leather bound, decorative wrought iron fittings on front and back covers, decorations in blind and gilt title on spine, contained in a marbled slipcase. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. French text. Folio: 32.5 x 20.5.
A Collector's item.
75296
PARMENTIER, Richard J.
THE SACRED REMAINS: Myth, History and Polity in Belau
$30.00 AUD
The University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 1987. 1st Ed. Foreword by Michael Silverstein. XXIII, (3), 341 PP with 11 tables and b/w illustrations (vignette on title page, 1 location map and 3 maps, 4 figures and 7 photos). Stiff covers with light wear, pictorial front. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.3. 0226646963
75395
PEEBLES, Dave
PACIFIC REGIONAL ORDER
$25.00 AUD
ANU E Press & Asia Pacific Press. Canberra. 2005. 1st Ed. XVI, 322 PP with 33 tables and 8 figures. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 23 x 15.3. 0731537335
... Regional integration ?? , towards a Pacific regional Community ???
75383
PENDERGRAST, Mick
TE MAHI KETE - Maori Basketry for Beginners
$25.00 AUD
Reed Books. Auckland. 1991. Reprint of the 1986 revised edition. Foreword by Roka Paora. 68 PP with 266 figures (drawings, sketches, photos). Pictorial card covers. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 9780790001913
Traditional Maori weaving.
40056
PERKINS, C. A.
FIJI - MANY FLOWERING ISLANDS
$15.00 AUD
Collins. Sydney. 1967. 1st Ed. (8), 240 PP with 11 sketches by author, plus 24 pages with 36 b/w photos by Rob Wright. Eps: Map of the Fiji Islands. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 22.4 x 15.6.
75014
LA PEROUSE, Jean François Galaup de
ATLAS DU VOYAGE DE LA PEROUSE
$12000.00 AUD
Imprimerie de la République. Paris. 1797 First edition. Atlas volume only, folio size. Half-title page engraved by Moreau Le Jeune, a portrait of Jean François Galaup De La Pérouse, engraved by Alex Tardieu and 69 plates with Captions in French (29 on double page or folded and 40 on full page). Original half calf binding, gilt title on rebacked spine. Renewed endpapers. Boards are in very good condition with light rubbing on edges. For the plates, one has a tiny tear at centre of folds and 2 plates have repaired short tears. Light foxing primarily on the first few leaves with a little on the margins of the plates. A little soiling on outside edges and margins of plates. Image shows the half-title-page and the portrait. More images available upon request. A very nice copy of a scarce item. French text. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. Large folio: 47 x 33.5.
A total of 69 Plates: 35 Charts and plans / 3 Coastal Views / 10 Landscape and Inhabitants / 11 Fauna & Flora / 5 Traditional Crafts for 10 illustrations each / 5 Anchorages (1 with shipwreck). Folded plate No 1: Mappemonde ou Carte Reduite des Parties connues du Globe pour servir au Voyage de La Perouse. Plate No. 2: Vue de l'Ile Ste Catherine. Folded plate No. 3: Carte du Grand Ocean ou Mer du Sud. Plate No. 4: Plan de la Baie de la Conception. ... Plate No. 6: Lianne Male du Chili, que les habitants appelent Guilboqui... Plate No. 13: Carte des Iles Sandwich. ... Folded plate: Plan des Iles Kuriles. More images/information upon request.
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PETRON, Marcel
LE CAILLOU ECLATE - NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE (Sept.1984-Sept.1985)
$100.00 AUD
Editions Publical. Nouméa. 1986. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. No pagination, 120 PP with maps, graphs and b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 28 x 21.
The dark hours of New Caledonia: Kanak uprising, white settlers uprising...
40687
PHILIPPE, Jean & SCARBORO, Kathleen
LA REUNION, DEUX REGARDS
$20.00 AUD
Musée de l'Homme. Paris. 1995. 1st Ed. 72 PP with 3 maps, 31 b/w illustrations (8 engravings and 23 photos) and 20 colour illustrations (10 paintings by Kathleen Scarboro and 10 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. Oblong: 21 x 24. 2856532284
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Musée de l'Homme in 1995.
58374
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 60, January 1990 to December 1990
$40.00 AUD
Fiji Times Limited / Nationwide News. Suva. 1990. Edited by Fale MOALA. Volumes 1 to 12. A total of 688 PP, with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. A near fine set. 27.3 x 20.5.
66685
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 40, No. 12, December 1969
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1969. Edited by Stuart INDER. 152 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Near fine. 24 x 18.5.
The News Magazine of the South Pacific. ... Pitcairn Island / Murder most foul: / Cook's Pacific (pages 51 to 55) Inside story of the unhappy Wilkes Expedition (pages 92 to 95).
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 42, No.8, August, 1971
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1971. Edited by Stuart INDER. 132 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. Norfolk's scandalous abuse of democracy. ... Behind Japanese Lines on Wartime Guadalcanal (pages 71 to 77), by Ken Dalrymple-Hay.
67546
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 44, No. 2, February 1973
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1973. Edited by Stuart INDER. IV, 132 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Covers repaired at spine. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 24 x 18.5.
The News Magazine of the South Pacific. ... Ellice separatists and the GEIC (Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony). Pages 69 to 75 + 125: Captain John Moresby, R.N., the amateur - not so much a discoverer as a surveyor, by Ian Stuart. ...
67548
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 44, No. 6, June 1973
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1973. Edited by Stuart INDER. 120 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 24 x 18.5.
Articles include: An untamed Papua through the eyes of a murdered man (Robert Langdon), Nauru and Tonga make first move for a regional shipping line, New Guinea names the dates - independence timetable), The Opera House sets the seal on the Arts of the Islands (Victor Carell)....
67549
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 44, No. 8, June 1973
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1973. Edited by Stuart INDER. 120 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. .. Articles include: Papua New Guinea on the eve of the inevitable (Judy Tudor), Diminutive American Missionary who pioneered New Guinea highlands - Father Ross, ...
67551
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 44, No. 11, November 1973
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1973. Edited by Stuart INDER. IV, 116 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Signature of previous owner on front cover. Very good. 24 x 18.5.
The News Magazine of the South Pacific. .. Articles include: That Day in 1937 when Vulcan Island blew its top (Robert Langdon), Prelude to a Pacific painting career (Mary Edwell-Burke), ...
67552
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 44, No. 12, December 1973
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1973. Edited by Stuart INDER. 112 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. .. Includes articles: Thank you Papua (Percy Chatterton), Samoans Don't Like Tight Belts (Felise V A'A), Rise and Decline of the Thursday Island Press (W.G. Coppell).
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 41, No. 6, June 1970
$15.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1970. Edited by Stuart INDER. 152 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (Portrait of King Taufa'Ahau Tupou IV, by Captain Brett Hilder). Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 24 x 18.5.
The News Magazine of the South Pacific. Tonga: Independence for the last Kingdom in the South Pacific. Journal of an adventurous voyage to the South Seas, by Captain William Driver in the brig Charles Doggett.
75141
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 54, No. 11, November 1983
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1983. Edited by Angus Smales & Malcolm Salmon. 74 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 27.5 x 20.5.
Bounty lurks in a Swedish forest, by Marie-Thérèse & Bengt Danielsson. A sculpture replica of the Bounty "wooden hull & iron masts and sails", by Calle Örnemark, at Riddersberg, Smoland Province, Sweden.
75142
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - Vol. 54, No. 9, September, 1983
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1983. Edited by Angus Smales & Malcolm Salmon. 68 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 27.5 x 20.5.
A way out for the Pitcairners? (pages 21 to 25), by Marie-Thérèse & Bengt Danielsson. Pitcairn Island: Hercules and the Bulldozer (page 49).
75143
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 47, No. 3, March 1976
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1976 Edited by Stuart INDER & John CARTER. 80 PP, with b/w illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 24.2 x 18.
An "Old Chef's" Recipe for a new South Pacific Commission, by T.R. Smith. A Christian reality, Pacific Churches, by Roxanna Coop. The Kokoda Trail for tourists or pilgrims, by Maclaren Hiari. Outpost of Empire (Gilbert Islands / Kiribati) - a vanishing breed celebrates a birthday, by Michael Hook.
75144
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 47, No. 8, August 1976
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1976. Edited by Stuart INDER & John CARTER. 78 PP, with b/w illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 18.
Pacific unseen links: Fiji reach for the stars and plans more links, by Robert Keith-Reid. Fiji, 6th Star for the Australasian Federation, by Max Quanchi.
75145
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 47, No. 11, November 1976
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1976. Edited by Stuart INDER & John CARTER. 88 PP, with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 18.
When Tahiti was a land of perpetual Intoxication, by George Farwell.
75146
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 45, No. 11, November, 1974
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1974. Edited by Stuart INDER. 104 PP, with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 24.2 x 18.
Irian Jaya's dancers are an eye-opener, by R.S. Roosman. Problems of Polynesia's biggest city (Auckland), by W. G. Coppell.
75147
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 48, No. 1, January 1977
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1977. Edited by Stuart INDER and John CARTER. 80 PP, with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Some underlining in several articles, o/wise very good. 24.2 x 18.
The perils of living in a Pacific Paradise, by Robert Keith-Reid. Drama in the dusty files: fragments of Fiji history (5 of them), by Max Quanchi.
75148
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 48, No. 5, January 1977
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1977. Edited by Stuart INDER and John CARTER. 106 PP, with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Very good. 24.2 x 18.
The Last Paradise. Hokuele'a, the canoe, taught modern man an old lesson, by Lasarusa Vuisoniwailala. The cruises of 2 Challengers and the antics of some crewmen, by W. G. Coppell. PNG, last havens for old-time gold-seekers, by H.N. Nelson.
75149
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 48, No. 8, August 1977
$5.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1977. Edited by Stuart INDER and John CARTER. 90 PP, with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (rubbed and creased). Some underlining in several articles, o/wise very good. Very good. 24.2 x 18.
Norfolk: from hell-hole to heaven-on-earth, by Alan Gill. The Germans, the colonial masters of New Guinea..., by James Sinclair.
75150
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 48, No. 9, August 1977
$5.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1977. Edited by Stuart INDER and John CARTER. 90 PP, with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (rubbed). Some underlining in several articles, o/wise very good. 24.2 x 18.
A Norfolk Island editor takes the lid off, by Administrator O'Leary. When some fools stepped in - or a Wokabout Niuailan (aka New Ireland), by John Glynn. When wings of gold first flew over a stone-age Papua New Guinea, by James Sinclair.
75151
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 48, No. 12, December, 1977
$5.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1977. Edited by Stuart INDER and John CARTER. 90 PP, with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (rubbed). Some underlining in several articles, o/wise very good. 24.2 x 18.
Frangipani flowers (Flying Boats of TEAL / Air New Zealand) cannot float on concrete, by George Lynch.
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 49, No. 1, January, 1978
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1978. Edited by Stuart INDER and John CARTER. 90 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.2 x 20.5.
Jayapura, Capital of Irian Jaya, is no longer a Frontier town, by Dr. R.S. Roosman. A costly error of judgment in Suva, 1928, by W. craig and Bert Weston. Pandora's Box of Pacific History / Pandora: an 18th Century horror tale.
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 50, No. 1, January, 1979
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1979. Edited by Stuart INDER and Bob HAWKINS. 70 PP, with b/w illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers a little rubbed, otherwise very good. 27.3 x 20.5.
Margaret Mead, by Grant McCall. The Englishman through Fijian eyes - 1940, by Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna.
75187
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 50, No. 11, November, 1979
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1979. Edited by Stuart INDER and Malcolm SALMON. 100 PP, with b/w illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Lateiki, Tonga's new jack-in-the- box island (Vavau Group), by E.A. Crane. Back to Noumea for "un grand Mariage", by Helen Rousseau. Milne Bay - The place where Turnbull fell, by Paul Croft. With surfboard to Rurutu, in the French Australs, by Dr Geoff.
75188
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 50, No. 7, November, 1979
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1979. Edited by Stuart INDER and Malcolm SALMON. 108 PP, with b/w illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Pages 37 to 65: Aviation in the Pacific.
75190
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 52, No. 1, January, 1981
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1981. Edited by Angus SMALES and Malcolm SALMON. 84 PP, with b/w illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5
Micronesia: the long, long haul to ending the U.S. Trusteeship. Noumea '40: Australian gunboat (HMAS Adelaide) diplomacy, kidglove style (pages 59 to 65), by Malcolm Salmon.
75199
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 52, No. 2, February, 1981
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1981. Edited by Angus SMALES and Malcolm SALMON. 84 PP, with b/w illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5
Hokule'a: The case for the defence, by Ben R. Finney / Bengt Danielsson. Vanuatu: May 1981 be the year of national reconciliation.
75203
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 52, No. 9, September 1981
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1981. Edited by Angus SMALES and Malcolm SALMON. 84 PP, with b/w illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers with a light crease, slight ageing of paper, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5
Seminar on a circular track, by Marie-Therese and Bengt Danielsson. Pages 29 to 40 + 77: Japan - A New Image in a New Pacific.
75204
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 53, No. 9, September, 1982
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1982. Edited by Angus SMALES and Malcolm SALMON. 76 PP, with b/w illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers witha crease, slight ageing of paper, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5
New Caledonia: Clubs, rocks, tear gas, by Helen Fraser. Changing face of Tahiti's TIURAI, by Marie Therese & Bengt Danielsson. First Tikopia, now Anuta is on the anthropological map, by Robert Langdon. Hawaii: Savoring the pleasures of Lanai, Molokai and Maui, by Dr. Stephen Weinstein.
75205
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 53, No. 12, September, 1982
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1982. Edited by Angus SMALES and Malcolm SALMON. 76 PP, with b/w illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers a little creased, slight ageing of paper, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5
Lost Treasures of Nan Madol. 22nd South Pacific Conference in October 1982. Charles John Orr, engineer and shutterbug in 1930s New Guinea.
75207
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 54, No. 10, October, 1983
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1983 Edited by Angus SMALES and Malcolm SALMON. 68 PP, with b/w illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers creased with a small piece missing at bottom edge of front cover, slight ageing of paper, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5
First Fijians to meet Europeans (27 June 1791 on the Island of Ono-i-Lau), by Garth Rogers. Tales of Viking late-comers, by Marie Therese & Bengt Danielsson.
75208
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 60, No. 5, May, 1990
$10.00 AUD
Fiji Times Ltd. Sydney. 1990 Edited by Jale Moala. 60 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Johnston Atoll: grim news on nerve gas. The Return of the Giant Clam, by David North. Bridging the Islands "Transport in the Pacific" (pages 35 to 53), by Robin Bromby.
75209
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 59, No. 2, February, 1989
$10.00 AUD
Fiji Times Ltd. Sydney. 1989 Edited by Carson Creagh & John Carter. 52 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers a little creased, slight ageing of paper, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5
Malaria, the Killer returns, by Dr Noel Tait. Burns Philp shake-up. Kwajalein: furore in perspective, by Ed Rampell. CSIRO begins PNG tree seed project, by Ingrid Strewe. Australia & NZ, silent on Nauru Compensation Claim, by Richard Dinnen.
75211
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 60, No. 10, October,1990
$10.00 AUD
Fiji Times Ltd. Sydney. 1990. Edited by Jale Moala. 56 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5
Under the Bomb: Moruroa timebomb, by David Robie. Johnston Atoll gets mixed reviews, by David North. Rocks of Ages (archaeological sites and stone megaliths in Vanuatu), by Nicholas Rothwell.
75212
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 60, No. 11, November, 1990
$10.00 AUD
Fiji Times Ltd. Sydney. 1990 Edited by Jale Moala. 56 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5
Spanish wreck reveals Marianas link (1638 wreck of the "Nuestra Señora de la Conception"), by David North. The Keeper of History (Cook Islands and decaying Archive), by Angela McCarthy.
75213
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 60, No. 12, December, 1990
$10.00 AUD
Fiji Times Ltd. Sydney. 1990 Edited by Jale Moala. 56 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Colour pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Amazing Papua New Guinea (page24 to 33), by Chris Ashton. Magic of the Kanaks: in Paris a great show reawakens the spirit of the past (pages 42 to 45), by Nicholas Rothwell.
75228
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 55, No.1 - January 1984
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1984 Edited by Angus SMALES & Malcolm SALMON. 58 PP. Pictorial soft covers (A slit gong from Anatom Island) with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Fiji Gets its White Report; New Caledonia, the issue of electoral reform (Helen Fraser), The Solomons and China,...
73286
PISIER, Marie-France
LE BAL DU GOUVERNEUR
$10.00 AUD
Bernard Grasset & Fasquelle. Paris. 1984. 1st edition "Le Grand-Livre du Mois". 236, (1) PP. Hard cover, dj. Covers a little soiled and worn, dust jacket with chips. Signature and date of previous owner on FFEP. Light foxing mostly on prelims and last pages. French text. Still a good reading copy. 22.6 x 14.
Novel: New Caledonia of the mid 1950s. The author: a cinema actress, spent her youth and teenage years in New Caledonia.
75277
POYER, Lin
THE NGATIK MASSACRE, History and Identity on a Micronesian Atoll
$15.00 AUD
Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington. 1993. 1st paperback edition. XIII, 298 PP with 1 diagram, 3 maps, 3 tables and 16 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 9781560982623
In 1837, the trading cutter Lambton, out of Sydney, called on the islet of Ngatik, atoll of Sapwuahfik (Federated States of Micronesia) and killed all the men over a cache of tortoise-shell. Impact on their society...
11817
RALSTON, Caroline
GRASS HUTS AND WAREHOUSES, Pacific Beach Communities of the Nineteenth Century
$15.00 AUD
Australian National University Press. Canberra. 1977 1st Ed. XII, 268 PP with 7 maps, plus 8 full-page plates. Eps: The Pacific. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 0708106560
Development of trade & commerce, race relations, daily life in: Honolulu, Papeete, Bay of Islands, Levuka & Apia, after the arrival of early settlers, prior to Western control & takeover.
40482
REED, A. W.
AN ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAORI LIFE
$30.00 AUD
A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1963. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 171 b/w illustrations by Dennis Turner, Dr T. Barrow & Al. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges and few pages, o/wise near fine. 25.3 x 19.2.
From Action songs and Adzes (Toki) to Yams (uwhi) and Year.
51682
RICHARDSON, William A. R.
WAS AUSTRALIA CHARTED BEFORE 1606 ?: The Jave la Grande inscriptions
$20.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2006. 1st Ed. XII, 132 PP with 36 figures and 9 colour plates (5 on double page). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 22. 0642276420
42838
RICHAUD, Vahi Sylvia (Editor)
CODE DES LOIS - CAHIERS DU PATRIMOINE - No.4
$40.00 AUD
Ministère de la Culture de la Polynésie Française. Papeete. 2001. 1st Ed. Cahiers du Patrimoine No. 4 (Histoire). 180 PP. Soft cover. French and Mao'hi text. Fine. 28 x 17.8.
The first written Laws of French Polynesia, started by Missionaries. Code Pomare of 1819. Code Tamatoa from Raiatea of 1820...
75436
ROCHEFORT, Henri
LES AVENTURES DE MA VIE (in 5 volumes)
$250.00 AUD
Paul Dupont, Editeur. Paris. 1896 - 1898 1st edition. Volume I: XII, (2), 378 PP, plus 5 b/w photos pasted down (No. 1: " Henri Rochefort, Directeur de L'Intransigeant", by J. Favre, "Marseille, France apres l'amnistie" on verso of front endpaper, No. 2: "Henri Rochefort" by H. Ehrmoon as frontispiece, No. 3: "Henri Rochefort, Directeur de L'Intransigeant" photo Stella, épreuve faite à Londres pendant l'exil, on verso of title page, No.4: "Henri Rochefort, journaliste" by H. Manuel, EOK, Paris and No. 5: "Henri Rochefort", photo J. Favre, Marseille (both pasted down on recto & verso of page (2). Volume II: (4), 385 PP. Volume III: (4), 366 PP. Volume IV: (4), 391 PP. Volume V: (4), 330 PP. Cloth covers with light wear and gilt lettering almost all faded from front covers and spine, top edge tinted. Small piece on lower corner of pages 7 to 10 of Volume I is torn (not affecting text). Volume I, with the Carte de Visite "Henri Rochefort" tipped in on front endpaper. Spines are faded, ageing of paper and some foxing. French text. Very good set and scarce with the 5 photos and the Carte de Visite, found in Volume I). 17.8 x 11.5.
75434
ROGERS, Edward S.
NEW GUINEA: BIG MAN ISLAND
$40.00 AUD
Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto. 1970. 1st Ed. 251 PP with 4 maps by Geoffrey Matthews, and 132 b/w illustrations by Arthur Williams, plus 8 pages with 24 colour photos by Leighton Warren. Hard covers, decorated front board, title on front board and spine. Light foxing on prelims and last pages, o/wise a fine copy. 22.8 x 22.2.
65232
RUHEN, Olaf
THE TONGANS
$20.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1978. 1st Ed. 84 PP with colour photos by Jozef Vissel. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. Oblong: 20 x 25. 0858070324
71284
SABATIER, Ernest
SOUS L'EQUATEUR DU PACIFIQUE, Les Iles Gilbert et la Mission Catholique 1888-1938
$60.00 AUD
Editions Dillen. Paris. 1939. 1st Ed. 292 PP with 7 maps, plus 22 pages with 115 b/w photos & 1 folded map of Gilbert, Ellice, Nauru & other islands at rear of book. Soft cover. Top of front cover lightly soiled/foxed Slight ageing of paper and foxing. Pages uncut. A very good copy. French text. 25.2 x 17.
Description including geography, flora & fauna, myths & beliefs, navigation, outriggers, fishing, history. The arrival of the Catholic church and its spread throughout the archipelago.
75240
SAHLINS, Marshall
ISLANDS OF HISTORY
$25.00 AUD
University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 1985. 1st Ed. XX, 180 PP with 4 figures. Hard covers, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 14;5. 0226733572
5 Essays centred on Islands of the Pacific, and their European discoveries. Supplement to the Voyage of Cook, or le calcul sauvage . The Stranger-King, or Dumézil among Fijians. Captain James Cook or the Dying God...
65270
SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA, Pedro
MOI, GOUVERNEUR DU DETROIT DE MAGELLAN: La Première Colonisation de la Terre de Feu 1581-1584
$20.00 AUD
Cosmopole. Paris. 2001. 1st edition of the 1988 Spanish original. Translated and explained by André Roussel. 219, (3) PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps, 1 chart, facsimile of signature, 3 engravings and 7 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Near fine. 19 x 12.5. 2864300038
First Governor of Tierra del Fuego.
75386
SCHINDLBECK, Markus
MANNERHAUS UND WEIBLICHE GIEBELFIGUR AM MITTELSEPIK, PAPUA-NEUGUINEA (in Baessler-Archiv)
$25.00 AUD
Verlag von Dietrich Reimer. Berlin. 1985 Neue Folge, Band XXXIII, 1985. (2), 363-411, (3) PP with b/w illustration: 6 figures and 33 photos. Soft covers. German text. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5.
Men's Houses and Female Gable-Figures, Middle Sepik, Papua New Guinea.
75402
SCHOEFFEL, Penelope & LATEEF, Shireen (editors)
SOCIOCULTURAL ISSUES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS - Volume II
$25.00 AUD
Asian Development Bank. Manila. 1997. 1st Ed., November 1997, in the "Pacific Studies" series. Foreword by Basudev Dahal & Kazi F. Jalal. Opening Address by Geert van der Linden. XXV, 280 PP with 18 tables and 6 graphs. Hard covers. Stamp "write - off" on top outside edge. An otherwise fine copy. 22.8 x 15. 9715611400
Proceedings of a Roundtable held in Suva, Fiji, 19-20 November 1996 - Productivity: the problems of incentives. Land Tenure. Education and Human Resources. Business and Finance. Governance and accountability. Issues for Donors.
69509
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING THE SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION (with Resolution concerning Immediate Projects) - Canberra, 6th February, 1947
$100.00 AUD
Parliament / His Majesty's Stationery Office. London. 1947. Miscellaneous No. 9 (1947) - Cmd. 7104, 4/47. 12 PP. Staples removed. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.3.
42568
SERUVAKULA, Semi B.
BULA VAKAVANUA
$15.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies. Suva. 2000. 1st Ed. 169 PP with 15 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Fijian text. 21 x 14.7. 9820201519
36471
SHARP, Andrew
THE DISCOVERY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$50.00 AUD
Clarendon / Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK . 1960 1st Ed. XIV, 260 PP, plus 10 b/w plates (4 charts and 6 maps. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Light foxing, mostly on prelims and outside page edges. Contents are near fine. 22 x 14.5.
75236
SHARP, Andrew
ANCIENT VOYAGERS IN POLYNESIA
$30.00 AUD
Longman Paul Ltd. Auckland. 1969. Reprint of the 1963 original. 159 PP with 1 map on double page and 5 figures, plus 8 b/w plates. Eps: Map of the Pacific Area. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few small chips and is in a protective sleeve. Label "Auckland University Press / Oxford University Press" at lower part of title page. Stamp of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise near fine. 22.4 x 14.4.
Settlement of the islands by the Polynesians: achieved by one-way voyagers, blown off course.
37833
SOCIETE DES AMIS DU MUSEE DE L'HOMME
LA DECOUVERTE DE LA POLYNESIE
$50.00 AUD
Societe des Amis du Musée de l'Homme. Paris. 1972 1st Ed. No pagination, 248 PP, (1 errata loose) with 3 maps and 15 b/w illustrations, as well as 4 colour and 84 b/w plates, plus 1 record (45 RPM) in rear pocket. Pictorial card covers with a light soiling and edge wear and pages with a small bump at bottom, otherwise near fine. French text. 25.5 x 21.6.
The Discovery of Polynesia: Bougainville by Etienne Taillemite. Cook: Explorer and Ethnograph, by Bengt Danielsson. Catalogue of an Exhibition held January/June 1972 at Musee de l'Homme in Paris.
38562
STEPHEN, Ann (editor)
VISIONS OF A REPUBLIC - The Work of Lucien Henry - Paris * Nouméa * Sydney
$20.00 AUD
Powerhouse Publishing. Sydney. 2001. 1st Ed. 240 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp: Dedication plate, 1890. Hard cover, dj. Dedicatory note signed by the editor. Fine. 30.3 x 24. 1863170847
The work of a French - Australian artist, Lucien Henry. Born in France. Member of the 1871 uprising La Commune de Paris. Deported to New Caledonia as a Communard (communist) up to the 1879 amnesty to political deportees. Artist in Australia...
13253
STOCK, Ralph
THE CRUISE OF THE DREAM SHIP
$15.00 AUD
Wm. Heinemann. London. 1935. Reprint of the 1921 original. IX, 272 PP with 1 b/w illustration, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w illustrations. Fp: The dream ship. Green cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light shelf wear around edges, o/wise a near fine copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
Cruising through the South Sea Islands on a former fishing smack at the end of WWI: Galapagos, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Tahiti ... Cruise ending in Tonga after her sale. ... Thursday Island.
33218
STONE, William S.
THE SHIP OF FLAME - A Saga of the South Seas
$25.00 AUD
Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1945. 1st Ed. (6), 166 PP with 1 colour and 28 b/w illustrations by Nicolas Mordvinoff. Title spread: Tahua at the prows of a canoe (in colour). Hard cover, gilt title on cloth spine. Covers lightly rubbed & worn on corners, top of spine frayed, light foxing on endpapers, o/wise a clean and very good copy. 29.2 x 21.6.
42362
SUBRAMANI (editor)
THE INDO-FIJIAN EXPERIENCE
$15.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1979. 1st Ed. No. 12 in Asian and Pacific Writing series. XII, 207 PP . Hard cover, dj. Ageing of paper around edges. Near fine. 22.3 x 14. 0702213861
Indians in Fiji: an interpretation, by Ahmed Ali. The wreck of the Syria, 1884, by Brij V. Lal...
20897
SUTTON, Martin
STRANGERS IN PARADISE
$5.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1995. 1st Australian edition. 160 PP with 5 maps, 44 bw & 31 colour illust. Eps: Map of Pacific Ocean. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.8 x 22. 0207184143
The Western world's love affair with the South Seas. Writers: Robert Louis Stevenson, James A. Michener. Artists: Gauguin, Matisse. Scientists: Darwin, Heyerdahl. Robinson Crusoes: from Alexander Selkirk to Tom Neale.
72991
TAHITI
TAHITI AND ITS ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
JPM Publications S.A. Lausanne. 1996. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 10 colour illustrations: 1 map Tahiti and Moorea, 1 plan of Papeete and 8 photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. Small format: 14.5 x 10.5.
A tailor-made guide for French Polynesia.
34920
TARDY DE MONTRAVEL, Captain J.
NEW CALEDONIA
$40.00 AUD
Colin Hinchcliffe, "Empire Books". York, UK. c.1995. Facsimile reprint of 4 articles published in "The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle", 1856. Translated from the Annales Maritimes et Coloniales. 33 PP with 1 table. Soft covers, title on front cover, spiral bound. Near fine 29.9 x 21.
The author, Captain of the French warship "Constantine", discovered, explored and settled the site of Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia.
74012
TARDY DE MONTRAVEL, Captain J.
ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW CALEDONIA AS A COLONY OF FRANCE
$30.00 AUD
Colin Hinchcliffe, "Empire Books". York, UK. c.1995. Facsimile reprint of an article published in "The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle", issue of July 1855. Translated from the Annales Maritimes et Coloniales. 9 PP (recto only). Soft covers, title on front cover, spiral bound. Near fine 29.9 x 21.
The author, Captain of the French warship "Constantine", discovered, explored and settled the site of Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia.
56617
TAURU, Liliane & BLADINIERES, Gilbert
KEEN JILA - Pacific Contemporary Art Treasures
$65.00 AUD
Centre Culturel Tjibaou / Ngan Jila. Nouméa. 2009. 1st English edition translated from the French original by Roy Benyon. Introduction by Emmanuel Kasarhérou. 80 PP with 1 map and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.2. 9782909407654
Art treasures of 26 Artists: Paula Boi, Yvette Bouquet ... Aloï Pilioko ... Daniel Waswas ...
75351
TAYLOR, Alan
POLYNESIAN TATTOOING
$30.00 AUD
Institute for Polynesian Studies / Brigham Young University. Laie, Hawaii. 1981. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 34 b/w illustrations. Centrefold: Tattoing ceremony. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 19 x 14.
75405
TE PAPA
ICONS FROM TE PAPA: "PACIFIC"
$15.00 AUD
Museum of New Zealand / Te Papa Tongareva. Wellington. 2006. 1st Ed. (4), 108 PP with 51 colour photos. Pictorial (Cloak) stiff covers. As new. 15.5 x 13.5. 9781877385254
A selection of treasured "Pacific" items from "Te Papa" Museum .
75232
TE RANGI HIROA (Peter H. Buck)
AN INTRODUCTION TO POLYNESIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
$50.00 AUD
Bishop P. Museum Press. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 1945. 1st Ed. Bulletin 187. (2), (II), 133 PP with 1 map. Soft cover, title on front cover and spine. Covers have some wear, otherwise contents are near fine. 25.8 x 17.5.
75292
THOMAS, Nicholas
IN OCEANIA - Visions, Artifacts, Histories
$30.00 AUD
Duke University Press. 1997 1st paperback edition. XVI, (2), 270 PP with 59 b/w illustrations. Soft covers, illustrated front. Fine. 23.4 x 15.2. 9780822319986
75267
THOMAS, Nicholas, ADAMS, Julie, LYTHBERG, Billie, NUKU Maia & SALMOND, Amiria (editors)
ARTEFACTS OF ENCOUNTER: Cook's Voyages, Colonial Collecting and Museum Histories
$100.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2016. 1st US edition of the New Zealand original. 348 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Old label associated with a paddle collected in New Zealand. FEP: the Maudslay Gallery, Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. REP: Heiau with a marker to HMS Blonde. Hard covers, title (silver lettering) on front board and spine, ribbon page-marker. Fine. 29.2 x 25.7. 9780824859350
End of 20th century visit to the sites of contact between Cook's crews in Dusky Sound (1773) and Queen Charlotte Sound (1770).
75263
THOMAS, Pamela (editor)
PACIFIC YOUTH - Selected studies on youth development in the South Pacific
$25.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP & Commonwealth Youth Program. Suva. 1981. 1st Ed. X, 104 PP with 12 tables & 8 b/w photos. Card covers, pictorial front. Fine. 20.7 x 14.8.
15219
THOMAS, Pascoe
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH-SEAS
$40.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1971. Facsimile reprint of the 1745 original. No. 72 in the Bibliotheca Australiana. (18), 348, 39 (appendix) PP. Simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine). Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.5. 906072092X
Original title "A True and Impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas and Round the Globe in His Majesty's ship the Centurion, Under the Command of Commodore George Anson, 1740-1744".
11540
THOMPSON, Christina (editor)
MEANJIN IN OCEANIA (in Meanjin)
$15.00 AUD
University of Melbourne. Melbourne. 1994. Volume 53, No.4, Summer 1994. Pages 587 to 776 with 12 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 13.8.
A collection of essays, fiction and poetry from Australasia and the Pacific. South Pacific Stories: A Photo Essay, by Ann Stephen. A Trip through the Islands in 1918, the Photography of T. J. McMahon, by Max Quanchi...
40159
THOMSON, D. P.
GOODWIN SANDS TO SOLOMON ISLANDS - More Stories of the Ships of Christ
$15.00 AUD
Pickering & Inglis. London. 1948. 1st Ed., in the Memoirs of Mighty Men and Women series. 95, (1 publication) PP with 12 b/w illustrations by Robert Marshall. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, pieces missing from bottom front of dust jacket. Prize plate on front endpaper. Very good. 19 x13.
Maritime Missionary Adventure throughout the World.
41382
THORNTON-SMITH, C. B.
ANALYTICAL CHECKLIST OF FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS IN FRENCH OF COLONIAL AUSTRALIA, with details of published English translations
$10.00 AUD
Department of English, Monash University. Melbourne. 1983. Photostat copy of the 1983 original. No. 1 in the Monash Bibliographical series. (2), 27 PP. Soft cover, plastic protected, spiral bound. Fine. 29.7 x 20.5. 0908481233
75379
TITCOMB, Margaret
THE ANCIENT HAWAIIANS: How They Clothed Themselves
$15.00 AUD
Hogarth Press. Honolulu, Hawaii. 1983 1st Ed. in the "Hawaii's Cultural Heritage" series. 55 PP with 26 b/w illustrations (10 sketches, 6 prints and 10 photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. (int). 0911776249
75262
TONGAMOA, Taiamoni (editor)
PACIFIC WOMEN - Roles and Status of Women in Pacific Societies
$15.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1988. 1st Ed. X, 104 PP with 6 maps, 20 tables & 17 b/w photos. Card covers, spine sunned, pictorial front. Near fine. 20.7 x 14.8. 9820200377
42742
TOOHEY, John
CAPTAIN BLIGH'S PORTABLE NIGHTMARE
$10.00 AUD
HarperCollins. New York. 2000. 1st US edition. XI, 211 PP with 1 chart, 1 plan of the Bounty launch, 3 maps and 4 b/w illust. Fp: Portrait of Captain Bligh. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 21.7 x 14.5. 0060195320
42144
TOULLELAN, Pierre-Yves
COLONS FRANCAIS EN POLYNESIE ORIENTALE 1830-1914 (in Bulletin de la Société des Etudes Océaniennes - Volume XVIII - No. 221 No. 10)
$30.00 AUD
Société des Etudes Océaniennes. Papeete. 1982. December 1982. Pages 1161 to 1243 with 1 map, 1 organigram, 1 graph and 13 tables. Soft cover. Fine. French text. 22 x 14.5.
Contemporary history written to mark the 150th anniversary of French presence in Tahiti.
47846
TRYON, Darrell (editor)
PACIFIC IDENTITIES / LES IDENTITES DU PACIFIQUE (in The New Pacific Review / La Nouvelle Revue Du Pacifique - Volume 1)
$40.00 AUD
Pandanus Book. Canberra. 2000. Volume 1, No. 1, December 2000. 1st bilingual (English / French) edition. 210 (English text), (2), 224 (French text) PP. Illustrated soft covers. Fine. 25.4 x 17.7.
Nouméa Symposium Proceedings (15 papers) held 15-16 July 1999. Pacific Identities and Modernities, by Marshall Sahlins. Identity and Power in Vanuatu, by Darrell Tryon. Identity and language, by Louise Peltzer...
75295
VA'A, Leatuailevao Ruby & TEAIWA, Joan Martin
ENVIRONMENT AND PACIFIC WOMEN - From the Globe to the Village
$20.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1988 1st Ed. Foreword by Susan Parkinson & Anne Plunkett. VIII, (2), 41 PP with 7 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 21 x 14.7. 9820200334
75365
VAYDA, Andrew P. (editor)
PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF THE PACIFIC - An Anthropological Reader
$20.00 AUD
Natural History Press. New York. 1968. 1st paperback edition. XVI, 557 PP with figures & tables. Fp: sketch map of the Central Pacific Ocean. Soft covers, pictorial front. Occasional pencil underlining in text. Foxing spots on outside edges, creases on spine. Very good. 20.6 x 13.6. 0385035233
Geography, by William L. Thomas. Physical anthropology, by Daris Swindler ... Linguistics. Culture history. Ecology. Social organisation. Areal studies on Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia.
11568
VERGES, Paul
D'UNE ILE AU MONDE
$10.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1993. 1st Ed. 320 PP with 1 map & 2 graphs, plus 8 pages with 1 map & 14 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Pages 161 to 192 misbound. French text. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 21.5 x 13.5. 2738418430
History of La Réunion island by this controversial lawyer, Deputy at the French National Assembly (representing the Communist Movement). Problems due to sugar cane plantations and labour (slave, then indentured). The future after analysing the past.
74032
von TODENWARTH, Freiherr
EINE TOLLE FLUCHT
$150.00 AUD
R.F. Koehler Verlag. Leipzig. 1935. 1st edition by Hans Lehr. 232 PP. Fp: Photo of Baron von Todenwarth. Cloth cover, title on front board and spine. Ageing of paper and offsetting on endpapers. Cloth covers worn on edges and soiled, 2 rubbed patches at foot of spine. Name of pevious owner at top of front endpaper. German text, gothic script. Very good. Scarce. 19 x 13.
42321
WALELIGN, Tsigereda & RUSSELL, Jeffrey
LE PACIFIQUE SUD ET LA COMMUNAUTE EUROPEENNE
$20.00 AUD
Service d'Information de la CEE. Bruxelles. 1989. 1st Ed. 36 PP with 13 tables, 16 maps (with 8 country profiles), 1 b/w and 14 colour photos. Soft cover. Fine. French text. 29.8 x 21
44230
WARD, R. Gerard
WIDENING WORLDS, SHRINKING WORLDS? - The Reshaping of Oceania
$20.00 AUD
Centre for the Contemporary Pacific / ANU. Canberra. 1999. 1st Ed. (2), II, 38 PP with 22 figures. Soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0909524408
Pacific Distinguished Lecture, delivered at the Australian National University on 12 October 1999.
75444
WARD, R. Gerard (editor)
MAN IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: Essays on Geographical Changes in the Pacific Islands
$15.00 AUD
Clarendon Press. Oxford, 1872 1st Ed. X, 339 PP with 34 tables and 22 b/w illustrations (maps, figures & graphs). Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Ex Library copy with stamps on half title and title page and renewed endpapers. Foxing spots on top outside edges, o/wise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
11 Essays. The Pacific Islands and their Prehistoric Inhabitants, by J. Golson. Trade and Plantations in Eastern Polynesia, by Colin Newbury. ... The Makatea Phosphate Concession... Urbanization in the South Pacific and the case of Nouméa, by W.D. Taggart...
75394
WASSMANN, Jürg (editor)
PACIFIC ANSWERS TO WESTERN HEGEMONY: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction
$30.00 AUD
Berg/Oxford International Publishers Ltd. Oxford, UK. 1998. 1st soft cover edition. VII, 449 PP with 1 table and 3 figures (including 1 map). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 21.5 x 13.8. 1859731597
Constituting Historical Knowledge, Ways of Constructing Identities, Australia after Mabo, Questioning Western Democracy...
74018
WATSON, Don
ENNEMY WITHIN - American Politics in the Time of Trump (in Quarterly Essay 63)
$15.00 AUD
Quarterly Essay / Black Inc. Melbourne. 2016. Issue QE63. (2), 116, (8 blank) PP. Contains article page 1 to 73. Stiff covers, front cover with illustration and title. Small crease on front cover, o/wise near fine. 23.4 x 16.7. 9781863958677
72687
WAUGH, Alec
HOT COUNTRIES
$45.00 AUD
Farrar & Rinehart. New York. 1930. 1st Ed. VIII, (2), 304 PP with 20 b/w illustrations by Lynd Ward (title page, content page, 11 headpieces and 6 plates. Fp: Woodcut of a vahiné. Cloth cover, red decoration on front board, title in red lettering on a sunned spine. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Contents near fine. 22 x 15.5.
A voyage through exotic places: Tahiti, New Hebrides, Martinique..
73659
WHITE, Peter T.
SOUTH VIET NAM FIGHTS THE RED TIDE [in National Geographic Magazine, Vol. 120, No.4, 1961]
$20.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1961. October 1961. 445-592 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Contains article P. 445 to 489 with 40 colour photos by W. E. Garrett. Soft covers, pictorial front.. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
46949
WHITE, Rt. Rev. Gilbert
ROUND ABOUT THE TORRES STRAITS, A Record of Australian Church Mission
$40.00 AUD
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. London. 1925. 2nd edition of the 1917 original. VIII, 95 PP, plus 9 b/w plates. Fp: A Torres Straits village. Hard cover, illustrated front cover. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Light foxing and offsetting of endpapers, o/wise a very good clean copy. 18.7 x 12.7.
75401
WILLIAMSON, Robert W.
ESSAYS IN POLYNESIAN ETHNOLOGY
$35.00 AUD
Cooper Square Publishers, Inc. New York. 1975. New edition of the 1939 original. Preface by Ralph Piddington. XLII, 373 PP with 1 map, 7 tables, plus 1 large folded map and 10 plates with 11 b/w photos. Cloth cover, title on a black vignette on spine. Fine. 23.3 x 16. 0815405073
75448
WILPERT, Clara B.
SÜDSEE SOUVENIRS
$10.00 AUD
Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde. Hamburg. 1985. 1st Ed. No. 32, "Wegweiser zur Völkerkunde" series. 96 PP with 2 map on double page, 58 b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches, prints and photos) and 12 colour photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. German text. Fine. 19 x 12.5.
Guide.
75408
WOOD, A. H.
HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF TONGA
$20.00 AUD
Kalia Press / Friendly Islands Bookshop. Canberra / Nuku'Alofa. 1978. Reprint of the 1932 original. (9), 109 PP with tables and 12 b/w illustrations (7 maps, 1 family tree, 2 drawings and 2 portraits). Soft covers. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 17.3 x 12.
... with a sketch of their Mission History written for Young People.
73593
WOODBURN, M. Kathleen
NIUAFOOU / Tin Can Island - Tonga Islands (in Walkabout Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1946 Volume 13, No. 1, November 1946. Contains article P. 17 to 20 with b/w illustrations: 1 sketch map, 1 sketch and 3 photos and 4 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 30.5 x 24.
Atoll in the northern part of Tonga. Tin Can Island.. Other article: Scheelite (or Calcium Tungstate) from King Island.
74134
WRIGHT, O.D. & WHITE, E.L.D.
LONDON TO CALCUTTA 1938
$25.00 AUD
Little Hills Press Pty Ltd. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 128 PP with b/w illustrations: 4 maps, 10 entries of diaries & documents and 110 photos. Eps: map "London to Calcutta". Hard covers, dj. Fine. Oblong: 26.2 x 26.5. 9780949773807
A 3 month voyage in an old Morris motor car.
75450
YORK, Robert & Gigi
SLINGS & SLINGSTONES: The Forgotten Weapons of Oceania
$45.00 AUD
The Kent State University Press. Kent, Ohio. 2011. 1st Ed. XXIV, 190 PP with 2 tables, 15 maps and 72 figures. Cloth covers, dj. Fine (new condition). 23.5 x 16. 9781606351079
40902
ZAIDMAN, Pierre-Henri
Lucien Félix HENRY, Colonel de la Commune, condamné à mort et artiste Australien
$60.00 AUD
Editions du Baboune. Paris. 2000. 1st Ed. 90 PP with 8 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 29.5 x 20.7.
Lucien Henry: Colonel with the Commune of PARIS, 1871. Deported to New Caledonia in 1873. Amnesty in January 1879. Migrated to Australia, where he settled as an artist...
74051
ZALOGA, Steven J.
LIBERATION OF PARIS 1944 - Patton's race for the Seine
$20.00 AUD
Osprey Publishing Ltd. Oxford. 2010. 1st edition in "Battles of World War II" series (No 37). 96 PP with 75 b/w photos and 12 colour illustrations (1 photo, 3 plans of Paris, 3 maps of approaches to Paris and 5 paintings on double page by Howard Gerrard). Laminated boards, pictorial front. Fine. 25 x 19.5.
73623
ZERENBUQIU, Yang / (XUECHENG, Yang)
SCENERY OF JIUZHAIGOU VALLEY
$10.00 AUD
China Travel & Tourism Press. Beijing. 2002. 1st Ed. 96 PP with location map and map pf the valley in colour, and 126 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Text and captions of photographs in Chinese and English. Fine. 28.5 x 21. 9787503219948
Valley of Jiuzhaigou (World Natural Heritage - World Bio-Sphere Reserve), Sichuan Province.