57881 AALBERSBERG, William, NUNN, Patrick D. & RAVUVU, Asesela (editors) CLIMATE AND AGRICULTURE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: Future Perspectives
$15.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies. Suva. 1993. 1st Ed. X, 80 PP with 4 tables, 10 figures and 12 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 9820200830
33216 ABBOTT, J. H. M. PEEPS AT MANY LANDS : THE SOUTH SEAS (MELANESIA)
$45.00 AUD
Adam and Charles Black. London. 1910. Reprint of the 1908 original., in the "Peeps at Many Lands" series. VIII, 83, (10 publications) PP with 1 sketch-map, plus 12 colour plates. FEP: Crest of 36 countries. Cloth cover, colour vignette on front cover, gilt title on a sunned spine. Slight ageing of paper and light insect damage in gutter of front endpaper and frontispiece. Contents near fine. 19.8 x 14.
Norfolk Island. New Caledonia, the prison island. New Hebrides. Solomon Islands.
73343 ABBOTT, J. H. M. UN TOUR EN MELANESIE (Nouvelle Calédonie)
$45.00 AUD
Les Arts Graphiques, Editeurs. Vincennes. 1912. French edition in "Collection Contes et Nouvelles".of the 1908 English original. . Edition translated and adapted by Fergus MacGregor. 171, (2) PP with 1 sketch-map and 11 colour plates. Fp: Pagayant tranquillement... Cloth covers with light wear, colour vignette (rubbed) on front cover, decoration and title on front board and spine, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Ageing and foxing of paper. Gilt of top edge dulled. Faint signature and date at top inside of front cover. Contents near fine. French text. 21.3 x 15.8.
Norfolk Island. New Caledonia, the prison island. New Hebrides. Solomon Islands. Wallis & Futuna.
70745 ABEND, Hallett PACIFIC CHARTER
$25.00 AUD
John Lane the Bodley Head. London. 1943. 1st Ed. (6), 183 PP. FEP: Map of the Pacific Ocean. Cloth cover. Stamp and number on front endpaper. Note on verso of FEP. War economy paper. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 20.5 x 13.5.
57920 ACQUAYE, Ben & CROCOMBE, Ron (editors) LAND TENURE AND RURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1984. 1st Ed. VII, 218 PP with 4 maps, tables & plans in text. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.5 x 15.
Common themes, particular problems of land tenure in various island nations and the different approaches to their solutions.
12026 ADAMS, Henri LETTRES DES MERS DU SUD, Traduites de l'Américain avec des Notes et une Introduction par Evelyne de Chazeau
$40.00 AUD
Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1974. Publication No. 34, translated from the American, annotated and introduced by Evelyne De Chazeaux. XXXII, 446 PP, plus 1 folded map, 4 colour plates on full page, and 24 pages with 33 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, and first and last leaves. Very good. French text. 25 x 16.4.
Sixty-six letters written by this American historian while travelling the Pacific in 1890-91 with his friend, the painter John La Farge (many of the illustrations are by this painter).
65236 ADAMS, Henri LETTRES DES MERS DU SUD, Traduites de l'Américain avec des Notes et une Introduction par Evelyne de Chazeau
$35.00 AUD
Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1974. Publication No. 34, translated from the American, annotated and introduced by Evelyne De Chazeaux. XXXII, 446 PP, plus 1 folded map, 4 colour plates on full page, and 24 pages with 33 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, dj. Many pages uncut. Dust jacket rubbed. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. French text. 25 x 16.4.
Sixty-six letters written by this American historian while travelling the Pacific in 1890-91 with his friend, the painter John La Farge (many of the illustrations are by this painter).
49242 ADKINS, Lesley & Roy ABANDONED PLACES
$10.00 AUD
New Burlington Books. London. 1990. 1st Ed. 127 PP with b/w and colour photos. Eps: world map of the abandoned places. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 28.5 x 22. 1853482625
Power of the Elements, Social Strife, Disaster, Market Forces, Changing Landscapes, Abandonment Today, ...
64109 AGASSIZ, Alexander THE CORAL REEFS OF THE TROPICAL PACIFIC - Plates II, 106 to 199: Niue to Ladrones
$100.00 AUD
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge. 1903. February 1903 edition. No. IV of Volume XXVIII "Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College", Plates No. II. (6), no pagination, 376 PP with 94 b/w plates, each with protecting page and caption. Rebacked copy, soft cover with photocopy of title page pasted down on front cover. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 29 x 20.5.
Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" from August 1899 to March 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser, U.S.N., commanding.
64110 AGASSIZ, Alexander THE CORAL REEFS OF THE TROPICAL PACIFIC - Plates III, 200 to 236: Charts and 2 colored plates
$100.00 AUD
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge. 1903. February 1903 edition. No. IV of Volume XXVIII "Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College", Plates No. II. (6), no pagination, 144 PP with 34 b/w plates of charts (22 of them folded), and 2 colour plates (Bora Bora & Pinaki), each with protecting page and caption. Rebacked copy, soft cover with photocopy of title page pasted down on front cover. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 29 x 20.5.
Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" from August 1899 to March 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser, U.S.N., commanding.
13267 AIDAB COOPERATION, Australia's International Aid Program 1990-92
$15.00 AUD
AIDAB (Australian International Development Assistance Bureau). Canberra. 1992. 3rd edition of the 1989 original. Introduction by John Kerin, M.P. (4), 92 PP with 3 diagrams, 6 tables, 12 maps, 1 b/w and 82 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Front cover lightly soiled and with crease. Very good. 29.7 x 21. 0644088990
Australia's aid to Papua New Guinea, the South Pacific, South East Asia, China, South Asia and the Indian Ocean, Africa and the Middle East.
59433 AIDAB AUSTRALIA AND VANUATU DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION - Country Strategy Paper
$10.00 AUD
AIDAB / Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. 1994. January 1994 edition. (2), 10 PP with 1 map, 2 graphs and 1 table. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24.8 x 17.7. 0642199094
AIDAB strategy for development cooperation with Vanuatu for the period 1992/93 - 1996/97.
59442 AIDAB AUSTRALIA'S OVERSEAS AID PROGRAM: Helping Australian Industry Too
$5.00 AUD
AIDAB / Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. 1990. March 1990 edition. International Development Issues No. 10. VI, 22 PP with 2 graphs and 3 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24.8 x 17.7. 0644119381
60139 AIDAB INDIGENOUS PEOPLES / AIDAB
$10.00 AUD
AIDAB / Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. c. 1993. 1st Ed. 20 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 21. 0644272724
Published for the 1993 "International Year of the World's Indigenous Peoples"
47871 AINSWORTH, Neil NAURU: Pacific Island of Contradictions (in Qantas Airways)
$10.00 AUD
Qantas Airways Ltd. Sydney. 1970. Vol. 36, No. 6, June 1970. 20 PP. Contains article from P. 1 to 3 with 3 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
73231 AL WARDI, Sémir TAHITI NUI, ou les Dérives de l' Autonomie
$20.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2008. 1st edition, No. 5 in "Collection Portes Oceanes". 263, (3) PP. Card cover. Fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5. 9782296050327
Problems created by a status of autonomy granted (reluctantly?) to French Polynesia by France's Government.
12964 ALDRICH, Robert THE FRENCH VIEW OF THE PACIFIC: A Critique of Geopolitical Analysis
$20.00 AUD
Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. RIAP Occasional Paper No.3. (2), 14 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing spots. Near fine. 29.5 x 20.8. 0947315020
Trying to explain French political meddling and / or civilization efforts in the South Pacific.
13676 ALDRICH, Robert & CONNELL, John FRANCE'S OVERSEAS FRONTIER, Départements et Territoires d'Outre-Mer
$40.00 AUD
C.U.P. Cambridge. 1992. 1st Ed. X, 358 PP with 12 maps & 4 tables in text. Hard cover, gilt-engraved spine, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 16. 0521390613
A survey of ten French outposts (Confetti of Empire), with one common link: France.
13677 ALDRICH, Robert (Editor) FRANCE: POLITICS, SOCIETY, CULTURE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
$10.00 AUD
University of Sydney. Sydney. 1990. VII, (2), 209 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25 x 17.2. 086758503X
16 papers from the 7th George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilisation, held at the University of Sydney, 21-23 July, 1990. 14 papers in English. 2 papers in French.
63826 ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY THE TURNBULL LIBRARY RECORD - Volume 39
$15.00 AUD
Alexander Turnbull Library. Wellington. 2006. Vol. 39, 2006. 120 PP with b/w illustrations. Card covers, pictorial front. Fine. 24.5 x 17.5.
63827 ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY TURNBULL LIBRARY RECORD 2008 - Volume 41
$15.00 AUD
Alexander Turnbull Library. Wellington. 2008. Vol. 41, 2008. 126 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Card covers, pictorial front. Fine. 24.5 x 17.5.
Commemorative Issue: 400 years since birth of John Milton. 140 years since birth of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull. 90 years since Turnbull's death.
63828 ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY TURNBULL LIBRARY RECORD 2009 - Volume 42
$15.00 AUD
Alexander Turnbull Library. Wellington. 2009. Vol. 42, 2009. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Card covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 24.5 x 17.5.
71794 ALEXANDER, Gilchrist FROM THE MIDDLE TEMPLE TO THE SOUTH SEAS
$60.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1927. 1st Ed. XIV, 288, (2 adv.) PP with 1 map and 1 cartoon, plus 20 plates with 24 b/w photos. Fp: A New Hebrides Pagan. Cloth cover, gilt title on lightly sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges and some pages, o/wise a very good copy. 22.4 x 15.2.
An English barrister's experience in Fiji with shipwreck and piracy on Apemana, experience in the New Hebrides with blackbirding cases, then Solomon Islands after WWI.
40179 ALEXANDER, John H. HISTORIC WELLINGTON
$15.00 AUD
A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1959. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 46 illustrations by the author. Inside front cover: St Joseph's Providence, Sisters of Mercy Convent, Guilford Terrace. Inside back cover: Chair made from John Plimmer's Noah's Ark. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 22.7 x 16.5.
33514 ALI, Ahmed & CROCOMBE, Ron (editors) POLITICS IN MELANESIA
$25.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1982. 1st Ed. XII, 170 PP with 8 maps and 48 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Light foxing. Very good. 22 x 15.
Irian Jaya: reluctant colony, by Peter Savage. Papua New Guinea: Aftermath of colonialism, by Stephen P. Pokawin. Solomon Islands: Uniting the diversity, by Francis Saemala. Vanuatu: Overcoming Pandemonium, by Grace Molissa. New Caledonia: Confrontation to colonial rule, by Yann Céléné Uregei. Fiji: The Politics of a Plural Society, by Ahmed Ali.
33515 ALI, Ahmed & CROCOMBE, Ron (editors) POLITICS IN MELANESIA
$20.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1982. Paperback edition. XII, 170 PP with 8 maps and 48 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7.
Irian Jaya: reluctant colony, by Peter Savage. Papua New Guinea: Aftermath of colonialism, by Stephen P. Pokawin. Solomon Islands: Uniting the diversity, by Francis Saemala. Vanuatu: Overcoming Pandemonium, by Grace Molissa. New Caledonia: Confrontation to colonial rule, by Yann Céléné Uregei. Fiji: The Politics of a Plural Society, by Ahmed Ali.
35075 ALIBERT, Pierre B. (editor) 100 RECETTES AU COCO
$25.00 AUD
Orphie. Paris. 1997. 1st Ed., in the Collection 100 series. 118 PP with over 45 colour photos. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. French text. 23 x 16.2. 2877630331
100 recipes prepared with coconut milk or nut: Drinks, entrées, fishes and crustaceans, meat and desserts.
72406 ALLEN, J., GOLSON, J. & JONES, R. (editors) SUNDA AND SAHUL - Prehistoric Studies in Southeast Asia, Melanesia and Australia
$150.00 AUD
Academic Press. London. 1977. 1st Ed. (XII), 647 PP with tables, figures and b/w photos. Fp: Sketch map of Sunda and Sahul. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). A 7 pages article " The remarkable history of Indo-Pacific Man...", by Jack Golson, extracted from "Search", Vol 3, No. 1-2 Jan-Feb 1972, loosely inserted. Some pencil underlining in 6 of the articles. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. 23.5 x 15.5. 0120512505
19 papers presented at the 13th Pan Pacific Science Congress in Vancouver, 1975.
12937 ALLEN, M.R. MALE CULTS AND SECRET INITIATIONS IN MELANESIA
$25.00 AUD
M.U.P. Melbourne. 1967. 1st Ed. IX, 140 PP with 2 figures, 3 tables & 3 maps in text. Cloth cover, dj (lightly chipped). Very good. 22.2 x 14.5.
The reasons for rituals in different societies with accounts of the relevants customs in Papua New Guinea, the Solomons and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu).
75578 ALVES, Dora THE MAORI AND THE CROWN - An Indigenous People's Struggle for Self-Determination
$35.00 AUD
Greenwood Press. Westport, Connecticut. 1999. 1st edition. No. 68 in the "Contribution to the Study of World History" series. Foreword by Paul Cleveland. XX, 179, (5) PP, plus 12 pages with b/w illustrations: 2 maps and 10 photos. Cloth covers, title on front cover and spine. Fine. 21.6 x 14.5. 0313310580
72976 ALVES, Dora (editor) EVOLVING PACIFIC BASIN STRATEGIES - The 10th Pacific Symposium, 1989
$25.00 AUD
National Defence University Press. Washington. 1990. First printing in July 1990. XVI, 344, (4) PP with 1 map and 2 tables. Pictorial stiff covers. Faint remnants of a stamp on ffep, o/wise near fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 1579060625
21 papers presented. 3 papers on China, including: The Sino-Soviet détente and its implication for the West, by Dr Donald S. Zagoria ... 4 papers on Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific.
11816 AMADIO, Nadine PACIFICA - Myth, Magic and Traditional Wisdom from the South Sea Islands
$10.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1993. 1st Ed. 160 PP with colour illust. Title Page: Ceremony in Vanuatu. Fp: Outrigger canoe of Kiribati. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. Fine. 28.8 x 21.4. 0207183163
Struggle of the Pacific people to preserve and renew their traditional past.
72425 AMBESI, Alberto Cesare OCEANIC ART
$25.00 AUD
Hamlyn. London. 1970. 1st English edition in the Cameo series. Translated by Rachel Montgomery from the 1966 Italian original "Arte dell'Oceania". 160 PP with 1 map and 71 colour plates. Hard covers a little soiled, gilt title on a lightly sunned spine. Faint foxing. Contents near fine. 19.4 x 13.7. 600367029
The 71 colour plates depicting the drama and mystery which is the essence of Oceanic art.
57075 ANDREWARTHA, Barry & STONE, Peter (editors) SKINDIVING IN AUSTRALIA & THE SOUTH PACIFIC, 12/4
$15.00 AUD
Australian Sports Publications. Melbourne. c. 1982. Vol. 12, No. 4, Issue for October/November 1982. 96 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Very good. 27.2 x 20.4. 0868950017
Special "Dive Papua New Guinea": Milne Bay, Rabaul, Port Moresby, with Bob Halstead... Ron and Valerie Taylor Diary. Diving in Bali, by John H. Harding.
45317 ANGLEVIEL, F., CHARLEUX, M. COPPELL, W. G. & DOUMENGE, J.-P. LE PACIFIQUE SUD, bibliographie des thèses et mémoires / THE SOUTH PACIFIC, a bibliography of the theses and dissertations
$35.00 AUD
Centre de Recherche sur les Espaces Tropicaux. Bordeaux. 1991. 1st Ed., No. 13 in Collection Iles et Archipels. (12), 276 PP, plus a 2 pages glossary (French / English) loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 16. 290508117
2976 works. No. 1 by Daniel Aaron: The role of Church in liberation and development, with special reference to the New Hebrides .... No. 2976 by Steven Howard Zucherman: Incorporating the world system: culture and historical transformation among the Kamano of Papua New Guinea.
13468 ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric (editor) PAROLE, COMMUNICATION ET SYMBOLE EN OCEANIE
$25.00 AUD
L'Harmattan & C.O.R.A.I.L. Paris. 1995. 1st Ed. 381 PP with 2 maps, 8 tables and 26 figures. Pictorial soft cover. French text (with English abstract for the 17 papers). Near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2738439063
17 papers presented at the 7th seminar of C.O.R.A.I.L. on: Sayings, Speech and Symbolism in Oceania.
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2004. 1st Ed., in the IMOA (Institut des Mondes Océaniens et Australiens) series. 234 PP with 2 tables. Pictorial soft cover. French text (with English and French abstracts). Fine. 21.6 x 13.6. 274757072X
10 texts presented during the 2001-2002 seminar Identity, Orality in the Insular Pacific: Violence and Custom in Melanesia, by Darrell Tryon. Colonial violences in Hawai'i, by David Chappell ...
70708 ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric (editor) BIBLIOGRAPHIE DU PACIFIQUE - Livres et Thèses
$50.00 AUD
CTRDP / Centre Territorial de Recherche et Documentation Pédagogioques. Nouméa. 1994. 1st edition, July 1994. (6), 127, (11), 31 PP. Soft covers, illustrated front cover. Near fine. Oblong: 20.8 x 29.5.
Books: 127 pages. Theses: 31 pages.
73325 ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric & ABONG, Marcellin (editors) LA MELANESIE, Actualités et études: Foncier et Développement durable: Tome 2, Année 2014
$50.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2014. 1st edition, No. 26 in "Collection Portes Oceanes". 416, (2) PP. Stiff covers, illustrated front. French text. Fine. 23.7 x 15.2. 9782343037189
57281 ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric, DUGAST, Stephane, HUETZ DE LEMPS, Christian ... ILES FUNESTES, ILES BIENHEUREUSES (in Chemins d'étoiles)
$40.00 AUD
Transboréal. Paris. 2004. Issue No. 12, August 2004. 269, (3) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 2913955264
Clipperton, by Stéphane Dugast. Kerguelen, by Christophe Houdaille. Vanuatu, by Virginie Lanouguère-Bruneau. ...
11972 ARCHEY, Gilbert SOUTH SEA FOLK - Handbook of Maori and Oceanic Ethnology
$10.00 AUD
Auckland War Memorial Museum. Auckland. 1949. 2nd edition. 71 PP with 1 map and 184 b/w illustrations, plus 12 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover, staples. Covers lightly soiled. Occasional foxing. Very good. 24.5 x 18.7.
A study of the Maori and Moriori as well as the islanders from Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia.
65756 ARMSTRONG, Anne (editor) THE ISLAND ARK - Operation New Life on Guam, USA
$20.00 AUD
Marianas Naval Officers Wives Club. Agana, Guam. 1975. 1st Ed. 64 PP with over 120 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (Vietnamese refugees on one of the "Sealift" transport). Slight insect damage on front cover, o/wise near fine. 26.6 x 20.2.
Vietnamese refugees arriving on Guam: Airlift and Sealift. Settlement, life in camps, processing and departure for mailand USA.
12127 ARNELL, David & WOLK, Lisette (editors) VISIONS OF THE PACIFIC
$50.00 AUD
Ministry of Cultural Development. Rarotonga, Cook Islands. 1993. 1st Ed. 216 PP profusely illustrated with colour photos & 1 full-page map in text. Title Page: Prow of a canoe. Hard cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Occasional foxing (faint), o/wise fine. 31 x 25.6. 9822200129
Life in the Cook Islands (traditional skills, customs) in the late 1980's and contemporary issues. The 6th Festival of Pacific Arts held in Rarotonga in 1992 where 25 Island Nations, States or Territories were represented.
57363 ARNOLD, Caroline EASTER ISLAND: Giant Stone Statues tell of a Rich and Tragic Past
$10.00 AUD
Clarion Books. New York. 2004. 1st paperback edition of the 2000 original. 48 PP with colour illustrations (1 map and 51 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 20.3. 0618486054
71200 ARNOUX, Serge & PONS, Patrick PACIFIQUE ou BELLIQUEUX - Nouvelles du Grand Océan
$60.00 AUD
Patrick Pons. Papeete. 2013. 1st Ed. 203, (1) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. French text. Fine. 21 x 15. 9782917271179
24 short stories. Clipperton Island. Galapagos archipelago and Floreana Island. Tuamotus & Faaite, Marquesas Islands ... New Caledonia. WWI & WWII.
45023 ASHCRAFT, Tami Oldham & McGEARHART, Susea RED SKY IN MOURNING - The true story of a woman's courage and survival at sea
$15.00 AUD
Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster. London. 2003. 1st paperback of the 2002 edition by Simon & Schuster (original privately published in 1998). VIII, 232 PP with 11 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 17.8 x 11. 0743415892
Delivery voyage in 1983, of the yacht Hazana, from Papeete to San Diego, and cyclone Raymond.
57605 ASIA/AUSTRALIA HEMISPHERE ANNUAL - IV
$25.00 AUD
A.G.P.S. Canberra. 1983. The six bi-monthly issues of Hemisphere "An Asian-Australian" magazine, published from July-August 1982 to May-June 1983. Edited by Kenneth Russell HENDERSON. (8), 384 PP, (8 index) with b/w and colour illustrations. Fine. 29.3 x 20.6.
A John Bull in a China shop, by O. H. K. Spate. ... Wandering Continents and their Animals ...
57805 ASIA/PACIFIC ON WHAT TERMS? - Australia's future in the Asia/Pacific Region
$40.00 AUD
Australian Council For Overseas Aid / ACFOA. Canberra. 1978. Special folder, containing 14 papers in their wrappers: a total of 113 PP. Staples of each papers removed. Near fine. 24/6 x 18..
Papers delivered at the ACFOA Tasmanian Summer School, held at the University of Hobart 20-25 January 1978. Opening address by Bruce Grant. ... Education for a Multi Cultural Australia, by the Honourable Al Grassby. ... Uranium mining: the impact on Aboriginal Lifestyles, by Marcia Langton. ...
62593 ATKINS, KROLL MAP OF MICRONESIA - Central Pacific
$20.00 AUD
Atkins, Kroll, Inc. Agana, Guam. c. 1990. Colour map of the Central part of the Western Pacific, with illustrations and 9 windows (information and sketch maps of Islands States or Territories). Fine. Oblong: 73 x 96.5
Micronesia: Federated States of Micronesia (Kosrae, Ponape, Truk & Yap) - Republic of Belau - Republic of Nauru - Republic of the Marshall Islands - Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas - Territory of Guam - Kiribati (Gilberts).
58566 ATTWOOD, Harold & HOME, R. W. (editors) PATIENTS, PRACTITIONERS AND TECHNIQUES - Second National Conference on Medicine and Health in Australia, 1984
$15.00 AUD
Medical History Society, AMA (Victorian Branch) & Medical History Unit, University of Melbourne. Melbourne. 1985. 1st Ed. XII, 227 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8 0868396427 & 0949535214
16 papers and 7 abstracts. ... A Dead Whale or a Stove Boat, by Mervyn D. Cobcroft. ... Papua New Guinea's Barefoot Doctors, by Anthony J. Radford. ...
38620 AUPLAT, Elisabeth PAROLES OCEANIENNES / PACIFIC VOICES: VIIIe Festival des Arts du Pacifique (23 Octobre - 3 Novembre 2000)
$30.00 AUD
COFAP / Comité Organisateur du Festival des Arts du Pacifique. Nouméa. 2000. 1st Ed. 60, (14 adv.) PP with 1 map and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. French and English text. Fine. 27 x 27.
8th Festival of Pacific Arts, on the themes: Pacific Cultures on the move together. Presentation of the 24 participating countries (Aoteroa, Australia, Cook, Kiribati, Norfolk... Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna).
59437 AusAid THE SOUTH PACIFIC: Finance, Development and the Private Sector
$10.00 AUD
AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 1997. July 1997 edition. International Development Issues No. 48. Edited by Michael T. SKULLY. XII, 169 PP with 1 map and 26 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24.8 x 17.7. 0642220336
59458 AusAid PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Improving the Investment Climate
$10.00 AUD
AusAid / Australian Agency for International Development. Canberra. 1995. November 1995 edition. International Development Issues No. 39. Edited by Ron DUNCAN, Bob WARNER.... IX, 156 PP with 1 map, 17 graphs and 32 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24.8 x 17.7. 0642220077
72424 The AUSTRALIAN COMMAND OF THE SKIES - Commemorating the Centenary of the RAAF / Royal Australian Air Force (in The Australian Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
Nationwide News Ltd / The Australian. Sydney. 2021. Issue of 31st March 2021. Edited by Steve Waterson. Foreword by Mel Hupfiels, Chief of Air Force. 64 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Newspaper clipping "Flying confidently into next century", loosely inserted. Fine. 27.5 x 23.
A century of Service... Posters, appeals to the heart. ... Regional responsability, by Mark Lax.
59452 AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHERS AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES - Journal of the Institute of Australian Geographers: Volume 25, No. 2
$15.00 AUD
Department of Geography and Planning, University of New England. Armidale, NSW. 1987. Vol. 25, No. 2, October 1987. Edited by Dr. J.E. HOBBS. 154 PP with b/w illustrations (graphs, maps, photos). Soft cover. Fine. 24.2 x 17.5..
Bank erosion in the Bellinger Valley. "Trouble in Paradise": the perception of New Caledonia, in the Australian Press, by John Connell.
66495 AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 11th Biennal National Conference : CROSSING BOUNDARIES
$30.00 AUD
Australian Historical Association. Brisbane. 2002. June 2002 edition. 28 PP (recto only) and 76 PP (recto and verso). Soft cover, illustrated front, spiral bound. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Conference held at Brisbane: 3-7 July 2002. Program: 14 pages. Who's Where at the Conference: 9 pages . Abstracts of 190 papers presented: 76 pages.
71387 AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL THE GREAT WAR - 1918: The Final Year (in Wartime - Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, issue 82)
$10.00 AUD
Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 2018. Issue No. 82, Autumn 2018. Edited by Andrew McDonald. 72 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
1918: the Final Year of WWI. Saving Amiens, by Peter Burness. The inner Monash, by Peter Pedersen. ... The last roll of the Dice German spring offensives of 1918), by Steven R. Welch.
72046 AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL THE HOT COLD WAR (in Wartime - Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, issue 92)
$10.00 AUD
Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 2020. Issue No. 92, Spring 2020. Edited by Andrew McDonald. 72 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
The Cold War Bomber: Canberra, by Craig Blanch. The Crazy Australian: Hue and the Tet Offensive, by Michael Kelly. Road to Dien Bien Phu, by Craig Tibbitts. The Malayan Emergency, by Brian P. Farrell. Vietnam Moratorium, by Hannah Viney. Choi Yung Kil's Korean War, by Elise Horspool. ...
72423 AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL 100 YEARS OF THE RAAF / Royal Australian Air Force (in Wartime - Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial, issue 93)
$10.00 AUD
Australian War Memorial. Canberra. 2021. Issue No. 93, Summer 2021. Edited by Andrew McDonald & Reflections by Matt Anderson, Director. 72 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Australians in Bomber Command, by Lachlan Grant. The RAAF at Milne Bay, by Shane Casey. Resilience in the Sands (of North Africa), by Nicholas Dickie. The Great War in the air, by Michael Molkentin. Playing their Part (WAAAF / Women Auxiliary Australian Air Force), by Kerry Neale. ... Today's Air Force, by Martin James.
73532 BABADZAN, Alain, BELLEC, François, BOULAY, Roger... OCEANIE - La Découverte du Paradis: Curieux, Navigateurs et Savants
$100.00 AUD
Somogy & Association des Conservateurs des Musées du Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Paris. 1997. 1st Ed. 252 PP with 1 map of the Pacific Ocean and over 200 bw & colour photos. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Copy pages 197-212 misbound (not stitched) but present. Near fine. French text. 28.8 x 25.5. 2850562742
Book published at the time of a 1997 exhibition "The discovery of Paradise by navigators, scientists and inquisitive voyagers", regrouping the little known artefacts found in the collections of many museums in the North of France. Beautifully illustrated.
20543 BADGER, Geoffrey THE EXPLORERS OF THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Kangaroo Press. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. 248 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 12 pages with 18 colour illustrations. Fp: Map of the Pacific. Eps: Mappe Monde. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 18.5. 0864172117
The story of hazard and adventure as the explorers found their way around the Pacific Ocean.
66104 BAERT, Annie MARQUISE DE LA MER DU SUD - Les premiers voyages espagnols en Océanie... racontés par l'une de leurs actrices, doña Isabel Barreto
$60.00 AUD
Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2011. 1st Ed. 286, (2) PP with tables and 3 maps. Pictorial stiff covers. Title page with dedicatory note signed by the author. French text. Fine. 22.6 x 14.5. 9782915654851
Editions Scala. Paris. 2007. 1st edition in Collection Tableaux Choisis. 128 PP with 2 maps, 11 location maps, b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 20.5 x 16.5. 9781866563905
Outrigger canoes... Tapa... Serpent Arc-en-Ciel à cornes (Rainbow Snake), by John Mawurndjul.
30590 BAILEY, Eric THE CHRISTMAS ISLAND STORY
$15.00 AUD
Stacey International & The Gilbert Islands Government. London. 1977. "Captain James Cook Bicentennial Edition 1777-1877". 88 PP & XVI PP with b/w colour illust. with 2 charts. FEP: Map of Christmas Is. REP: The Pacific setting of Christmas Island. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 22 x 15. 0905743083
Discovered by Capt. Cook on Christmas Eve, tells of its history for the following 200 years: whalers, guano, copra, atomic tests,...
21293 BAIN, Kenneth THE FRIENDLY ISLANDERS - A Story of Queen Salote and Her People
$10.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1967. 2nd impression. 207 PP with 5 facsimiles of documents, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Eps: Maps of Tongan Archipelago. Hard cover (tapa design), dj (price clipped). Signed inscription by Captain Brett Hilder. Some foxing. Very good. 22.2 x 14.2. 0340025603
A portrait/description of the Kingdom of Tonga by the former Secretary of Queen Salote. Chapter 8 Whale of a Time.
60191 BAMFORD, G. N. TRAINING THE MAJORITY - Guidelines for the Rural Pacific
$10.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1986. 1st Ed. XVIII, 133 PP with 1 map, 1 organigram, 11 tables, 4 colour and 20 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5.
33184 BARCLAY, Glen A HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC, from the Stone Age to the present day
$15.00 AUD
Sidgwick & Jackson. London. 1978. 1st Ed. (8), 264 PP with 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 39 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Ex library copy with 2 stamps on verso of title page, and renewed endpapers, o/wise very good. 24 x 15.8. 02839843841
33314 BARCLAY, Glen A HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC, from the Stone Age to the present day
$5.00 AUD
Futura Publications. London. 1979. Paperback edition of the 1978 original. 320 PP, plus 8 pages with 17 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing. Good. 17.6 x 10.5. 0708816274
48538 BARKER, Lady Mary Anne UNE FEMME DU MONDE A LA NOUVELLE-ZELANDE
$30.00 AUD
L' Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed., in Collection Fac-Similés Océaniens. Reprint of the 1886 French original, introduced and annotated by Frédéric Angleviel. (8), XII, 290, (14) PP with 1 b/w photo and 1 endpiece. Soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747581861
Station Life in New Zealand (published in 1870 in London).
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.
72718 BARR, Jim and Mary THE SOUTHERN CROSS FLIES AGAIN
$20.00 AUD
ANZ Banking Group (New Zealand) Ltd. Wellington. 1990. 1st Ed. 24 PP with 18 b/w illustrations: 1 adverisement, 2 cartoons and 15 photos. Soft covers, iluustrated front, staples. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 21.2 x 14.5. 0472009064
Trans Pacific Flight: Oakland, California (31st May 1928) - Honolulu, Hawaii - Suva, Fiji - Brisbane, Queensland - then Sydney (10th June 1928)..
57622 BARRATT, Glynn RUSSIA IN PACIFIC WATERS 1715-1825, A Survey of the Origins of Russia's Naval Presence in the North and South Pacific
$75.00 AUD
University of British Colombia Press. Vancouver. 1981. 1st Ed. XVIII, 300 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 12 pages with 23 b/w plates. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on top outside edge. Fine. 22.7 x 15. 0774801174
34063 BARRAU, Jacques SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE IN MELANESIA
$45.00 AUD
Bernice P. Bishop Museum. Hawaii. 1958. 1st Ed. Bulletin 219. (4), 111 PP with 7 tables and 34 figures (including 17 b/w photos). Soft cover. Top of book with a light bump and small tear at top of spine, foxing on first and last leaves, o/wise very good. 25.7 x 17.6.
11688 BARRETT, Charles THE ISLAND WORLD - An Anthology of the Pacific
$15.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1944. 1st Ed. 185 PP with 16 line drawings, plus 8 pages with 6 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): Red Bird of Paradise. Cloth cover, dj with a few chips. War economy paper. Name of previous owners on front endpaper, o/wise very good. 19 x 12.5.
An anthology of the Pacific, dedicated to the men of the fighting services: Australians, New Zealanders & Americans in the Pacific zone.
57857 BARRETT, Charles THE ISLAND WORLD - An Anthology of the Pacific
$5.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1944. 1st Ed. 185 PP with 16 line drawings, plus 8 pages with 6 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): Red Bird of Paradise. Cloth cover. War economy paper. Near fine. Image showss title-page and Frontispiece. 19 x 12.5.
An anthology of the Pacific, dedicated to the men of the fighting services: Australians, New Zealanders & Americans in the Pacific zone.
33391 BARRETT, Charles (editor) THE ISLAND WORLD - An Anthology of the Pacific
$5.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1944. 1st Ed. 185 PP with 16 line drawings, plus 8 pages with 6 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): Red Bird of Paradise. Cloth cover. War economy paper, renewed endpapers. Near fine. Image shows title-page and Frontispiece. 19 x 12.5.
56205 BATEMAN, Sam (editor) MARITIME COOPERATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: Current Situation and Prospects
$20.00 AUD
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. Canberra. 1999. 1st Ed. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 132. XXII, 193 PP with 2 maps and 3 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 14.5. 0731527593
Papers presented at the 5th meeting of the working group held in Kuala Lumpur, 17 & 18 november 1998.
56206 BATEMAN, Sam and BATES, Stephen (editors) REGIONAL MARITIME MANAGEMENT & SECURITY
$20.00 AUD
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. Canberra. 1998. 1st Ed. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 124. XXIV, 209 PP with 3 maps and 4 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 14.5. 0731527305
Papers presented at the 3rd meeting of the working group held in Bangkok, 30 May - 1 June 1997.
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.
53150 BAUER, Peter, SIWATIBAU, Savenaca & KASPER, Wolfgang AID AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
The Centre for Independent Studies. Sydney. 1991. 1st Ed. No. 2 in the Pacific Papers series. Foreword by Jeff Bennett. X, 101, ( 6 blank), (3 publications) PP with 6 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 0949769622
62286 BEAGLEHOLE, J. C. THE DISCOVERY OF NEW ZEALAND
$35.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. London. 1961. 2nd edition of the 1939 original. XII, 102 PP, plus 7 b/w plates, & 1 folded chart at back. Fp: Portrait of James Cook. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (protected). Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 22.3 x 14.5.
The successive stages of the discovery of New Zealand.
56357 BEARDSLEY, Charles GUAM PAST AND PRESENT
$5.00 AUD
Charles E. Tuttle. Tokyo. 1964. 1st printing. 262 PP with 15 b/w photos, plus 1 folded map. Eps: maps Isle de Guahan ou Isle St Jean. Cloth cover, device (outrigger canoe) on front board. Spine lightly sunned. Bookplate and note on verso of front endpaper. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
65661 BEARDSLEY, Charles GUAM PAST AND PRESENT
$10.00 AUD
Charles E. Tuttle. Tokyo. 1965. 2nd printing of the 1964 original. 262 PP with 15 b/w photos, plus 1 folded map. Eps: Maps Isle de Guahan ou Isle St Jean. Cloth cover, device (outrigger canoe) on front board. Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
51535 BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRE, C. F. CARTE DES ARCHIPELS DES ILES SALOMON, DE LA LOUISIADE ET DE LA NOUVELLE BRETAGNE, situés à l'Est de la Nouvelle Guinée
$500.00 AUD
Dépôt Général de la Marine. Paris. 1806. Original copper-engraved chart (Hyd. Fr. No. 608 - No. 21) showing the tracks of Bruny d'Entrecasteaux' s Frigates in 1792 and in 1793. Size of chart inside graduated border (Latitude and Longitude Méridien de l'Observatoire Impérial de Paris): 465 x 730 mm. Chart mounted on canvas buckram, laid paper with watermark Crown & Shield (AM on Shield) and name ARCHETTE. Coloured in outline with a very fine appearance. Very good condition. Size: 565 x 840 mm.
Chart of the Solomon Islands, the Louisiade and New Britain Archipelagoes, by C. F. Beautemps Beaupré, hydrographer with the Expedition led by Bruny d'Entrecasteaux in search for Lapérouse.
60904 BECKE, Louis BY REEF AND BY PALM and THE EBBING OF THE TIDE
$10.00 AUD
The Five Mile Press Pty Ltd. Melbourne. 2005. Ist edition in the Australian Classic Edition, with an introduction by Peter Pierce. 256 PP. Hard cover, simile vellum on boards, simile leather on spine. Colour vignette on front cover, ribbon page-marker. Near fine. 24 x 16. 1741244293
72583 BECKE, Louis THE EBBING OF THE TIDE - South Sea Stories
$70.00 AUD
T. Fisher Unwin. London. 1896. 1st Ed. (6), 292 PP. Green cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Spine with small parts worn and/or missing. Covers with marked patches. Occasional foxing and offsetting on endpapers. Gutter of front endpaper partly split, gutter of rear endpaper split. A good copy in need of rebacking. Image shows title page. 21 x 14.
21 stories.
56203 BEDFORD, Stuart, SAND, Christophe & CONNAUGHTON, Sean P. (editors) OCEANIC EXPLORATIONS: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement
$60.00 AUD
ANU E Press. Canberra. 2007. 1st Ed. Volume 26 in the Terra Australis series. X, 300 PP with tables and figures. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 29.6 x 21. 9781921313325
33399 BELL, Cora (editor) THE CHANGING PACIFIC: Four Case Studies
$20.00 AUD
Department of International Relations / ANU. Canberra. 1987. 1st Ed. No. 22 in Canberra Studies in World Affairs series. (4), 72 PP. Card cover. Fine. 20.7 x 14.7. 0731502752
Fiji today: the politics of frustration, by Theo Roy. New Caledonia: A disheartening prospect, by Philip Methven.
57768 BELL, Leonard COLONIAL CONSTRUCTS, European Images of Maori 1840-1914
$50.00 AUD
Auckland University Press. Auckland. 1992. 1st Ed. XVI, 291 PP with 150 b/w reproductions in text plus 8 colour plates. Gilt-engraved hard cover, dj. Rear endpaper with a crease. Signature of previous owner on title-page, o/wise fine. 25.8 x 20. 1869400623
The way Europeans represented Maoris in colonial New Zealand: cultural interchange between Europeans & non-Europeans, relationships between visual representation & colonialism.
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
15674 BELLWOOD, Peter MAN'S CONQUEST OF THE PACIFIC, The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania
$20.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. New York. 1979. 1st US edition of the 1978 original New Zealand edition. 462 PP with 251 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 27 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Very good. 26 x 19.5. 0195201035
49469 BELLWOOD, Peter MAN'S CONQUEST OF THE PACIFIC, Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania
$25.00 AUD
Collins. Auckland. 1978. 1st Edition. 462 PP with 251 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 27 colour photos. Cloth cover. Dust jacket tipped in on endpapers. Ingleton bookplate. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 26 x 19.5. 0002169118
57590 BELLWOOD, Peter MAN'S CONQUEST OF THE PACIFIC, The Prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania
$10.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. New York. 1979. 1st US edition of the 1978 original New Zealand edition. 462 PP with 251 b/w illustrations, plus 8 pages with 27 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Signs of water damage affecting dust jacket, covers, rear endpaper and a few pages including the 8 pages with colour photos (no losses). Top edge of back cover worn on 7 cms. Very good reading / working copy. 26 x 19.5. 0195201035
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 1991. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, No. 11 - 1991. (8), 411 PP with tables and figures. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on preliminary page, o/wise near fine. 25 x 17.
38 papers of the proceedings of the 14th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 26 August to 2 September 1991.
56193 BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, ALLEN, Jane... (Editorial Team) INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Melaka Papers - Volume 4
$45.00 AUD
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2000. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 20. (4), 170 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.
16 papers of the Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Melaka, Malaysia, 1-7 July 1998.
56194 BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, GLOVER, Ian... (Editorial Team) INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Melaka Papers - Volume 5
$45.00 AUD
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2001. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 21. (4), 169 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.
24 papers of the Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Melaka, Malaysia, 1-7 July 1998.
56195 BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, GLOVER, Ian... (Editorial Team) INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Melaka Papers - Volume 6
$45.00 AUD
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2002. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 22. (4), 180 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.
19 papers of the Proceedings of the 16th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Melaka, Malaysia, 1-7 July 1998.
56197 BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, KEATES, Susan ... (Editorial Team) INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Taipei Papers - Volume 2
$45.00 AUD
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2004. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association No. 24. (4), 168 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.
19 papers of the Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Taipei, Taiwan, 9 to 15 September 2002.
56196 BELLWOOD, Peter, BOWDERY, Doreen, PEARSON, Richard ... (Editorial Team) INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY: The Taipei Papers - Volume 1
$45.00 AUD
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association / A.N.U. Canberra. 2003. 1st Ed. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Volume 23. (4), 200 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos and drawings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.8.
20 papers of the Proceedings of the 17th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, Taipei, Taiwan, 9 to 15 September 2002.
59601 BELSHAW, Cyril TRADITIONAL EXCHANGE AND MODERN MARKETS
$5.00 AUD
Prentice-Hall. Englewood Cliffs, NJ. c. 1970. 5th printing of the 1965 original. Editorial foreword by Wilbert E. Moore & Neil S. Smelser. VIII, 149 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 23 x 15.3.
71325 BELSHAW, Cyril S. CHANGING MELANESIA, Social Economics of Culture Contact
$40.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1954. 1st Ed. X, 197 PP with 3 maps on full page (British Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, New Caledonia). Cloth cover, dj. Name of previous owner at top of front endpaper. Small chips at top of front cover of dust jacket. Faint foxing. Contents near fine. 22 x 14.5.
Concerns the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and the Solomon Islands.
33495 BENDURE, Glenda & FRIARY, Ned MICRONESIA - A travel survival kit
$25.00 AUD
Lonely Planet. Melbourne. 1992. 2nd edition of the 1988 original. 260, (4 adv.) PP with b/w illustrations (maps, plans and drawings), plus 12 pages with 35 colour photos. Title page: Mural, Guam. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 18.4 x 12.7. 086442115X
60058 BENET, François, Marie-Annick, Pascale ... LEON BENETT ILLUSTRATEUR - Lettres et Dessins Inédits
$55.00 AUD
A la Frontière. Lardy, France. 2011. 1st Ed. 318 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. French text. Fine (as new condition). 22.8 x 15.3. 9782918665014
French civil servant and administrator in the French colonies of Algeria, Cochinchina, Martinique and New Caledonia ... Illustrator of choice for books by Jules Verne, Elisée Reclus, Victor Hugo...
31948 BENSA, A. & RIVIERRE J.-C. (editors) LE PACIFIQUE: Un monde Epars - Introduction interdisciplinaire à l'étude de l'Océanie
$20.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1998. 1st Ed., in the Cahiers du Pacifique Sud Contemporain series. 214, (10 adv.) PP with tables, 3 maps and 4 figures. Pictorial card cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.6. 2738472516
The colonial history of the Pacific, by Isabelle Merle. Is there an Austronesian in the canoe?, by Daniel Frimigacci. Earth's empty quarter? The Pacific Islands in a Pacific century, by R. Gerard Ward (translated by Gilles Blanchet)...
73333 BERGER, Arthur WUNDERWELT DER SÜDSEE
$20.00 AUD
Buchergilde Gutenberg. Berlin. 1940. 1st edition. 168, (2) PP with 1 map at rear of book, plus 40 pages with 39 b/w photos. Hard cover, illustrated front board, cloth spine. Covers with light wear around edges and in a protective sleeve. German text, gothic script. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 23.8 x 17.
Wonderful world of the South Seas.
73331 BERNATZIK, Hugo Adolf SÜDSEE - EIN REISEBUCH
$30.00 AUD
Schlusselverlag Ges M.B.H. Innsbruck. 1949. New edition with a 1949 foreword by the author. 203, (2) PP with 4 maps, plus 88 pages with 114 b/w illustrations (6 sketches and 108 photos). Hard covers, cloth spine, top of the illustration on worn front board. Front cover of dust jacket tipped in on front endpaper. German text. Ageing and foxing of paper. Very good. 23 X16.
Voyage of the Austrian ethnologist to the Solomon Islands of Owa Raha and Choiseul (mention of the Malaita massacre, by HMAS Adelaide), to Papua New Guinea (travels on a Lakatoï), and to Bali.
48770 BEST, Elsdon MAORI STOREHOUSES AND KINDRED STRUCTURES. Houses, Platforms, Racks, and Pits used for storing food, etc.
$30.00 AUD
Government Printer. Wellington. 1974. Reprint of the 1916 original. Dominion Museum Bulletin No.5. XII, 116 PP with 4 b/w illustrations, 4 explanatory drawings, and 43 figures (most of them b/w photos). Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has a little wear. The first 20 pages have creases/ruffling, not affecting any text. An otherwise very good copy. 24.8 x 15.7.
71792 BEST, Elsdon MAORI STOREHOUSES AND KINDRED STRUCTURES. Houses, Platforms, Racks, and Pits used for storing food, etc.
$40.00 AUD
A.R. Shearer, Government Printer. Wellington. 1974. Reprint of the 1916 original. Dominion Museum Bulletin No.5. XII, 116 PP with 4 b/w illustrations, 4 explanatory drawings, and 43 figures (most of them b/w photos). Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24.8 x 15.7. 9780909010355
65468 BILLING, John THE CORNUBIA PADDLE STEAMER and the Common Seal of the City of Gladstone Queensland
$80.00 AUD
Magic Daffodil Studio Press. Port Keats, N.T. 1993. 1st edition limited to 500 copies, hand numbered (No. 100) & signed by author. (8), 32 PP with 5 full-page b/w draw. Hard cover, dj. Fine. Scarce. 25.2 x 17. 0646153692
This paddle steamer built for the coast of Cornwall, came to Australia & was owned by Ben Boyd. She ended in Aneytum, Southern Vanuatu, owned by Capt. James Paddon, whaler, sandalwood trader and then settler in New Caledonia.
32675 BINNEY, D. H. LONG LIVES THE KING
$15.00 AUD
Heinemann. Auckland. 1985. 1st Ed. (6), 111 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14.2. 0868636916
Novel set in the South Pacific of the 1830s. The life of Grand Duke Georges de la Roche, self-styled King of Tavuora.
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"...
62135 BLOCH, Hannah EASTER ISLAND QUEST - Archaeologists and natives seek to solve the riddle of how the statues moved (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2012. Vol. 222, No. 1, July 2012. Contains article between P.30 and 49 with 14 colour illustrations (1 location map, 1 map, 1 artwork, and 8 photos by Randy Olson). Pictorial soft cover. New. 25.4 x 17.5.
13049 BOLABOLA, Cema, KENNETH, D. et al. LAND RIGHTS OF PACIFIC WOMEN
$15.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1986 1st Ed. VIII, 128 PP with 4 figures, 12 tables & 19 b/w photos. Card covers, pictorial front. Fine. 20.7 x 14.8. 9820200121
Five articles by various authors on women's land rights issues in Fiji, Vanuatu, Tonga, Western Samoa and the Cook Islands.
57739 BONATO, J. A., HEADRIDGE, J. B. & MORRISON, R. J. (editors) CHEMISTRY SERVES THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1987. 1st Ed. X, 199 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 9820200148
Processing of Nickel Ore, by J. Policisto and O. Jullien ... Processing of Phosphate Rock, by D. R. Lauder ...
65044 BOOTH, Robert THE TWO SAMOAS STILL COMING OF AGE (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1985. Volume 168, No. 4, October 1985. Contains article between pages 452 and 473 with colour illustrations (1 location map, 1 map with National Flags, and 17 colour photos by Melinda Berge. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly rubbed. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
42493 BORDEN, Charles A. SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
$20.00 AUD
Robert Hale. London. 1963. 1st UK edition of the 1961 US original. 192 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 12 pages with 21 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise a fine copy. 22.3 x 14.2
A broad general picture of the South Seas in the late 1950's: changes, conflict and problems. The US T.T.P.I., French Oceania, Fiji, Tonga & British Pacific islands, the Australian Territory of Papua & New Guinea, American Polynesia, Western Samoa and the New Zealand dependencies.
73635 BOSCH BARRETT, Manuel LA EXTRAÑA VIDA DE PIERRE QUEROUL - Narracion de los Mares del Sur
$40.00 AUD
Ediciones Ave. Barcelona. 1942. 1st Ed. 222 PP with 16 duo-tone illustrations by Jose M. Prim. Card cover, dust jacket illustrated front. Spanish text. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 18.8 x 13.
The author of this novel, a Spaniard, was "The Judge" at the Tribunal of the Anglo French Condiminium of the New Hebrides. Novel relating the life of Pierre Queroul who moved at the end of World War I, to the South Seas and ended on a coprah plantation in Aore, south of Esperitu Santo, New Hebrides (Vanuatu).
59043 BOSEI / TOKAI Tokai University Research and Training Vessel BOSEI MARU
$40.00 AUD
Tokai University. Tokyo. 2009. Folder containing 3 items: T Wave Magazine, Vol. 9 : 8 PP. Tokai University Educational System, profile 2009-10: 44 PP. Bosei Maru: 32 PP (16 loose sheets). All items with colour photos. Folder with title (in silver) on front cover. Fine. 31 x 22
52343 BOUNOURE, Micheline & Vincent LEGENDAIRE MELANESIEN, précédé de: Mélanesie, Invention Plastique et Imagination Légendaire
$30.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2006. 1st Ed., in collection Ouverture Philosophique. Foreword by Michel Lequenne. 268, (2) PP with 1 map on double page. Soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5 2296015352
87 legends from: Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Archipelago and Vanuatu.
73553 BOUNOURE, Vincent VISION D'OCEANIE
$75.00 AUD
Editions Dapper. Paris. 1992. 1st Ed. Publication No. 17, Musée Dapper. Foreword by Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau. Notes by Agnes Rotschi 252 PP with 1 map in colour and b/w or colour illustrations and photos. Hard cover, title in blind on spine, dj. Fine. 33 x 24.5. 2906067202
21743 BOYER, Philippe (editor) LA MER: Espace, Perception et Imaginaire dans le Pacifique Sud
$30.00 AUD
Université Française du Pacifique & C.O.R.A.I.L / l'Harmattan. Paris. 1997. 1st Ed. 443 PP with 16 bw illust. Pictorial card cover. French text (with English summary). Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2738459579
16 papers presented at the 9th yearly seminar held by Université Française du Pacifique & CORAIL, and covering various subjects relating to the Pacific Ocean. The Sea in the tradition of Futuna, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga by Muni Keletaona. The Pacific Ocean: last refuge of Utopias by John Dunmore. French Oceanographic Researches in the South Pacific by Christian Henin...
72851 BRABYN, Mark W. AN ANALYSIS OF THE NEW ZEALAND WHALE STANDING RECORD
$25.00 AUD
Department of Conservation / Te Papa Atawhai. Wellington. 1991. 1st Ed. No. 29 in the Science & Research series. Foreword by R.M. Sadleir. (6), 47 PP with 6 tables and 17 figures (maps, graphs). Soft covers, illustrated front with a clear plastic protection. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0478012756
54528 BRANCHI, Camillo INSELN DER SONNE, INSELN DES GRAUENS: Kreuzfahrt im Pazifik
$10.00 AUD
Albert Müller Verlag. Zurich. c. 1941. 1st German edition of the Italian original Dalle Isole Turchine agli Atolli del Sole. 202, (2) pp. Eps: Map of the South Pacific. Cloth cover, decorated front. Spine lightly sunned. Slight ageing of paper. German text. Very good. 23 x 16.
Cruise in the Pacific.
56260 BRATHWAITE, Errol NEW ZEALAND
$10.00 AUD
Kowhai Publishing Ltd. Christchurch. 1980. 1st Ed. 96 PP with colour photos by Warren Jacobs, Lloyd Park and Robin Smith. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 21.7. 0908598025
56261 BRATHWAITE, Errol HISTORIC NEW ZEALAND
$10.00 AUD
Kowhai Publishing Ltd. Christchurch. 1980. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 1 location map and colour photos by Warren Jacobs, Lloyd Park and Robin Smith. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 21.7. 0908598017
54803 BRIANCHON, Alain ART D' OCEANIE / ART OF OCEANIA
$40.00 AUD
Editions Footprint Pacifique. Nouméa. 2007. 1st bilingual edition (English translation by Roy Benyon). 189 PP with 12 b/w illustrations and 147 colour photos. Fp: Hiapo from Niue. Eps: Tapa. Pictorial stiff cover. French and English text. Fine. 22 x 22. 2908186264
76124 BROOKES, Jean Ingram INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: 1800 - 1875
$45.00 AUD
Russell & Russell. New York. 1972. Reissue of the 1941 original. X, 454 PP, plus 1 large folded map "Oceania and the Hawaiian Islands" at rear of book. Cloth covers, plain dust jacket. Stamp of the "Adventist Development and Relief Agency" on front and rear endpapers. Near fine. 24 x 16. .
70402 BROOKFIELD, H. C. COLONIALISM, DEVELOPMENT AND INDEPENDENCE - The Case of the Melanesian Islands in the South Pacific
$25.00 AUD
C.U.P. London. 1972. 1st Ed. XVI, 226 PP with 5 figures. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 23.5 x 16. 052108590X
A case study of the islands of Melanesia: behavioural understanding of colonialism, prior to Independence.
11809 BROOKFIELD, H.C. (Edit.) PACIFIC MARKET-PLACES, A Collection of Essays
$10.00 AUD
Australian National University Press. Canberra. 1969. 1st Ed. XVII, 161, (3) PP with 9 maps & 45 tables. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Very good. 24.5 x 15.
Chapters by different authors on: The Small Market at Popondetta, Northern Papua. Supplies and Prices in the Market at Kerema. Honiara Market. Produce Marketing in a Polynesian Society: Apia. Melanesian Mélange: The Market at Vila...
12952 BROOKFIELD, Harold (editor) THE PACIFIC IN TRANSITION, Geographical Perspectives on Adaptation and Change
$10.00 AUD
St. Martin's Press. New York. 1973. 1st Ed. XVIII, (2), 332 PP with maps, graphs & tables, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.3 x 15.2.
Islanders at sea: change and the maritime economies of the Pacific. Stone-age trade in the New Guinea inland.
57631 BROOKFIELD, Harold (editor) THE PACIFIC IN TRANSITION, Geographical Perspectives on Adaptation and Change
$10.00 AUD
Australian National University Press. Canberra. 1973. 1st Australian edition. Foreword by O. H. K. Spate. XVIII, (2), 332 PP with maps, graphs & tables, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Occasional pencil scoring or underlining, o/wise very good. 23.3 x 15.2.
Islanders at sea: change and the maritime economies of the Pacific. Stone-age trade in the New Guinea inland.
12865 BROWER, Kenneth MICRONESIA : ISLAND WILDERNESS
$15.00 AUD
Friends of the Earth. New York. 1975. 1st Ed. 161 PP with maps and 70 colour photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good. Large format : 35 x 27. 0913890138
The cultural problems of the people and the conservation opportunities of the Micronesian islands.
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.
76355 BROWNE, Christopher & SCOTT, Douglas A. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SEVEN PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES
$25.00 AUD
International Monetary Fund. Washington, D.C.. 1989. 1st Ed. Foreword by Michel Camdessus. Preface by P.R. Narvekar. VIII, 220 PP with 7 maps in colour and 94 tables, plus 1 folded map in colour "The Pacific Islands", Hawai'i Geographical Society, 11th edition of 1987. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 23 x 15.3. 1557750351
7 countries: Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands,Tonga, Vanuatu, Western Samoa.
71398 BRUNT, Peter & THOMAS, Nicholas (editors) OCEANIA
$110.00 AUD
Royal Academy of Arts. London. 2018. 1st Ed. Foreword by Christopher Le Brun and Stephane Martin. 325 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial hard covers. Fine condition. 31 x 25. 9781910350492
Exhibition catalogue published to accompany the exhibitions held at Royal Academy, London (29 September to 31 December 2018) and at Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (12 March to 7 July 2019). Reimagining the Ocean, by Anne Salmon. Architecture, the Seasons and Rituals in the Land of the Kanaks, by Emanuel Kasarherou. Museums, Collections, Colonialism and the Gift: A Dialogue ...
73491 BRUNT, Peter & THOMAS, Nicholas (editors) OCEANIA
$45.00 AUD
Royal Academy of Arts. London. 2018. 1st Ed. Foreword by Christopher Le Brun and Stephane Martin. 327 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Small bump at bottom near spine and a very small chip at the top of first 12 pages, probably from a bump. An otherwise fine copy. 30 x 24.5. 9781910350508
Exhibition catalogue published to accompany the exhibitions held at Royal Academy, London (29 September to 31 December 2018) and at Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac (12 March to 7 July 2019). Reimagining the Ocean, by Anne Salmon. Architecture, the Seasons and Rituals in the Land of the Kanaks, by Emanuel Kasarherou. Museums, Collections, Colonialism and the Gift: A Dialogue ...
72688 BUCK, Peter H. (Te Rangi Hiroa) LES MIGRATIONS DES POLYNESIENS - Les Vikings du Soleil Levant
$40.00 AUD
Payot. Paris. 1952. 1st French edition in "Bibliothèque Scientifique" series. Translated from the US original by Jacqueline Foulque-Villaret. Preface by Maurice Leenhardt. 294, (8 publications) PP with 3 maps (1 on double page), 2 figures and 22 head pieces, plus 16 pages with 22 b/w photos. Soft covers, illustrated front. Ageing and foxing of paper. French text. Very good. 22.8 x 14.2.
The bold and intrepid mariners, ancestors of the Polynesians who settled the Polynesian Triangle.
71774 BULLEN, Frank T. THE CRUISE OF THE "CACHALOT" - Round the World after Sperm Whales
$40.00 AUD
Dodd, Mead & Company. New York. 1928. Reprint of a 1926 edition ?. XX, 301 PP with 1 map and 27 endpieces, plus 7 colour plates and the endpapers illustrated by Mead Schaeffer. Cloth covers, gilt title and illustrations on front board and gilt title on a sunned spine. Top outside edge tinted. Copy lacking the frontispiece called for. Paper ageing but very little foxing. Covers with light shelf wear and binding a little loose. Overall still a very good copy of this illustrated edition. 24.2 x 18.5.
A whaling cruise through the Atlantic, Indian & Pacific Oceans - Japan, Hawaii, Christmas Is., Futuna (Chapter XXIII), Bay of Islands and the return to New Bedford.
11679 BURDICK, Eugene THE BLUE OF CAPRICORN
$10.00 AUD
Readers Union / Victor Gollancz. London. 1963. Reprint. X, (2), 322 PP with over 20 illustrations by W. Hofman. Fp: Coconut grove. Eps: The Western Pacific. Hard cover, dj (rubbed). Foxing spots on front edge. Name of previous owner on half-title page. Good. 19 x 13.
An impression of the Pacific and the people who live there.
35627 BURDICK, Eugene THE BLUE OF CAPRICORN
$15.00 AUD
Victor Gollancz. London. 1962. 1st Ed. X, (2), 322 PP with over 20 illustrations by W. Hofman. Fp: Coconut grove. Eps: Map of the Western Pacific. Hard cover, dj (price-clipped). Light foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
An impression of the Pacific and the people who live there.
57732 BURDICK, Eugene THE BLUE OF CAPRICORN
$5.00 AUD
Readers Union / Victor Gollancz. London. 1963. Reprint. X, (2), 322 PP with over 20 illustrations by W. Hofman. Fp: Coconut grove. Eps: The Western Pacific. Hard cover. Faint foxing on front edge. Good. 19 x 13.
An impression of the Pacific and the people who live there.
11577 BURENHULT, Göran (editor) NEW WORLD AND PACIFIC CIVILIZATIONS - Cultures of America, Asia and the Pacific
$20.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1994. 1st Ed. Volume 4, in The Illustrated History of Humankind series. 240 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title-page: Inca fortress at Cuzco. Half-title: Aztec mask. Eps: Maya hieroglyphs. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 31.5 x 24.5. 0702226793
America (Maya, Aztecs, Andes), Asia (Japan), the Pacific (Prehistoric fishing in Oceania, the Polynesian voyaging canoe, the Roy Mata burial, Vanuatu, Moa hunting in New Zealand) and Stone-built monuments of the South Pacific (Easter Island, stone money of Yap...).
15786 BURKE, Iris & Keast (editors) THE SPANISH AT PORT JACKSON, THE VISIT OF THE CORVETTES DESCUBIERTA & ATREVIDA 1793
$60.00 AUD
Australian Documentary Facsimile Society. Sydney. 1967. Edition of 275 copies, of which 250 are signed. Preface by Dr. A. Grove Day, translations by Virginia M. Day. 48 PP printed on Glastonbury antique paper with 2 panoramas by Brambila tipped in, 8 pages of Viana's Journal, 2 pages holographs. Fp: Portrait of Malaspina. Eps: Sketches made by the expedition's artists. Hard cover, title on front board and spine. Fine. 28.6 x 22.2.
A stay of one month in 1793, at Port Jackson, during the Spanish scientific expedition to survey the Pacific, led by Malaspina and Bustamante Y Guerra.
33506 BURNETT, Alan THE WESTERN PACIFIC - Challenge of sustainable growth
$15.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1993. Paperback edition of the 1992 original. XII, 270 PP with 1 map, 2 figures and 9 tables. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 1863735178
The economic miracle of Australasia, South East Asia, Indo China and North East Asia, under threat: from population growth, energy demand and environmental degradation.
60142 BURNS, Robin AN INTRODUCTION TO MELANESIAN SOCIETY
$15.00 AUD
School of Education, La Trobe University. Bundoora, Victoria. 1972. July 1972 edition by Centre for Comparative and International Studies in Education. 42 PP (typescript). Soft cover, illustrated front with window, staples. Near fine. 25.5 x 20.5.
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.
41984 BURT, Ben & CLERK, Christian (editors) ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$20.00 AUD
National Centre for Development Studies / ANU & University of Papua New Guinea Press. Canberra. 1997. 1st Ed. Pacific Policy Paper No. 25. XIII, 299 PP with 1 map, 10 figures and 5 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14.2. 0731523512
54979 CADELL, P. B. L'HYGIENE DENTAIRE DANS LES ILES DU PACIFIQUE SUD
$20.00 AUD
Commission du Pacifique Sud. Nouméa. 1960. 1st Ed., preface by T. K. Abbott. Document Technique No. 131, August 1960. VI, 13 PP with 4 tables. Soft cover, staples. French text. Near fine. 25.3 x 20.6.
42878 CALDER, Alex, LAMB, Jonathan & ORR, Bridget VOYAGES AND BEACHES - Pacific Encounters, 1769-1840
$20.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 1999. 1st Ed. VI, 344 PP with 21 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj. Faint foxing on top outside edge, o/wise near fine. 23.4 x 15.8. 0824820398
39298 CALDER, Kent E. PACIFIC DEFENSE - Arms, Energy, and America's Future in Asia
$10.00 AUD
William Morrow. New York. 1996. 1st Ed. XII, (2), 253 PP with 1 figure, 2 maps and 9 tables. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0688137385
63934 CALLOW, D. M. TOBY IN THE SOUTH SEAS, A Story of Adventure
$5.00 AUD
Purnell. London. 1961. 1st Ed. VIII, 176 PP. Fp: Kiwa pointed to the water. Copy without half title page and the free fly of both endpapers. Stamp of "St Peter's School, East Bentleigh" on title page. Ageing of paper. Very good. 20.2 x 13.5.
Novel set in the South Seas, on the Island of Wanga.
75460 CAMERON, Captain John & FARRELL, Andrew JOHN CAMERON'S ODYSSEY
$40.00 AUD
The Macmillan Company. New York. 1928. October 1928 original. Preface and notes by Andrew Farrell XVII, (3), 461 PP with 2 sketch maps and 125 drawings (margins, head & tail-pieces), by Charles Kuhn, plus 11 plates. Fp: Captain John Cameron. Illustrated endpapers. Cloth cover, decoration on front cover and gilt title on spine, top outside edges tinted. Gutters starting, otherwise a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 15.5.
The career of Capt. John Cameron who went to sea at 17, sailed the Atlantic, Indian, then the Pacific Ocean while based in Honolulu. Blackbirding in the New Hebrides for Hawaiian planters, shipwrecked on Midway, ...
20103 CAMERON, Ian LOST PARADISE - The Exploration of the Pacific
$10.00 AUD
Salem House. Topsfield, Mass. 1986. 1st American edition. 248 PP with b/w & 33 colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26.8 x 19.5. 0881622753
Description of physical creation of the Pacific. How the islands were settled: the epic voyages of the Spanish, Dutch, French, British, English, Russian & American explorers.
37203 CAMERON, Roderick VICEROYALTIES OF THE WEST - The Spanish Empire in Latin America
$10.00 AUD
Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1968. 1st Ed. XVIII, 276 PP with 3 maps, plus 94 pages with 166 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket soiled and with repaired tears. Occasional foxing (heavy on title page), o/wise very good. 24.8 x 16. 0297762060
57803 CAMPBELL, I. C. A HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$5.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1990. 1st Australian edition. 240 PP with 3 tables and 8 maps. Soft cover. Covers reinforced at spine. Ex library copy with 2 stamps on endpapers. Some pencil underlining. A good reading copy. 21.5 x 14. 0702222917
12963 CAMPBELL, I.C. A HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$5.00 AUD
Univ. Canterbury Press. Christchurch. 1989. 1st. paperback edition. 240 PP with 8 maps (1 double-page) & 3 tables in text. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14. 0908812035
Histories: historical events & processes from the point of view of the islanders concerned.
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
33213 CAMPBELL, Shelley, REYNIER, Jean-Louis, et al.. (editors) LA DERNIERE FUGUE
$25.00 AUD
Sci-Fi Club. Nouméa. 1998. Limited edition to 1000 copies. 224 PP. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French text. 22 x 17.8. 2950896316
6 short stories from the four corners of the Pacific. The finding of the path, by David Luders (Vanuatu). Missionary work, by Dan McCarthy (New Zealand). Taken by the Sea, by Shelley Campbell (New Zealand). The Divine Computer, by Kik Velt (Tonga). La Bibliothèque d'Alexandrie, by Jean-Louis Reynier (New Caledonia). Suzan ou la Dernière Fugue, by Jean-Marie Lo Rey (New Caledonia).
12960 CAPECCHI, Bernard LA TERRE, Actes du Sixième Colloque CORAIL, Nouméa, 27, 28 et 29 Octobre 1993
$70.00 AUD
C.O.R.A.I.L. / U.F.P. Nouméa. 1994. 1st Ed. 414 PP, (2 adv.). Pictorial soft cover. Text in French & English. Fine. 21 x 15.
Seven papers in English (land problems for Maoris, Waitangi Tribunal, mining,...) and nineteen papers in French (ownership, natural resources, fisheries, ...). French text with English abstract and vice versa.
40811 CAPIEZ, André COMMISSION DU PACIFIQUE SUD - Rapport Annuel 1997
$20.00 AUD
Commission du Pacifique Sud (CPS).. Nouméa. 1998. 1st Ed. 104 PP with graphs and b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 27.5 x 19.8.
Annual report for 1997, celebrating 50 years of achievements of the South Pacific Commision (nowadays: Secretariat of the Pacific Community).
Jean-Edouard Carlier. Paris. c. 2005. 1st Ed. 136 PP with 8 figures and over 90 colour photos. Laminated pictorial boards. French text. Fine (mint condition). 28.7 x 20.
Catalogue of an exhibition (objects from Micronesia) held in the Galerie of Jean-Edouard Carlier, Rue Visconti, Paris.
15440 CARRIER, James G. (editor) HISTORY AND TRADITION IN MELANESIAN ANTHROPOLOGY
$15.00 AUD
University of California Press. Berkeley, Ca. USA. 1992. 1st Ed. in Studies in Melanesian Anthropology series, No. 10. X, 258 PP. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0520075234
7 papers. The case of fighting in New Caledonia by Bronwen Douglas. Christianity in Western Melanesian ethnography by John Barker...
45997 CARTER, John SOUTH SEAS GUIDE
$15.00 AUD
Pacific Publications (Aust) Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1979. 1st Ed. 104 PP with 21 maps and 31 b/w photos. Inside covers: map of the Central Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 23.5 x 18. 0858070421
A practical handbook of instant information.
65303 CASARES, Joaquin Garcia HISTORIA DEL DARIEN: Cuevas, Cunas, Españoles, Afros, presencia y actualidad de los Chocoes
$150.00 AUD
Editorial Universitaria Carlos Manuel Gasteazoro. Panama. 2008. 1st edition limited to 500 copies. 559 PP with b/w illustrations (charts & maps, plans & sketch maps, facsimile of documents and 40 photos) plus 9 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Lower corner of front cover with small creases, o/wise near fine. Spanish text. 28 x 23.2. 9789962531586
37283 CASTEX, Louis LES SECRETS DE L'ILE DE PAQUES
$25.00 AUD
Hachette. Paris. 1966. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 30 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French text. 21 x 15.
Secrets of Easter Island.
39820 CASTLE, Leslie & FINDLAY, Christopher (editors) PACIFIC TRADE IN SERVICE
$20.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1988. 1st paperback edition. XIV, 294 PP with 3 figures and 84 tables. Soft cover. Fine. 23 x 14.9. 043050115
Trade in air transport and tourism services... Trade and investment in shipping services... Telecommunications and Information services.
46392 CAYGILL, Marjorie TREASURES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM
$10.00 AUD
Trustees of The British Museum. London. 1996. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1992 (original of 1985). 240 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: South Front of the new British Museum. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 28.5 x 22.2. 0714117277
Hoa Hakananai'a, a statue from Easter Island. Captain James Cook... The Sutton Hoo ship burial...
60226 CHADWICK, Douglas THE SAMOAN WAY (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2000. Volume 198, No. 1, July 2000. Contains articles between P. 72 and 89 with 2 maps and 12 colour photographs by Randy Olson. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
57847 CHALLIS, R. L. PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN NEW ZEALAND
$15.00 AUD
School Publications Branch, Department of Education. Wellington. 1970. 1st Ed. A Bulletin for Schools (F). 76 PP with 41 illustrations by Nan Reid and 30 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Previous owner's signature on title-page, o/wise fine. 19.8 x 13.8.
65076 CHAMBERS, Keith S. & MUNRO, Doug DUPERREY AND THE DISCOVERY OF NANUMAGA IN 1824: An Episode in Pacific Exploration (in The Great Circle, Volume 11, No. 1)
$10.00 AUD
The Australian Association for Maritime History. Armidale, NSW. 1989. Vol. 11, No. 1, 1989. 66 PP. Contains article pages 37 to 43 with 1 table and 1 sketch map. Soft cover, illustrated front. Near fine. 23.5 x 16.
11958 CHAPMAN, Murray & MORRISON, Philip (editors) MOBILITY AND IDENTITY IN THE ISLAND PACIFIC [in Pacific Viewpoint - Volume 26, No.1, April 1985]
$5.00 AUD
Victoria University Press. Wellington. 1985. Special issue of Pacific Viewpoint. (2), VI, 371 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover, dj. Very good. 24.5 x 15.5.
Series of articles by various authors covering themes, experiences & perspectives. The Tree and the Canoe: Roots and Mobility in Vanuatu Societies (Bonnemaison), Identity and Relocation: The Bikini Case (Kiste), Walkabout and Urban Movement: A Melanesian Case Study (Frazer), Farmer, Fishermen, Gypsies, Guests: Who Identifies? (Buttimer)...
75580 CHAPPELL, David A. DOUBLE GHOSTS: Oceanian Voyagers on Euroamerican Ships
$50.00 AUD
M. E. Sharpe Inc. New York. 1997. 1st edition in the "Sources and Studies in World Histories" series. Foreword by Kevin Reilly (series editor). XX, 231 PP with 1 map "Culture Areas of the Pacific" (on double page), plus 8 pages with 18 b/w illustrations. Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 22.7 x 15.2. 9781563249990
PlayLab Press. Brisbane. 2009. 1st Ed. Foreword by Fraser Corfield. 95, (1) PP with 23 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8 9780908156788
An Australian musical on the clashes of cultures (West and South Pacific Islands).
54250 CHATTI, Mounira, CLINCHAMPS, Nicolas & VIGIER, Stéphanie (editors) POUVOIR(S) ET POLITIQUE(S) EN OCEANIE - Actes du XIXe colloque CORAIL
$50.00 AUD
L'Harmattan / Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Paris. 2007. 1st Ed., No. 4 in Collection Portes Oceanes. Preface by François Luchaire. 370, (2) PP. Soft cover. French text (Résumé and Abstract in French and English). Fine. 24 x 15.6.
Symposim held in November 2006. 20 papers: 1 in English and 19 in French. Indigenous Members of Parliament in Australia and New Zealand, by Nicolas Clinchamps... Fiji Mode of Government, by Marion Bastogi and Hélène Goiran... On Maurice Lenormand, by Frédéric Angleviel ...
43267 CHAUVELOT, Robert ILES DE PARADIS - CEYLAN JAVA TAHITI
$30.00 AUD
Berger-Levrault. Paris. 1925. 1st Ed. XIV, 329 PP with 24 head pieces, plus 34 b/w plates with 65 photos. Illustrated soft cover (rubbed and protected). LACKS the frontispiece (planispheric map). Ageing of paper around the edges, o/wise a very good copy. French text. 23.7 x 18.8.
Reminiscences of voyages from Marseilles to the Suez Canal, Ceylon, Indonesia, the Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti.
12607 CHESNEAUX, Jean TRANSPACIFIQUES, Observations et Considérations Diverses sur les Terres et Archipels du Grand Océan
$10.00 AUD
Editions La Découverte. Paris. 1987. 1st Ed. 230 PP with maps in text. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 13.5. 2707116688
Overview of recent political events & cultural change in the South Pacific including the Rainbow Warrior affair, the anti-nuclear movement, independence movements in New Caledonia, unemployment in Tahiti...
48109 CHESNEAUX, Jean LA PLACE DU PACIFIQUE dans l'Histoire Mondiale aux XIX° et XX° siècles (in Cahiers d'Histoire du Pacifique)
$15.00 AUD
Centre de Recherches Historiques pour le Pacifique Paris. 1975. Issue No. 3, July 1975. 60 PP. Contains article between P.39 and 57. Soft cover (lightly soiled). Name of previous owner at top of title page. French text. Near fine. 21 x 15. 2716900213
History of the world and the Pacific.
11648 CHESNEAUX, Jean & MACLELLAN, Nic. LA FRANCE DANS LE PACIFIQUE, de Bougainville à Moruroa
$30.00 AUD
La Découverte/Essais. Paris. 1992. 1st Ed. 240 PP with 3 maps. Pictoral soft cover. Near fine. French text. 22 x 13.5. 2707120944
The Pacific occupies a choice place in the culture and ambitions of France. (Nic Maclellan participates in Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific).
73944 CHEYNE, Andrew A DESCRIPTION OF ISLANDS IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN, North and South of the Equator: with Sailing Directions, together with their productions; Manners and Customs of the Natives, and, Vocabularies of their Various Languages
$750.00 AUD
J. D. Potter. London. 1852. 1st Ed. X, 198, (4) PP. Rebacked copy with a new cloth spine and retaining the original decorated boards. Renewed endpapers. Pages V to VII present but misbound following page X. Title page with name and stamp of previous owner. Some underlining of text and pertinent annotations and comments. Slight ageing of paper, and foxing. A very good copy of an extremely rare title. 22 x 14.5.
Contents include: The Isle of Pines, The Loyalty Islands, The Britannia Islands, Beaupre's Islands, The Island of Anatam, New Hebrides, The Island of Tanna, New Caledonia, Woodlark Island, The Massacre Islands, Ocean Island, and many more.
21246 CHISHOLM, Jocelyn CAPTAIN CATTLIN TOWARDS NEW ZEALAND
$15.00 AUD
Author. Wellington. 1994. 1st Ed. 96 PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps, facsimile, paintings). Title-page: Facsimile of Journal of a Voyage...1827. Eps: Map of South West Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 24 x 17.5. 0959759719
Trading between Australia & New Zealand. Whaling off Kermadec, Tonga, Solomons... between 1827 & 1837.
73614 CHOY, Chef Sam POKE - Hawai'i's Food
$20.00 AUD
Mutual Publishing. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 2016. 2nd printing of the 2015 original. XVIII, 172, (2) PP with colour photos. Hard covers, laminated pictoral boards, spiral bound. Fine. 23.2 x 17.5. 9781939487483
Over 110 recipes.
41378 CLARK, G. R., ANDERSON, A. J. & VUNIDILO, T. (editors) THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LAPITA DISPERSAL IN OCEANIA - Papers from the Fourth Lapita Conference, June 2000, Canberra, Australia
$90.00 AUD
Pandanus Books / RSPAS ANU. Canberra. 2001. 1st Ed. , Volume 17 in the Terra Australis series. VIII, 223 PP with maps, tables and figures. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new). 29.8 x 21. 9781740760102
19 papers .
33505 CLARK, Sydney ALL THE BEST IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC - Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia
$10.00 AUD
Dodd, Mead. New York. 1961. 1st Ed. XI, 334 PP, plus 18 pages with 23 b/w photos. FEP: Map of the South Pacific Islands. REP: Maps of Australia and New Zealand. Cloth cover. Signature of previous owner at top of half title page. Near fine. 20.8 x 14.4.
73428 CLEMENT, Harry G. THE FUTURE OF TOURISM IN THE PACIFIC AND FAR EAST
$45.00 AUD
U.S. Department of Commerce / Bureau of Foreign Commerce. Washington. 1961. 1st Ed. Foreword by Luther H. Hodges. XIV, 296 PP with tables and b/w and colour illustrations: diagrams, graphs, maps. FEP: Major Air Routes in the Pacific and Far East. REP: Map of Pacific and Far East. Cloth covers with light soiling, title on front board and a lightly sunned spine. ontents near fine. 26.5 x 20.5.
35393 CLEMENTS, Kevin (editor) PEACE AND SECURITY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION
$20.00 AUD
United Nations University Press & Dunmore Press. Tokyo & Palmerston North, N.Z. 1993. 1st Ed. 400 PP with tables and 2 figures. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.6. 0864691726
17 papers on the major peace and security issues confronting the Asia Pacific region.
12894 CLUNE, Frank HANDS ACROSS THE PACIFIC, A Voyage of Discovery from Australia to the Hawaiian Islands and Canada, April to June 1950
$20.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1951. 1st Ed. XVI, 304 PP with 12 maps plus 14 pages with 46 b/w photos. Fp: b/w photo of the portrait of the Prime Minister of Canada (Louis S. St. Laurent) with a dedicatory note signed by him by to the author. Eps: Frank Clune's route from Australia to Canada. Cloth cover, dj. Brief note to previous owner on lower corner of half title page. Foxing spots on outside edges and few pages, o/wise a very good clean copy. 22 x 15.
33145 COATES, Austin WESTERN PACIFIC ISLANDS
$25.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1970. 1st Ed., No. 13 in the Corona Library series. (XV), 349 PP with 5 maps, and 25 drawings by Rosemary Grimble, plus 32 pages with 63 b/w photos. Eps: 21 drawings by Rosemary Grimble. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (lightly rubbed). Very good copy. 22.2 x 14.2. 0119904286
Illustrated volume dealing with the United Kingdom's dependent territories of the South West Pacific: British Solomon Islands Protectorate, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colonies, Fiji, New Hebrides.
55289 CODRINGTON, R. H. THE MELANESIANS - Studies in their Anthropology and Folk-lore
$175.00 AUD
Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1891. 1st Ed. XVI, 419 PP with 33 text-illustrations, plus 1 folded map and the frontispiece. Fp: Stone building at Gaua, Santa Maria, Banks' Islands. Cloth cover. Slight ageing of paper. Signature of previous owner at top of front endpaper. Some pencil underlining, o/wise a nice copy. 22.5 x 15.
55973 CODRINGTON, R. H. THE MELANESIANS - Studies in their Anthropology and Folk-lore
$70.00 AUD
Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1969. Reprint of the 1891 original. 1st Ed. XVI, 419 PP with 1 musical score and 33 text-illustrations, plus 1 folded map at rear and the frontispiece. Fp: Stone building at Gaua, Santa Maria, Banks' Islands. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Ex library copy with stamp on title page, number in gutter of page V, and renewed endpapers. Foxing spots on outside edges. Some pen underlining on 10 pages. Very good. 22.3 x 14.5.
40869 COHEN, Stan WINGS TO THE ORIENT - A Pictorial History of the Pan American Clipper Planes 1935 to 1945
$20.00 AUD
Pictorial Histories Publishing Company. Missoula, Montana, USA. 1986. 2nd printing of the 1985 original. X, 214 PP with hundreds of b/w illustrations (maps, plans, facsimile newspapers & photos). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 28 x 21.5. 0933126611
52812 COIFFIER, Christian, PETIT, Béatrice, et al. (editors) LE VOYAGE DE LA KORRIGANE DANS LES MERS DU SUD
$400.00 AUD
Hazan / Musée de l'Homme / Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris. 2001. 1st Ed. Preface by Jean-Claude Moreno, foreword by Douglas Newton, and introduction by Christian Coiffier. 240 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, paintings and photos), and 156 colour photos of artifacts. Hard cover, dj. French text. Fine. Scarce. 31.2 x 24.2. 9782850256114
Book produced for the exhibition held at the Musée de l'Homme, 5 December 2001 to 3rd June 2002. Discovery of Polynesia, by Marie-Claire Bataille-Benguigui. A call in New Caledonia, by Nathalie Rochard... Solomon Islands, by Daniel de Coppet...
31920 COLE, Allan B. YANKEE SURVEYORS IN THE SHOGUN'S SEAS, Records of the United States Surveying Expedition to the North Pacific Ocean, 1853-1856
$20.00 AUD
Greenwood. New York. 1968. Reprint of the 1947 original. 161 PP with 1 map & 3 drawings, plus 4 pages with portrait of Commander John Rodgers and 2 charts. Cloth cover. Fine. Image shows title-page. 22 x 14.5.
45844 COLEBERD, Frances & REA, Frederic M. ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Lane Books. Menlo Park, Ca. 1972. 1st printing in November 1972 of the 2nd edition of 1972, A Sunset Travel Book. 160 PP with 12 maps and b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 27.4 x 21.
45845 COLEBERD, Frances & REA, Frederic M. ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Lane Books. Menlo Park, Ca. 1978. 5th printing (updated) in March 1978 of the 2nd edition of 1972, A Sunset Travel Book. 160 PP with 12 maps and b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 27.4 x 21.
70597 COLEMAN, Patrick J. (editor) THE WESTERN PACIFIC: Island Arcs - Marginal Seas - Geochemistry
$30.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 1973. 1st edition with a foreword by Patrick J. Coleman and introduction by C.C. Von der Borch. XVIII, 675 PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, diagrams ...). Fp: map of the Western Pacific. Hard cover, decoration on front cover, title on front cover and spine, all edges tinted. Front endpaper with bookplate of previous owner (name blocked out). Very good copy. 24.8 x 18. 085564060X
A total of 45 Papers. 10 on Features of the Pacific Ocean Basin. 18 on Island arcs and related structures of the Western Pacific region. 5 on Marginal areas of the Western Pacific. 12 on Petrology and Geochemistry of island arcs in relation to tectonic environment.
33193 COLEMAN, Simon & WATSON, Helen AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
$15.00 AUD
Chartwell Books. Secaucus, N.J. 1990. 1st US Ed. 128 PP with 2 b/w and 132 colour photos. Half title page and frontispiece: 21 portraits. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 22. 1555215742
33194 COLEMAN, Simon & WATSON, Helen AN INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY
$15.00 AUD
New Burlington Books. London. 1990. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 2 b/w and 132 colour photos. Half title page and frontispiece: 21 portraits. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 22. 1853482730
Editions Te Ite. Papeete. 2004. Issue No. 5 & 6, May 2004, edition limited to 600 copies. No. 5: 184 PP. No. 6: 218 PP. Soft cover, illustration on rear cover. Last page of No. 6: misbound, o/wise near fine. French text. 21 x 15.
Special issues: Rencontres Océaniennes (1 & 2). Encounters of Pacific Islands writers from: Tahiti, Samoa, Hawai'i, New Caledonia, Australia. Some texts in Mao'hi or English.
58506 COLLINS, Graham MARAIA LIVES IN A FIJIAN VILLAGE
$10.00 AUD
Reed Education. Wellington. 1977. 1st Ed. in the People on Earth series. 24 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps, 1 plan, and 50 photos by Richard and Maureen Luskin). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.8 x 18.7. 0589050079
41077 COLLINS, R. D. J., GOLDBERG Eddy, et al.. A FRENCH VISIT TO PORT NICHOLSON IN 1843 - SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES IN FRANCE AND NEW ZEALAND, 1985-1995 (in Antipodes 4)
$20.00 AUD
New Zealand Cultural Studies Research Centre, University of Otago. Dunedin. 1998. Issue No. 4, 1998. 52 PP with graphs and tables. Soft cover (staples removed). Fine. English and French text. 25 x 17.5.
Antipodes is a bilingual, multidisciplinary journal devoted to the documentation and study of contacts between New Zealand and the French speaking world.
41075 COLLINS, R. D. J., HOLLYMAN, J., et al. TESTING TIMES - BIRDS AND PLANTS AS SEEDS OF EXPANSION: GOVERNOR GREY (AND OTHERS) AND NEW CALEDONIA - PETER ALL BLAKE, PORTRAIT D'UN PIRATE NEO-ZELANDAIS (in Antipodes - No.2)
$20.00 AUD
New Zealand Cultural Studies Research Centre, University of Otago. Dunedin. 1996. Issue No. 2, 1996. 64 PP with 1 cartoon. Soft cover (staples removed). Fine. English and French text. 25 x 17.5.
Antipodes is a bilingual, multidisciplinary journal devoted to the documentation and study of contacts between New Zealand and the French speaking world. Testing Times: Resuming nuclear testing at Mururoa, in 1995.
73678 COLWELL, James (editor) A CENTURY IN THE PACIFIC (One Volume - Five Parts: Scientific, Sociological, Historical, Missionary, General)
$150.00 AUD
William H. Beale. Sydney. 1914. 1st "Australasia" edition. Introduction by W. H. Fitchett. XII, 782 PP. Cloth cover, gilt decocration and title "A Century in the Pacific 1815-1915" on front board, gilt title on spine, top edge gilt. Occasional foxing, with foxing spots on front and bottom outside edges. A fine clean copy. 24 x 16.
A review of the developments in the South Pacific. Discovery & settlement, languages, the indigenous people & imported labour, trade, etc..
13034 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Report from the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence
$20.00 AUD
A.G.P.S. Canberra. 1978. 1st Ed. VI, 66 PP with tables, plus 1 folded map at rear. Stapled card covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 25 x 17.5. 0642034656
Australian involvement with the South Pacific nations & territories. Political, diplomatic & economic relations & aid.
40891 CONNIFF, Richard EASTER ISLAND UNVEILED (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 183, No.3, 1993)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1993. Volume 183, No. 3, July 1993. Contains article from P.54 to 79 with 1 map and 16 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.5 x 17.4.
Polynesian island of Rapa Nui.
73269 COOPER, Viola Irene WINDJAMMING TO FIJI
$40.00 AUD
Rae D. Henkle. New York. 1929. 1st edition. Introduction by L. Chateauvieux, Captain of the "Bougainville". XIII, 296 PP with small text drawings and head pieces, plus 22 b/w plates (full-page). Fp: Our windjammer the Bougainville. Top outside edges tinted. Eps: Track of the Bougainville between Vancouver and New Caledonia. Cloth covers with light wear/soiling, decoration on front board, title on front board and a slightly sunned spine. Signature of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a near fine copy. 22.5 x 16.
1926 voyage of 2 young American girls on one of the last French windjammers owned by Compagnie Navale de l'Océanie. Sailing from Vancouver to Nouméa by way of Fiji. The Bougainville was the former Star of Peru and ended her days as a pontoon carrying nickel ore, in New Caledonia waters.
11581 COOTE, Walter L'OCEAN PACIFIQUE OCCIDENTAL, Description des Groupes d'Iles au Nord et a l'Est du Continent Australien
$75.00 AUD
Librairie Ch. Delagrave. Paris. 1896. 3rd French edition of the 1883 English original. (3). XVI, 182 PP with 1 map and 31 b/w illust. in text. Orig. quarter calf & marbled boards with a gilt-engraved school badge (Lycée du Havre) on the front cover. Paper browning, light wear around the edges. Boards have light wear, o/wise contents near fine. French text. 23 x 15.5.
Translation of the original English edition with the same title. In the foreword, the Editor advises France to claim the New Hebrides because the English have the Kermadec islands and are sharing New Guinea with M. de Bismarck.
73284 COOTE, Walter L'OCEAN PACIFIQUE OCCIDENTAL, Description des Groupes d'Iles au Nord et a l'Est du Continent Australien
$100.00 AUD
Librairie Ch. Delagrave. Paris. c. 1905. 5th French edition of the 1883 English original. XVI, 182, (2) PP with 1 map and 31 b/w illustrations 9 of them on full page). Marbled endpapers. Modern binding, half bound with marbled boards, gilt decoration and title on spine with raised bands, all edges gilt. Ageing of paper. A near fine copy. French text. Image shows title-page. 23.5 x 16.5.
Translation of the original English edition with the same title. In the foreword, the Editor advises France to claim the New Hebrides because the English have the Kermadec islands and are sharing New Guinea with M. de Bismarck.
42177 COPPELL, W. G. & STRATIGOS, S. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PACIFIC ISLAND THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
$20.00 AUD
Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University & Institute for Polynesian Studies, Brigham Young University. Canberra & Honolulu. Canberra & Honolulu. 1983. 1st Ed. XII, 520 PP. Soft cover. Near fine. 22 x 14.8. 0939154331
Author Index: pages 1 to 237. Subject Index: pages 239 to 519.
58439 COPPELL, William. G. CATALOGUE OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS RELATING TO THE SAMOAN ISLANDS
$25.00 AUD
The University of the South Pacific Library. Suva. 1978. 1st Ed. Selected Bibliography No. 5. V, 31 PP (recto typescript only). Soft cover, illustrated rear cover (maps of American and Western Samoa). Near fine. 27.7 x 20.8.
Author Index: pages 1 to 18. Subject Index: pages 19 to 31.
52295 COTTEAU, Edmond EN OCEANIE. Voyage autour du Monde en 365 jours 1884-1885
$75.00 AUD
Librairie Hachette & Cie. Paris. 1888. 1st Ed. (4), 390 with 2 coastal views, 3 maps and 43 engravings (36 on full page), plus 1 folded map. Bound copy retaining the original pictorial soft cover. Marbled endpapers. Quarter bound, gilt title En Océanie on spine. Ferguson: 8727. Near fine. French text. 19 x 13.
Left Paris on 15th March 1884. Sailed from Toulon (20 March 1884) on the French warship Nive... Chapter III: Krakatau island 11-29 May 1884. Australia (pages 122 to 222): Torres Strait on 18th July 1884, then Port Kennedy, Townsville, Bowen, Rockhampton, Brisbane (27 July 1884), Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Sydney. New Caledonia on the Rockton in September 1884. New Hebrides on the French warship Duchaffaut in October 1884. Tahiti on the French warship Vire in November 1884... Return to Paris on 15 March 1885.
73354 COTTEAU, Edmond EN OCEANIE. Voyage autour du Monde en 365 jours 1884-1885
$80.00 AUD
Librairie Hachette & Cie. Paris. 1888. 1st Ed. (4), 390, (8 publications) PP with 2 coastal views, 3 maps (2 on full page) and 43 engravings (36 on full page), plus 1 folded map at rear of book. Bound copy retaining the original pictorial soft cover (reinforced and fragile). Marbled endpapers. Quarter bound, gilt title "En Océanie, Voyage autour du monde, en 365 jours: 1884 - 1885" on leather spine. Ferguson: 8727. Light foxing. Near fine and scarce. French text. Images shows original soft cover. 19 x 13.
Left Paris on 15th March 1884. Sailed from Toulon (20 March 1884) on the French warship Nive... Chapter III: Krakatau island 11-29 May 1884. Australia (pages 122 to 222): Torres Strait on 18th July 1884, then Port Kennedy, Townsville, Bowen, Rockhampton, Brisbane (27 July 1884), Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Sydney. New Caledonia on the Rockton in September 1884. New Hebrides on the French warship Duchaffaut in October 1884. Tahiti on the French warship Vire in November 1884... Return to Paris on 15 March 1885.
73355 COTTEAU, Edmond EN OCEANIE. Voyage autour du Monde en 365 jours 1884-1885
$80.00 AUD
Librairie Hachette & Cie. Paris. 1895. 2nd edition of the 1888 original. (4), 390 PP with b/w illustrations: 9 in text (1 map, 1 coastal view, 2 portraits ...) and 42 on full page (1 coastal view, 2 maps and 39 engravings), plus 1 folded map at rear of book. Bound copy retaining the original pictorial soft cover (sunned). Marbled endpapers. Half bound, gilt title "En Océanie" on leather spine. Ferguson: 8727. Foxing. French text. Near fine. 19 x 13.
Left Paris on 15th March 1884. Sailed from Toulon (20 March 1884) on the French warship Nive... Chapter III: Krakatau island 11-29 May 1884. Australia (pages 122 to 222): Torres Strait on 18th July 1884, then Port Kennedy, Townsville, Bowen, Rockhampton, Brisbane (27 July 1884), Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania, Sydney. New Caledonia on the Rockton in September 1884. New Hebrides on the French warship Duchaffaut in October 1884. Tahiti on the French warship Vire in November 1884... Return to Paris on 15 March 1885.
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 ...
59566 CRADDOCK, John (editor) NO BLOOD FOR BLOOD - The Story of the First Christian Mission in Solomon Islands, 1845-47
$25.00 AUD
St. Joseph School / Provincial Press. Honiara, Solomon Islands. 1995. 1st Ed. 40 PP with 12 b/w illustrations and 17 colour photos. Inside front cover: 4 maps. Inside back cover: 3 views. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29 x 21. 9823410011
49667 CRAIG, Robert D. (editor) PACIFIC STUDIES - (A Journal devoted to the study of the Pacific - its islands and adjacent countries - Volume I, No. 1, September 1977)
$40.00 AUD
Brigham Young University. Laie, Hawaii. 1977. First issue. (4), 69 PP with 4 b/w plates. Soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 14.8.
6 papers. Comparisons of Polynesian Genealogies in the Bishop Museum, by Kenneth P. Emory. We seem no longer to be Fijians, by Timothy Macnaught. Ko E Fakalangilangi, by Eric Shumway... American Samoa: which road ahead, by James Bishop...
51818 CRAIG, Robert D. & CLEMENT, Russell T. (compilers) WHO'S WHO IN OCEANIA 1980-1981
$50.00 AUD
Institute for Polynesian Studies / Brigham Young University. Laie, Hawaii. 1980. 1st Ed. (8), 220 PP, Card with a map of Oceania - 1980 on recto, and summary guide to the Pacific - 1980 on verso, loosely inserted. Illustrated soft cover. Near fine. 23 x 15.2.
73239 CRANE, Virginia Treece (editor) THE MARTIN & OSA JOHNSON SAFARI MUSEUM
$100.00 AUD
Jostens Co. Printing & Publishing. Wichita, Kansas. 1998. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 20 colour and 31 b/w photos. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt decoration and title on front board. 1 original post card, with Martin and Osa Johnson amongst pygmies, and published in British East Africa by by A. H. Wardle & Co. Ltd, tipped in on front endpaper. Fine condition. 28.5 x 21.8.
Their travels in the South Seas (1917 & 1919), Borneo (1920 & 1835) and in Eastern Africa (5 trips between 1920 and 1934), are recorded in the musem set in Chanute, Texas.
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.
13259 CROCOMBE, Ron THE PACIFIC ISLANDS AND THE USA
$30.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies. Suva. 1995. 1st Ed. XXX, 418 PP with 3 maps, 17 tables, and 26 bw illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 9820201160
13305 CROCOMBE, Ron PACIFIC NEIGHBOURS - New Zealand's Relations With Other Pacific Islands
$25.00 AUD
University of Canterbury / USP. Christchurch, N.Z / Suva. 1992. 1st Ed. XXIV, 290 PP with tables, maps & b/w photos. Pict. laminated hard covers. Fine. 21.5 x 15.5. 9820100784
The various ties connecting New Zealand to the other Pacific islands. Realities of these relationships.
40150 CROCOMBE, Ron THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$200.00 AUD
University of the South Pacific. Suva. 2001. 1st Ed. 790 PP with b/w illustrations (maps, graphs and photos). Eps: Map of the South Pacific region. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. Scarce. 26 x 16.5. 9820201543
Place, people and health. Language, society and culture... Government, Independence, Identity... Regionalism, globalism...
47514 CROCOMBE, Ron THE NEW SOUTH PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Reed Education / University of the South Pacific. Wellington / Suva. 1978. Reprint of the 1973 original. VIII, 130, (3) PP, plus 16 pages with 29 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Islands of the Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.2 x 13.8. 0589011049
Cover the indigenous traditions of the past and the impact of changes to the way of life. Future trends & developments.
75274 CROCOMBE, Ron THE SOUTH PACIFIC, An Introduction
$20.00 AUD
University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1989. 5th Ed. (8), 279 PP with b/w photos, maps. FEP: Sketch map of the Pacific Ocean. REP: 200 Miles EEZ of the Pacific Islands. Soft covers, pictorial front. Very good. 21 x 13.5. 0582718139
Cover the indigenous traditions of the past and the impact of changes to the way of life. Future trends & developments.
11981 CROCOMBE, Ron & MELEISEA, Malama (editors) LAND ISSUES IN THE PACIFIC
$40.00 AUD
Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1994. 1st Ed. XIV, 240 PP with 11 tables, 2 maps & 1 graph in text. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.6 x 15.4. 9820200962
Includes Aboriginal land in Australia, recognising traditional land rights and traditional groups in the Solomons, land policy and economic development in Kanaky, traditional rights and customary usage in the Cook Islands, ...
55730 CROCOMBE, Ron, & RAVUVU, Asesela (editors) PACIFIC PERSPECTIVE - Journal of the South Pacific Social Sciences Association: Volume 9, No. 2 1980
$15.00 AUD
South Pacific Social Sciences Association. Suva. 1980. 1st Ed. Vol. 9, No. 2: IV, 108 PP. Soft cover, illustrated front. Light foxing. Near fine. 25.5 x 20.5.
No 2: 10 papers on Law and Politics.
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
55731 CROCOMBE, Ron, RAVUVU, Asesela & NEEMIA, Uentabo (editors) PACIFIC PERSPECTIVE - Journal of the South Pacific Social Sciences Association: Volume 11, No. 2 1980
$15.00 AUD
South Pacific Social Sciences Association. Suva. 1982. 1st Ed. Vol. 11, No. 2: IV, 84 PP. Soft cover, illustrated front. Light foxing. Very good. 25.5 x 20.5.
Vol. 11, No 2: 15 papers on Pacific Women on the move
59853 CROSSLEY, Michael, SUKWIANOMB, Joseph & WEEKS, Sheldon PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
$15.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP & University of Papua New Guinea Press. Suva & Waigani. 1987. 1st Ed. X, 247 PP with tables and 27 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21 x 14.6. 9820100186
12892 CTRDP HOMMES ET ESPACES D'OCEANIE - Sciences Humaines 6ème
$20.00 AUD
CTRDP. Nouméa. 1994. 1st Ed. 64 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (graphs, maps & photos). Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. French text. 26.5 x 20.
Human Sciences in Oceania (for students in 1st year of high school in New Caledonia).
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.
42181 CUMMING, C. F. Gordon A LADY'S CRUISE IN A FRENCH MAN-OF-WAR
$125.00 AUD
William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh. 1882. New edition, complete in one volume. (2), XIV, 366 PP, (2 hand written index), plus 8 plates illustrated by the author, and 1 large folded map in colour, at rear of book. Fp: "Papeete. Capital of Tahiti". Cloth covers, decorated front with "The "Wa Kalou" or God's own Fern), gilt title on spine. Head and foot of spine slightly rubbed. Bookplate of a previous owner on front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper and foxing on outside edges. A very good clean copy. Scarce. 20.5 x 14.5.
A cruise on the French warship "Le Seignelay" between Fiji and Tahiti with calls in Tonga & Samoa. Life on board a French warship with glimpses of these islands, ...(1877-78).
30286 CUMMING, Helen DARE TO KNOW: The Art and Science of Pacific Voyages
$10.00 AUD
State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. (6), 32 PP with 27 b/w and colour illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 21 x 21. 0731066243
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the State Library of New South Wales in mid 1998.
45180 CUMMINGS, David W. POLYNESIA IN A DAY ! - Background and detailed description illustrated in full color of the Polynesian Cultural Center
$15.00 AUD
Polynesian Cultural Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Laie, Hawaii. 1971. 4th printing. 24 PP with 1 folded plan in colour, 7 drawings (2 in colour, 5 in b/w), and 50 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Staples removed. Very good. 30.5 x 23.
58287 CUMMINS, Joseph FIRST ENCOUNTERS - Lost and Found in history: Epic true stories of Cultural Collision and Conquest
$20.00 AUD
Pier 9 / Murdoch Books Australia. Sydney. 2008. 1st Ed. 336 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (maps, contemporary images). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.7 x 18.5. 9781741961430
25 epic tales: ... Part 4: The Great Southern Ocean: Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the World, 1519-1521. The Dutch discover Australia: 1623-1642... Louis Antoine de Bougainville in Tahiti, 1768. Endeavour and James Cook, 1768-1771 ...
49576 CURREY, C. H. BRITISH COLONIAL POLICY 1783-1915
$45.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. London. 1916. 1st Ed. 266 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Foxing. Very good. 15.4 x 10.3.
39153 D'ALLEVA, Anne ART OF THE PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
The Everyman Art Library. London. 1998. 1st Ed. 176 PP with 2 maps and 122 b/w & colour illust. Title spread: Savages of the Pacific, 1804-5. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner inside front cover, o/wise near fine. 23.3 x 16.5. 029783617X
76357 D'ALLEVA, Anne (editor) ART OF POLYNESIA
$35.00 AUD
Hurst Gallery. Cambridge, Mass., USA. 1987 1st Ed. Introduction by Norman Hurst & Anne D'Alleva. 52 PP with b/w illustrations: 2 prints and 99 b/w photos (some with details), plus 2 colour photos pasted down on title page: " large Kou wood bowl & suspension net, Hawai", and on page 50 "Tapa Kilt from Futuna". Stiff covers, title and illustration "Pu torino, wood flageolet, Maori" on front cover. Near fine. Scarce. 25.5 x 20.5.
54171 D'AYALA, Pier Giovanni & BRIGUGLIO, Lino (editors) INSULA - International Journal of Island Affairs - Year 2, No. 1
$20.00 AUD
International Journal of Island Affairs / UNESCO. Paris. 1993. Year 2, No. 1, August 1993. 80 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.8.
Institutional arrangements for small island developing countries within the framework of UNCED's Agenda 21. The Ulithi Falalop Atoll, by John B. Rulmal... Agricultural terracing on Pacific Islands, by Robert Kuhlken. Water and waste water systems in Guam, by A. Terry Johnson...
54172 D'AYALA, Pier Giovanni & BRIGUGLIO, Lino (editors) INSULA - International Journal of Island Affairs - Year 3, No. 1
$20.00 AUD
International Journal of Island Affairs / UNESCO. Paris. 1994. Year 3, No. 1, August 1994. 64 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.8.
Sustainable Development of small Island States, by Kevin Hill, Bishnodat Persaud. ... Tourist Economy, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, by Hiroshi Kakazu..
60827 DAGEAGO, Pearl AIWAN, EIDIMIDA ME EBAWO
$15.00 AUD
Institute of Education / University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1992. 1st Ed. 8 PP with 8 drawings by Frank Asesela. Vignette on title page: Ebawo / Shark. Pictorial soft cover. Text in Nauru language. Fine. 21 x 15 9820101042
61575 DAKOWSKI, Bruce NATIVES
$15.00 AUD
Central Independent Television. Oxford, UK. c. 1984. Roneotyped edition. (3), 15 PP (recto only). Clear plastic front. Note to Ian Hogbin, dated 7 Feb. 84 at top of title page. Very good. 29.7 x 21.
Subtitle: This document is an outline for a Television series of Six one hour programme on Social Anthropology. "Primitive Mentality", with Franz Boas. "Everything is Relative", with William H. R. Rivers. "The Kula Ring", with Bronislaw Malinowski. "The Missionary Position", with Maurice Leenhardt. "Rites of Passage", with Margaret Mead. "The Translation of Culture", with Edward E. Evans-Pritchard.
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.
19677 DALRYMPLE, Alexander AN ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERIES MADE IN THE SOUTH PACIFICK OCEAN
$150.00 AUD
Hordern House / Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 1996. No. 3 in the Australian Maritime series. Reissue of the 1767 original with a foreword by Dr. Kevin Fewster of the A.N.M.M. and an essay by Dr. Andrew Cook of the British Library. Limited edition of 950 copies. 47, (IV), XXXI, plus a large folded chart of the South Pacifick Ocean), 103 PP plus 6 large folded plates at rear of book. Fp: Portrait of Alexander Dalrymple by John Thomas Seton. Hand bound in quarter midnight blue Scottish calf with marbled papered sides. Gilt title on black vignette on spine. Near fine. 21.7 x 13.2. 1875567135
An account of the discoveries made in the South Pacific Ocean previous to 1764, containing: a geographical description of places, an examination of the conduct of the discoverers in the tracks they pursued, investigation of what may be further expected.
46989 DALRYMPLE, Alexander A HISTORICAL COLLECTION OF THE SEVERAL VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN (Two volumes bound in one)
$200.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1967. Reprint of the 1770 & 1771 editions. No. 11 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series (Volume 1/2). Volume I: (2), XXX, (II), 24, 24, 204, (3 errata) PP, plus 1 plate (natural history) and 3 folded charts. Volume II: (IV), 124, 20, (8 vocabulary of languages), (12 Chronological table of discoveries), (40 index) PP, plus 1 folded chart, and 11 plates (4 folded). Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette, front cover & spine, glassine protection (with chips/tear). Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. Scarce. 26 x 21.
Volume 1: Spanish voyages of Magalhanes, Alvaro Mendana de Neyra, Pedro Fernandez de Quiros. Volume 2: Dutch voyages of Lemaire and Schouten, Abel Tasman, Jacob Roggewein.
58793 DAM, Esther (compiler & editor) BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PERIODICAL ARTICLES RELATING TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Volume 1: 1974
$15.00 AUD
University of the South Pacific Library. Suva. 1976. 1st Ed. (4), XI, 64 PP. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 24 x 17.8.
59000 DAM, Esther (compiler & editor) BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PERIODICAL ARTICLES RELATING TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Volume 2: 1975
$15.00 AUD
University of the South Pacific Library. Suva. 1977. 1st Ed. (4), X, 74 PP. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 24 x 17.8.
57320 DARCHEN, Jacques Météorologie Maritime - MET MAR, No. 144
$10.00 AUD
Direction de la Météorologie Nationale. Paris. 1989. Issue No. 144, 3rd term 1989. (2), 60, (2) PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Pages 34 to 43: Missed Tide at Tarawa, 20 November 1943, by Philippe Hisard. Visit to the "National Hurricane Center", by Pierre-Yves Lemée. ...
57321 DARCHEN, Jacques Météorologie Maritime - MET MAR, No. 152
$10.00 AUD
Direction de la Météorologie Nationale. Paris. 1991. Issue No. 152, 3rd term 1991. (2), 54 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Oceanographic Campaign Alizé 2 of 1991 in the Equatorial Pacific, by Philippe Dandin. Tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean, by Pierre-Yves Lemée. ... Adieu Commandant Franck Garrigue and Commandant Georges Croisile, by Pierre Estur.
58671 DARIAN-SMITH, Kate AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA - (Continents)
$10.00 AUD
Wayland. London. 1996. 1st Ed. 48 PP with colour illustrations (25 National Flags, 5 graphs, maps, and 38 photos). Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 27.6 x 22.3. 0750215003
33804 DARWIN, Francis THE LIFE OF CHARLES DARWIN
$10.00 AUD
Senate. London. 1995. Reprint of the second edition of 1902 (original of 1892). (10), 348 PP with 1 facsimile of letter and 3 b/w photos (poor quality). Fp: Photo of Charles Darwin. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 185958148X
Portrait and biography of Charles Darwin: the man and the scientist.
37255 DAUSSET, Jean, VALENTA, Andr, LAROCHE, Marie-Charlotte et al. NOUVEAU REGARD SUR L'ILE DE PAQUES - RAPA NUI
$50.00 AUD
Moana Editeur / Cercle d'Etudes sur l'ile de Pâques. Paris. 1982. 1st edition. 285, (3) PP with b/w illustrations (maps, sketches, photos), and 69 colour photos. Fp: Ahu Nau Nau. Hard cover, Skinluxe (reclaimed leather) padded binding, gilt decoration on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. French text. Fine. Scarce. 31.6 x 22.5. 2904279008
Report on Easter Island by a group of 21 people involved in migration, writing, archaeology, ...
56273 DAVID, Andrew (editor) THE VOYAGE OF HMS HERALD to Australia and the South-west Pacific 1852-1861 under the command of Captain Henry Mangles Denham
$45.00 AUD
Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 1995. 1st edition limited to 1200 copies. No. 3 in the second Miegunyah Press series. XXVIII, 521 PP, (3), with 11 survey charts & 8 maps, plus 24 pages with 48 illustrations (29 in colour). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, ribbon page-marker, dj. Fine. 24.7 x 18. 9780522843903
Between 1852 and 1861, HMS Herald covered part of the South-west Pacific and part of the Australian coast (including King George Sound & Shark Bay) and surveyed and charted known land masses and suspected hazards. In 1853, while at anchor off the Isle of Pines, it unknowingly witnessed the French take-over of New Caledonia and its Dependencies. Includes visits to Fiji, Lord Howe, survey of St.Paul Island (Indian Ocean) in early 1853 and Mellish Reef (Coral Sea) in 1858, where they found the abandoned wreck of the French naval vessel Duroc.
71411 DAVIDOW, Leonard S. (editor) THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY and Other Sea Stories
$30.00 AUD
The Spencer Press. Reading, Pa. 1937. 1st edition in the "Classic Romances of Literature" series, with a foreword by Leonard S. Davidow. X, 309 PP with 2 b/w illustrations: frontispiece and 1 chart showing routes of the Bounty, Bligh, the Mutineers and the Pandora". Fp: The Guard around me had their pieces cocked. Cloth cover, device and title on spine. Ageing and light foxing of paper. Very good. 20.8 x 14.5.
Mutiny of the Bounty, by Guy Murchie, Jr. Other Stories: How Old Wiggins Wore Ship, by Captain Roland T. Coffin / Lost in the Fog, by Noah Brooks / "---Mas has come", by Leonard Kip / The Haunted Ships, by Allan Cunningham / Idylls of the Sea, by Frank T. Bullen.
22319 DAVIDSON, J. W. PETER DILLON OF VANIKORO, Chevalier of The South Seas
$30.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1975. 1st edition with an introduction by O. H. K. Spate, the editor. XIX, 351 PP with 4 maps, plus 8 b/w plates. Eps: Peter Dillon's major voyages in the South Seas. Cloth cover, dj. Near fine. 21.5 x 14. 195504577
Biography of Peter Dillon, who first discovered the fate of the lost French explorer La Pérouse.
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.
57721 DAWS, Gavan PRISONERS OF THE JAPANESE: POWS of World War II in the Pacific
$15.00 AUD
Quill / William Morrow. New York. 1994. 3rd printing in the Quill edition. 462 PP with 1 map on double page and 36 b/w illustrations (2 paintings, 2 cartoons, 3 drawings and 29 photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Ageing of paper and foxing on outside edges. Very good. 23.4 x 15.6. 9780688143701
69013 DAY, A. Grove & STROVEN, Carl (editors) TRUE TALES OF THE SOUTH SEAS
$10.00 AUD
Souvenir Press. London. 1967. 1st UK edition of the 1966 US original. X, 342 PP. Hard cover, price-clipped dust jacket which is also a little soiled. Light offsetting on endpapers. Signature of previous owner on FFEP. An otherwise very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.8.
Arrests on Arorae, by Sir Arthur Grimble. The wreck of the Leonora, by Louis Becke. The Centurion fight with the Manila Galleon, by Richard Walter.
52280 DE BIGAULT, G. DRAMES DE LA VIE SALOMONAISE
$20.00 AUD
Collection Lavigerie. Namur, Belgium. 1947. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 2 maps and 2 drawings. Pictorial soft cover. Ageing of paper. Small stamp on title-page, o/wise very good. French text. 19 x 12.
Experiences of Marists Missionaries in the Solomon archipelago.
58796 DE BRES, Joris & CAMPBELL, Rob WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD
$10.00 AUD
Auckland Resource Centre for World Development. Auckland. c. 1976. 1st Ed. No. 2 in Migration Studies series. 44 PP with 11 tables. Soft cover. Signature of previous owner on title-page, o/wise fine. 21 x 17.
47607 DE COPPET, Daniel & ITEANU, André (editors) COSMOS AND SOCIETY IN OCEANIA
$10.00 AUD
Berg Publishers. Oxford. 1995. 1st edition in the Explorations in Anthropology series. VI, 338 PP with 17 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 21.6 x 14. 9781859730423
10 papers. No. 1: Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual, by Alfred Gell ... No. 9: Are'are Society: A Melanesian Socio Cosmic point of view, by Daniel de Coppet. .
15804 de DECKKER, P., ROUBAUD, S. et al (Edit.) OU EN EST LA NOUVELLE ZELANDE?
$30.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1986. Colloque organisé par l'Association France-Nouvelle-Zélande. 96 PP with 4 maps in text. Card cover. Fine. French text with an abstract in English at beginning of each chapter. 21.5 x 13.5. 2858026823
New Zealand geography, settlement, discovery, colonization. NZ's relations in the South Pacific and with the European Union.
31717 DE DECKKER, Paul & KUNTZ, Laurence LA BATAILLE DE LA COUTUME et ses enjeux pour le Pacifique Sud
$30.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1998. 1st Ed., in the Collection Mondes Océaniens series. 238 PP with 1 map. Card cover. French text. Fine. 21.4 x 13.2. 2738465587
Custom: customary practices and People identities in the South Pacific. Impact on Society and changes, Nationalist quests...
54234 DE DECKKER, Paul, SAND, Christophe & ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric (editors) PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16TH PACIFIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE / ACTES DE LA 16e CONFERENCE DE L'ASSOCIATION DES HISTORIENS DU PACIFIQUE (in The New Pacific Review / La Nouvelle Revue Du Pacifique - Volume 3)
$40.00 AUD
Pacific Centre, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies / ANU. Canberra. 2006. 1st Ed. Volume 3, Decembre 2006. Preface (English) by Darrell Tryon and prologue (French) by Frédéric Angleviel. IV, 265 PP with 5 b/w photos. Illustrated soft cover. Text in English or French with résumé / abstract. Fine. 25.4 x 17.7.
18 papers on History and Anthropology. 13 in English by Anthony Hooper, Grant McCall & Max Quanchi, Paul de Deckker, Michael Goldsmith, Sam Kaina... 5 in French by Serge Tcherkezoff, Charles Illouz, Christophe Sand, Jean-Michel Chazine and Jean-Christophe Galipaud.
33092 DE HAULLEVILLE, Eric LE VOYAGE AUX ILES GALAPAGOS
$10.00 AUD
Les Cahiers du Sud. Marseille. 1934. 1st Ed. 192 PP. Soft cover. Pages uncut. Near fine. French text. 19.5 x 14.
Novel, romantic essay / comédie de l'esprit.
73287 DE LA CARRIERES, Capitaine A.C. VOYAGE AUX PAYS AURIFERES - Afrique, Mexique, Californie, Pérou, Chili, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie, Russie
$1200.00 AUD
Librairie De A. Courcier, Editeur. Paris. c. 1855. 1st Ed. (4), 328, (2) PP with 25 wood cut vignettes (including 1 on title page and 7 tail-pieces), plus 12 plates & tissue guard protection with duo tone engravings (illustrations by J.B. Arnout). Fp: "Un placer en Californie". Endpapers: shiny percaline. Leather binding, spine with raised bands, gilt decoration and gilt title. All edges gilt. Foxing throughout although not affecting legibility. A very good copy of a scarce item. French text. 23.5 x 15.5.
Sailed from Marseille in September 1850, to Gabon on the schooner "Le Bissagot"... Reached Rio de Janeiro on a Brazilian Corvette ... California ... Australia (pages 194 to 250): Sydney, Bathurst, Melbourne ... Return to Europe via the Red Sea and the Railway line; before the digging or opening of the Suez Canal.
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.
55604 DE ROSAMEL, Capitaine de Corvette Joseph POHNPEI, Micronésie, en 1840. Voyage de circumnavigation de la Danaïde
$75.00 AUD
Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed. Publication No. 49. Edited by Pierre de Rosamel and Jean-Christophe Galipaud. 155, (3) PP with 1 chart, 2 maps, 2 engravings, 2 etchings, and 27 pages of facsimile of original manuscript. Fp: Sketch map of central western Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24.4 x 16. 2854300092
Call of Danaïde in Pohnpei (Bonnebey, Ponape) 7th to 21st of March 1840.
55060 DE VERN REED SMITH PALAU ETHNOGRAPHY, Volume 2 - Recommendations for the Preservation of Historic and Cultural Resources in Palau
$35.00 AUD
U.S. National Park Service & Micronesian Endowment for Historic Preservation, Republic of Palau. San Francisco. 1997. 1st Ed., in Micronesian Resources Study, edited by William Hampton Adams. VI, 60 PP with 6 figures. Soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.5.
Text of the Palau Society of Historians, translated in English by De Vern Reed Smith.
42068 DEAN, Beth SOUTH PACIFIC DANCE
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1978. 1st Ed. 108 PP with 3 maps , 54 b/w and 55 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Front cover lightly rubbed, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 21 x 25.5. 0858070340
33472 DEAN, Beth & CARELL, Victor TWIN JOURNEY To sing - to dance - to live - An Autobiography
$10.00 AUD
Twin lives of a dancer (Beth Dean) and a singer (Victor Carell). Involvement with Pacific Islanders (1st South Pacific Festival of Arts held in 1972 in Fiji), Aborigines (ballet Corroboree)..
52233 DECOUX, Amiral SILLAGES DANS LES MERS DU SUD
$25.00 AUD
Librairie Plon. Paris. 1953. 1st Ed. (6), IV, 402 PP with maps, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w photos and 1 folded map at rear of book. Fp: La Reine Marautaaroa. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 20.3 x 14.2.
An overview of the French in the Pacific as seen by a French Admiral who served in the area on warships before and after WWI.
72736 DELACOUR, Jean GUIDE DES OISEAUX DE LA NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE ET DE SES DEPENDANCES
$60.00 AUD
Editions Delachaux & Niestlé. Neuchatel, Switzerland. 1966. 1st Ed. in the series "Les Guides du Naturaliste". 172, (4) PP with 54 b/w line drawings & 4 colour plates with 19 watercolours (all illustrations by Lloyd Sandford). Cloth cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Dust jacket lightly sunned. Foxing on some pages, outside edges and inside the dust jacket. French text. Very good. 20.7 x 13.7.
Description of 116 species of the birds of New Caledonia and its dependencies.
11993 Della SANTA, Elizabeth MELANESIE
$25.00 AUD
Edition de la Connaissance. Brussels. 1954. 1st Ed. 72 PP with 1 map & 60 b/w photos. Fp: Masque Pectoral Sepik. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. French text. 22 x 14.8.
Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, in Brussels in 1954. Artefacts from Dutch New Guinea, Australian New Guinea, mandated territory of New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides and New Caledonia.
68740 DEMAZEL, Philippe & CALONNE, Patricia (editors) EVASION: Nouvelle-Calédonie / Pacifique / Asie (in LOCAL, Le Magazine des Nouvelles)
$10.00 AUD
Local / Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes Nouméa. 2016. Special Issue / Hors Série. May 2016 edition. 84 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. New. 29.5 x 21.
52341 DEMMER, Christine & SALAÜN, Marie (editors) A L'EPREUVE DU CAPITALISME. Dynamiques Economiques dans le Pacifique
$30.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2006. 1st Ed. No. 4 in Cahiers du Pacifique Sud Contemporain series. 198, (2) PP with 3 maps. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.4 x 13.6. 2296025134
8 papers. Introduction to Melanesian exchanges (currencies and money), by David Akin and Joel Robbins. Money and the dead on the island of Mare, Loyalty Island, by Elsa Faugère... Tonga: cultural identity and trade, by Paul van der Grijp...
59430 DEMMKE, Andreas COOK ISLANDS POPULATION PROFILE, based on 1996 census - A Guide for Planners and Policy Makers
$10.00 AUD
Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 1999. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Chris McMurray. XVIII, 94 PP with 2 maps, 9 graphs and over 43 tables. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 24 x 17. 9822037120
59425 DEMMKE, Andreas ... FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA POPULATION PROFILE - A Guide for Planners and Policy Makers
$10.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission. Nouméa. 1997. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Gerald Haberkorn. XII, 72 PP with 1 map of the FSM, 2 graphs and over 19 tables. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 20.8 x 14.5. 9822035756
73959 DENNIS, Andy A PARK FOR ALL SEASONS - THE STORY OF ABEL TASMAN NATIONAL PARK
$20.00 AUD
Department of Conservation, Nelson / Marlborough. Nelson, NZ. 1990. Reprint of the 1995 original. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.2. 0477061273
Whariwharangi, December 1643, or Why Abel Tasman?. Glimpses from the past / Explorers / Early Settlers..
73963 DENNIS, Andy THE STORY OF ARTHUR'S PASS NATIONAL PARK
$20.00 AUD
Arthurs Pass National Park. Auckland, NZ. 1986. 4th Ed. 128 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus a large colour map of the Park (dated 1985) pasted down inside back cover. Pictorial stiff covers. Discreet stamp of previous owners on top of title-page, o/wise near fine. 21 x 14.2. 0477061141
History: pages 58 to 89. .
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...
56173 DENOON, Donald (editor) EMERGING FROM EMPIRE? DECOLONISATION IN THE PACIFIC
$60.00 AUD
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies - A.N.U. Canberra. 1997. 1st Ed. (4), III, 208 PP. Soft covers. Near fine. 29.1 x 20.7. 0731328557
Proceedings of a workshop at the Australian National University, December 1996. 27 papers: The decolonisation of Fiji: debate on Constitutional change - Who made Western Samoa independent? - From the New Hebrides to Vanuatu - Prospects for New Caledonia: the challenge of Ouvéa, by David Small - Refelections on Political Murder: New Caledonia 1984, by Bronwen Douglas. The US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands: A paradox of independent Dependency...
13296 DENOON, Donald, BALLARD, Chris & HANCOCK, Peter (editor) MINING AND MINERAL RESOURCE POLICY ISSUES IN ASIA-PACIFIC, Prospects for the 21st Century
$80.00 AUD
Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies - A.N.U. Canberra. 1997. 1st Ed. (4), IV, 266 PP with charts, figures, and tables. Soft cover. Fine. 29.2 x 20.6.
Proceedings of the Conference held at the Australian National University, 1-3 November 1995. 40 papers on changing global climate of the mineral industry, government and mineral resources, community and mineral resources, mineral resource development and the environment, and industrial relations issues.
55407 DEROGY, Jacques, PONTAUT, Jean-Marie & LOUYOT, Alain ENQUÊTE SUR TROIS SECRETS D'ETAT
$30.00 AUD
Editions Robert Laffont. Paris. 1986. 1st Ed. 362 PP. Hard cover, dj. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. French text. Fine. 24.5 x 16.2. 2221052064
Terrorism in France, in Lebanon... Chapter 2 (pages 141 to 310) : Greenpeace and Rainbow Warrior.
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...
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.
56945 DICKSON, Diane & DOSSOR, Carol WORLD CATALOGUE OF THESES ON THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$20.00 AUD
ANU Press. Canberra. 1970. 1st Ed., with a preface by Professor H. E. Maude. No. 1 in the Pacific Monograph series. XII, 123 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Signed and dated by Dorothy Shineberg on front endpaper. Fine. 21.4 x 14. 0708101623
39603 DIOLE, Philippe THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC
$5.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1977. 1st UK edition. 302 PP with b/w illustrations & colour photos. Cloth cover. Foxing spots on half title page and last page. Renewed endpapers. Near fine. 26.5 x 18.5. 0304298999
The tribes of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands & Vanuatu (New Hebrides). 42 pages on discovery & exploration.
Scuba Diver / Yaffa Publishing Group. Sydney. 1990. February/March 1990 issue. Edited by Simon LANE. 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27. 2 x 21.
No rest at "Wreck Reef" (wreck of Cato and HMS Porpoise of Matthew Flinders), by Frank Richards. Guam and Saipan, Micronesia.
46969 DIXON, George A VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD: BUT MORE PARTICULARLY TO THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA
$75.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1968. Facsimile reprint of the 1789 edition. No. 37 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. XXIV, (3), 360, 47 PP, plus 5 folded charts, 3 folded coastal views & 13 bw plates (8 on natural history). Fp: Chart of the Northwest coast of America. Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette. Bookplate on front endpaper. Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 26 x 20.
Captain Dixon is remembered for his voyage round the world performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, in the Queen Charlotte, during which particular attention was paid to the N.W. coast of America where Dixon discovered and named the Queen Charlotte Islands. The work is dedicated to Sir Joseph Banks. Calls in the Hawaian Islands. Fur trade.
15585 DMYTRYSHYN, B. et al. (Edits.) RUSSIAN PENETRATION OF THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN 1700-1797 To Siberia and Russian America, Three Centuries of Russian Eastward Expansion - VOLUME II: A Documentary Record
$50.00 AUD
Oregon Historical Society. Portland. 1988. 1st Ed. LXXXVI, 558 PP (2 colophons) with double-page map & 62 b/w illustrations, some of which are charts & plans. Eps. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 26.5 x 16. 087595149X
Eighty six documents: first-hand reports of trader-explorers and Imperial captains.
59735 DOBELL, Graeme AUSTRALIA, THE MOST RELUCTANT PACIFIC NATION (in Quadrant, No. 396)
$10.00 AUD
Quadrant Magazine Co. Inc. Sydney. 2003. Issue No. 396 (Vol. XLVII, No. 5), May 2003. 88 PP. Contains article pages 16 to 23. Soft cover. Fine. Slight ageing of paper. 27.5 x 20.3.
Policy taboos, popular amnesia and Political failure.
59438 DOBELL, Graeme, DORNEY, Sean ... THE AUSTRALIAN MEDIA'S TREATMENT OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD: How does it rate ?
$10.00 AUD
AIDAB - Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. 1989. 1st Ed. Introduction by Annmaree O'Keefe. International Development Issues No. 6. VI, 60 PP with 5 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24.8 x 17.7. 0644097280
14733 DODGE, Ernest S. ISLANDS AND EMPIRES, Western Impact on the Pacific and East Asia, Europe and the World in the Age of Expansion - Volume VII
$20.00 AUD
Univ. of Minnesota Press / OUP. Minneapolis. 1976. 1st Ed. XVI, 364 PP with 9 maps (8 on full page), plus 12 pages with 31 b/w illust. Gilt-engraved cloth cover & spine, dj. Dust jacket a little rubbed around edges. One line (5 words) in the contents page has been highlighted, o/wise a near fine copy. 23.5 x 15.5.
The impact of western civilization on two different societies: the Stone-Age of the Pacific Islands and the sophisticated islands of the Far East (China, Japan, East Indies).
21262 DODGE, Ernest S. NEW ENGLAND AND THE SOUTH SEAS
$20.00 AUD
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1965. 1st Ed. XV, (3), 217 PP with 53 b/w illustrations. Fp: Hawaiian War God. Eps: Chart of the South Seas. Cloth cover, device on front cover, dj. Dust jacket with rubbed spots and insect damage (now in a protective sleeve). Contents are near fine. 23.5 x 15.5.
The great South Seas: hunting the cachalot, sea otters, sandalwood, beche de mer and cannibals.
45063 DODGE, Ernest S. BEYOND THE CAPES - Pacific Exploration from Captain Cook to the Challenger 1776-1877
$10.00 AUD
Victor Gollancz. London. 1971. 1st UK edition. XV, 429 PP with 3 maps and 58 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): British survey ship cruising in the South Seas. Eps: Central Pacific between the 30th parallels. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Note on recto of frontispiece, and stamp of previous owner on endpapers and recto of frontispiece. Foxing spots on outside edges, first and last leaves. Very good. 23.5 x 15.5.
The history of Pacific exploration.
73220 DOMENY DE RIENZI, M.G.L. OCEANIE OU CINQUIEME PARTIE DU MONDE - Revue Géographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie et de la Mélanésie (in Three Volumes)
$500.00 AUD
Firmin Didot Frères, Editeurs. Paris. 1836, 36 & 38. 1st edition in "L' Univers - Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples" series. Vol. 1: (4), 399, (1 errata) PP on 2 columns, plus 100 b/w plates on full-page and 2 folded maps "Océanie" & "Malaisie". Vol. 2: (4), 397, (3 position of plates and errata) PP on 2 columns, plus 100 b/w plates (101 to 200) and 1 folded map "Polynésie et Micronésie". Vol. 3: (4), 632, (8 errata and position of plates) PP on 2 columns, plus 104 b/w plates (201 to 304) and 2 folded maps "Kalémantan ou Bornéo" and "Mélanésie". Quarter bound, marbled boards, leather spine with gilt lines and title. Spine of the 3 volumes affected by the light / sun, lettering damaged. Ageing of paper. Still a very good set. French text. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 21.5 x 14.
Vol.1: General description plus Malaisia (Indonesia, Malaya, Philippines) & Micronesia. Vol.2: Mariana in Micronesia, Polynesia (Hawaii, Marquesas, Tuamotu, Tahiti). Vol.3: Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Melanesia (PNG, Fiji, Solomons, New Hebrides, New Caledonia), Australia, Kerguelen or Desolation Island.
73242 DOMENY DE RIENZI, M.G.L. OCEANIE OU CINQUIEME PARTIE DU MONDE - Revue Géographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie et de la Mélanésie - (Tome Premier / Volume 1)
$200.00 AUD
Firmin Didot Frères, Editeurs. Paris. 1836. 1st edition in "L'Univers - Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples" series. Vol. 1: (4), 399, (4 errata and notes to the binder on position of plates) PP (on 2 columns), plus 100 b/w plates on full-page and 2 folded maps "Océanie" & "Malaisie". Half bound copy (c. 1980s) retaining original soft covers, marbled boards & endpapers, leather spine with raised bands, gilt devices and title. Ageing of paper an d foxing, mostly around page edges. Very good. Image shows the title-page. French text. 22 x 14.5.
Vol.1: General description plus Malaisia (Indonesia, Malaya, Philippines) & Micronesia.
73243 DOMENY DE RIENZI, M.G.L. OCEANIE OU CINQUIEME PARTIE DU MONDE - Revue Géographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie et de la Mélanésie - (Tome Deuxieme / Volume 2)
$200.00 AUD
Firmin Didot Frères, Editeurs. Paris. 1836. 1st edition in "L' Univers - Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples" series. Vol. 2: (4), 397, (3 position of plates and errata) PP (on 2 columns), plus 100 b/w plates (101 to 200) and 1 folded map "Polynésie et Micronésie". Half bound (c. 1980s) copy retaining original soft covers, marbled boards & endpapers, leather spine with raised bands, gilt devices and title. Copy lacking plate called for: 129 "Ruines du Fort de Kai-Roua" for this Volume 2. Ageing of paper and foxing, mostly around page edges. Very good. French text. Image shows title-page. 21.5 x 14.
Vol.2: Mariana in Micronesia, Polynesia (Hawaii, Marquesas, Tuamotu, Tahiti).
76044 DOMENY DE RIENZI, M.G.L. OCEANIE OU CINQUIEME PARTIE DU MONDE - Revue Géographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie et de la Mélanésie (Tome Troisième - Volume 3)
$100.00 AUD
Firmin Didot Frères, Editeurs. Paris. 1863. Reprint of the 1838 original in "L' Univers - Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples" series. Vol. 3: (4), 635, (4 position of plates) PP on 2 columns. Plus 35 of the called out plates 173 to 208 (New Zealand and Tonga) and the folded map "Mélanésie". Modern binding retaining original front cover. Dark blue cloth covers, title on on a light blue label pasted down on spine, marbled endpapers. Copy with misbound copies (196 to 208), and missing plates (168 to 172, 210 to 284 then 297 to 304), called for. French text. Very good reading copy. 22.5 x 14.
Vol.3: text complete: Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Melanesia (PNG, Fiji, Solomons, New Hebrides, New Caledonia), Australia, Kerguelen or Desolation Island. As for the plates: on 124 called for, 89 of them are missing, and the bound plates are from an edition published with captions in French and Spanish.
59151 DONNE, T. E. MOEURS ET COUTUMES DES MAORIS
$50.00 AUD
Payot. Paris. 1938. 1st French edition, in the Collection de Documents et de Témoignages pour servir à l'Histoire de Notre Temps. Translated from the English original by M. Fain. 295, (3), (4 publications) PP with 1 map on double page and 25 figures, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w photos. Soft cover, pictorial front. French text. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 23 x 14.3.
11662 DORSINFANG-SMETS, A. & DERO, A.C. L'OCEANIE, Histoire et Culture
$40.00 AUD
Meddens. Bruxelles. 1978. 1st Ed. 198 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Front endpaper lightly rubbed. Occasional foxing. French text. Near fine. 28.5 x 25. 2870130228
Oceania: geography, population & peopling, social environment, religions, languages, history & economy of Australia & New Zealand.
76098 DOUGLAS, Ngaire THEY CAME FOR SAVAGES: 100 Years of Tourism in Melanesia
$45.00 AUD
Southern Cross University Press. Alstoneville, NSW. 1996. 1st Ed. (12), 300 PP with 3 maps, 6 figures, 9 tables and 47 b/w illustrations (prints, photos). Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21.8 x 15 1875855149
Papua New Guinea / Solomon Islands / Vanuatu.
39829 DOUGLAS, Norman & Ngaire (Editors) PACIFIC ISLANDS YEAR BOOK - 16th Edition
$25.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1978. 16th edition. VIII, 717 PP with tables and maps. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean. Illustrated hard cover, clear plastic folder. Fine. 20.8 x 13.7. 0207161143
11820 DOUMENGE, F., HUETZ de LEMPS, A. & CHAPUIS, O. CONTRIBUTION FRANCAISE A LA CONNAISSANCE GEOGRAPHIQUE DES MERS DU SUD / French Contribution to the Scientific Research on the Southern Seas - Collection Iles et Archipels - No.9
$70.00 AUD
Centre de Recherche sur les Espaces Tropicaux. Talence. 1988. 1st edition. (18), 312 PP, (4 adverts), plus maps. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French & English text. 24 x 16. 2905081090
French Contribution to the Scientific Research on the Tropical Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean and their Islands.
11961 DOUMENGE, François GEOPOLITIQUE DU PACIFIQUE SUD
$25.00 AUD
C.R.E.T. Talence. 1990. Cahiers d'Outre-Mer of April/June 1990. 104 PP with maps, tables & 4 b/w photos. Pict. soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 16. 2905881147
Geopolitical dynamics of the South Pacific. The two Samoas: an overview of a political geography.
13385 DOUMENGE, François L'HOMME DANS LE PACIFIQUE SUD, Etude Géographique
$65.00 AUD
Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1966. 1st Ed. Publications de la Société des Océanistes No. 19. XXVIII, 633, (5) PP with numerous b/w illustrations, plus a large folded map at rear. Soft cover, dj. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 25 x 20.
The physical environment, the races of the South Seas, the way of life and the economic development.
11664 DOUMENGE, François & Jean-Pierre (editors) LE PACIFIQUE, l'océan, ses rivages et ses îles / The PACIFIC, the ocean, its shores and its islands)
$65.00 AUD
CRET. Bordeaux. 1991. 1st Ed., in collection Iles et Archipels No.14. (8), 509 PP. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French & English text. 24 x 15.5. 2905081189
The collecting and collating efforts on the regional knowledge from 30 years of French research in the Pacific.
42827 DOUMENGE, Jean-Pierre & HUETZ DE LEMPS, Christian (editors) NATURE ET HOMMES DANS LES ILES TROPICALES: Réflexions et Exemples
$15.00 AUD
CRET / Centre de Recherche sur les Espaces Tropicaux. Bordeaux. 1984. 1st Ed. Collection Iles et Archipels, No. 3. Foreword by Alain Huetz de Lemps. (6), 162 PP with 5 tables, 8 b/w photos and 40 figures, plus 1 folded map. Pictorial soft cover (slightly soiled). French text. Internally very good. 29.5 x 21.2. 2905081023
Papers presented at the 9th Seminar held in Nov. 1981 by SEPANRIT (Société pour l'Etude, la Protection et l'Aménagement de la Nature dans les Régions Inter-tropicales). Weather patterns, cyclones, biological constraints of insular surroundings, economy and plantations, mining,..
45831 DOUSSET, Roselène & TAILLEMITE, Etienne THE GREAT BOOK OF THE PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
Books for Pleasure. Sydney. c. 1979. 1st Australian edition translated by Andrew Mouravieff-Apostol. 279, (12 index & appendices) PP with 330 b/w illustrations and 47 colour plates. Hard cover, gilt device on front, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 31.5 x 26.
Reveals the truth behind the legends and the myths emanating from the great exploratory movement from the 15th to 19th centuries.
73701 DOUSSET, Roselène & TAILLEMITE, Etienne THE GREAT BOOK OF THE PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
Chartwell Books. Secaucus, NJ. 1979. 1st US edition translated by Andrew Mouravieff-Apostol. 279, (12 index & appendices) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, gilt device on front, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 31.5 x 26. 0890092427
Reveals the truth behind the legends and the myths emanating from the great exploratory movement from the 15th to 19th centuries.
36084 DOWNEY, Joseph T. THE CRUISE OF THE PORTSMOUTH, 1845-1847 - A Sailor's View of the Naval Conquest of California
$15.00 AUD
Yale University Press. New Haven. 1963. Reissue of the 1958 original edited by Howard Lamar, No. 4 in Western Historical series. XXII, 246 PP with 1 tail piece, 5 head pieces, 2 sketch-maps and 3 sketch-plans. Fp (in colour): The conquest of California, by Alfred Sully. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Repaired tear at top of dust jacket, o/wise a very good clean copy. 23.5 x 15.5.
72697 DRISCOLL, Ian H. FLIGHTPATH SOUTH PACIFIC
$45.00 AUD
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. Christchurch. 1972. 1st Ed. Foreword by Air Vice-Marshall Sir Leonard Isitt. 303 PP with 3 tables (pages 207 to 292) and 8 maps, plus 32 pages with 74 b/w photos. Endpapers: A TEAL Solent IV flying-boat at Aitutaki, Cook Islands. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Small tear/hole in bottom margin of 8 pages but not affecting the text. An otherwise near fine copy. 24.8 x 15.5. 072330355X
The Flyers, the Airlines and the Aircraft.
13078 DRIVER, Marjorie G. CROSS, SWORD, AND SILVER: THE NASCENT SPANISH COLONY IN THE MARIANA ISLANDS
$50.00 AUD
Micronesian Area Research Center. Guam. 1990. 1st edition by M.A.R.C. (reprint from Pacific Studies, Volume 11, No.3, July 1988). (4), 31 PP with 1 map of Guam, 1679. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on first page. Dedicatory note on title page, dated and signed by the author. Near fine. 21.6 x 14.
Settlement of the Marianas in 1668, over a century after the first foothold of Spain in the Philippines in 1565...
73509 DROLLET, Michael (editor) COOK ISLANDS DIRECTORY & Guide Book
$25.00 AUD
Michael Drollet. Rarotonga, Cook Islands. 1977. 1st Ed. Introduction by Sir Albert Royle Henry, Premier of the Cook Islands. 175 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings and 13 sketch maps) and colour illustrations (plan of avarua and colour photos including a portfolio of 83 photos between pages 53 and 83). Pictorial stiff covers. 3 pages on "The rise and fall of Rakau" (NZ Listener, 20/01/1979), loosely inserted. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2.
37329 du CHATENET, Gaetan GALAPAGOS
$20.00 AUD
Editions Delroise. Paris. No date, circa. 1977 1st Ed. (12), 208 PP with 110 colour photos. FEP: Ecuadorian map of the Galapagos Archipelago. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj (closed tears), slipcase (soiled). Near fine. English, French, German and Spanish text. 27.8 x 21.5. 2855180309
15565 DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel VOYAGE OF THE VENUS: Sojourn in California
$30.00 AUD
Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wash. 1996. Limited reprint (500 copies) of the 1956 edition by Glen Dawson, Los Angeles. XII, 115 PP plus 10 full-page b/w plates. Fp. Eps. Gilt-engraved cloth cover & spine. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 20 x 14. 0877705542
Excerpt from Voyage Autour du Monde sur la Frégate Venus pendant les années 1836-1839. Comprises P. 77 to 164 of Volume II published in 1841 covering the visit to Monterey and the voyage down the coast of Lower California before calling at Mazatlan.
15740 DUCKER, Sophie C. THE CONTENTED BOTANIST, Letters of W.H. Harvey about Australia and the Pacific
$35.00 AUD
MUP. Melbourne. 1988. No. 3 in the Miegunyah Press series. 1st limited Ed. (1000 copies). XVI, 414 PP with 1 plan, 8 maps and 2 facsimiles of letters in text, plus 16 pages with 7 colour & 13 b/w illust. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing around outside page edges, o/wise a fine copy. 24.4 x 16. 0522843417
Letters from a Professor of Botany to some of his colleagues during a voyage between 1853 & 1856 to Australia via Ceylon and the return via South America. Description of the islands of Tonga and Fiji (P.233-270), problems between 3 nations (England, France & U.S.A.) and two religions (Protestant & Roman Catholic). Professor Harvey was a specialist in marine plants and algae and the author of Phycologia Australica in 5 volumes.
13388 DUDDEN, Arthur Power THE AMERICAN PACIFIC, From the Old China Trade to the Present
$20.00 AUD
OUP. New York. 1992. 1st US Ed. XX, 314 PP with 10 maps. Eps: Map of the New Pacific. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 195058216
History of the United States on the Pacific rim and in East Asia. From the trade of sea otter and beaver pelts bought from the Indians and sold to China, to the post Vietnam war era and the end of the Cold War.
22093 DUDER, Tessa WAITEMATA, Auckland's Harbour of Sails
$15.00 AUD
Century Hutchinson. Auckland. 1989. 1st Ed. (4), 124 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (colour photos by Gil Hanly). Eps: Yachts and power boats of the Waitemata escort the New Zealand down Rangitoto Channel, on her launching day, 27th March 1988. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 26 x 18.4. 9781869410551
The islands, beaches and volcanoes of the Waitemata. History of the harbour since the discovery and settlement by the Maori...
44691 DUDLEY, Carl CINERAMA SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE: at The London Casino
$10.00 AUD
Stanley Warner Cinerama Corporation. London. 1958. 1st Ed. No pagination, 16 PP with 1 map and many b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: Cinerama Exhibitors (London) Ltd. Inside back cover: How cinerama works. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.5 x 22.6.
Movie produced by Carl Dudley and Richard Goldstone. Text written by Charles Kaufman, Joseph Ansen and Harold Medford.
48261 DUDLEY, Carl CINERAMA SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE
$10.00 AUD
Cinerama Corporation. Los Angeles. c. 1958. 1st Ed. No pagination, 20 PP with 1 map and many b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: Map of the South West Pacific. Inside back cover: Cinerama opens the South Seas to thrill millions, by Hazard E. Reeves. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.6 x 21.4.
Movie produced by Carl Dudley and Richard Goldstone. Text written by Charles Kaufman, Joseph Ansen and Harold Medford. Articles include: Fiji Warriors in Ancient War Dance, Tournament of Thrills - for men only - in the Primitive New Hebrides, ...
30910 DUGAN, Des GUADALCANAL 1942-1992: Official Souvenir Publication
$30.00 AUD
Mace Marketing Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. 96 PP with advertising material, b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
Souvenir issue commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Battle for Guadalcanal, "Turning Point" of the Pacific War.
37335 DUHAUT-CILLY, Auguste A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, & AROUND THE WORLD IN THE YEARS 1826-1829
$25.00 AUD
University of California Press. Berkeley. 1999. 1st University of California Press printing. Translated and edited from the French original Voyage autour du monde, principalement a la Californie et aux Iles Sandwich, pendant les annees 1826, 1827, 1828 et 1829, by August Frugé and Neal Harlow. XXX, (2), 254 PP with 12 b/w illustrations (4 of them by the author). Title spread: View of Monterey, as seen from the harbor, by Auguste Duhaut-Cilly. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0520217527
Chapter 7 to 18: on the coast of California (USA) and Baja California (Mexico), between 1826 and 1828. Hawaii: September to November 1828...
56021 DUMBLETON, L. J. A LIST OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND PARASITES OF DOMESTIC AND SOME OTHER ANIMALS RECORDED IN SOUTH PACIFIC TERRITORIES / Une Liste des Maladies Transmissibles et Parasites Signalés dans les Territoires du Pacifique Sud chez les Animaux Domestiques
$20.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission. Nouméa. 1954. 1st Ed. Technical Paper / Document Technique No. 77, December 1954. 60 PP. Inside covers: map of the area of the South Pacific Commission. Soft cover. English and French text. Name of previous owner at top of front cover. Near fine. 25.6 x 20.6.
45104 DUN, DR R. B. (editor) SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY, Corporate Plan 1999-2003.
$5.00 AUD
Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 1998. 1st Ed. 20 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 15 x 21. 9822036418
SPC: Vision, philosophy, mission, goals...
45105 DUN, DR R. B. (editor) SECRETARIAT GENERAL DE LA COMMUNAUTE DU PACIFIQUE, Plan Directeur 1999-2003.
$10.00 AUD
Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 1998. 1st Ed., translated from the English original. 20 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. Oblong: 15 x 21. 9822036418
SPC: Vision, philosophy, mission, goals...
52800 DUN, DR R. B. (editor) LES POPULATIONS DU PACIFIQUE EN 2004
$10.00 AUD
Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 2004. Folded poster with 1 table and 21 graphs in colour with notes. Size: 84 x 59.5. French text. Fine. Folded size: 29.7 x 21. 9822036620
Populations of the 21 Island States or Territories of the South Pacific Community.
44165 DUNIS, Serge (editor) LE PACIFIQUE OU L'ODYSSEE DE L'ESPECE - Bilan civilisationniste du Grand Océan
$60.00 AUD
Klincksieck. Paris. 1996. 1st Ed., No. 14 in collection Littérature des Voyages. 432 P with 3 maps, plus 4 pages with 3 maps in colour. Pictorial soft cover. Head of spine bumped, o/wise fine. French text. 22 x 14.7. 2252030887
Archaeology in the Islands, by Matthew Spriggs. From Ocean to outer space, by Ben Finney ... Spices and sprays, a maritime history of the Pacific, by Serge Dunis... Quest for identity in Australian literature...
15528 DUNMORE, John WHO'S WHO IN PACIFIC NAVIGATION
$30.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1992. 1st Australian edition of the 1991 US original. XVI, 312 PP. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.1 x 15.8. 052284488X
17700 DUNMORE, John PACIFIC EXPLORER, The Life of Jean-François de La Pérouse 1741-1788
$15.00 AUD
Dunmore Press. Palmerston North, NZ. 1985. 1st Ed. 318 PP with 1 genealogical tree, 8 maps and 26 bw illust. Title spread: La Pérouse's ship anchored at Maui, Hawaii. FEP: Portrait of La Pérouse. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 22.8 x 16. 0864690487
Biography of La Pérouse, family background, years in the Indian Ocean, campaigns against the Royal Navy, his two-and-half years expedition to the Pacific between 1785 and 1788.
22638 DUNMORE, John VISIONS & REALITIES, France in the Pacific 1695-1995
$15.00 AUD
Heritage Press. Waikanae, New Zealand. 1997. 1st Ed. 320 PP with b/w illust. (maps, photos) in text. Pict. card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0908708416
The first complete history of the French presence in the Pacific from the days of Louis XIV to the post-nuclear period, including the political development of all the French territories.
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.
66440 DUNMORE, John FRENCH EXPLORERS IN THE PACIFIC - VOLUME II: The Nineteenth Century
$100.00 AUD
O.U.P. Oxford. 1969. 1st Ed. (VIII), 428 PP with 12 maps. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket is a little browned around edges with light soiling, a few small chips or closed tears and is now plastic protected. Light foxing around outside page edges, o/wise contents are fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Nicolas Baudin, Louis de Freycinet, Duperrey, Hyacinthe de Bougainville, Dumont d'Urville, Laplace, Vaillant, Dupetit-Thouars.
76257 DUNMORE, John FRENCH EXPLORERS IN THE PACIFIC (in two volumes)
$350.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1965 & 1969. Volume I: 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. VIII, 356 PP with 13 maps, plus 2 b/w plates (charts). Volume II: 1st edition limited to 2000 copies. VIII, 428 PP with 12 maps. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jackets laminated with clear plastic. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges of Volume I. Set in an excellent condition. 22.2 x 14.5.
Volume I, The Eighteenth Century : Bougainville, De Surville, Marion Dufresne, Kerguelen, La Pérouse, D'Entrecasteaux, and Marchand. Volume II, The Nineteenth Century: Baudin, Freycinet, Duperrey, Bougainville, Dumont d'Urville, Laplace, Vaillant, Dupetit-Thouars.
66993 DUNMORE, John & DE BROSSARD, Maurice LE VOYAGE DE LAPEROUSE 1785-1788 (in Two Volumes)
$450.00 AUD
Imprimerie Nationale. Paris. 1985. 1st edition in Voyages et Découvertes series. Tome I: XIII, 315 PP with 75 b/w & colour illustrations, plus a folded chart (in three parts) in rear pocket. Tome II: XIII, 512 PP with 192 b/w & colour illustrations. Both volumes bound in blue cloth with colour vignette on front cover, gilt title on front board and spine, and contained in an illustrated cloth slipcase. Dedicatory note on half title page of Volume I, dated and signed by the author. Endpapers of Volume II split at the gutter. Faint foxing. French text. A near fine set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 30.5 x 22. 2110808578
Religions & Histoire / Editions Faton. Dijon, France. 2006. Issue No. 9, July-August 2006. 100 PP. Contains 13 articles between P. 14 and 73 with 3 maps, 15 b/w and 46 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover.
Religions in Oceania: Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia and Australia.
49013 DUNMORE, John, TREMEWAN, Peter et al. 60 YEARS AGO... Celebrating the anniversary of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and France
$35.00 AUD
Alliance Française. Wellington. 2005. 1st Ed. with forewords (English and French) by the New Zealand and French Minsters of Foreign Affairs. 120 PP with 82 b/w illustrations (engravings, facsimiles, newspaper cuttings, photos), plus 16 pages with b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21.
First relations by John Dunmore. The French Government and Akaroa, by Peter Tremewan. Francophobia in New Zealand, by Garry Clayton.
60640 DUNSFORD, Cathie COWRIE
$5.00 AUD
Spinifex. Melbourne. 1994. 1st Australian edition. (6), 123 PP with text illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 1875559280
68628 DUYKER, Edward CITIZEN LABILLARDIERE - A Naturalist 's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834)
$30.00 AUD
Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. 2004. Paperback edition of the 2003 original. XX, 383, (3) PP with 12 maps, plus 16 pages with 18 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 24.3 x 16.5. 0522851606
Naturalist with the Bruny d'Entrecasteaux expedition with calls in Van Diemens Land, New Holland, the Friendly Islands, New Caledonia...
70546 DWIGHT, Alan SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS TO NEW SOUTH WALES (in Journal of the R.A.H.S. - Volume 68, Part 4, 1983)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1983. 257-336 PP. Contains article between pages 273 and 291. Very good. 20.7 x 13.5.
57912 EDGEWORTH DAVID, Mrs. FUNAFUTI, or Three Months on a Coral Island: an Unscientific Account of a Scientific Expedition
$55.00 AUD
Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.. London. 1913. School Edition: abridged from the 1899 original. XVI, 150 PP, (2) with " pages glossary and 1 map, plus 6 b/w plates. Inside front cover: map with inset (Funafuti atoll). Soft cover, cloth with title on front cover. Faint foxing. A few pages a little dog-eared, o/wise very good. 18 x 12.
The Atoll of Funafuti. Borings into a coral reef and the results. Being the report of the Coral Reef Committee of the Royal Society.
Institute of Pacific Studies (USP) / Alexander Turnbull Library / The Solomon Islands National Library. Suva / Wellington / Honiara. 1985. 1st Ed. XVI, 476 PP. Eps: Map of the Solomon Islands. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Near fine. 25.8 x 19.5. 0908702035
Over 12,300 entries: Voyages, Earth Sciences... Arts.
65827 ELDREDGE, Dr. Lucius G. INSIDE THE REEF
$25.00 AUD
Pacifica Graphics. Agana, Guam. 1975. 1st bilingual edition. (5), III, 171, II, (3) PP with 83 colour plates by Ted L. Tansy. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Dust jacket with light wear and a few creases around the edges. Text in English and Japanese. Dedicatory note to previous owners on front endpaper signed by the author and his family. Near fine. Oblong: 18.5 x 21.
33180 ELKIN, A. P. SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN MELANESIA
$20.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission / O.U.P. Melbourne. 1953. 1st Ed. XIV, 166 PP with 1 map showing the political and administrative divisions in New Guinea-Melanesia. Eps: Map showing area of South Pacific Commission. Cloth covers a little rubbed, gilt title on spine. Light foxing, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Types of ethnographical record and research up to 1950. Survey of anthropological knowledge of the region with suggestions for research projects.
50001 ELKIN, A. P. EDUCATION OF NATIVE RACES IN PACIFIC COUNTRIES - Report of a Conference
$15.00 AUD
Australasian Medical Publishing. Sydney. 1937. Reprint from Oceania, December 1936, Vol. VII, No. 2. Pages 145 to 168. Soft cover. A 4 pages typed memo Education of Native Races, by Professor A. P. Elkin, loosely inserted. Near fine. 24.5 x 18.5.
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.
75880 ELLIOTT, Robin, KIDD, Harold, WILSON, T L Rodney WINKELMANN'S WAITEMATA - Classic Auckland Yachting
$70.00 AUD
David Ling Publishing & Auckland Museum. Auckland. 1998. 1st Ed. Introductions, by T L Rodney Wilson. 80 PP with over 75 b/w photos. Fp: Winkelmann's launch "Tawaki" in Albert Channel, Rawhiti, in January 1912. 9780908990528
Henry Winkelmann and Auckland Yachting, by Robin Elliott & Harold Kidd.
75202 ELLIS, William JOURNAL OF WILLIAM ELLIS - Narrative of a Tour of Hawaii, or Owhyhee; with Remarks on the History, Traditions, Manners, Customs, and Language of the Inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands
$70.00 AUD
Charles E. Tuttle Co. Rutland, Vermont. 1979. 1st Tuttle edition of the 1825 original, with an introduction by Thurston Twigg-Smith (1963) and Terence Barrow (1978). XXIV, 363 PP with 13 b/w illustrations (1 Hawaiian flag, 3 drawings and 9 plates), plus 1 folded Chart of the Sandwich Isles and the frontispiece: William Ellis, Missionary from the Society and Sandwich Islands. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Fine. 23 x 15.5. 0804812985
40888 EMORY, Kenneth P., LEWIS, David, KAWAINUI KANE, Herb & ROCKFELLER, Mary & Laurance S. THE ISLES OF THE PACIFIC - THE COMING OF THE POLYNESIAN - WIND, WAVE, STAR & BIRD - The PATHFINDERS - PROBLEMS IN PARADISE [in National Geographic Magazine]
$15.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1974. Vol. 146, No.6, Dec.1974. Contains 4 articles P.732 to 793 with colour illustrations. Soft cover (lightly rubbed). Lacks the folding map. Very good. 25.5 x 17.5.
Navigation and settlement of the vast Pacific.
13254 ENGLERT, Father Sebastian ISLAND AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD, New Light on Easter Island
$10.00 AUD
Charles Scribner's Sons. New York. 1970. 1st US Ed. 192 PP with 2 maps, 8 b/w & 22 colour illust. in text. Engraved cloth cover, slightly chipped dj. A very good copy. 26.5 x 19.5.
Traditions, records & geography. Settlement of Easter Island. Religious & social practices.
62500 EUROPEAN COMMISSION THE EU PROVISIONS ON SOCIAL SECURITY - Your rights when moving within the European Union
$10.00 AUD
European Commission / Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities. Bruxelles. 2011. Updated edition of 2010. 57, (3) PP with 1 map in colour and tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9789279176554
71419 EVANS, Kenneth J. JAPAN é buggerup pinis - The Final days of World War II in Papua New Guinea
$70.00 AUD
Author. Smithton, Tasmania. 2001. 1st Ed. Foreword by C.L. Spotswood & A. C. Billett. (8), 9-152 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, facsimile of documents, maps, sketch plans, portraits and photos), plus 4 pages with 16 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 30 x 23.8. 1876913061
Japan é buggerup pinis (in Pidgin - English) = Japan has Surrendered.
50767 FAASILI, Ueta, ADAMS, Dr. Tim et al. FISHERIES MANAGEMENT BY COMMUNITIES. A manual on promoting the management of subsistence fisheries by Pacific Island communities
$30.00 AUD
Community Fisheries Section / Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 2000. 1st Ed. VI, 88 PP with 31 figures. Pictorial soft cover, spiral bound. Fine. Oblong: 17 x 23.5. 9822037139
40660 FABERON, Jean-Yves (editor) LA MER OUTRE-MER
$25.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2001. 1st Ed. 448 PP. Soft cover. French text. Light foxing on top edge, o/wise fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747505197
20 papers presented at a seminar on "The Sea, Overseas", held at Montpellier in March 2000 by the Institut de Droit d'Outre-Mer (Overseas Law Institute). Law, Sea and Custom in the Pacific... France in the Pacific Ocean... History and international relations in the Indian Ocean... Fishing in the Southern Ocean and Antarctica...
73288 FAESSEL, Sonia ITINERAIRES INSULAIRES - Le Père Patrick O'REILLY, sm
$85.00 AUD
Le Rocher-à-la-Voile & Haere Po. Nouméa & Papeete. 2002. 1st edition. Vol. 4 in Dossiers pour servir a l'intelligence du temps present. Postface by Jean Guiart and a bibliography by Hugh Laracy. 180 PP with 4 colour and 58 b/w illustrations. Title page: Portrait of Father O'Reilly, by Chantal Désirier. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Newspaper clipping loosely inserted. Crease at top corner of back cover. Near fine. French text. 21 x 15.
Father O'Reilly: Oceanist and Erudite on the Pacific and the 4 French speaking archipelagoes of the South Pacific.
56834 FAESSEL, Sonia (editor) JEUNES LITTERATURES DU PACIFIQUE SUD
$35.00 AUD
G.R.H.O.C. (Groupe de Recherche en Histoire Océanienne Contemporaine) / Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2004. 1st Ed. 183 PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2951558066
2003 seminar on Literature by writers and academics of the South Pacific. Part 1: Views by English speakers (Fijian-language literature by Paul Geraghty. Aboriginal Literature by Anita Heiss...). Part 2: Views by French speakers (Frédéric Ohlen, Claudine Jacques...).
49249 FAESSEL, Sonia & PEREZ, Michel (editors) EROS ET THANATOS DANS LE PACIFIQUE SUD
$30.00 AUD
CORAIL & Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2001. 1st Ed. 224 PP. French text with English abstract and Englih text with French abstract. Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 2951558015
16 papers (2 in English and 14 in French) presented at the 2000 seminar organised by the CORAIL group.
58802 FAESSEL, Sonia & PEREZ, Michel (editors) LITTERATURES D'EMERGENCE ET MONDIALISATION: Théorie, Société et Politique
$40.00 AUD
In Press Editions. Paris. 2004. 1st Ed. 376 PP. French text with English abstract and English text with French abstract. Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 2848350555
23 papers (10 in English and 13 in French) presented at the 2003 Convention organised in Nouméa by the F.I.L.L.M. (Féderation Internationale de Langues et Littératures Modernes / International Federation of Modern Languages and Literatures).
22639 FAESSEL, Sonia (editor) LA FEMME, Entre Tradition et Modernité dans le Pacifique Sud
$30.00 AUD
L'Harmattan & Université Française du Pacifique. Paris. 1996. 1st Ed. 292 PP with 5 bw photos and 14 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text (English abstract for each paper). Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2738448585
The women in the South Pacific, between tradition and modernism (history, sociology, anthropology, literary). Includes: Women in the Australian circus, the changing patterns of female games in Tonga (only text in English)...
10295 FAHEY, Stephanie & DUGGAN, Stephen PACIFIC PEOPLE AND PLACE, The Pacific in the 20th Century
$35.00 AUD
C.U.P. Cambridge. 1993. 1st Ed. (6), 74 PP with 49 figures in text. Ep: Map of Pacific islands. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 26 x 21. 0521376262
Development, changing nature of people and environment. Impacts on urbanization, trade, foreign aid, tourism.
65611 FAHEY, Stephanie, PEAKE, Martin & QUANCHI, Max THE SOUTH PACIFIC - Contemporary Issues: Peace and Development
$25.00 AUD
Peace Education Resource Centre (Ministry of Education) & Pacific History Association. Melbourne. 1989. 1st Ed. (4), 120 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Soft cover, spiral bound. Fine. 29.5 x 21.
Tourism - Culture - History ... Australia and the Pacific - Nuclear issues.
59292 FAIRBAIRN Pacific Consultants THE WESTERN SAMOAN ECONOMY: Paving the Way for Sustainable Growth and Stability
$15.00 AUD
AIDAB - Australian International Development Assistance Bureau / AGPS. Canberra. 1994. September 1994 edition. International Development Issues No. 35. VIII, 94 PP with 1 map, 24 graphs and 26 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24.8 x 17.7. 0644221089
12000 FAIRBAIRN, T. et al. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS: Politics, Economics and International Relations
$15.00 AUD
East-West Center. Honolulu. 1993. 2nd printing of the 1991 original. XII, 172 PP with 4 tables and 22 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0866381406
An introduction to the contemporary Pacific islands. Trends, issues and recent development. Appendix I with each state or territory presented in two pages: (map and text).
59014 FAIRBAIRN, Te'o Ian THE TONGAN ECONOMY: Setting the stage for accelerated growth
$15.00 AUD
AIDAB - Australian International Development Assistance Bureau / AGPS. Canberra. 1992. 1st Ed. International Development Issues No. 22. XI, 53 PP with 1 map, 21 graphs and 15 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.8 x 17.7. 0644240504
59291 FAIRBAIRN, Te'o Ian THE WESTERN SAMOAN ECONOMY: Prospects for Recovery and Long-term Growth
$15.00 AUD
AIDAB - Australian International Development Assistance Bureau / AGPS. Canberra. 1991. June 1991 edition. International Development Issues No. 17. XI, 57 PP with 1 map, 20 graphs and 18 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 24.8 x 17.7. 0644221089
11984 FALLEX, M. & MAIREY, A. AMERIQUE AUSTRALASIE AU DEBUT DU XXè SIECLE
$40.00 AUD
Librairie Ch. Delagrave. Paris. 1905. 1st Ed. 362 PP with 37 maps & 77 photos & many pages uncut. Rebound in modern cloth, retaining original front part of soft cover, gilt title on spine. Very good. French text. 20.4 x 13.
Geographical information on the Polar regions, North, Central, and South America, Australasia (Archipelagoes of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand).
59462 FALLON, John THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA ECONOMY: Prospects for Recovery, Reform and Sustained Growth
$10.00 AUD
AIDAB - Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. 1992. March 1992 edition. International Development Issues No. 27. XIII, 133 PP with 9 graphs and 46 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24.8 x 17.7. 0644256869
57705 FARRINGTON, Karen VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC - The Fight for the Pacific Islands 1942-1945
$20.00 AUD
Selectabook Ltd. London. 2005. 1st edition. 144 PP with b/w illustrations (10 maps & plans, and 90 photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 9781841933351
60th Anniversary Special Edition.
73062 FARRINGTON, Karen VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC - The Fight for the Pacific Islands 1942-1945
$20.00 AUD
Ice Water Press. Melbourne. 2010. 1st Australian edition of the 2005 original. 144 PP with b/w illustrations (10 maps & plans, and 90 photos). Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Fine. 29.5 x 21. 9781921718960
Pearl Harbor to the fall of Okinawa.
51012 FASQUEL, Jean TURBULENCES PACIFIQUES. Récit guerrier de l'éducation en Océanie
$25.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed. 242 PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.7. 2747593002
Reminiscences on the Pacific, by the author who was in charge of Education, in the New Hebrides / Vanuatu (1978-1981), Wallis & Futuna (1981-1984) and French Polynesia (2000-2004).
Editions Footprint Pacifique. Nouméa. 2006. 1st edition. No pagination, 192 PP with colour illustrations: 1 map of New Caledonia on double page and 88 photos by Mike Hosken on full page. Pictorial stiff covers. French text. Fine. 22 x 22. 2908186234
Quotations by: Douglas Adams, Albert Camus, André Malraux, André Gide ... James Joyce, Eleanor Roosevelt ... Sénèque, illustrated by Mike Hosken.
50857 FERRERO, Stéphane FORMOSE Vue par un marin français du XIXe siècle
$20.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed., in Mémoires Asiatiques series. 158, (2) PP with 3 maps and 7 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Top corner of front cover with a crease. French text. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747594157
On the Island of Taiwan by a French seaman of the Fleet under Amiral Courbet, fighting China in 1884 and 1885. Landing at Keelung, Naval base established at Makung in the Pescadores Archipelago..
11948 FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS PROGRAMME SOUVENIR: 4ème Festival des Arts du Pacifique, Nouvelle Calédonie 1984
$15.00 AUD
OCSTK / Office Culturel Scientifique et Technique Kanak. Nouméa. 1984. 1st Ed. Forewords by Jean-Marie Tjibaou, Rock Wamytan, Jacques Iékawé. Edited by Néko HNEPEUNE. 96 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (maps, photos..). Pictorial soft cover. French and English text. Very good. 29.7 x 21.3.
The programme for the 4th Festival of Pacific Arts which was to be held in Nouméa between the 8th & 22nd December, 1984, but was cancelled after the upheavals which shook New Caledonia in November 1984. A very good presentation of the 28 participating countries, from Australia to Wallis & Futuna, including Easter Island & Pitcairn.
41154 FIELDS, Jack & Dorothy SOUTH PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
Kodansha International. Tokyo. 1972. 1st Ed. 252 PP with 3 maps, and colour photos throughout. Title spread: Cook's Bay, Moorea Island. Decorated cloth cover, dj. Front endpaper and first 10 leaves with faint creases. Note at top corner of front endpaper. Front flap of dust jacket price-clipped at top and piece missing at lower corner. Very good. 26.3 x 24.2. 0870111760
Melanesia. Micronesia. Polynesia.
57819 FIELDS, Jack & Dorothy SOUTH PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wellington. 1973. 1st New Zealand edition of the 1972 original. 252 PP with 3 maps, and colour photos. Title spread: Cook's Bay, Moorea Island. Decorated cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed and with small pieces missing. Ex Library copy (4 stamps and a pocket on rear endpaper. Good. 26.3 x 24.2. 0589007750
Melanesia. Micronesia. Polynesia.
73285 FIELDS, Jack & Dorothy SOUTH PACIFIC
$45.00 AUD
A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wellington. 1973. 1st New Zealand edition of the 1972 original. 252 PP with 3 maps, and colour photos by Jack Fields. Title spread: Cook's Bay, Moorea Island. Decorated cloth cover (tapa style), dj. Dedicatory note to previous owner signed by Jack and Dorothy Fields, tipped in on front endpaper. Front endpaper with traces of old sellotape marks. Contents near fine. 26.3 x 24.2. 0589007750
Melanesia. Micronesia. Polynesia.
57946 FIFI'I, Jonathan FROM PIG-THEFT TO PARLIAMENT - My Life Between Two Worlds
$40.00 AUD
Solomon Islands College of Higher Education and USP. Honiara. 1989. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Roger M. Keesing. Translated and edited by Roger M. Keesing. (4), IV, 174 PP, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w photos. Soft covers with light wear. Near fine. 25 x 17. 9821500013
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
58795 FINAU, Bishop Patelisio SOME THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON MIGRATION
$10.00 AUD
Auckland Resource Centre for World Development. Auckland. c. 1976. 1st Ed. No. 1 in Migration Studies series. Preface by Joris de Bres. No pagination, 16 PP. Soft cover. Signature of previous owner on title-page, o/wise fine. 21 x 16.5.
Paper presented in September 1975 at the Seminar of Land Tenure and Migration, Nuku'alofa, Tonga.
59535 FIRTH, Professor Raymond SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE - Presidential Address
$25.00 AUD
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. London. 1954. Offprint from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 84, Part I, January-June 1954. 20 PP. Soft cover. Note at top of front cover and title page "Ian (Hogbin) ..." signed by Raymond Firth. Fine. 28.5 x 22.
59541 FIRTH, Raymond RITUAL ADZES IN TIKOPIA
$30.00 AUD
Thomas Avery and Sons. New Plymouth, NZ. 1959. Reprint from "Anthropology in the South Seas: essays presented to H.D. Skinner". 149 to 159 PP, plus 7 plates with 23 b/w photos. Soft cover, staples. Note "Ian (Hogbin) from ... ", signed by Raymond Firth. Near fine. 25.5 x 18.3.
59543 FIRTH, Raymond MARRIAGE AND THE CLASSIFICATORY SYSTEM OF RELATIONSHIP
$60.00 AUD
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. London. 1930. Reprint from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. LX, January-June 1930. 235-268 PP with 13 Genealogy diagrams (II to XIII), plus 1 large folded plate for Genealogy I. Soft cover. Dedicatory note at top of front cover "To Ian Hogbin ..., dated and signed by Raymond Firth. Two pages (manuscript) by the author on "Tikopia Kinship Marriage", loosely inserted. Manuscript letters are fragile, o/wise fine. Scarce. 27.5 x 18.8.
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.
59536 FIRTH, Raymond and SPILLIUS, James A STUDY IN RITUAL MODIFICATION - The Work of the Gods in Tikopia in 1929 and 1952
$30.00 AUD
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. London. 1963. Occasional Paper No. 19. (4), 31 PP with tables, plus 4 plates with 8 b/w photos. Soft cover. Note at top of front cover "Ian (Hogbin) from ..." signed by Raymond Firth. Fine. 24.8 x 18.5.
11818 FISCHER, P.-H. LA FRANCE, SES RAPPORTS HISTORIQUES AVEC LES AUTRES PEUPLES (Two Volumes)
$250.00 AUD
Surrey Beatty. Chipping Norton. 1989. 1st limited edition of 100 copies, this one is No.51 & signed by the author. Volume I: X, 424 PP. Volume II: VI, P.425-811. Hand-bound two part buckram, gilt-engraved raised spine. Fine. French text. Scarce. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 25.5 x 19. 0949324167
Two massive volumes treating France's relations with the other nations of the world (in alphabetical order). Written by a former Sorbonne Professor living in Australia.
68772 FISH, John A. AN ANALYSIS OF THE 1969 KROEPELIEN CATALOGUE
$40.00 AUD
Dahlia Books. Appsala, Sweden. 2017. 1st edition. Volume 10 in the Banksia series. 50 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.3 x 20.7. 9789198435627
74532 FITZGERALD, Caroline LETTERS FROM THE BAY OF ISLANDS, The Story of Marianne Williams
$40.00 AUD
Sutton Publishing. Stroud. 2004. 1st Edition. xviii, 270 PP plus 16 pages with 29 b/w plates. Hard cover, dust jacket. A fine copy. 24 x 16. 0750935967
In 1822 Marianne Williams lived in a remote missionary and isolated from European contact. Her letters to family back in England recount events and her interaction with the Maori in the area.
62518 FITZGERALD, P. Michael & GROSSIN, P. François VIVANTS DANS LA MEMOIRE - Faisant mémoire dans la prière de nos prédécesseurs maristes en Océanie 1836 - 2001
$50.00 AUD
Oceania Marist Province. Suva. 2011. 4th revised edition of "In Memoriam / Nécrologie Biographique de la province Mariste d'Océanie". 1984 Address to the Bishops of Oceania by Pope Jean-Paul II. Foreword by P. Paul Donoghue, sm. VIII, 9-308 PP with 9 maps. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21.3 x 14.7.
Biographies of the Marists brothers and fathers who served in Oceania.
38462 FLETCHER, C. Brunsdon AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC - 1788 to 1885 (in Journal and Proceedings of the R.A.H.S. Volume XXVIII, Part III, 1942)
$10.00 AUD
Royal Australian Historical Society. Sydney. 1942. P.129-192 with 3 b/w illustrations. Contrains article between P. 157 and 184 with 1 map. Stapled soft covers, browning around edges, otherwise near fine. 21 x 14.
Image of back cover shows all contents and list of illustrations.
21550 FLETCHER, F.D. DARWIN An illustrated life of Charles Darwin 1809-1882 (Lifelines 34)
$20.00 AUD
Shire Publications. London. 1988. Reprint of the second edition of 1980, (original of 1975). No. 34 in the Lifelines series. 48 PP with 1 plan of the HMS Beagle, 2 maps and 21 bw illust. Pict. card cover. Near fine. 20.8 x 14.8. 0852635230
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU. Canberra. 1991. 1st Ed. (2), II, 150, 8 (index) PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light foxing, mostly on first and last pages, o/wise near fine. Scarce. Image shows title-page. 30 x 21.5. 0731512936
12916 FORCE, Roland W & BISHOP, Brenda (editors) THE IMPACT OF URBAN CENTERS IN THE PACIFIC, Papers from the Theme Symposium of the Second Inter-Congress of the Pacific Science Association, University of Guam, May 20-25, 1973
$30.00 AUD
Pacific Science Assoc. Honolulu. 1975. XIII, 362 PP, (2). with a few maps & tables in text. Orig. card cover a little soiled & lightly worn, o/wise very good. 28 x 21.5.
In six sections: Economic Development: The Resource Base, Guam, A Case Study; Land and Law: The Collision of Customs and Codes; Change and Non-Change: Adaptation and Persistence; Density and Clustering: People in Proximity; Cultural Learning and Retention: Values and the Non-Material; Essays and Answers?
73461 FORNASIERO, Jean & WEST-SOOBY, John (editors) 'ROAMING FREELY THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE" - Nicolas Baudin's Voyage to Australia and the Pursuit of Science
$50.00 AUD
Wakefield Press. Adelaide. 2021. 1st Ed. VI, 341, (5 publications) PP with over 6 tables and 24 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. New. 23.3 x 15.5. 9781743058275
4 subjects with 14 papers. ... The Pacific as a laboratory for Natural History, by John Gascoigne. ... 3 papers on "The Manuscripts of François Péron as Chronicler of the Sientific Voyage by: Gabrielle Baglione, Margaret Sankey ... Louis Freycinet at Port Jackson : Race, Colonialism and the figure of the French Scientific Traveller: 1803-1839, by Nicole Starbuck.
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.
56065 FORSTER, Honore (compiler) THE SOUTH SEA WHALER - An Annotated Bibliography...
$40.00 AUD
Kendall Whaling Museum. Sharon, Mas. 1985. 1st Ed. IX, 157 PP. Fp: South Sea Whaling by W.E. Norton. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean. Cloth cover, title on front cover and spine. Signed by the author / compiler on title page. Fine. 26 x 17.5. 0937854220
... bibliography of published historical, literary and art material relating to whaling in the Pacific Ocean in the nineteenth century
57887 FOSBERG, F. R. (editor) MAN'S PLACE IN THE ISLAND ECOSYSTEM - A Symposium
$30.00 AUD
Bishop Museum Press. Honolulu. 1970. 3rd printing of the 1963 original. (VIII), 264 PP with figures, plus 1 folded map "Island Clusters of the Pacific". Soft cover. Fine (as new condition). 25.8 x 17.5.
16 papers presented at the 10th Pacific Science Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1961. The Island Ecosystem, by F.R. Fosberg ... Pressure on Island Environment, by Pierre Gourou ... Islands and Men, by Oskar H. K. Spate.
49948 FOSTER, Dean (editor) HISTOIRES DE PETITES ILES
$35.00 AUD
Cultural Affairs Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 2005. 1st French edition of the English original "Short Stories from Small Islands: Tales shared in Palau". 98 PP with 8 headpieces. Title page: The Frog and the Manta Ray. Decorated endpapers. Hard cover, illustrated front, dj. Fine. 25.6 x 18.2. 9820001056
8 tales collected at the 9th Festival of Pacific Arts held in the Republic of Palau in July 2004.
52421 FOSTER, Harry L. THE ADVENTURES OF A TROPICAL TRAMP
$15.00 AUD
John Lane, Bodley Head. London. 1922. 1st Ed. (14), 359 PP, plus 24 plates with 41 b/w photos. Fp: The author at Morococha, Peru. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Slight ageing of paper and occasional foxing. Very good reading copy. 20.7 x 14.5.
... in South America.
34594 FOUGERE, Eric ILES, AUTRES TERRES
$40.00 AUD
Editions Grain de Sable. Nouméa. 1997. 1st Ed. 123 PP with 4 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Light foxing around edges, o/wise fine. French text. 22 x 14. 2841700518
Voyage to the Islands: Vanuatu, Salomon... Cap Vert, Réunion, Mauritius... Corsica.
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
32856 FRANCK, Irene M. & BROWNSTONE, David M. THE SOUTHERN WORLD
$10.00 AUD
Facts on File. New York. 1991. Juvenile edition, in the Trade and Travel Routes series, adapted from their To the ends of the Earth. XII, 116 PP with 6 maps and 37 b/w illust. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 24.2 x 19.3. 0816018812
History of the trade routes and commerce in the New World, including the Panama Route, the Inca Royal Road, the California Mission Trail, and the Cape Horn Route.
50892 FRANCOIS, Auguste LE MANDARIN BLANC. Souvenirs d'un consul en Extrême-Orient 1886-1904
$45.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2006. 1st Ed. Texts compiled and presented by Pierre Seydoux. 380 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 16 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 2296002919
French consul and explorer in Tonkin and southern China.
50372 FRASER, Douglas THE MAGICAL ART OF MELANESIA (in Orientations - A Discovery of Asia and the Pacific)
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Communications Ltd. Hong Kong. 1971. Volume 2, No. 9, September 1971. Contains article between P.49 and 58 with 9 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover (Marionette of Southeast Malekula). Fine. 29.8 x 20.8.
45177 FRASER, Ronald (compiler) OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1972 - Papers presented at an International Symposium held in Wellington, New Zealand, 9 to 15 February 1972
$30.00 AUD
New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO. Wellington. 1973. 1st Ed. XII, 524 PP with maps, tables, and figures (graphs, sketches, b/w photos). Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket a little rubbed and soiled. Name of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 21.7.
Physical Oceanography: 19 papers and 7 abstract. Marine Geosciences: 20 papers and 12 abstracts. Marine Biology: 17 papers and 10 abstracts.
52376 FRIIS, Herman R. (editor) THE PACIFIC BASIN. A History of its Geographical Exploration
$25.00 AUD
American Geographical Society. New York. 1967. 1st Ed. Special Publication No. 38. Foreword by Charles B. Hitchcock. XIV, 457 PP with 42 figures, plus 44 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Dust jacket with few chips. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 25.2 x 17.5.
Art and science of navigation, by Norman J. W. Thrower. Map compilation, by R. A. Skelton. Geographical exploration by the: Chinese, Japanese, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, Russians, French, English, United States...
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.
73249 GAFFAREL, Paul LES COLONIES FRANCAISES
$80.00 AUD
Librairie Germer Baillière et Cie. Paris. 1880. 1st edition. (6), 423, (30 publications) PP. Quarter bound, marbled boards, leather spine with gilt title and decorations at head, foot and the 5 raised bands. Covers with light shelf wear and a small rub at top of front cover, gutters fragile and repaired. Stamp of the Libreria Europea, Buenos Aires on half title page and shelf number at foot of spine. Light foxing, o/wise contents near fine. French text. 22.5 x 14.5. .
Africa: Senegal, Guinea, Reunion & Obock). America: French Guyana, West Indies (Guadeloupe &, Martinique), Saint Pierre et Miquelon. Asia: India (Chandernagor, Karikal, Mahe, Pondicheri & Yanaon). Cochincine. Indo-Chine. Protectorates on Cambodia & , Annam. Oceania: Tahiti & dependancies. New Caledonia.
56020 GAIL, R. & DEVAMBEZ, L. SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TROCHUS
$10.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission. Nouméa. 1958. 1st Ed. Technical Paper No. 111, January 1958. (2), IV, 18, (4) PP with 1 map. Inside front cover, map of the area of the South Pacfic Commission. Card covers. Name of previous owner at top of front cover. Very good. 25.5 x 20.5.
Trochus Niloticus, Linn.
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 ...
34756 GAMMAGE, Bill THE SKY TRAVELLERS - Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939
$75.00 AUD
Miegunyah Press / Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1998. Reprint of the 1998 original. Foreword by Sir Rabbie L. Namaliu. XX, 292 PP with 7 maps, plus 1 folded map and 32 pages with 48 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.4 x 18. 0522848273
Exploration through the mountains of the western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, March 1938 to June 1939.
11605 GANN, Ernest TWILIGHT FOR THE GODS
$5.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 1956. 1st Ed. 256 PP. Hard cover, gilt title on a sunned spine. Foxing spots on outside edges and few pages. Very good. Image shows title-page. 20.7 x 14.
Novel : 1927 voyage from Suva to Manzanillo of the barquentine Cannibal, forced call in Honolulu after the vessel shipped water leaving Suva.
58841 GARCIA, P., GUISSE A. M., ROSIERE, P. CART'OUTRE-MER 93 - 2ème Exposition Nationale de Cartes Postales d'Outre-Mer
$20.00 AUD
Tropiques / Association des Colectionneurs de Cartes Postales et de Documents Anciens sur l'Outre-Mer. Meudon, France. 1993. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 39 b/w and 12 colour post cards. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 31 x 21.7.
65343 GARCILASO DE LA VEGA, Inca COMENTARIOS REALES DE LOS INCAS - Epitome
$15.00 AUD
Editorial Mantaro. Lima, Peru. 1998. 1st Ed., April 1998. 204, (1) PP. Decorated soft covers. Light ageing of paper. Spanish text. Near fine. 20.5 x 14.2.
Longmans, Green & Co. Melbourne. 1957. 1st Ed. 134 PP with illustrations by Nancy Parker. Eps: Map of the the Pacific. Hard cover, device on front cover, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 22 x 14.5.
Brief history of settlement & development of the islands of the Pacific, including Australia & New Zealand.
48806 GARRETT, Jemima ISLAND EXILES
$35.00 AUD
Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Sydney. 1996. 1st Ed. (8), 200 PP with 3 maps. Pictorial card cover. Dedicatory note to previous owner on half title page signed by the author. Fine. 21.3 x 13.5. 0733304850
How Nauru and its people survived Japanese captivity and starvation during the Pacific War.
34825 GARRISON, Omar V. BALBOA: CONQUISTADOR - The Soul-Odyssey of Vasco Nunez, Discoverer of the Pacific
$15.00 AUD
Lyle Stuart. New York. 1971. 1st Ed. 256 PP. Fp: Portrait of Vasco Nunez de Balboa. Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24 x 16.
Balboa, while commanding the Spanish colony of Darien crossed the isthmus and discovered the Pacific Ocean. The King bestowed upon him the title of Adelantado of the Austral Sea.
11148 GASSER, Bernard LA FETE, Actes du Quatrième Colloque CORAIL Nouméa, 18 et 19 Novembre 1991
$50.00 AUD
CORAIL/UFP. Nouméa. 1992. 1st Ed. 211 PP with b/w tables & a few illust. Card cover. Fine. French text. 21 x 15.
The feast as a traditional bond: its history, its inner meaning and significance in communities throughout the Pacific. (13 chapters).
11364 GASSER, Bernard (editor) CONNAISSANCE ET COMMUNICATION, Actes du Troisième Colloque CORAIL, Nouméa, 3 et 4 Septembre 1990
$50.00 AUD
CORAIL/UFP. Nouméa. 1991. 1st Ed. 306 PP with b/w illust. Soft cover. Fine. French text. 21 x 15.
Thirteen chapters by authors on: exploration & discoveries, church & missions, communication & power ...
73185 GATHERCOLE, Peter, KAEPPLER, Adrienne L.& NEWTON, Douglas THE ART OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$70.00 AUD
National Gallery of Art. Washington. 1979. 1st Ed. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. 366 PP with 4 maps, 14 plates in colour, 30 b/w photos and 352 photos of artifacts. Title spread (in colour): Canoe Prow Ornament, Marquesas. Eps: Bark Cloth (tapa). Stiff covers, illustrated front. Covers with light wear. A near fine copy. Scarce. 28 x 21.5.
Catalogue of an exhibition held in Washington: 1st July to 14 October 1979.
68774 GEEVES, Jock THE ARGA SAGA - The Story of Australian Water Transport Ship AK96
$45.00 AUD
M.D. "Jock" Geeves. Sandy Bay, Tas. 1997. Privately published monograph. Foreword by E. E. O'Farrell. (8), 94 PP, plus 5 b/w plates with 1 facsimile of document, 2 maps and 3 photos. Soft covers with a photo of AK96 on front cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0646343807
Built in 1943 at St Helens, Tasmania, for the Ansons Bay Timber Company. Requisitioned by the Army. Sailed for Papua New Guinea waters in December 1943. Thursday Island, Daru, Port Moresby, Milne Bay, Madang, Lae ... Handed back to ANGAU (in 1945).
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.
59294 GEIS, Darlene LET'S TRAVEL IN THE SOUTH SEAS
$5.00 AUD
A Travel Press Book / Odhams Books Ltd. London. 1965. New edition of the 1961 original. 85 PP with 20 b/w illustrations (2 engravings and 18 photos) and colour illustrations (4 maps and 32 photos on full page). Hard cover, illustrated front. Ex Library copy. Endpapers with rubbed patches, stamps and small pocket. Covers rubbed. Internally very good. 28.5 x 22.
Fiji, Tahiti, Tonga and Western Samoa..
35660 GEIS, Darlene (editor) LET'S TRAVEL IN THE SOUTH SEAS
$10.00 AUD
A Travel Press Book. Chicago. 1965. New edition of the 1961 original A Colorside Tour of The South Seas. 85 PP with 3 maps, 20 b/w and 32 colour photos. Pictorial hard cover with light wear, o/wise near fine. 28.5 x 22.2.
Tahiti, both Samoas, Tonga and Fiji.
72213 GERBAULT, Alain SUR LA ROUTE DU RETOUR - Journal de Bord, II - De Tahiti vers la France
$25.00 AUD
Bernard Grasset. Paris. 1929. 1st Ed. 218, (2 contents), 4 PP plus 1 folded map "Voyage d'Alain Gerbault autour du monde" and 24 pages with 4 maps (Fidji, Wallis, Detroit Torres, Iles du Cap Vert)and 33 b/w photos. Fp: Alain Gerbault, arrivée au Havre. Soft cover within a clear plastic dust jacket, title on front cover and spine. French text. Very good. 19.2 x 14.2.
Crossing of the "Firecrest" from Bora Bora to Le Havre.
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.
61204 GHOSHAL, Professor Baladas THE FIRST BIENNIAL CONFERENCE - INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN & PACIFIC STUDIES
$20.00 AUD
Indian Association for Asian & Pacific Studies, University of Calcutta. Kolkata, West Bengal, India. 2002. 1st Ed. (7), 50 PP, (11 members), (12 adverts.). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.3 x 18.5.
Conference held 1-3 March 2002. 15 papers by scholars: 7 from Indian University, 2 from Singapore, 1 from China, 1 from Japan, 1 from Australia (Queensland University of Technology) , 1 from France (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme), 1 from UK (British Library) and 1 from the USA (Cornell University).
73711 GIBNEY, Frank THE PACIFIC CENTURY - America and Asia in a Changing World
$20.00 AUD
Charles Scribner's Sons / Macmillan Publishing Co. New York. 1992. 1st Ed. XII, 596 PP with 8 maps and 210 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 34 colour illustrations. Eps: map "Pacific Rim". Hard covers, gilt title on cloth spine. Fine. 23.8 x 19.5. 9780684193496
48543 GIBSON, Gregory DEMON OF THE WATERS. The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe
$15.00 AUD
Hodder Headline. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. (10), 308 PP with 37 head pieces (silhouettes by Erik Ronnberg) and 3 drawings on double page by Gary Tonkin, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. Fp: Mutiny. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Fine. 21 x 13.5. 0733615252
73109 GIBSON, Gregory DEMON OF THE WATERS. The True Story of the Mutiny on the Whaleship Globe
$10.00 AUD
Hodder Headline. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. (10), 308 PP with 37 head pieces (silhouettes by Erik Ronnberg) and 3 drawings on double page by Gary Tonkin, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w illustrations. Fp: Mutiny. Pictorial stiff covers. Creases on covers and spine and light foxing, o/wise very good. 19.8 x 13.5. 0733615252
35868 GILLE, Bernard & TOULLELAN, Pierre Yves DE LA CONQUETE A L'EXODE - Histoire des Océaniens et de leurs migrations dans le Pacifique (in two volumes)
$120.00 AUD
Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 1999. 1st Ed. Volume I: 346, (2) PP with tables, maps, graphs. Volume II: 296, (4) PP with 6 maps and 24 tables. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. French text. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 22.6 x 14.5. 2909790592 & 29
Volume I: The forced migrations in Oceania, lands of colonization and settlement. Volume II: Contemporary migrations in Oceania, lands of exile.
53247 GILLE, Bernard & TOULLELAN, Pierre Yves DE LA CONQUETE A L'EXODE - Histoire des Océaniens et de leurs Migrations dans le Pacifique. Volume 2: Les Migrations Contemporaines en Océanie, Terre d'Exil
$60.00 AUD
Au Vent des îles. Papeete. 1999. 1st Ed. Volume II: 296, (4) PP with 6 maps and 24 tables. Pictorial laminated boards. French text. Fine. 22.6 x 14.5. 2909790681
Volume II: Contemporary migrations in Oceania, lands of exile.
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.
62477 GIRARD, Charles (editor) LETTRES DES MISSIONNAIRES MARISTES EN OCEANIE 1836-1854 - Anthologie de la correspondance reçue par Jean-Claude Colin fondateur de la Société de Marie pendant son généralat
$45.00 AUD
Editions Karthala. Paris. 2009. 1st edition in "Collection Mémoires d'Eglises". Preface by Claude Prudhomme. Introduction by Claire Laux. 753, (3) PP with 1 b/w photos and 15 maps, plus 32 pages with 49 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16. 9782811100810
Catholic faith through Oceania: New Zealand, Wallis & Futuna, Tonga, Fiji & Rotuma, Samoa, Solomon Islands and New Caledonia.
48533 GLOVER, Winifred REALMS OF THE PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD
Ulster Museum. Belfast. 1994. 1st Ed. Ulster Museum Publication No. 272. (6), 74 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 29.5. 0900761296
The Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian collections in the Ulster Museum.
68784 GOLOVNIN, V.M. DETAINED IN SIMON'S BAY - The Story of the Detention of the Russian Sloop DIANA, April 1808 - May 1809
$35.00 AUD
Naval Heritage Trust of South Africa. Simon's Town, South Africa. 2009. 2nd edition of the 1964 original. Translated from the Russian by Mrs. Lisa Millner. Edited with additional notes and Index by O.H. Spohr. XII; 108 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.7 x 14.5. 9780620428316
62040 GORODE, Déwé TÂDO, TÂDO, WEE ! ou "No more Baby"
$45.00 AUD
Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2012. 1st French edition in "Collection Littératures du Pacifique". 354, (2) PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21 x 13. 9782915654936
Novel.
20209 GOUGH, Barry M. (editor) TO THE PACIFIC AND ARCTIC WITH BEECHEY, The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of H.M.S. Blossom 1825-1828
$20.00 AUD
Hakluyt Society. Cambridge. 1973. Second Series, No. 143. X, 272 PP with 2 small explanatory drawings & 2 maps, plus 1 large folded chart & 3 b/w plates. Fp: Portrait of Frederick William Beechey. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few chips, signature of previous owner on FFEP, foxing on outside top edge, o/wise contents are near fine. 22 x 14. 0521200792
During the crossing of the South Pacific Ocean, after a call at Pitcairn, he stayed a fortnight in the Gambiers, then sailed to the Tuamotus (Mururoa & Fangataufa), pearl fishery of Hao... reaching Tahiti two months later.
15768 GOULTER, Mary Catherine SONS OF FRANCE, A Forgotten Influence on New Zealand History
$20.00 AUD
Whitcombe & Tombs. Wellington. 1957. 1st Ed. (10), 218 PP plus 7 full-page b/w portraits. Fp: Jean Baptiste Petitjean, S.M. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22.5 x 14.5.
Seven French missionaries who lived and worked in New Zealand after 1838.
62039 GRACE, Patricia MUTUWHENUA, La Lune Dort
$45.00 AUD
Au Vent des îles. Papeete. 2012. 1st French edition in "Collection Littératures du Pacifique". Translated from the English (New Zealand) original by Jean Anderson & France Grenaudier-Klijn. 189, (3) PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21 x 13. 9782915654950
Novel set in New Zealand.
53414 GRAND, Simone TAHU'A, TOHUNGA, KAHUNA - Le Monde Polynésien des Soins Traditionnels
$50.00 AUD
Au Vent des îles. Papeete. 2007. 1st Ed. 354, (6 publications) PP. Pictorial stiff cover. French text. Fine. 22.5 x 15. 2915654264
Diseases and medicine in Polynesia, with the traditional doctors: Tahu'a in Tahiti, Tohunga in New Zealand, Kahuna in Hawai'i.
44088 GRANGER, E. LES COLONIES FRANCAISES - Encyclopédie par l'Image
$10.00 AUD
Librairie Hachette. Paris. 1929. Reprint of the 1927 original. 64 PP with 8 maps and 108 b/w photos. Illustrated soft wrappers a little rubbed, o/wise near fine. French text. 24 x 17.
French colonies in Africa and the Indian Ocean, Asia, Oceania and the Americas.
33128 GRATTAN, C. Hartley THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC TO 1900 - A Modern History - Australia, New Zealand, the Islands, Antarctica
$15.00 AUD
The University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. 1963. 1st Ed., in The University of Michigan History of the Modern World series. XIV, 558, XVII PP with 10 maps. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover and spine, dj (price clipped). Fine. 24 x 16.
33129 GRATTAN, C. Hartley THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC SINCE 1900 - A Modern History - Australia, New Zealand, the Islands, Antarctica
$15.00 AUD
The University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. 1963. 1st Ed., in The University of Michigan History of the Modern World series. X, 759, XXVIII PP with 11 maps. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16.
38125 GREEN, R. C. & CRESSWELL, M. M. (editors) SOUTHEAST SOLOMON ISLANDS CULTURAL HISTORY - A Preliminary Survey
$50.00 AUD
Royal Society of New Zealand. Wellington. 1976. 1st Ed., Bulletin No. 11 of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 287 PP with 17 tables and 79 figures (maps, sketches, photos), plus 4 folded plates. Pictorial soft cover. Light wear, o/wise near fine. 24.6 x 17.5.
15 contributions. New light on the Spanish settlement of the Southeast Solomons, by Jim Allen. The history of post-Spanish European contact in the Eastern District before 1939, by Kaye C. Green...
48231 GREENBIE, Sydney THE PACIFIC TRIANGLE
$40.00 AUD
The Century Co. New York. 1921. 1st Ed. XV, 402 PP plus 1 large folded map of the Pacific and 48 pages with 86 b/w photos. Fp: Eruption of volcano on the island of Kyushu. Illustrated cloth cover. Book plate of previous owner on front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 22.7 x 15.
Historical and travel material. Discussion of native problems: personal and social. Discussion of the political problems involving Australasia, Asia and America.
15661 GREGOR, Arthur S. CHARLES DARWIN
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. London. 1967. 1st UK edition of the 1966 US original. 189 PP with 1 plan, 1 map and 16 bw illust. in text. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
A biography in 3 parts: voyage, discovery, and homecoming.
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.
15628 GRENFELL PRICE, A. (editor) THE EXPLORATIONS OF CAPT. JAMES COOK IN THE PACIFIC, As Told by Selections of His Own Journals 1768-1779
$10.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1969. 2nd edition of the 1958 original. XVII, 292 PP with 40 b/w drawings by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Fp (in colour): Plaque by Flaxman of Capt. Cook, tipped in. FEP: Chart of Pacific Ocean, before Cook. REP: Chart of the Pacific Ocean, after Cook. Cloth cover, dj (HM Bark Endeavour entering Botany Bay April 29, 1770). Dust jacket lightly chipped and rubbed. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise very good. 24.3 x 15.5. 0207952213
Selections of Capt. Cook's Journals compiled to give a running narrative accompanied by evocative & historically authentic illustrations.
64454 GRENFELL PRICE, A. (editor) THE EXPLORATIONS OF CAPT. JAMES COOK IN THE PACIFIC, As Told by Selections of His Own Journals 1768-1779
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1969. 2nd edition of the 1958 original. XVII, 292 PP with 40 b/w drawings by Geoffrey C. Ingleton. Fp (in colour): Plaque by Flaxman of Capt. Cook, tipped in. FEP: Chart of Pacific Ocean, before Cook. REP: Chart of the Pacific Ocean, after Cook. Cloth cover, sunned on bottom of spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket sunned on spine with some rubbing on back. An otherwise near fine copy. 24.3 x 15.5. 0207952213
Selections of Capt. Cook's Journals compiled to give a running narrative accompanied by evocative & historically authentic illustrations.
49643 GRENFELL PRICE, A. & McFARLING, D. G. (editors) AUSTRALIAN AND PACIFIC MATERIAL FROM THE NAN KIVELL COLLECTION in the National Library of Australia
$10.00 AUD
Libraries Board of South Australia. Adelaide. 1962. 1st Ed. Foreword by R. G. Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia. No pagination, 36 PP with 2 colour and 5 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.2 x 18.5.
Catalogue of an exhibition holding 206 items (123 Books and Manuscripts, and 83 Prints).
45221 GRENIER, Christophe CONSERVATION CONTRE NATURE - Les Iles Galapagos
$40.00 AUD
Editions de l' IRD. Paris. 2000. 1st edition, in Collection Latitudes 23. 376 PP with 3 tables, 12 maps, 33 figures and 42 b/w photos. Fp: Roc de Leon Dormido, off the Island of San Cristobal. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 25 x 20. 2709914514
Environment in the Galapagos islands. 4 pages of English and 4 pages of Spanish summaries.
71906 GRIER, Mary C. (compiler) REFERENCES ON THE PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN
$35.00 AUD
United States Navy Department, Hydrographic Office. Washington. 1946. 1st Ed. H.O. Publication No. 238. IX, 174 PP. Soft covers, title on front cover, staples. Slight ageing of paper. Foxing spots on front cover. Very good. 26 x 20.
1227 entries.
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.
49946 GRIFFITHS, Rhonda, SMAALDERS, Mark & HOTERE, Rika (editors) LES USAGES CULTURELS EN OCEANIE
$50.00 AUD
Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 2005. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Lourdes Pangelinan. IV, 152 PP with 1 map and 12 b/w photos. Soft cover. French text. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9820000645
Cultural Etiquette in the Pacific Islands. American Samoa, Australia ... New Zealand / Aoteaorato Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna.
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.
57744 GRIMBLE, Arthur RETURN TO THE ISLANDS
$15.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1957. 1st Ed. VIII, (2), 215 PP with 30 drawings and 1 sketch map by Rosemary Grimble. Cloth cover, device (hibiscus flower) on front cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket worn at head and foot of spine. Name and address of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good reading copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
72285 GRIMBLE, Arthur RETURN TO THE ISLANDS ... Life and Legend in The Gilberts ...
$25.00 AUD
William Morrow & Co. New York. 1957. 1st US edition. VIII, 215 PP with 1 sketch map and 29 drawings by Rosemary Grimble. Fp: Map of the Gilbert Islands and inset with location map. Cloth cover, device (coconut trees) on front cover. Covers marked and speckled (on spine and back). Offsetting on endpapers and occasional foxing. Near fine internally. 22 x 14.8.
70795 GRIMBLE, Arthur Francis TUNGARU TRADITIONS - Writings on the Atoll Culture of the Gilbert Islands
$25.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1989. 1st Australian edition of the US original published as a Pacific Islands Monograph. Edited by H. E. Maude. XXXII, 383 PP with 9 tables, 15 figures, and 35 b/w photos. Fp: Sir Arthur Grimble. Eps: Map of the Pacific with location of the Gilbert Islands (Kiribati). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0522843867
Anthropological monograph.
48655 GRIMSHAW, Beatrice THREE WONDERFUL NATIONS, TONGA, SAMOA, FIJI (in Tours to the South Sea Islands)
$250.00 AUD
Union Steam Ship Co. of N.Z., Ltd. Dunedin. 1913. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 46 b/w photos, plus 1 Routes Chart tipped in at centrefold. Inside front cover: Fleet List in February 1913. Inside back cover 2 advertisements. Pictorial soft wrappers (front cover: the Navua, rear cover: colour illustrations). Longitudinal crease in the middle of covers with 2 small closed and repaired tears. Minimal foxing around edges. Staples removed. Contents near fine. Scarce. 24.6 x 18.6.
73307 GRIMSHAW, Beatrice IN THE STRANGE SOUTH SEAS
$40.00 AUD
Books for Libraries Press. Freeport, N.Y. 1971. Reprint in the "Black Heritage Library Collection", of the 1908 original. (2), X, 381 PP, plus 48 plates with 56 b/w photos. Fp: A native picnic, Tahiti. Cloth cover, title on spine, no dj. A near fine copy. 22.2 x 14.5. 0836987640
Tahiti, Cook Islands, Tonga.
62258 GROOM, Linda A STEADY HAND: Governor Hunter & His First Fleet Sketchbook
$50.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2012. 1st Ed. Foreword by Anne-Marie Schwirtlich. VI, 229 PP with 19 b/w illustrations, 16 maps or plans, 57 colour illustrations and 100 plates in colour. Fp: Portrait of Vice-Admiral John Hunter, Governor of New South Wales. Pictorial boards, dj. New. 29 x 24. 9780642277077
57943 GROVE DAY, A. THEY PEOPLED THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Duell, Sloan and Pearce. New York. 1964. 1st Ed. X, 180 PP with 13 b/w illustrations (10 headpieces) by George Wilson. Eps: Map of the South Pacific. Cloth cover. Signs of water damage at lower corner of front cover. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good reading copy. 21 x 14.
73278 GUEGAN, Bertrand (editor) VOYAGE DE LA PEROUSE AUTOUR DU MONDE, publié d' après tous les manuscrits de l'Auteur
$100.00 AUD
Editions du Carrefour. Paris. 1930. 1st Ed., in Collection Voyages et Decouvertes. XVI, 294 PP with b/w illustrations: 1 map on double page, 1 sketch map and 2 coastal views on a single page, 8 drawings on double pages and 10 drawings on single page. Bound copy of the 1930 paperback edition, retaining original soft covers. Half bound, marbled boards, leather spine with raised bands, gilt title and 2 devices. Marbled endpapers. French text. Excellent condition. 24 x 20.
University of Hawaii Foundation & Ma'i Ho'oka'awale Foundation. Honolulu. 1985. New edition of the 1979 original. VI, 121 PP, plus 16 pages with 10 colour and 12 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0824909890
Excerpts from interviews with exiled leprosy patients at Kalaupapa Settlement, Molokai. After word: Father Damien Legacy ... towards Sainthood.
The Separating Sickness Foundation (Ma'i Ho'oka'awale). Honolulu. 1996. 3rd edition of the 1979 original. VI, 124 PP, plus 16 pages with 10 colour and 12 b/w photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Occasional foxing. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0965397106
Excerpts from interviews with exiled leprosy patients at Kalaupapa Settlement, Molokai. After word: Father Damien Legacy ... towards Sainthood.
38594 GUIART, Jean DECOUVERTE DE L'OCEANIE - Tome I: Connaissance des îles
$55.00 AUD
Le Rocher à la Voile & Haere Po. Nouméa & Papeete. 2000. 1st Ed. 277 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21 x 15.
47783 GUIART, Jean LA DECOUVERTE DE L'OCEANIE - Tome II: Connaissance des Hommes
$50.00 AUD
Le Rocher à la Voile & Haere Po. Nouméa & Papeete. 2003. 1st Ed. 364 PP with 164 b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21 x 15.
56561 GUIART, Jean MON DIEU LA-HAUT, LA TETE EN BAS ! La Construction de l'ethnologie dans le Pacifique
$85.00 AUD
Le Rocher à la Voile / Haere Po. Nouméa & Papeete. 2009. 1st Ed. Volume 3 in "Essais pour servir à l' intelligence du temps présent". 308 PP with 46 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Covers lightly soiled/rubbed. Occadional foxing, o/wise contents near fine. French text. 25 x 16.5. 9782904171734
50911 GUILLAUD, Dominique, HUETZ DE LEMPS, Christian & SEVIN, Olivier (editors) ILES REVEES. Territoires et identités en crise dans le Pacifique Insulaire
$50.00 AUD
Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne. Paris. 2003. 1st Ed., in Collection Géographie. 378 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (maps, plans). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French and English texts. 24 x 16 2901560520
Proceedings of a seminar held at Université de Paris-Sorbonne. 13 papers (1 in English and 12 in French): Melanesian Identity and Kava, by Annabel Chanteraud. Changes in Hawaii, by Huetz de Lemps... Island Dreaming: the contemplation of Polynesian Paradise by John Connell...
34023 GUILLAUD, Dominique, SEYSSET, Maorie & WALTER, Annie LE VOYAGE INACHEVE... à Joël Bonnemaison
$45.00 AUD
ORSTOM / PRODIG. Paris. 1998. 1st Ed. 774 PP with 5 figures, 8 b/w photos, 26 maps and plans and 54 tail pieces, plus 8 pages with 17 colour photos. Illustrated soft cover. Near fine. French text. 24 x 18. 2709914247
99 papers most in French, some in English, honouring Joël Bonnemaison, French Geographer / Anthropologist / Ethnologist. An Ancient Land Management practice in Raga, North Pentecost by Harold Brookfield... Language, Space and Identity in Vanuatu, by Darrell Tryon. Before geosymbols... Tongoa 1969-1970, by Richard Bedford... The link with land: questions about change, by Gerard R. Ward. Circling the centre: the pursuit of an Australian Heartland, by Joe M. Powell... P. 747 to 764 English abstract.
54240 GUILLAUME, Sylvie (editor) LES ASSOCIATIONS DANS LA FRANCOPHONIE
$25.00 AUD
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine. Bordeaux. 2006. 1st Ed. Preface by Pierre Singaravélou. 333, (3) PP with figures, maps, tables. Soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 15.8.
Francophone networks in Oceania, by Frédéric Angleviel & Claire Laux. ... Francophone Identitiy in Québec (4 papers), by Sylvie & Pierre Guillaume, Gwenael Lamarque, & Christian Poirier.
50515 GUILLOU, Jean DES JALONS DE L'HISTOIRE (Plats et Bouteilles Historiques)
$10.00 AUD
Editions de l'Etrave. Le Fresne, France. 2004. 1st Ed. 148 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, maps, plans and photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22 x 15.5. 2909599701
Historical pewter plates and sealed bottles, used by discoverers and explorers, as a testimony of their call, act of ownership, distress...
53198 GUILLOU, Jean ECHOS DU GRAND OCEAN
$35.00 AUD
Editions de l'Etrave. Verrières, France. 2006. 1st Ed. 155, (5) PP with b/w and colour illustrations (drawings, maps, plans and photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22 x 15.5. 2909599823
17 true stories of the Indian or Pacific oceans.
73358 GUNN, Michael ARTS RITUELS D'OCEANIE - Nouvelle-Irlande
$80.00 AUD
Musée Barbier-Mueller & Skira Editore. Geneva/Milan. 1997. 1st Ed. Preface by Philippe Douste-Blazy. Foreword by Jean-Paul Barbier. 161 PP with 1 b/w portrait of Richard Heinrich Robert Parkinson, 132 figures: 9 in colour (4 maps and 5 photos) and 123 in b/w (1 map, paintings and photos), and 43 colour plates (1 on double page and 42 on full page) by Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini. Fp: 12 men wearing "Malangan" masks. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj in a protective sleeve. A fine copy. French text. 31 x 23.5. 9788881181759
Art of New Ireland.
56067 GUNSON, Niel THE DALTON JOURNAL, Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1829
$35.00 AUD
National Library of Australia Canberra. 1990. 1st Ed., foreword by Warren Horton. XII, 140 PP with 12 b/w illustrations. Eps: Facsimile of Log Book. Hard cover, scrimshaw illustration on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Dedicatory note to Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) on page facing title page, signed by Niel Gunson, editor. Fine. 24.8 x 17.4. 0642105057
A British account of whaling in the South Seas on board the Phoenix in 1823-25 and the Harriet 1826-29.
47578 GUNSON, Niel (editor) THE CHANGING PACIFIC. Essays in honour of H.E. Maude
$35.00 AUD
Oxford University Press - Melbourne. 1978. 1st edition. XIV, 351 PP with 1 map and 7 figures, plus 4 plates with 7 b/w illustrations. Fp: Picture of H.E. Maude. FEP: map of Central Pacific Islands. REP: map of the Western Pacific Islands. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Stiff content page loosely inserted. Dust jacket slightly soiled, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0195505182
55941 GWYNN-JONES, Terry WILD BLUE YONDER: Flying Stories of Amazement and Wonder
$10.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1996. 1st Ed., in UQP Paperbacks series. X, 287 PP, plus 32 pages with 75 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper (not affectiong the pages with illustrations). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 19.7 x 13. 070222751X
South Pacific Commission. Nouméa. 1998. Revised edition of the 1994 original. Foreword by Dr. Bob Dun. VI, 68 PP with 12 boxes and colour illustrations (1 map, 13 photos and 33 graphs). Large folded Data Sheet "Pacific Island Populations" for mid 1996 (with 3 tables and 24 graphs) loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 9822036000
Revised edition of the 1994 edition prepared for the International Conference on Population and Development (held in Cairo, Egypt, 5-13 September 1994). Updated Data Sheet for 1996.
17202 HALL, James Norman THE FAR LANDS
$20.00 AUD
Little, Brown & Co./ Book Club Edition. Boston. 1950. Reprint. XXII, 298 PP. Hard cover, dj. Top corner of front endpaper cut. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Very good. 21.7 x 14.5.
Capt. Winnie Brander of Tahiti, relates the mysterious call and the sailing with Maui of the people from the Tonga Clan in their search for the Far Lands.
76353 HALLINAN, Peter THE PETER HALLINAN COLLECTION OF MELANESIAN ART
$40.00 AUD
Sotheby's. London. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword by Ava Pigge. 109, (15 abbreviations, notes, conditions) PP with 2 maps and 166 colour phoptos. Hard covers, decorated boards, dj. Fine. 27.5 x 21.5. 0646123823
Catalogue of auction sale: 7th December 1992, listing 166 items with colour photo and description.
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.
73323 HANOTAUX, Pierre, MOHEN, Jean-Pierre, TAYLOR, Anne-Christine & CERUTTI, Helene (editors) CHEFS-D'OEUVRE dans les Collections du Musée du Quai Branly
$50.00 AUD
Musee du Quai Branly. Paris. 2006. 1st Ed. Preface by Stephane Martin, and foreword by Germain Viatte. 116 PP with 3 head pieces and colour illustrations (2 plans, 4 photos of the museum and 88 plates). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. French text. 31 x 22. 0782915133219
Catalogue of 88 artefacts "masterpieces": 22 from Oceania. 22 from Africa. 22 from Asia. 22 from the Americas.
58573 HARDAKER, J. B. (editor) THE SUBSISTENCE SECTOR IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
University of New England & University of the South Pacific. Armidale & Suva. 1975. 1st Ed. (2), IX, 210 PP with 6 tables. Folded sheet "Current Prices ... 1977" loosely inserted. Stapled soft cover, illustrated front. Name of previous owner at top of preliminary page. Very good. 29.5 x 20.8. 0858340941
11365 HARDING, Thomas G. & WALLACE, Ben J. (editors) CULTURES OF THE PACIFIC - Selected Readings
$10.00 AUD
The Free Press. New York. c. 1975. 4th printing of the 1970 original. XVI, 496 PP with 9 tables and 17 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Bookplate of previous owner inside front cover, o/wise very good. 23.5 x 15.2. 0029138000
28 readings on culture, history, technology & economics, social life, politics & social control, religion & culture change.
57661 HARDING, Thomas G. & WALLACE, Ben J. (editors) CULTURES OF THE PACIFIC - Selected Readings
$10.00 AUD
The Free Press. New York. 1970. 1st printing.. XVI, 496 PP with 9 tables and 17 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Covers laminated. Light soiling on the outside edges. Very good. 23.5 x 16.2.
28 readings on culture, history, technology & economics, social life, politics & social control, religion & culture change.
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.
49153 HARGREAVES, Dorothy and Bob TROPICAL TREES OF THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Hargreaves Company. Kailua, Hawaii. 1970. 1st Ed. 64 PP with over 130 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Top corner of front cover lightly rubbed. Foxing on outside edges. Very good. 21.4 x 13.7.
73624 HARRIS, N. V. THE TROPICAL PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
University of London Press. London. 1966 1st Ed. 176 PP with tables and 42 figures (maps, sketches & plans), plus 12 pages with 24 b/w photos. Top outside edge tinted. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Discreet signature of previous owner on inside of front cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.5.
Melanesia, Fiji and Western Polynesia, The Hawaiian Islands, Central and Eastern Polynesia and Micronesia.
13247 HARRIS, Stuart & OSHIMA, Keichi AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN: NUCLEAR ENERGY ISSUES IN THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Australia-Japan Economic Relations Research Project. Canberra. 1980. 1st Ed. (2), X, 245 PP with 4 graphs and 17 tables in text. Pict. card cover. Very good. 24.5 x 17.5. 0959619720
12 papers: Australian uranium, the environmental issue - Commercial and economic aspects of uranium exports to Pacific area - Nuclear energy in the Pacific, an overview of both Japanese and Australian interests...
57667 HARTMAN, Tom MAN IN THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Hamish Hamilton. London. 1967. 1st Ed. No. 22 in the Star Book series. 32 PP with 16 b/w and 16 colour illustrations by George Craig. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, o/wise near fine. 21 x 15.3. 0241913845
50679 HASSALL, Graham & SAUNDERS, Cheryl ASIA - PACIFIC CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS
$20.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 2002. 1st Ed. XII, 314 PP with 1 map on double page. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.7 x 16. 0521591295
59712 HASTINGS, Peter DOUBLE DUTCH AND INDONS, The Colonial Mastas
$10.00 AUD
Author. Canberra. 1980. Roneotyped paper. (2), 5 PP. Clear plastic cover. Very good. 30.5 x 23
Paper presented, 24th October 1980: on Dutch, Indonesian and Australian Kiaps on the island of New Guinea.
49861 HAU'OFA, Epeli KISSES IN THE NEDERENDS
$15.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1995. 1st printing of the 1995 editon (original of 1987). X, (2), 175 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.8 x 12.5. 0824816854
75853 HAYCOX, Stephen, BARNETT, James K. & LIBURD, Caedmon A. (editors) ENLIGHTENMENT AND EXPLORATION IN THE NORTH PACIFIC, 1741-1805
$40.00 AUD
Cook Inlet Historical Society / University of Washington Press. Seattle. 1997. 1st Ed. XII, 220, (4) PP with 25 b/w illustrations: 2 maps, 8 charts, portraits, prints and photos. Pictorial soft covers with light wear around edges, otherwise a fine copy. 25 x 17.5. 9780295975832
75196 HAYNES, Jim THE BEST AUSTRALIAN SEA STORIES
$15.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2012 1st Ed. (10), 326 PP. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.3. 9781742371252
A Maritime History of Australia: Terra Australis, it's out there ... Somewhere (Early explorers: Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch then Cook and Banks... Jean François Galaup de la Pérouse: The ablest Seaman in the French Navy ... The Pilots of Port Phillip Bay.
54725 HEATHCOTE, Nina (editor) NUCLEAR DISPERSAL IN ASIA AND THE INDO-PACIFIC REGION
$20.00 AUD
Department of Political Science, Institute of Advanced Studies / Australian National University. Canberra. 1965. June 1965 reprint of the February 1965 original. (2), II 101 PP typescript (recto only). Card covers. Slight ageing around edges, o/wise very good. 26 x 21.2.
Proceedings of a seminar (5 & 6 September 1964) conducted on behalf of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. ... Nuclear Forces in Australia, by A. L. Burns. Nuclear dispersal: China, India and Japan, by Nina Heathcote. A Nuclear-Free zone in South East Asia, by G. P. King.
54982 HEFFER, Jean THE UNITED STATES AND THE PACIFIC. History of a Frontier
$30.00 AUD
University of Notre Dame Press. Notre Dame, Indiana. 2002. Reprint of the 2002 US edition. Translated from the 1995 French original Les Etats-Unis et le Pacifique: Histoire d'une frontière, by W. Donald Wilson. XII, (2), 510, (2) PP with 3 maps, 7 graphs and 23 tables. 0268043086
Chapter 1: the Chinese magnet. Chapter 2: The Whaler's Pacific... Chapter 7: Imperialism and the Open Door... Chapter 9: War in the Pacific... Chapter 12: toward cultural symbiosis?.
42906 HEFFERNAN, Thomas Farel MUTINY ON THE GLOBE - The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock
$30.00 AUD
Bloomsbury. London. 2002. 1st Ed. XX, 280 PP with 1 map on double page and 1 sketch map, plus 16 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Eps: Map of Mili Atoll (inset Pacific Ocean with location map). Hard cover, dj. Paper a little browned around edges, o/wise fine. 24 x 16. 0747559023
1824 mutiny on the Nantucket whaling ship Globe.
65626 HEFFERNAN, Thomas Farel MUTINY ON THE GLOBE - The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock
$10.00 AUD
Bloomsbury. London. 2002. 1st paperback edition. XX, 280 PP with 1 map on double page and 1 sketch map, plus 16 pages with 16 b/w illustrations. Eps: map of Mili Atoll (inset Pacific Ocean with location map). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16. 0747560986
1824 mutiny on the Nantucket whaling ship Globe.
33445 HEGARTY, David STABILITY AND TURBULENCE IN SOUTH PACIFIC POLITICS
$15.00 AUD
Strategic & Defence Studies Centre / A.N.U. Canberra. 1989. 1st Ed., Working paper No. 185. (2), 18, (5 adv.) PP with 1 table. Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0731506634
60536 HEMPENSTALL, Peter PROTEST OR EXPERIMENT? - Theories of 'Cargo Cults'
$10.00 AUD
Research Centre for Southwest Pacific Studies / La Trobe University. Melbourne/ 1981. 1st Ed. Occasional Paper No. 2. (2), 10 PP. Soft cover, staples. Very good. 25 x 17.5. 0858162814
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...
59192 HENNINGHAM, Stephen, MAY, R.J. & TURNER, Lulu (editors) RESOURCES, DEVELOPMENT & POLITICS IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$30.00 AUD
Crawford House Press. Bathurst. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword by John Langmore. XVI, 324 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.7 x 15. 1863330631
Problems created by development and politics : Mining, compensation and crisis in Bougainville. Nickel and politics in New Caledonia. Forest logging, ...
33126 HERDT, Gilbert & LEAVITT, Stephen C. (editors) ADOLESCENCE IN PACIFIC ISLANDS SOCIETIES
$15.00 AUD
University of Pittsburgh Press. Pittsburgh, Pa. 1998. 1st Ed. Monograph No. 16 in Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. IX, (3), 239 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.4 x 15.6. 0822956721
33190 HERDT, Gilbert H. (editor) RITUALIZED HOMOSEXUALITY IN MELANESIA
$25.00 AUD
University of California Press. Berkeley. 1984. 1st Ed. XX, 409 PP with 3 maps and 9 head pieces. Eps: Map of Melanesia. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 23.6 x 15.5. 0520050371
Seven leading anthropologists studying cross-cultural variations in homosexual behaviour in a non-western culture area.
University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1986. 1st Ed. VIII, (2), 94 PP with b/w illust. (paintings & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 14.8.
55752 HERENIKO, Vilsoni WOVEN GODS - Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma
$25.00 AUD
Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i & Institute of Pacific Studies, USP. Suva & Honolulu. 1995. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 197, (3) PP with 1 plan, 2 maps and 20 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 9820201101
Wayland. London. c. 1985. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 10 b/w (5 engravings and 5 photos) and 34 colour illustrations (3 maps, and 31 photos). Laminated pictorial boards. Copy may lack its title page, o/wise near fine. 25.5 x 19.8. 0850784689
59843 HERENIKO, Vilsoni TWO PLAYS: A Child for Iva / Sera's Choice
$15.00 AUD
Mana Publications. Suva. 1987. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Andrew Horn. X, 155 PP with 12 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.7 x 15. 9820200156
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.
49654 HEYEN, Captain G. H. (compiler) SAILING DIRECTIONS ON NAVIGATION IN AND BETWEEN THE ISLANDS AND ATOLLS OF THE GILBERT GROUP
$45.00 AUD
Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony. Suva. 1937. 1st Ed. 18 PP, (2 blank) with 1 table "Current observations in the Gilbert Islands". A notice slip tipped in at top of first page. Stapled soft wrappers a little browned. Bottom corner of P.15 clipped without loss of text. Page (19) with following manuscript note At Bairiki, Tarawa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, on 28th September 1945, Officers of H.M.A.S. Diamantina, signed by 8 officials (signature followed with their position). Very good. Scarce. 33.7 x 21.
43363 HEYERDAHL, Thor AKU-AKU - The Secret of Easter Island
$30.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1958. 1st UK edition, translated from the 1957 Norwegian original Aku-Aku: Paskeöyas Hemmelighet. 368 PP with 6 drawings and maps, plus 40 pages with 62 colour photos. Hard cover, device in blind on front board, gilt title on spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Ageing of paper around outside edges, o/wise very good. 22 x 14.5.
45615 HEYERDAHL, Thor AKU-AKU - The Secret of Easter Island
$25.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin. London. 1958. 2nd edition (4th impression) of the April 1958 original. UK edition, translated from the 1957 Norwegian original Aku-Aku: Paskeöyas Hemmelighet. 368 PP with 6 drawings and maps, plus 40 pages with 62 colour photos. Hard cover, device in blind on front board, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket with small pieces missing, o/wise very good. 22 x 14.5.
47373 HEZEL, Francis X., S. J. THE NEW SHAPE OF OLD ISLAND CULTURES: A Half Century of Social Change in Micronesia
$30.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2001. 1st Ed., XII, 198, (1) PP with 1 map and 29 b/w photos. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. 23.4 x 15.6. 082482380X
75577 HIATT, L. R. & JAYAWARDENA, C. (editors) ANTHROPOLOGY IN OCEANIA: Essays Presented to Ian Hogbin
$15.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1971. 1st Ed. Foreword by Raymond Firth. XII, 290 PP with 2 maps,13 figures and over 10 tabes. Fp: 4 studies of Ian Hogbin - Ontong Java, Wogeo, Busama & Sydney. Hard cover, dj. Ex Library copy with stamps on title page. FEP: plate of the W.J. Rooney Library pasted down. REP: "Withdrawn" stamp and envelope. Occasional foxing. Very good. 24 x 16. 0207122385
12 papers presented to Ian Hogbin by: Michael Allen / Jeremy Beckett / Raymond Firth ... Roger Keesing / Harold Scheffler / M. G. Swift.
18819 HILDER, Brett NAVIGATOR IN THE SOUTH SEAS
$5.00 AUD
Rigby. Adelaide. 1978. 1st soft cover edition. (6), 232 PP with many illust. by the author. Pict. soft cover. Fine. 18 x 11.5. 0727005537
Until his death in 1981, Capt. Hilder sailed the various South Pacific archipelagoes and the Indonesian islands. His first years at sea & his WWII years.
Dated 1951. Original signed watercolour with pandanus frame. 41.5 x 29cm.
71066 HILDER, Brett PORTRAIT - Norman K. WALLIS
$150.00 AUD
Dated 1954. Original unframed signed watercolour. 23 x18.5cm.
A timber merchant from Sydney who travelled extensively in the Western Pacific in search of suitable timber for Australia. See article in Pacific Islands Monthly, Oct.1954.
63615 HINCH, Derryn DEATH IN PARADISE
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1989. 1st Ed. (12), 272 PP with 1 map on double page. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket wih a closed tear, o/wise fine. 24.2 x 15.7. 0207161658
Historical novel, on the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior and the sequels.
51240 HINDWOOD, K. A., KEITH, K. & SERVENTY, D. L. BIRDS OF THE SOUTH-WEST CORAL SEA
$10.00 AUD
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. Melbourne. 1963. 1st Ed. Division of Wildlife Research Technical Paper No. 3. 44 PP with 7 tables, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w photos on 7 plates, and a folded map at back of book. Soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17.8.
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.
Commonwealth Geographical Bureau & Department of Human Geography. Canberra. 1988 1st Ed. XII, 210 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (graphs & maps). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (mint condition). 26 x 17.5. 0731636090
14 papers.
44611 HIRST, Warwick PAINTING THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Dagmar Schmidmaier. 20 PP with 7 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 24 x 14. 0731371186
Guide to an exhibition of 54 paintings held in the State Library's Picture Gallery in 2002. Short biography of 24 painters, and description of their paintings.
50706 HISARD, Philippe MISE EN EVIDENCE DU CONTRE-COURANT EQUATORIAL DANS L'OCEAN PACIFIQUE ET L'OCEAN ATLANTIQUE AU COURS DE LA PREMIERE MOITIE DU XIXe SIECLE
$20.00 AUD
Institut Océanographique. Paris. 1993. Volume 19, Fascicule , in Océanis (série de documents océanographiques). (4), 68 PP with 12 b/w figures. Soft cover. Dedicatory note at top of title page dated and signed by the author. French text ( English abstract on page 2). Fine. 29.5 x 21.
The first observations of Pacific and Atlantic Equatorial Countercurrents during the early nineteenth century. Russian explorers: Krusenstern, Kotzebue, Lütke. French explorers: Freycinet, Duperrey. British explorers: Beechey, Hunter. American Explorer: Wilkes...
50707 HISARD, Philippe MISE EN EVIDENCE DU CONTRE-COURANT EQUATORIAL DANS L'OCEAN PACIFIQUE ET L'OCEAN ATLANTIQUE AU COURS DE LA PREMIERE MOITIE DU XIXe SIECLE
$20.00 AUD
Institut Océanographique. Paris. 1993. Volume 19 (1993), Fascicule 1, in Océanis (série de documents océanographiques). (4), 68 PP with 12 b/w figures. Soft cover. Dedicatory note at top of title page dated and signed by the author. French text ( English abstract on page 2). Fine. 29.5 x 21.
The first observations of Pacific and Atlantic Equatorial Countercurrents during the early nineteenth century. Russian explorers: Krusenstern, Kotzebue, Lütke. French explorers: Freycinet, Duperrey. British explorers: Beechey, Hunter. American Explorer: Wilkes...
63975 HMSO WESTERN PACIFIC - REPORT ON THE TRADE OF THE NEW HEBRIDES
$30.00 AUD
H.M.S.O. London. 1905. High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, August 1905. 12 PP with 1 table. 24.2 x 15.2.
63977 HMSO NEW HEBRIDES REPORT FOR 1921 & 1922
$30.00 AUD
H.M.S.O. London. 1923. Colonial Reports - Annual, No. 1161. 14 PP with 6 tables. 24.2 x 15.2.
Diseases in the New Hebrides, 1922, by Dr. Vernon Davies, M. D.
69918 HMSO OCEAN FRONT - The Story of the War in the Pacific 1941-1944
$25.00 AUD
HMSO / Ministry of Information. London. 1945. 68 PP with b/w illustrations: 8 maps and 90 photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 35 x 14.
From the battles of the the Coral Sea and Midway, to the landings in the Marianas and Peleliu (Palau).
71534 HMSO AUSTRALIA PILOT - Volume II
$40.00 AUD
Hydrographer of the Navy. Taunton, UK. 1999. Seventh edition of the 1918 original. N.P. 14. Preface to this 7th edition by Rear Admiral J. P. Clarke. Edited by P.C. McManaway, Master Mariner. X, 355, (1) with 14 tables, 31 maps in colour and over 100 aerial photos, plus 2 "Index to Charts (N.P. 14 (a), (b). Pictorial laminated boards. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 9780707711171
South, south-east and east coasts of Australia from Green Cape to Port Jackson, including Bass Strait and Tasmania.
73099 HMSO AUSTRALIA PILOT - Volume I
$50.00 AUD
Hydrographer of the Navy. Taunton, UK. 2005. 1st edition. Seventh edition of the 1918 original. N.P. 13. Preface by Dr. D.W. Williams. Edited by Commander G.D. Niven. XII, 428, PP with 20 tables, over 50 maps in colour (including 3 Index diagrams), and many colour illustrations (traffic & port signals, navigation & depth, Courtesy Flag and over 30 aerial photos). Pictorial laminated boards. Copy lacking the CD Rom called for inside back covers. An otherwise fine copy. 30.5 x 21.5. 9780707715599
North, North-West, West and South coasts of Australia from the west entrance of Endeavour Strait to Green Point.
75726 HMSO AUSTRALIA PILOT - Volume II
$30.00 AUD
Hydrographer of the Navy. Taunton, UK. 1982. Sixth edition of the 1918 original. N.P. 14. Preface to this 6th edition by Rear Admiral D. W. Haslam. Edited by Commander J.E. Smallwood, RN. X, 243, (1) PP with 14 tables, 13 maps in colour and b/w illustrations (65 coastal views & beacons / lighthouses and 26 aerial photos), plus 1 "Index to Chart (N.P. 14). Supplement No. 1 - 1983, 18 PP loosely inserted. Cloth covers, gilt title on front board and spine. Fine. 30.5 x 21.5. 9780707711171
South, south-east and east coasts of Australia from Green Cape to Port Jackson, including Bass Strait and Tasmania.
13282 HNANGAN, Adrien (editor) POEMES DE LA MICRO-POLY-MELA
$10.00 AUD
Office Culturel Scientifique et Technique Canaque. Nouméa. 1985. 1st Ed. 32 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Text in French and/or English. Fine. 29.8 x 20.8.
Poems from Micronesia, Polynesia and Melanesia, selected for the 4th Festival of the Pacific Arts. 1 poem in English, and 14 poems in French (7 with their English text).
11286 HOADLEY, Steve THE SOUTH PACIFIC FOREIGN AFFAIRS HANDBOOK
$20.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin / New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. Sydney. 1992. 1st Ed. XIII, 258 PP with tables & maps in text. Pictorial stiff covers. Name of previous owner at top of half title page. Near fine. 21.5 x 14. 9781863731768
Concise survey of international affairs of the South Pacific. A good source of information on each of the states in the region.
58620 HOBLEY, L. F. EXPLORING THE PACIFIC
$5.00 AUD
Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1969. Reprint of the 1957 original, in the Methuen's Outlines History series. (4), 71 PP with b/w illustrations by the author and G. Randall. Hard cover, illustrated front. Ex Library copy with 4 stamps and renewed endpapers. Stain on outside fore edge. Very good. 21.3 x 17. 41659610X
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
53927 HOFFMAN, Rosita & SMAALDERS, Mark & SPC Publications Section MEETING HOUSE OF THE PACIFIC, the story of SPC 1947-2007 / LA MAISON COMMUNE DU PACIFIQUE, l'histoire de la CPS de 1947 à 2007
$30.00 AUD
Secretariat of the Pacific Community / Secrétariat général de le Communauté du Pacifique. Nouméa. 2007. 1st bilingual edition (French text translated by Odile Montpetit). Foreword by Honourable Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi. Introduction by Jimmie Rodgers. 190 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fine. English & French text. Oblong: 23.3 x 26. 9789820002210
59603 HOGBIN, H. Ian EXPERIMENTS IN CIVILIZATION - The Effects of European Culture on a Native Community of the Solomon Islands
$25.00 AUD
Routledge & Kegan Paul. London. 1969. Reprint of the 1939 original. XVII, 268 PP with 2 maps, plus 24 plates with 28 b/w photos. Fp: Maekali. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed at hinges. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 22.2 x 15. 0710065485
59598 HOGBIN, Ian SOCIAL CHANGE - Josiah Mason Lectures delivered at the University of Birmingham
$10.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1970. 2nd impression of the 1958 original. (IX), 257 PP with 1 map (Map of New Guinea, Papua and Solomon Islands). Cloth cover, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise very good. 22 x 14.5. 052283986X
39554 HOGG, Colin AKAROA Mon Amour (in Southern Skies)
$10.00 AUD
Ansett New Zealand. Auckland. 1995. Inflight Magazine, Issue of May 1995. Contains article P. 34 to 39 with 6 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 21.
Legacy of 63 French migrants on Banks Peninsula.
54245 HOLLYMAN, Jim & PAWLEY, Andrew (editors) STUDIES IN PACIFIC LANGUAGES & CULTURES, in honour of Bruce Biggs
$40.00 AUD
Linguistic Society of New Zealand. Auckland. 1981. 1st Ed. 392 PP with figures. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly sunned. English text with 1 paper in French & Caaàc, 1 paper in English & Raga (New Hebrides / Vanuatu) and 1 paper in English and Kaironk (PNG). Very good. 21 x 14.7. 0959760350
22 papers including: La Buse et l' Hirondelle, un conte en Caaàc d'il y a 120 ans (collected in the 1860s by Father Mathieu Gagnière).
42274 HOOPER, Anthony (editor) CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE PACIFIC
$30.00 AUD
Asia Pacific Press. Canberra. 2000. 1st Ed. No. 33 in "Pacific Policy Papers" series. XV, 227 PP. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 21.4 x 14. 0731536274
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.
47441 HORDERN HOUSE HORDERN HOUSE - Rare Books . Manuscripts . Paintings . Prints
$20.00 AUD
Hordern House. Sydney. 2004. 1st Ed. No pagination, 80 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27 x 21. 1875567402
Catalogue detailing 79 items with price list.
70136 HORDERN HOUSE A Selection of TRAVEL, LITERATURE, NATURAL HISTORY, ART & ARCHITECTURE, Catalogued for Collectors
$20.00 AUD
Hordern House. Sydney. 1998. 1st Ed. Edited by Anne McCormick and Derek McDonnell. No pagination, 62 PP with 80 b/w illustrations. 3 folded flyers loosely inserted. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 1875567240
Hordern House. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. No pagination, 96 PP with 116 b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Price list loosely inserted. Fine. 27 x 21. 01875567356
Catalogue detailing 97 items.
66311 HORDERN, Miles VOYAGING THE PACIFIC: In Search of the South
$15.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 2002. 1st paperback edition. (12), 241, (3) PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 3 b/w and 13 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.7. 0719564824
42762 HORRIDGE, Adrian THE EVOLUTION OF PACIFIC CANOE RIGS
$10.00 AUD
The Journal of Pacific History / ANU. Canberra. 1986. Extract from Volume 21 of The Journal of Pacific History. Pages 83 to 99 with 2 pages of illustrations. Clear plastic cover, spiral bound. Fine. 24 x 16.2.
56125 HORROCKS, Linley A STUDY IN INTERCULTURAL CONFLICT: The Du Fresne Massacre at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand 1772 (in The Artefact - Vol 1, No.1)
$25.00 AUD
The Archaeological Society of Victoria. Melbourne. 1976. March 1976. 44 PP. Contains article from P.7 to 30 with location map and map of North island of New Zealand. Soft cover. Very good. 21 x 15.
12941 HOUGHTON, Philip PEOPLE OF THE GREAT OCEAN, Aspects of Human Biology of the Early Pacific
$40.00 AUD
Cambridge. 1996. C.U.P. 1st Ed. X, 292 PP with 35 tables & 51 figures (maps, graphs, ..) in text. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 25.4 x 18. 0521471664
Documents how the original settlers adapted culturally and biologically to the Pacific environment.
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.
46962 HOWAY, Frederic W. (editor) THE DIXON - MEARES CONTROVERSY
$20.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Reprint of the 1929 edition published by The Ryerson Press. No. 2 in the Bibliotheca Australiana Extra Series. XII,(2), 156 PP with 3 facsimiles of title pages, 7 maps and 1 illustration (the long boat of the Felice, one of Meares's vessel at the entrance of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in June 1788). Simile navy blue vellum, gilt title on white label on front cover and spine. Bookplate on front endpaper. Foxing spots on top outside edges. Near fine. 24.8 x 16.5.
Trading vessels on the Northwest coast of America late 1780's, in the early days of the maritime fur trade.
15553 HOWAY, Frederic W. (Editor) THE DIXON - MEARES CONTROVERSY
$25.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Bibliotheca Australiana Extra Series No. 2. Facsimile of the 1929 edition by Ryerson Press. XII,(2), 156 PP with 3 facsimiles of title pages, 7 maps and 1 illust. (the long boat of the Felice, one of Meares's vessel at the entrance of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, in June 1788). Simile navy blue vellum, gilt title on white vignette on front cover and spine. Fine. 24.8 x 16.5.
Trading vessels on the Northwest coast of America in the late 1780's, in the early days of the maritime fur trade.
12057 HOWE, K. R. WHERE THE WAVES FALL, A new South Sea Islands history from first settlement to colonial rule
$20.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1991. 3rd Impression of the 1984 original. XX, 403 PP with 6 head pieces, 11 maps, and 33 b/w illustrations. Eps: Map of the Pacific Islands. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 23 x 18. 1863731911
Exploration & the interaction between the first inhabitants & the explorers, traders, beachcombers, missionaries...
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.
60805 HOWES, Edith WHERE BELL-BIRDS CHIME
$10.00 AUD
Whitcombe and Tombs Limited Christchurch. c. 1930. 1st Ed. No.15 in the "Daintly Booklet" series. 48 PP with 23 b/w illustrations (paintings & photos). Stiff paper covers, stitched. Covers with small closed tears. Very good. 20.6 x 13.2.
72680 HOWGEGO, Raymond John THE BOOK OF EXPLORATION
$45.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 2009. 1st Ed. 360 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 29.7 x 25.8. 9780297855385
59736 HUGHES, Helen The Pacific: Helping the Islands to Help Themselves (in Quadrant, No. 398)
$10.00 AUD
Quadrant Magazine Co. Inc. Sydney. 2003. Issue No. 398 (Vol. XLVII, No. 7-8), July-August 2003. 120 PP. Contains article pages 47 to 49. Soft cover. Fine. Slight ageing of paper. 27.5 x 20.3.
49118 HUIE, Shirley Fenton TIGER LILIES - Women Adventurers in the South Pacific
$10.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1990. 1st Ed. (10), 218 PP with 1 drawing, 9 engravings and 20 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 23.8 x 17. 0207165920
Ysabel Barreto de Mendana, Jeanne Baré of the Bougainville expedition, Constance Cumming, Emma Coe, the Queen of the South Seas, Kathleen Scoresby Routledge & Easter Island, Louise Michel & New Caledonia ...
66745 HUNT, Susan, TERRY, Martin, & THOMAS, Nicholas LURE OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS - The Voyages of Dumont d'Urville 1826-1840
$45.00 AUD
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Sydney. 2002. 1st Ed. Foreword by Mary-Louise Williams and Peter Watts. Preface by Monique Ducreux. 144 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Inside front cover: Portrait of Contre-Amiral Jules Dumont d'Urville. Inside back cover: Common Spotted Cuscus. Pictorial soft covers. Fine (as new condition). 30 x 23.6. 9781876991005
32673 HYDE, Robin CHECK TO YOUR KING - The Life History of Charles, Baron de Thierry, King of Nukahiva, Sovereign Chief of New Zealand
$25.00 AUD
A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wellington. 1960. 1st New Zealand republication of the 1936 UK original. XII, 228 PP. Hard cover, dj. Name and address of previous owner on front endpaper, Short notes on recto of the rear endpaper. Ageing of paper, some foxing, o/wise very good. 21.2 x 13.5.
32674 HYDE, Robin CHECK TO YOUR KING
$20.00 AUD
Golden Press. Auckland. 1975. Reprint of the 1936 UK original, in the New Zealand Classics series. XII, 13-288 PP. Hard cover, dj. Top of front endpaper rubbed. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14.
The life history of Charles, Baron de Thierry, King of Nukahiva, Sovereign Chief of New Zealand.
Defence Mapping Agency Hydrographic / Topographic Center. Bethesda, Md. 1993. Third edition., SD 162. X, 464 PP with tables and b/w illustrations: charts (information), maps & plans, coastal views, drawings and photos. Inside front cover: world map with Sailing Directions limits. Soft covers, illustrated front. Fine. 26 x 19.7.
71548 Hydrographic / Topographic Center SAILING DIRECTIONS (Planning Guide) - SOUTHEAST ASIA - PUB 160
$50.00 AUD
Defence Mapping Agency Hydrographic / Topographic Center. Bethesda, Md. 1993. Fourth edition., SD 160. X, 274 PP with tables and b/w illustrations: charts (information) &, maps. Plus 4 colour plates "Buoyage System" / 1 large folded "Route Chart" / 3 folded pages "Meteorology Instructions" and 25 folded plates with 48 monthly charts (Air Temperature, Temperature - Humidity Index, Precepitation, Surface Wind, Visibility, Waves, Pressure and Tropical Cyclone). Soft covers with light wear, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Near fine. 26 x 19.7.
71584 Hydrographic / Topographic Center SAILING DIRECTIONS (ENROUTE) - SOUTHEAST CHINA SEA AND GULF OF THAILAND PUB 161
$25.00 AUD
Defence Mapping Agency, Hydrographic / Topographic Center. Bethesda, Md. 1994. Sixth edition., SD 161. X, 271 PP with tables and b/w illustrations: charts (information) &, maps, coastal views & drawings and photos. Inside front cover: World Map with Sailing Directions limits. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Very good. 26 x 19.7.
71585 Hydrographic / Topographic Center SAILING DIRECTIONS (Planning Guide) - SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN - PUB 122
$60.00 AUD
Defence Mapping Agency Hydrographic/Topographic Center. Bethesda, Md. 1982. First edition., SD 122. XXII, 293 PP with tables, information charts & chartlets and 14 pages of colour illustrations on existing "Buoyage System". Plus 1 large folded chart of the Pacific Ocean, and in appendix, an Atlas with 182 folded plates: Surface Winds, Surface Air Temperatures, Temperatures Extremes and T-H Index, Sea Surface Temperatures ... Precipitations, Visibility ... Prevailing Surface Current, Major Oceanic Currents, Tides. Rivetted papered boards a little soiled, o/wise very good. 26.5 x 20.
35538 HÖPKER, Wolfgang AKTIONSFELD PAZIFIK: Politik - Wirtschaft - Strategie
$5.00 AUD
Edition Interfrom. Zurich. 1979. 1st Ed. 79, (5 adv.) PP with 1 map and 1 table. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. German text. 21 x 12.5. 3720151123
65667 IBANEZ DEL CARMEN, Father Aniceto, RESANO, Father Francisco & others CHRONICLE OF THE MARIANA ISLANDS
$60.00 AUD
Micronesian Area Research Center. Guam. 1976. 1st English edition, translated from the original Spanish text and introduced by Marjorie G. Driver. No. 5 in the MARC Publications series. XVI, 94 PP with 8 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Covers lightly rubbed, slight ageing & foxing of paper. Name of previous owner on title page. Dedicatory note to previous owner inside front cover, dated and signed by the editor / translator. Near fine. 23 x 15.
33432 IDIENS, Dale PACIFIC ART In The Royal Scottish Museum
$15.00 AUD
Royal Scottish Museum. Edinburgh. 1982. 1st edition, in the Royal Scottish Museum Studies. 80 PP with 1 map, 46 colour and 49 b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front "Poutokomanawa". Near fine. 24.6 x 18.8. 0900733284
33860 IHAGE, Wéniko (editor) EDUCATION, CULTURE ET IDENTITE
$50.00 AUD
CORAIL / UFP. Nouméa. 1998. 1st Ed. 498 PP. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5.
Seminar on Education, culture and identity in the South Pacific. 27 papers (1 in English and 26 in French) presented during the 10th seminar of the CORAIL Group. Each paper with a summary in English.
50770 IHIMAERA, Witi MAORI
$15.00 AUD
A.R. Shearer, Government Printer. Wellington. 1975. 1st Ed. 45 PP with colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. Oblong: 20.2 x 26.5.
56846 IHIMAERA, Witi KAHU, Fille des Baleines
$20.00 AUD
Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2008. 1st French edition. Translated from the 2005 edition New Zealand original "The Whale Rider" by Yan Peirsegaele. 48 PP with colour illustrations by Bruce Potter. Laminated pictorial boards. French text. Fine. Oblong: 22.6 x 31. 9782915654493
Legends, on the arrival and impact of Byron on the continent of Hawaiki Nui.
51686 ILLOUZ, Charles (editor) GEOHISTOIRE DE L'OCEANIE
$55.00 AUD
Association des Profeseurs d' Histoire et de Géographie/APHG. Paris. 2004. Reprint of Historiens et Géographes, issue No. 386, April 2004. 129-343 PP with 4 headpieces, 6 colour illustrations (2 maps and 4 photos) and b/w illustrations (maps, engravings, photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text (with English abstracts for each paper). New. 23.7 x 16.5.
An introduction to the encounter of 2 worlds: Europe and Oceania.
39828 INDER, Stuart (editor) PACIFIC ISLANDS YEAR BOOK - Thirteenth Edition
$20.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1978. 13th edition. 512 PP, ( 8 adverts. in colour) with adverts., tables and maps, plus 1 large folded map in colour of the Pacific Ocean in rear pocket. FEP: Map of the Pacific Ocean. Illustrated hard cover, clear plastic cover. Slight browning of paper on outside edges. Near fine. 21.2 x 14.7.
73507 INDER, Stuart (editor) PACIFIC ISLANDS YEAR BOOK - Twelfth Edition
$15.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1977. 12th edition. Edited by Stuart INDER. 432 PP with b/w illustrationd (sketch maps, maps, plans, plus 8 pages with advertisements in colour, and 1 folded map in colour at rear of book. Illustrated hard covers. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.2 x 14.7.
71415 INNES, Hammond THE LAST VOYAGE, Captain Cook's Lost Diary
$10.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1978. 1st Ed. 254 PP. Eps: Map of world with the three voyages of Cook. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on top outside edge. Near fine. 21.6 x 13.8. 0002214458
The personal account written when he probably had time for reflection.
71339 INSOLE, Elizabeth Dawson EXILE INTO ADVENTURE
$30.00 AUD
Christopher Johnson. London. 1957. 1st Ed. 219 PP, plus 8 plates with b/w illustrations by Alan V. Insole. Fp. Eps: Map of the Pacific with route of the author. Hard cover, dj with a small chip and a clear plastic sleeve. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.
A voyage in 1957/58 to the Pacific islands as a health cure: New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Australia, New Caledonia and French Polynesia.
12974 IOSEFA, S. N. T., MUNRO, D. & BESNIER, N. TE TALA O NIUOKU: The German Plantation on Nukulaelae Atoll 1865-1890
$20.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1991. 2nd edition of the 1990 original. 50 PP with 2 maps. Pictoral card cover. Fine. Text in English & Tuvalu. 21 x 14.8. 9820200733
The 25 year lease on the islet of Niuoku by the Hamburg Trading Company J.C. Godeffroy & Sohn.
57797 IOSEFA, S. N. T., MUNRO, D. & BESNIER, N. TE TALA O NIUOKU: The German Plantation on Nukulaelae Atoll 1865-1890
$20.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1990. 1st Ed. 50 PP with 2 maps. Pictoral card cover. Fine. Text in English & Tuvalu. 21 x 14.8. 9820200164
The 25 year lease on the islet of Niuoku by the Hamburg Trading Company J.C. Godeffroy & Sohn.
44837 IPS PACIFIC STUDIES (a journal devoted to the study of the Pacific - its islands and adjacent countries) - Vol. 8, No. 1
$10.00 AUD
Institute for Polynesian Studies / Brigham Young University. Laie, Hawai'i. 1984. Volume 8, No. 1, Fall 1984. Edited by Gloria CRONIN & Anita HENRY. (6), 170, (7) PP. Soft cover. Foxing. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.2.
Alienated land and Independence in Melanesia, by Peter Larmour. ... Schools in Micronesia prior to American Adminastration, by Francis X. Hezel.
60283 IRIYE, Akira ACROSS THE PACIFIC - An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations
$10.00 AUD
A Harbinger Book. New York. c. 1970. Reprint "D" of the 1967 edition. Introduction by John K. Fairbank. XVII, (5), 361 PP. Soft cover. Faint foxing. Very good. 20.3 x 13.8.
American relations with Japan and China.
13246 IRWIN, Geoffrey THE PREHISTORIC EXPLORATION AND COLONISATION OF THE PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD
C.U.P. Cambridge. 1996. Paperback reprint. VIII, 240 PP with 83 figures & 22 tables, plus 8 pages with 13 b/w illustrations of "Canoes". Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.5. 0521476518
The author claims that, rather than sailing randomly in search of unknown lands, the Pacific islanders expanded settlement by exploring upwind so as to ensure their safe return.
53193 JANKELIOWITCH, Anne LE COCOTIER
$10.00 AUD
Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2006. 1st Ed., in Collection Survol. 56 PP with 52 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 20 x 13. 2915654190
On the coconut palm tree.
59461 JARRETT, Frank & ANDERSON, Kym & NGUYEN, D. T. PAPUA NEW GUINEA - Economic Situation and Outlook
$10.00 AUD
AIDAB - Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. 1990. March 1990 edition. International Development Issues No. 11. VIII, 97 PP with 4 diagrams or maps, 19 graphs and 38 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24.8 x 17.7. 0644118423
41303 JOHNSON, Irving & Electa THE YANKEE'S WANDER-WORLD (in National Geographic Magazine)
$15.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1949. Volume XCV, No.1, January, 1949. Contains article between P. 1 and 50 with 1 map, 12 b/w and 42 colour photos. Soft cover with light wear. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
4th world cruise (1st after the end of WWII) from Europe to Hawaii, via Galapagos, Easter, Pitcairn, Austral islands, Society Islands. Contains interesting photos.
41315 JOHNSON, Irving & Electa NEW GUINEA TO BALI IN YANKEE (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1959. Volume CXVI, No.6, December 1959. Contains article from P.767 to 815 with 2 maps, 6 b/w and 33 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
49618 JOHNSON, Irving & Electa YANKEE ROAMS THE ORIENT (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1951. Volume XCIX, No. 3, March 1951. Contains article between P.327 and 370 with 1 map, 15 b/w and 31 colour photos. Soft cover (lightly rubbed). Near fine. 25.5 x 17.5.
New Hebrides, Tikopia, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Indonesia...
73207 JOHNSON, Osa BRIDE IN THE SOLOMONS
$20.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1946. Reprint of the 1st UK edition of 1945. 224 PP, plus 64 b/w plates. Cloth cover. Offsetting on endpapers. Spine sunned. Very good. Image shows title-page. 20.2 x 14.
The quest for bringing back the first authentic record of cannibals actually eating human flesh.
33317 JOHNSTON, George H. PACIFIC PARTNER
$30.00 AUD
Victor Gollancz. London. 1945. 1st Ed. 182 PP. FEP: Map of Australia & inset map showing Australia and continental United States. Green cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Good dust jacket with only a few very small chips and a closed tear, although a small diamond shape piece has been cut out on the spine. Signature of previous owner on half-title page. An otherwise near fine copy. Scarce. 19 x 12.8.
The author: an Australian war correspondent gives a picture of Australia at war and of the Australian attitude to the U.S.A. and Great Britain.
73590 JOHNSTON, Michael H-BOMBS & HULA GIRLS - Operation Grapple 1957 and the Last Royal Navy Gunroom at Sea
$80.00 AUD
Uniform / Unicorn Publishing. London. 2017. 1st Ed. Foreword by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. 319 PP with 1 colour painting and b/w illustrations: diagrams, drawings, sketches, maps (Christmas, Malden, Penrhyn, Pitcairn , postal stamps and photos. Illustrated stiff covers with flaps. Dedicatory note dated and signed by one of the ten National Servicemen. Fine (as new condition). 24.5 x 20.3. 9781910500682
Tale of 10 young men brought together through National Service in the Royal Navy, taking part while serving on HMS Warrior to Britain's secret thermonuclear weapons tests, near Christmas Island, Line Islands, Central Pacific. .
57680 JOLLY, Margaret & MACINTYRE, Martin (editors) FAMILY AND GENDER IN THE PACIFIC, Domestic contradictions and the colonial impact
$25.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1989. 1st Ed. XIV, 209 PP with maps, figures, sketches in text. Laminated pictorial boards. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 22 x 14. 0521346673
The dramatic changes in medicine, health, religious beliefs, architecture... brought about by mission evangelism & colonial influence upon the Pacific peoples.
49394 JOLLY, Roslyn (editor) THE CRUISE OF THE JANET NICHOL AMONG THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. A Diary by Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson
$20.00 AUD
University of Washington Press & University of New South Wales Press. Seattle & Sydney. 2004 1st Ed. 205 PP with 1 map and 27 b/w photos. Fp: Fanny Stevenson with two Pacific Islanders. Hard covers, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 22 x 16. 0295983701 / 0868406066
56072 JONES, A. G. E. SHIPS EMPLOYED IN THE SOUTH SEAS TRADE 1775-1859 - Volume 2 (in 3 parts)
$100.00 AUD
Roebuck Society. Canberra. 1992. 1st edition. Publication No. 46 of the Roebuck Society. XXIV, 720 PP with b/w illustrations, edited by Ian H; Nicholson, including 24 maps. Eps: Docks on the Thames River. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. 25.7 x 18.5. 0646091832
In Three Parts: Part I: 1775-1859, Part II: Admiralty Protections from Impressment, Part III: Aspects of the South Seas Trade.
73487 JONES, A. G. E. SHIPS EMPLOYED IN THE SOUTH SEAS TRADE 1775-1861 (volume 1)
$40.00 AUD
Roebuck. Canberra. 1986. 1st Ed., Roebuck Society Publication No. 36. XVIII, 276, (104 Index) PP with b/w illust., charts, ports, sailing ships & whaling scenes. Inside covers: docks on the Thames River. Pictorial card covers rubbed around edges with a repaired tear at top of spine, small creases at top and bottom of front corners, o/wise contents fine. 24.8 x 17.6. 0909434301
Includes: Registrar general of shipping and seamen, transcripts of Registers of Shipping 1787-1862 (part III).
70070 JONES, A. G. E. & CHATWIN Dale SHIPS EMPLOYED IN THE SOUTH SEAS TRADE 1775-1859 - Volume 3
$20.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing / Roebuck Society. Hobart. 2013. Limited edition of 100 hand numbered copies. Publication No. 53 of the Roebuck Society expanded and edited by Dale Chatwin. 165 PP with 2 graphs, tables and 14 b/w illustrations (1 map, facsimile of documents and 3 whaling scenes). Card covers, illustrated front. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780992366018
British Southern Whale Fishery... Whaling trade.
60132 JONES, Minh Bui THE DIPLOMAT: Australia's Window on the World - Vol. 2 No. 3 / 2003
$10.00 AUD
Diplomat Media Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 2003. Vol. 2 No. 3, August-September 2003. 52 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 20.5.
Saving the Pacific: Judgement and the Solomons / Pacifying the Pacific / A state in waiting , by Paul Monk, Robert Ayson, Fergus Hanson and Abigail Makim.
60133 JONES, Minh Bui & JEFFREY, Hugh THE DIPLOMAT: Australia's Window on the World - Vol. 3 No. 2 / 2004
$10.00 AUD
Diplomat Media Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 2004. VoL. 3 No. 2, June-July 2004. 60 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 20.5.
Australia's Pacific solution and Pacific Island Forum, by Chris Hammer.
54514 JONES, Noreen NORTH TO MATSUMAE: Australian Whalers to Japan
$50.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 2008. 1st Ed. XXIX, 208 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 pages with 6 b/w and 24 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing on prelims and last few pages and on outside page edges. Very good. Scarce. 23 x 15. 9780980296518
Voyage of the Lady Rowena, November 1830 to end of June 1832: Port Jackson, Solomon Islands, Minami Tori Shima (Marcus Island), Japan with return to Sydney via Guam, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, Wallis Island and Tonga. Voyage of the Eamont in 1850, shipwrecked in May 1850 off Akkeshi, Hokkaido Island.
65688 JOPPIEN, Rüdiger & SMITH, Bernard THE ART OF CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES - VOLUME I: The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771
$200.00 AUD
Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Melbourne. 1985. Vol.I (reprint of the 1985 original): The Voyage of the Endeavour 1768-1771. Vol I: XVI, 248 PP with 326 b/w & colour plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 35 x 25.5. 0195544552
60848 JORDAN, Peter & LANGTON, Nicholas A DREAM OF ISLANDS - Voyages of Self-Discovery in the South Seas (based on the book by Gavan Daws)
$25.00 AUD
Melbourne. 1994. 1st Ed. (4), 19 PP with 13 b/w illustrations. A 2 pages letter and a 2 pages "Research Summary" loosely inserted. Soft cover, pictorial front, clear plastic covers, spiral bound. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.
Outline for a documentary series with 2 episodes.
49251 JOUVE, Dominique (editor) L'ENFANT EN OCEANIE. Regards sur les enfants, regards d'enfants
$40.00 AUD
CORAIL & Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2004. 1st Ed. 213 PP. French text with English abstract and English text with French abstract. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2952090319
11 papers (2 in English and 9 in French) presented at the 2003 seminar organised by the CORAIL group.
76338 JOWITT, Glenn & SHAW, Peter PACIFIC ISLAND STYLE
$30.00 AUD
Thames & Hudson. London. 1999. 1st UK edition. 192 PP with 1 map on double page, and hundreds of colour photos. Eps: Woven patterns made from cane. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26.2 x 25.6. 9780500237724
The style and unique beauty and atmosphere of the Pacific Islands. Traditional architecture and designs of the Pacific: the pole houses of the Solomons, the 'tivaevae' of the Cook Islands and the houses or 'case' of New Caledonia.
57788 JOYCE, R. B. SIR WILLIAM MACGREGOR
$15.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1971. 1st Ed. XVI, 484 PP with 7 maps, plus 8 pages with 14 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Covers with signs of water damage and a small tear on back hinge. Dust jacket sunned, mainly on spine and with corresponding damage as on cover. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Otherwise, a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5. 0195503678
74818 JUIN, P. & THIEGI, J. (editors) UTA - ATLAS DE VOL / FLIGHT ATLAS
$25.00 AUD
UTA / Union des Transports Aériens. Paris. 1970. 1st Ed. No pagination, 16 PP with colour illustrations: 23 photos by Milan Alram and 8 charts with 2 inserts. Pictorial soft covers (staples removed). French and English text. Very good. Oblong: 21 x 27.
French airline, linking France to Africa since 1935 then Oceania as of 1st January 1956 with flights from Paris - Saigon - Port Darwin - Noumea ... Then to Auckland, New Zealand a year later ... Tahiti, Los Angeles...
37339 JULIEN, BRUHA, BOURGI, CROUZE, RENOUVIN LES POLITIQUES D' EXPANSION IMPERIALISTE - Colonies et Empires - Etudes Coloniales No.5
$10.00 AUD
Presses Universitaires de France. Paris. 1949. Premiere serie, Etudes Coloniales No. 5. (4), 256 PP. Soft cover, Illustrated front cover. Ageing of paper, piece missing at bottom of spine, o/wise very good. French text. 22.8 x 14.3.
France: Jules Ferry, by Ch.-André Julien... Great Britain: Joseph Chamberlain, by Maurice Crouzet... USA: Theodore Roosevely, by Pierre Renouvin.
21685 KAEPPLER, Adrienne L. (editor) COOK VOYAGE ARTIFACTS, in Leningrad, Berne and Florence Museums
$100.00 AUD
Bishop Museum Press. Honolulu, Hawaii. 1978. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication No. 66. X, 186 PP with 9 colour (8 on full page) and 251 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): plate with Hawaiian objects. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine condition. Scarce. 28 x 21.5. 091024023X
The James Cook collection in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Leningrad. The Webber collection, Berne. Notes on an Ethnographic collection made during the Third Voyage of Cook and preserved until the end of the last century in the Royal Museum of Physics and Natural History in Florence.
73517 KAEPPLER, Adrienne L., KAUFMANN, Christian & NEWTON, Douglas OCEANIC ART
$200.00 AUD
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Washington. 1997. 1st Ed. 633, (5 blank) PP with 2 figures, 5 diagrams, 263 colour photos (No. 1 to No. 263), 436 b/w photos (No. 264 to No. 702) and 1 map "Principal Oceanic Cultural Groups" with 252 b/w illustrations (No. 703 to No. 955) and colour illustrations. Eps: Bark Cloth (tapa). Cloth covers, title on spine, dj. A fine copy. Scarce. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 33 x 25.5. 9780810936935
47755 KAHN, Francis LES PALMIERS DE L' ELDORADO
$30.00 AUD
ORSTOM Editions. Paris. 1997. 1st Ed. 251 PP with 2 maps, 17 botanic sketches and 150 colour photos. Pictorial laminated card covers. Fine. French text (abstracts in English Portuguese and Spanish). 26.7 x 13.5. 2709913593
Palm trees of the Amazon basin.
62187 KEATING, Paul ENGAGEMENT: Australia faces the Asia-Pacific
$10.00 AUD
Pan Macmillan Australia. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. X, 310 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 8 pages with 20 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint discoloured spots on fore outside edge. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.7.2 0732910196
Australia's place in the Asia-Pacific region and the world. APEC: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum ...
49805 KEATS, Warren Davenport FLIGHT TO THE SOUTH LAND
$15.00 AUD
Author. Tweed Heads, NSW. 2005. 1st Ed., limited to 500 copies. 355 PP with 4 maps and 60 b/w illustrations (photos and drawings by the author). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 0646432605
A story of enduring love and high adventure. Part 1: Flight to the South Land. Part 2: Sojourn in the South Seas, blackbirding in New Hebrides, voyages to New Zealand and Fiji... Adventures in the Marshall Islands with the discovery of Keats Reef, in the Carolines (marooned on Nukuoro... Sailing with Jardine Matheson, and death in Chinese waters).
59584 KEATS, Warren Davenport FLIGHT TO THE SOUTH LAND
$20.00 AUD
Author. Tweed Heads, NSW. 2005. 1st Ed., limited to 500 copies. 355 PP with 4 maps and 60 b/w illustrations (photos and drawings by the author). Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note on title page, dated and signed by the author. Fine. 21 x 15. 0646432605
A story of enduring love and high adventure. Part 1: Flight to the South Land. Part 2: Sojourn in the South Seas, blackbirding in New Hebrides, voyages to New Zealand and Fiji... Adventures in the Marshall Islands with the discovery of Keats Reef, in the Carolines (marooned on Nukuoro... Sailing with Jardine Matheson, and death in Chinese waters).
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. ...
58495 KEEN, Grahame ATOLL - A Bulletin for Schools (D)
$15.00 AUD
School Publications Branch, Department of Education. Wellington. 1976. 1st Ed. 48 PP with b/w photos by Marti Friedlander. Inside back cover: Location map for the Tokelau Islands and map of Fakaofo. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 17.5.
62291 KEENE, Florence WITH FLAGS FLYING
$35.00 AUD
Author. Whangarei, NZ. 1972. 1st Ed. XII, 151 PP with b/w illustrations (facsimile of document, drawings, engravings, photos & portraits). Pictorial soft cover, dj (a little rubbed around edges), o/wise a near fine copy. 21.7 x 15.7.
Life in early New Zealand.
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,...
55976 KEESING, R. M. (editor) 'ELOTA'S STORY. The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands big Man
$15.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1978. 1st Ed. (X), 202 PP with 2 maps and 41 b/w photos. Fp: 'Elota. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22 x 14.5. 0702210552
'Elota of Ga'enaafou, Kwaio district, Malaita, Solomon Islands.
11576 KEESING, Roger M. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: A Contemporary Perspective
$10.00 AUD
Holt, Rinehart & Winston. New York. 1976. Reprint of the 1971 original. XII, 638 PP with b/w figures and illust. (paintings, photos). Pictorial boards. Faint foxing on outside edges. Very good. 24 x 19. 0030894247
An Evolutionary Perspective: Human biology and the growth of culture; Culture, Society and the Individual; The legacy of Tribal Peoples & Anthropology and the Present.
33169 KEESING, Roger M. CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY - A Contemporary Perspective
$10.00 AUD
Holt, Rinehart & Winston. New York. 1981. Second edition. XIV, 560 PP with b/w figures and illust. (paintings, photos). Pictorial boards. Faint foxing on outside edges. Very good. 24 x 19.3. 0030462967
Sections on An Evolutionary Perspective, Human biology and the growth of culture, Culture, Society and the Individual, The legacy of Tribal Peoples & Anthropology and the Present.
15566 KENDRICK, John & INGLIS, Robin VOYAGES DES LUMIERES, Malaspina & Galiano sur la Côte Nord Ouest 1791-1792
$15.00 AUD
Vancouver Maritime Museum. Vancouver. 1991. 1st French edition. (2), 81 PP with 57 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 28 x 21.5. 0969522118
Historical presentation of the Malaspina expedition and catalogue of the exhibition commemorating its bicentennial: Spain and the Pacifc, Malaspina on the Northwest Coast, scientific and artistic heritage, ...
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.
58670 KENNEDY, T. F. A DESCRIPTIVE ATLAS OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS - New Zealand, Australia, Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Philippines
$10.00 AUD
Reed Education. Wellington. 1974. 3rd edition, revised and extended (original of 1966). 80 PP with b/w illustrations (1 drawing, 5 photos and 67 maps). Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 23.5 x 18.3. 0589040529
51062 KENNY, Ian FISHING OUR WAY
$20.00 AUD
Ian Kenny. Norfolk Island. 1995. 1st Ed. 60 PP with b/w illustrations (5 maps, 4 drawings and 52 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.5. 0646261991
Fishing experiences around Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Canada & Pitcairn Island.
73223 KENNY, Ian FISHING OUR WAY
$30.00 AUD
Ian Kenny. Norfolk Island. 1995. 1st Ed. 60 PP with b/w illustrations (5 maps, 4 drawings and 52 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note on title page signed by the author. Fine. 21.5 x 14.5. 0646261991
Fishing experiences around Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Canada & Pitcairn Island.
73224 KENNY, Ian HOOKED BY THE SEA
$40.00 AUD
Ian Kenny. Norfolk Island. 1999. 1st Ed. 139 PP with b/w illustrations (1 sketch map, 4 drawings and 138 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. Dedicatory note on title page dated and signed by the author. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 0646386034
Experiences at sea: Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Island, New Zealand ... Diving: recrational, fishing, salvage ... Whaling experiences in New Zealand (Tory Channel) and Norfolk island.
57745 KENT, Janet THE SOLOMON ISLANDS
$15.00 AUD
David & Charles. London. 1972. 1st Ed., in The Islands series. 222 PP with tables, 2 maps & 34 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22.5 x 14. 0715356526
Time before - Visitors and Settlers - WWII ...
64913 KETCHUM, Creston Donald HIS PATH IN THE WATERS
$15.00 AUD
Prentice-Hall, Inc. New York. 1955. 1st Ed. (8), 183 PP, plus 4 pages with 10 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt signature of author on front cover, title on a gilt vignette on spine. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Cover rubbed on fore hinge and head of spine, slight ageing of paper, otherwise a very good clean copy. 21 x 14.2.
Experience of a young Canadian at sea. During World War II, while in a convoy to Great Britain: witness of the fight between Admiral Scheer and the Jervis Bay. .. Later in the early 1950s with the American Board of Missions vessel Morning Star VI, sailing in Micronesia.
60134 KILALA, Rev. William To & RATUVILI, Rev. Sitiveni DEVELOPMENT IS PEOPLE - A Pacific View of Human Development
$5.00 AUD
Lotu Pasifika Productions. Suva. 1976. 1st Ed. 16 PP. Pictorial soft cover, staples. Near fine. 20.3 x 14.8.
From the January 1976 Pacific Conference of Churches Assembly, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
50876 KILLICK, N. G. (editor) NEW ZEALAND OFFICIAL YEARBOOK 1980
$25.00 AUD
Department of Statistics / P. D. Hasselberg, Government Printer. Wellington. 1980. 85th Annual Edition. Preface by J. H. Darwin. VIII, 1027 PP with 5 maps, 35 diagrams and hundreds of tables, plus 8 pages Pictorial Supplement with 18 colour photos. Eps: Maps of North Island and Sputh Island. Pictorial hard covers. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24.5 x 16.
Authoritative reference on the resources, institutions, and social and economic conditions of New Zealand.
72717 KINGSFORD-SMITH, C. E. & ULM, C. T. P. THE FLIGHT OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS
$45.00 AUD
McBride, Robert M. & Co. New York. 1929. 1st edition, January 1929. Foreword by His Excellency the Right Hon. Lord Stonehaven. XIVV, (2), 295 PP with 1 sketch map, plus 22 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: Outward Bound. Cloth cover, title on front board and spine. Covers with light shelf wear around edges, front hinge starting, occasional foxing. Contents clean and still a very good copy. 21 x 14.3.
Trans Pacific Flight: Oakland, California (31st May 1928) - Honolulu, Hawaii - Suva, Fiji - Brisbane, Queensland - then Sydney (10th June 1928)..
53246 KLEIN, Florence ARTS IN THE PACIFIC: a tradition of exchange
$30.00 AUD
Grain de Sable / Musée de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2007. 1st English edition in The Artefacts tell their Story ... series. English translation by Roy Benyon. 40 PP with 1 map and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22 x 14. 9782841701261
54869 KLEIN, Florence ARTS DE L'ECHANGE EN OCEANIE
$30.00 AUD
Grain de Sable / Musée de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2006. 1st edition in Les Objets Racontent... series. 40 PP with 1 map and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. New. 22 x 14. 9782841701182
38603 KLEIN, Florence (editor) TAPA - Ecorces et Décors d'Océanie
$55.00 AUD
Musée de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2001 1st Ed. 96 PP with 2 maps, b/w and colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 21.
Catalogue of an exhibition held in Nouméa between July and October 2000. Tapa: tree bark and ornament.
A.D.C.K. / Centre Culturel Tjibaou. Nouméa. 2003. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 4 maps, b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 18 x 12. 2909407233
Jinu, the Spirit of Oceania, is a journey of discovery of the Pacific societies.
73037 KLOOSTERMAN, Alphons M. J. DISCOVERERS OF THE COOK ISLANDS AND THE NAMES THEY GAVE
$30.00 AUD
Cook Islands Library & Museum. Rarotonga, Cook Islands. 1973. 1st edition by the Curiculum Development Unit. Bulletin No. 1 of the Cook Islands Library and Museum. 76 PP with 44 b/w illustrations (10 maps and 34 drawings). Card covers, illustrated front. Stapled typescript monograph. Covers a little soiled with light wear, occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. 29.8 x 21.
12893 KNAPPERT, Jan PACIFIC MYTHOLOGY, An Encyclopedia of Myth and Legend
$5.00 AUD
Diamond Books. London. 1995. Reprint of the 1992 original. 336 PP with 1 double-page map, head-pieces for each alphabetically lettered chapter (illustrations by Elizabeth Knappert). Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper, o/wise fine. 23.4 x 15.3. 026166655X
The world of gods and heroes, mariners, spirits & ghosts in a zone covering Singapore to Panama and Japan to New Zealand.
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.
22156 KNIGHT, Alanna (editor) R. L. S. IN THE SOUTH SEAS - An Intimate Photographic Record
$15.00 AUD
Mainstream Pub. Edinburgh. 1986. 1st Ed. 192 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map of the Pacific, 89 sketches & photos). Fp: Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing on first few pages, o/wise fine. 24.6 x 19.7. 1851580131
Photos taken by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1888 to illustrate his history of the South Seas.
48097 KNOX, Margaret PACIFIC ISLAND NEIGHBOURS
$10.00 AUD
Longman Paul. Auckland. 1972. Reprint of the 1971 original. VIII, 128 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Covers with creases and light soiling, o/wise a very good clean copy. 24 x 18.4. 0582 664403
12897 KNOX-MAWER, June A SOUTH SEA SPELL
$20.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1975. 1st Ed. (6), 209 PP with 13 head pieces by Pearl Binder. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on edges. Near fine. 22.8 x 14. 071953402X
Travels and experiences in archipelagoes of the central Pacific: Fiji, Tonga, Gilbert & Ellice Island colony (now Kiribati & Tuvalu).
42139 KNOX-MAWER, June TALES FROM PARADISE - Memories of the British in the South Pacific
$5.00 AUD
Ariel Books / BBC Publications. London. 1986. Reprint of the 1986 original. 136 PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 11 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 19.8 x 12. 0563204605
59942 KOLIA, Fepa'i F. S. LOST REALITY (a message through poems)
$10.00 AUD
Mana Publications. Apia, Western Samoa. 1988. 1st Ed. VII, 68 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15.
All but 2 of the poems are in English (2 in Samoan).
15441 KRAUSS, Bob KENETI - South Seas Adventures of Kenneth Emory
$15.00 AUD
Kolowalu Book / University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1988. 1st Ed. IX, 419 PP with 1 plan, 3 maps and 57 bw photos in text. Eps: Map of the Pacific with tracks of Emory's expeditions. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0824811534
Biography of Kenneth Emory, anthropologist, ethnologist, archaeologist... and eight of his expeditions for the Bishop Museum.
76043 KRIEGER, Michael J. TRAMP, Sagas of High Adventure in the Vanishing World of the Old Tramp Freighters
$30.00 AUD
Chronicle Books. San Francisco. 1986. 1st Ed. Foreword by Peter Stanford, President, National Maritime Historical Society. 142 PP with b/w & col. illustrations (plans, photos by Judy Howard). Fp: Plans of a cargo freighter. Hard cover, dj. Back cover with a bump at top corner. Small tear repaired at lower part of front endpaper. Dust jacket with repaired tears, and a rubbed patch at top of front cover and now in a protective sleeve. Otherwise contents are fine and overall a very good copy. Oblong: 26 x 31.2. 0877013438
Around 20 of these freighters. Copra ships of the South Seas, among sampans in Chinese waters, ... Lady Jillian, carrying cattle to Tasmania.
72755 KURTOVITCH, Nicolas BY THE EDGE OF THE SEA
$25.00 AUD
Awen Editions. Stroud, UK. 2018. 1st English edition, translated from the 1992 French "Foret, Terre et Tabac" by Anthony Nanson. (8), 99, (1) PP. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 20 x 12.8. 9781906900533
12 short stories, set in the Pacific. 3 of them in Australia: Desert dreaming / Brisbane on the Beach / Sydney by the Sea).
58494 KURURANGI, Mere ACTION SONGS - The Arts of the Maori Instructional Booklet
$15.00 AUD
Art and Crafts Branch, Department of Education / A. R. Shearer Government Printer. Wellington. 1972. 1st Ed. 16 PP with b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 18.2.
49250 LACABANNE, Sonia (editor) LES VIVRES & LE VIVRE EN OCEANIE / FOOD AND LIFESTYLES IN OCEANIA
$40.00 AUD
CORAIL & Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2003. 1st Ed. 188 PP. French text with English abstract and English text with French abstract. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2952090300
15 papers (5 in English and 10 in French) presented at the 2002 seminar organised by the C.O.R.A.I.L. group.
31908 LAL, Brij V. BROKEN WAVES
$35.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1992. 1st edition in the Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No.11. XXII, 404 PP, (4) with 3 maps, 12 figures and 4 tables. Eps: Maps. Hard cover. Fine. 24 x 16. 0824814185
56218 LAL, Brij V. A TIME BOMB LIES BURIED: Fiji's Road to Independence, 1960-1970
$30.00 AUD
ANU E Press. Canberra. 2005. 1st Ed. Monograph No. 1, in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia series. IX, 106 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 9781921313608
56217 LAL, Brij V. (editor) THE DEFINING YEARS: Pacific Islands, 1945-65
$40.00 AUD
Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS / ANU. Canberra. 2005. 1st Ed. (3), IV, 154 PP with 1 table and 2 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0909524270
End of World War II to the advent of decolonisation in the 1960s.
41979 LAL, Brij V. & FORTUNE, Kate (editors) THE PACIFIC ISLANDS - An Encyclopedia
$125.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2000. 1st Ed. XXXVI, 664 PP with b/w illustrations and colour illustrations (8 headpieces, 13 tables, 24 figures, 28 maps and photos). Includes the CD-ROM version of the encyclopedia in rear pocket. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. This is a heavy item and postage may be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 26.7 x 19. 082482265X
56221 LAL, Brij V. & LUKER, Vicki (editors) TELLING PACIFIC LIVES: Prisms of Process
$40.00 AUD
ANU E Press. Canberra. 2008. 1st Ed. XIV, 301 PP with few figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 9781921313813
Telling Pacific lives: from Archetype to Icon, by Niel Gunson. Telling lives in Tuvalu, by Michael Goldsmith... On being a participant biographer: the search for J. W. Davidson, by Doug Munro... Biography of a nation: Solomon Islands, by Clive Moore...
11470 LAL, Brij V. & NELSON, Hank (editor) LINES ACROSS THE SEA, Colonial Inheritance in the Post Colonial Pacific
$30.00 AUD
Pacific History Association. Brisbane. 1995. 1st Ed. XVI, 231 PP with 6 figures & 19 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed, otherwise fine. 28 x 21.5. 0646246402
Twenty of the papers presented in December 1993 at the conference Colonial Inheritance: The Pacific Islands Experience, hosted by the Division of Pacific and Asian History, RSpacS, ANU.
12001 LAL, Brij V. (editor) PACIFIC ISLANDS HISTORY, Journeys and Transformations
$25.00 AUD
Journal of Pacific History. Canberra. 1994. Reprint of 1992 opriginal. Preface by Daniel Denoon. XIV, 258 PP with 12 line drawings. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0959547762
14 "essays", presented at the workshop held in Canberra , A.N.U. to mark the 40 years of the formal discipline of Pacific Islands historians.
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.
50468 LAMBERT, S. M. A DOCTOR IN PARADISE
$10.00 AUD
George Jaboor. Melbourne. 1943. 3rd Australian edition of the 1941 US original. X, 421 PP, plus 20 pages with 24 b/w photos. Fp: The Author, in 1941. FEP: Map of the South West Pacific Ocean. Cloth cover. Spine lightly sunned. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Dr. Lambert of the Rockefeller Foundation and his fight against Hookworm, between 1920 and 1938.
58358 LAMBERT, S. M. A DOCTOR IN PARADISE
$10.00 AUD
George Jaboor. Melbourne. 1942. 1st Australian Special edition of the 1941 US original. X, 421 PP, plus 20 pages with 24 b/w photos. Fp: The Author, in 1941. FEP: Map of the South West Pacific Ocean. Cloth cover. Front part of the dust jacket tipped in on rear endpaper. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22.2 x 14.5.
Dr. Lambert of the Rockefeller Foundation and his fight against Hookworm, between 1920 and 1938.
58386 LANDAUER, Lyndall B. & Donald A. (compilers) PACIFIC MARINE MUSEUMS and Data / Research Centers 1985
$10.00 AUD
Flying Cloud Publications / The Associates of the J. Porter Shaw Library & Institute for Marine Information. San Francisco & Pasadena. 1986. 1st Ed. (2), VI, 248 PP with b/w illustrations (12 sketch maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 0933185014
170 Museums and Data/Research Centers.
45365 LAUGESEN, Amanda THIS UTOPIAN LAND OF THE PACIFIC - A glimpse into the National Library of Australia's Canadiana collection (in National Library of Australia News - Vol XIII, No. 10, July 2003)
$5.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2003. Volume XIII, No. 10, July 2003. Contains article between P. 15 and 18 with 6 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
The author describes how the nineteenth-century print culture of the Pacific Northwest helped to shape new nations.
45536 LAUX, Claire (editor) LE PACIFIQUE
$40.00 AUD
Groupe de Recherche en Histoire Océanienne Contemporaine / Editions Île de Lumière. Nouméa. 2002 1st Ed. Volume 6, in the 101 mots pour comprendre series. 260 PP with 3 tables, 1 b/w sketch map, 4 b/w & 30 colour illustrations, and 17 maps in colour. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 19 x 13. 9782912429186
101 words, to understand the History of the Pacific. Colonisation (German, English, Spanish, French)... Whaling... Pearls and Pearling... EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone).
73613 LAUX, Claire & ANGLEVIEL, Frédéric (editors) "GRANDS HOMMES ET PETITES ILES": Acteurs et Actrices de la Christianisation de l'Océanie (1580-1966) (in Histoire & Missions Chrétiennes)
$30.00 AUD
Histoire & Missions Chrétiènnes / Editions Karthala. Paris. 2011. Issue No. 20, December 2011. 245, (3) PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, portraits, photos...). Stiff covers. French text. Fine (as new condition). 24 x 16. 9782811106386
Collection of 9 papers by: Annie Baert, Claire Laux, Yannick Essertel, Sylvette Boubin-Boyer ..., with English summaries between pages 184 and 189. Varia: Les Spiritains (Congregation of the Holy Ghost) aux Etats-Unis au service des Noirs en Louisiane: 1911-1935., by Henry J.Koren.
63756 LAWRENCE, Bonnie S., HILL, Carolina E. (editors) RESTLESS EARTH
$20.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1997. Deluxe edition. Foreword by H. J. de Blij & Richard S. Williams, Jr. 288 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, diagrams, maps & photos). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt device (erupting volcano) on front board, gilt title on spine, all edges gilt. Foxing spots on free fly of endpapers and first and last leaves. Near fine. 28.3 x 24.2. 0792270061
Our living earth, by Richard Lipkin. Severe Storms, by Jeff Rosenfeld. ... Climatic Shifts, by Michael H. Glantz.
73480 LAWRENCE, Bonnie S., HILL, Carolina E. (editors) RESTLESS EARTH
$15.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1997. 1st trade edition. Foreword by H. J. de Blij & Richard S. Williams, Jr. 288 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, diagrams, maps & photos). Hard cover, device in blind (erupting volcano) on front board, gilt title on spine. Spine with light bump at head and foot. Fine. 28.3 x 24.2. 0792270266
Our living earth, by Richard Lipkin. Severe Storms, by Jeff Rosenfeld. ... Climatic Shifts, by Michael H. Glantz.
57782 LAYTON, Suzanna THE CONTEMPORARY PACIFIC ISLANDS PRESS
$15.00 AUD
Department of Journalism, University of Queensland. Brisbane. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jim Richstad. XII, 187 PP with 6 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 14.5. 0867764600
59008 LEE, Helen Morton TONGANS OVERSEAS: Between Two Shores
$15.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2003. 1st paperback edition. X, 326 PP with 1 graph, 2 figures, 9 tables and 10 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Front cover sligthly rubbed on front edge. Near fine. 23 x 15. 082482654X
73679 LEE, Ida (Mrs Charles Bruce Marriott) COMMODORE SIR JOHN HAYES, His Voyage and Life (1767-1831), with some account of Admiral D'ENTRECASTEAUX's Voyage of 1792-3
$300.00 AUD
Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1912. 1st Ed. XVI, 340 PP with 1 family tree of Commodore Sir John Hayes and 31 b/w plates, plus 3 plates (frontispiece, 1 Map "Track of the Duke of Clarence and the Duchess", and 1 folded "Chart drawn by Hayes and published in 1798". Fp: Portrait of Sir John Hayes. Cloth covers with light wear around edges and a little faded, gilt title on rebacked spine. Stamp of the previous owner "Roberts Library No. 27" on half title page and renewed endpapers. An otherwise near fine copy. Scarce. 22.5 x 15.5.
Chapter II: Preparation and departures of the Expedition to Van Diemen's Land. Chapter III: John Hayes in Tasmania (discovery and exploration of the Derwent River / rediscovery of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, the Huon River and Bruny Island). ... Chapter IV: Call in New Caledonia, where a volcanic eruption was witnessed (???).
73911 LEE, Ida (Mrs Charles Bruce Marriott) COMMODORE SIR JOHN HAYES, His Voyage and Life (1767-1831), with some account of Admiral D'ENTRECASTEAUX's Voyage of 1792-3
$250.00 AUD
Longmans, Green, and Co. London. 1912. 1st Ed. XVI, 340 PP with 1 family tree of Commodore Sir John Hayes and 31 b/w plates, plus 3 plates (frontispiece, 1 Map "Track of the Duke of Clarence and the Duchess", and 1 folded "Chart drawn by Hayes and published in 1798". Fp: Portrait of Sir John Hayes. Cloth covers , gilt title on spne. Covers with light wear. Bookplate of "The Public Library of New london" on front endpaper, and library No. at foot of spine and at bottom of the Preface page. The folded chart facing page 24 is a photostat copy. Errata slip tipped in on title page. An otherwise very good clean copy. Scarce. 22.2 x 15.
Chapter II: Preparation and departures of the Expedition to Van Diemen's Land. Chapter III: John Hayes in Tasmania (discovery and exploration of the Derwent River / rediscovery of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, the Huon River and Bruny Island). ... Chapter IV: Call in New Caledonia, where a volcanic eruption was witnessed (???).
71203 LEENHARDT, Maurice ARTS OF THE OCEANIC PEOPLES
$60.00 AUD
Thames & Hudson. London. 1950. 1st Eng. Ed. Translated from the French by Michael Heron. 150 PP incl. 4 full-page colour plates plus 124 illustrations in text & 6 illust. in introduction and 11 maps, printed on superior gloss paper. Orig. gilt-engraved cloth cover & spine with dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket chipped with some small repaired tears and is protected. Signature of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise a very clean and near fine copy. Scarce. 25 x 16.
A fascinating book containing detailed descriptions of the strange objects, both ornamental and ritual of the Oceanic people of the far-flung islands and archipelagoes of the Pacific (New Caledonia, Tahiti, Marquesas, Easter Island, Fiji, Solomons, Hawaii, PNG, New Hebrides, including the natives of Australasia, as well as the islands of the Indian Ocean (Madagascar).
58942 LEIPZIG MUSEUM JAHRBUCH DES MUSEUMS FÜR VÖLKERKUNDE ZU LEIPZIG - Band XLII - 2004
$20.00 AUD
LIT Verlag / Musezum für Völkerkunde Leipzig. Leipzig. 2004. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dr. Claus Deimel. Edited by Rolf KRISCHE & Ingo NENTWIG. (4), 302 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 1 colour plate and 24 pages with 46 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): Das Grassimuseum, im Sommer 2001. Soft cover. Texts (6 in German, and 1 in French). Fine. 23.4 x 16.2. 3825881687
Les Batons de Danse des Iles Santa Cruz et la collection du Musée de Leipzig, by Gilles Bounoure.
65276 LESBROS, Jean-Louis & Association Île de Pâques ÎLE DE PÂQUES: à la rencontre du Mana
$30.00 AUD
Albin Michel. Paris 1993. 1st Ed. Forewords by Paul Emile Victor & Alberto Hotu. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings / rongo rongo scripts) and colour illustrations (5 maps, 6 paintings by Robert Agussan & over 200 photos by Daniel Monconduit). FEP: Painting by Robert Agussan. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. French text. Fine. Oblong: 23.8 x 32. 2226064818
12911 LESSA, William A. ULITHI - A Micronesian Design for Living
$20.00 AUD
Holt, Rinehart & Winston. New York. 1966. Reprint ?, in Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology, Stanford University. X, 118 PP with 2 maps & 4 diagrams, plus 2 pages with 4 b/w photos. Fp: Islands of the Yap Empire. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 23.2 x 15.7. 030566150
Chapters include: basic social relations, political organization, aspects of law, the transcendental world, rituals, sexual behavior, from womb to tomb.
50875 LEWIN, J. P. (editor) NEW ZEALAND OFFICIAL YEARBOOK 1971
$25.00 AUD
Department of Statistics / A. R. Shearer, Government Printer. Wellington. 1971. 76th Annual Edition. (8), 1177 PP with 9 maps, 41 diagrams and hundreds of tables, plus 16 pages Pictorial Supplement with 30 b/w photos. 1 large folded map in colour N.Z.M.S. 84 A (6th edition, June 1976) in rear pocket. Fp (in colour): Wellington. Hard cover, pictorial front cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24.8 x 16.
Authoritative reference on the resources, institutions, and social and economic conditions of New Zealand.
15625 LEWIN, Roger DARWIN'S FORGOTTEN WORLD
$10.00 AUD
Bison Books. London. 1989. Reprint of the 1978 original. 176 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map with Inset "Galapagos Islands", 1 map of the archipelago, 1 cutaway of HMS Beagle, portraits, photos) and 189 colour plates (photography by Sally Anne Thompson). Half title page: Galapagos tortoise. Title spread: Maritime Iguanas. Eps: Map of the Galapagos Archipelago. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 31.2 x 24.2. 0861240162
38412 LEWIS, Albert B. THE MELANESIANS - People of the South Pacific
$35.00 AUD
Chicago Natural History Museum. Chicago. 1945. Second printing of the 1932 original, with additions and corrections. 275 PP with 56 figures (over 90 b/wphotos), plus 2 b/w plates and 2 folded maps. Fp: Man from New Britain. Illustrated soft cover (edges rubbed). Spine with creases. Stamp of previous owner on preliminary page, o/wise near fine. 21.7 x 14.7
47545 LEWIS, Albert Buell DECORATIVE ART OF NEW GUINEA - Incised designs
$25.00 AUD
Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago. 1925. 1st Ed., No.4 in the Anthropology Design series. (2), 2 PP with 2 b/w photos, plus 52 b/w plates. Rebacked copy, retaining original front cover. Internally fine. 30.5 x 22.7.
15605 LEWIS, David FROM MAUI TO COOK - The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific
$10.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. 1977. 1st Ed. X, 213 PP with drawings by Walter Stackpool. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean (FEP: discoveries Magellan to Torres - REP: discoveries Schouten / LeMaire to Cook). Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket defective and protected. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 18. 086824001X
Pacific exploration, from prehistoric times, seen through the eyes of a modern-day seagoing adventurer.
45667 LEWIS, David FROM MAUI TO COOK - The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific
$5.00 AUD
Doubleday. Sydney. 1977. 1st Ed. X, 213 PP with drawings by Walter Stackpool. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean (FEP: discoveries Magellan to Torres - REP: discoveries Schouten / LeMaire to Cook). Cloth cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 18. 086824001X
Pacific exploration, from prehistoric times, seen through the eyes of a modern-day seagoing adventurer.
61851 LEWIS, David FROM MAUI TO COOK - The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific
$45.00 AUD
Doubleday Australia. Sydney. 1977. Limited edition to 100 copies (No. 81 /100). X, 213 PP with drawings by Walter Stackpool. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean (FEP: discoveries Magellan to Torres - REP: discoveries Schouten / LeMaire to Cook). Quarter bound, cloth cover, gilt title on leather spine. Hand numbered and signed by the author on preliminary page. Faint foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 18. 0868240028
Pacific exploration, from prehistoric times, seen through the eyes of a modern-day seagoing adventurer.
17674 LEWIS, David & FORMAN, Werner THE MAORI HEIRS OF TANE
$20.00 AUD
Orbis. London. 1985. Reprint in paperback edition of the 1982 original, in the Echoes of the Ancient World series. 128 PP with colour photos. Fp: Front of the storehouse Te Puawai O Te Arawa. Half-title page: Jade ornament. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29.8 x 22.5. 0856129294
The author, drawing on his profound knowledge of navigation, archaeology and anthropology, tells the story of the Maoris from their origins to the arrival of Europeans in the 19th Century.
43313 LEXTREYT, M. BOYER, Ph. et al. HOMMES ET ESPACES D' OCEANIE - Sciences Humaines 5ème
$45.00 AUD
CTRDP. Nouméa. 1995. 1st Ed. 72 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (graphs, maps & photos). Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. French text. 26.5 x 20.
Human Sciences in Oceania (for students in 2nd year of secondary college).
73279 LEXTREYT, M. BOYER, Ph. et al. HOMMES ET ESPACES D' OCEANIE - Sciences Humaines "6ème"
$45.00 AUD
CTRDP / Centre Territorial de Recherche et de Documentation Pédagogiques. Nouméa. 1995. 1st Ed. 64 PP with b/w & colour illustrations (graphs, maps & photos). Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. French text. 26.5 x 20.
Human Sciences in Oceania (for students in 1st year of secondary college).
51235 LEXTREYT, Michel NOUVELLE-ZELANDE. Aotearoa, le pays au long nuage blanc
$50.00 AUD
Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2006. 1st Ed., in Collection Terres d'Océanie. 224 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, illustrated boards, dj. French text. Fine.. 31.5 x 25. 2909790193
58823 LEXTREYT, Michel LA NOUVELLE-ZELANDE, à la croisée des chemins
$40.00 AUD
SCEREN / CDP Nouvelle-Calédonie. Nouméa. 2005. 1st Ed. 40 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 18 colour transparency sheets. Contained in a colour folder with clear plastic cover and pockets. Fine. French text. 30.5 x 21.5. 9782913090705
53103 LIAUZU, Claude (editor) DICTIONNAIRE DE LA COLONISATION FRANCAISE
$50.00 AUD
Larousse. Paris. 2007. 1st Ed., in the "Larousse à Présent" series. 646, (2) PP, plus 16 pages with 18 maps in colour. Stiff covers, pictorial front. French text. Fine. 20.5 x 13.7. 9782035833433
Dictionary of the French Colonization.
32966 LINGE, Gabriel NOUVELLE ZELANDE - Terre des Maoris
$25.00 AUD
Robert Laffont. Paris. 1972. 1st Ed. 300 PP with 2 maps, and 3 drawings, plus 12 pages with 23 b/w photos. Inside front cover: map of the Polynesian triangle. Pictorial card cover. Signed by the author on half title page. Near fine. French text. 21.5 x 13.5.
New Zealand / Aotearoa: the land of the Maoris.
42871 LINNEKIN, Jocelyn & POYER, Lin (editors) CULTURAL IDENTITY AND ETHNICITY IN THE PACIFIC
$30.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1996. 1st paperback edition. VI, (2), 323 PP with 3 maps. Soft cover. Fine. 23.4 x 15.4. 0824818911
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
70711 LINTON, Ralph, WINGERT, Paul S. & D'HARNONCOURT, René ARTS OF THE SOUTH SEAS
$40.00 AUD
The Museum of Modern Art. New York. 1946. 1st Ed. 200 PP with 16 maps, 184 b/w photos and 4 colour plates by Miguel Covarrubias. Fp: Human figure surmounted by a bird, from the Sepik River, New Guinea. Eps: Map of the South Seas. Card covers with light wear, pictorial front. Old damp marks at top of front cover. Internally near fine. 25.5 x 19.
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.
63015 LLOYD, Christopher PACIFIC HORIZONS - The Exploration of the Pacific before Captain Cook
$15.00 AUD
George Allen and Unwin Ltd. London. 1946. 1st Ed. 188 PP, plus 7 b/w plates (plate II on double page). Fp: Chart of The Pacific in 1589. Library binding, cloth cover, title on spine, renewed endpapers. . Ex Library copy with stamps on preliminary page, and title page. War economy paper. Faint foxing. Very good. 21.5 x 14.
70656 LLOYD, Christopher PACIFIC HORIZONS - The Exploration of the Pacific before Captain Cook
$20.00 AUD
George Allen and Unwin Ltd. London. 1946. 1st Ed. 188 PP, plus 7 b/w plates (plate II on double page). Fp: Chart of The Pacific in 1589. Eps: map of the Pacific. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned and with a few small chips. War economy paper. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.
52646 LOCKWOOD, Brian SAMOAN VILLAGE ECONOMY
$15.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1971. 1st Ed. XVII, 232 PP with 12 maps or plans, and 58 tables. Eps: Map of Western Samoa and location map. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket a little rubbed on corners and edges, o/wise fine. 22 x 14.5.
66287 LOCKWOOD, Kim VJ DAY: The End of WWII in the Pacific - 70th Anniversary
$15.00 AUD
Wilkinson Publishing. Melbourne. 2015. 1st Ed., in the WP Military series. No pagination, 88 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 31.5 x 24. 9781922178961
Last Days and Hours. Speeches (Japanese Emperor Hirohito, US President Truman, King George VI, Eleanor Roosevelt & General MacArthur) and Celebrations ...
74007 LOCKWOOD, Kim AIR RAIDS - Epic Assaults of World War II - 70th Anniversary
$15.00 AUD
Wilkinson Publishing. Melbourne. 2015. 1st Ed., in the WP Military series. No pagination, 86 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 32 x 24. 9781925265054
The Blitz to Pearl Harbor & Hiroshima. Darwin ... Guadalcanal ...
47801 LONDON, Jack THE SEA WOLF
$10.00 AUD
The World's Best Reading / The Reader's Digest Association. Pleasantville, NY. 1989. Reprint of the 1904 original, with an Afterword by John L. Cobbs. 304 PP with 39 headpieces and 11 b/w illustrations by W. J. Aylward. Hard cover, device and title on front cover, gilt title on simile vellum spine. Foxing spots on top and fore outside edges. Near fine. 23.5 x 16. 0895773384
11954 LOSSOUARN, Olivier LE TOUR DU MONDE D'UN BRETON
$25.00 AUD
N.E.L. Paris. 1967. 1st Ed. 220 PP plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos. Pict. soft cover. Near fine with pages still uncut. French text. 19.2 x 14.
The world peregrinations of a Breton. In the mid 1960's, AB on board Calypso of Cousteau, voyages in Africa through the Indian Ocean islands, Australia, New Caledonia, Vanikoro, Tahiti...
73386 LOVERIDGE, Arthur REPTILES OF THE PACIFIC WORLD
$60.00 AUD
The Macmillan Company. New York. 1945. 1st printing of the first edition, in "The Pacific World" series. Foreword by Fairfield Osborn. XII, 259 PP with VII Plates with 70 b/w illustrations. FEP: Locality Map: Pacific and East Indies. Cloth cover, title on front board and spine. dj (with a clipped fore flap). Offsetting of endpapers and occasional foxing. Near fine. 20.8 x 14.
59261 LOVETT, Richard TAMATE: The Life Story of JAMES CHALMERS Told for Young People
$15.00 AUD
Young People's Missionary Movement. New York. c. 1910. Juvenile edition. 320 PP with 2 maps, plus 8 b/w plates. Fp: "Carrying a heavy stone club ...". Cloth cover. Label on spine with title. Notes on front endpaper. Very good. 20.5 x 14.
13392 LOWER, J.A. OCEAN OF DESTINY - A Concise History of the North Pacific, 1500-1978
$20.00 AUD
University of British Columbia. Vancouver. 1978. 1st Ed. XIV, 242 PP with 2 graphs, 3 maps and 22 tables, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 23 x 15. 0774801018
History of the North Pacific. Covers concurrent events in the East and West.
32294 LOWNDES, A. G. (editor) SOUTH PACIFIC ENTERPRISE - The Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited
$25.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1956. 1st edition with a preface by E. R. Knox. XVIII, 500 PP with 11 b/w photos, 12 head pieces, diagrams, graphs, maps, and tables, plus 24 plates with 3 maps and 30 colour photos and 132 plates with 282 b/w photos. Fp: Sir Edward Knox. Eps: Map of Australia and surrounding seas showing the world of CSR. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Dust jacket with chips, repaired tears and in a protective sleeve. Contents are near fine. 24 x 16.
Historical background, by Alan Birch and J.F. Blaxland. The sugar industry of Fiji, by A.G. Lowndes. The Australian Sugar Industry by H.W. Herbert. Sugar in New Zealand, by A.C. Isaacs...
51050 LUDEL, Jacqueline MARGARET MEAD
$5.00 AUD
Franklin Watts. New York. 1983. 1st Ed., in the An Impact Biography series. (4), 118 PP with 2 maps and 10 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Library binding. Dust jacket with closed tears and chips. Title page missing. Occasional foxing. Very good reading copy. 24 x 16. 0531045900
59761 LUEDTKE, Luther S. (editor) MAKING AMERICA - The Society and Culture of the United States
$10.00 AUD
United States Information Agency. Washington, D.C. 1988. 2nd printing in the "Forum Series", of the 1987 original. Foreword by Perry Frank. XII, 393 PP, (3) with 5 headpieces, b/w illustrations (maps, 23 portraits) and 1 map in colour on double page, plus 32 pages with 14 colour and 32 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 23 x 15.
59762 LUEDTKE, Luther S. (editor) MAKING AMERICA - The Society and Culture of the United States
$10.00 AUD
United States Information Agency. Washington, D.C. 1988. 4th printing in the "Forum Series", of the 1987 original. Foreword by Perry Frank. XII, 393, (3) PP with 5 headpieces, b/w illustrations (maps, 23 portraits) and 1 map in colour on double page, plus 32 pages with 14 colour and 32 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Spine with a crease, o/wise very good. 23 x 15.
47376 LUKERE, Vicki & JOLLY, Margaret (editors) BIRTHING IN THE PACIFIC: Beyond Tradition and Modernity
$20.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2002. 1st Ed. XII, 249 PP with 5 tables, 19 figures (6 maps, photos). Hard cover, cloth spine, gilt title on front board and spine. Fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 0824824083
6 papers - ... Obligatory Maternity and Diminished Reproductive Autonomy in A'jië and Paicî Kanak Societies: A Female Perspective, by Christine Salomon... From Darkness to Light? Epidemiologies and Ethnographies of Motherhood in Vanuatu...
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer. Paris. 2007. 1st English edition, translated from the French original. 114 PP with tables and colour illustrations (graphs and photos). Illustrated soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
IFREMER/Oceanography: activities and research programs in 2005.
35823 MACINTYRE, Captain Donald SEA POWER IN THE PACIFIC - A History from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
$20.00 AUD
Arthur Barker Ltd. London. 1972. 1st Ed. 281 PP with 12 maps & plans. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22 x 14. 213994569
From Portuguese ascendancy, and the Dutch East Indies Empire, to the opening of Japan by Commodore Perry and the Korean War of the 1950's and its aftermath.
12877 MACINTYRE, Michael THE NEW PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1985. 1st Ed. 216 PP with numerous colour photos. Fp: Girl dressed for the Ati-Atihan Festival on the island of Panay. Hard cover. Fine. 28.8 x 25. 0002173484
The New Pacific, from the South East Asian rim to the islands dotting this ocean. Defence, Communications, Tourism, Art & Identity. The Future? Made in Japan??
58884 MACLELLAN, Nic HELPING FRIENDS, OR HELPING YOURSELF, Australia's Intervention in Solomon Islands (in SPINACH7)
$5.00 AUD
SPINACH7.COM. Melbourne. 2003. Issue 2, Summer 2003/2004. 80 PP. Contains article pages 2/3 and 18 to 23 with 1 b/w and 3 colour photos. Pictorial (Guadalcanal woman) front cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
On RAMSI (Regional Assistance Mission Solomon Islands).
55726 MACLELLAN, Nic (editor) NO TE PARAU TIA, NO TE PARAU MAU, NO TE TIAMARAA, For Justice, Truth and Independence
$40.00 AUD
Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC). Suva. 2000. 1st Ed. Opening Address by Oscar Temaru. 172 PP with tables and 93 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 29.7 x 20.8. 9829018024
Report of the 8th Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) Conference, held Arue, Tahiti, Te Ao Maohi (French Polynesia) 20-24 September 1999. Opposition to Nuclear Testing by Marie-Thérèse Danielsson... Learning from history in the Kanak struggle for Independence, by Louis Kotra Uregei... Global warming and Climate Change, by Mahendra Kumar (SPREP)... Kwajalein missile tests and regional conflicts, by Nic Maclellan... Legacies of French Nuclear testing, by Hiro Tefaarere...
19503 MACLELLAN, Nic & CHESNEAUX, Jean AFTER MORUROA, France in the South Pacific
$10.00 AUD
Reasons for the presence of France in the Pacific. Future for the three French overseas territories: New Caledonia/Kanaky, Wallis & Futuna, and French Polynesia/Te Ao Maohi.
52395 MACMILLAN BROWN, J. PEOPLES & PROBLEMS OF THE PACIFIC (in two volumes)
$100.00 AUD
T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. London. 1927. 1st Ed. Volume I: XII, (4), 327 PP, plus 65 plates with 4 charts or maps and over 155 b/w photos. Fp: An Urevvera Carver looking up from his work. Volume II: VIII, (4), 297 PP, plus 32 plates with over 63 b/w photos. Fp: Portrait by Goldie of Hera (Sarah) Hipi. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Spine sunned. Covers slightly rubbed at hinges and worn at corners. Endpapers with some offsetting and splits at fold. Occasional light foxing. Still a very good set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 25.6 x 16.5.
Contains sections on Melanesia (The Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Fiji), Micronesia (Mariannes, Pelews, Yap, Caroline Islands, Marshalls, Gilberts & Ellice Islands), Polynesia (New Zealand, Rarotonga, Samoa and Tonga, French Oceania & Easter Island.
15729 MADDOCK, Shirley & WHYTE, Don FAR AS A MAN MAY GO - Captain Cook's New Zealand
$15.00 AUD
Collins. Auckland. 1969. 1st Ed. XVI, 284 PP, plus 60 pages with 114 b/w & colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Captain Cook by John Webber. Eps: Chart of NZ drawn by Cook & map NZ coastline today. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). A near fine copy. 22 x 16.
A comparison of New Zealand in the 1960's and 200 years earlier when surveyed and described by Cook.
53397 MAILLAUD, Claude & LEFEVRE, Yves GUIDE DE LA FAUNE MARINE DANGEREUSE D' OCEANIE
$65.00 AUD
Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2007. 1st Ed., in Collection Nature et Environnement d'Océanie. Preface by Jérôme Seyer. 360, (4) PP with colour illustrations (1 map on double page and 141 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. New. 20.5 x 15.5. 2915654257
Dangerous marine fauna in Oceania.
17666 MAINE, René LAPEROUSE
$10.00 AUD
Sagittaire. Paris. 1946. 1st Ed., in the Vies Ardentes series. 296 PP with 7 maps (1 on double page). Fp: Portrait of La Perouse. Soft cover. Spine fragile. French text. Very good. 19 x 12.
Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie de Marine (Prix exceptionnel 1944).
59194 MAIR, L. P. AUSTRALIA IN NEW GUINEA
$15.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1970. 2nd edition of the 1948 original. (6), 254 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing. Name of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 13.8. 0522839576
12895 MALCOMSON, Scott L. TUTURANI, A Political Journey in the Pacific Islands
$15.00 AUD
Poseidon Press. New York. 1990. 1st Ed. 267 PP with 1 map of the South-West Pacific. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22 x 14.5. 0671692097
Travel in 1989 through different island groups of the Western Pacific: America at Sea (Palau, Guam, Saipan, Marshalls). Annals of self-determination (Kiribati, Fiji, Vanuatu) and Franconésie (New Caledonia & French Polynesia).
45598 MALCOMSON, Scott L. TUTURANI, A Political Journey in the Pacific Islands
$10.00 AUD
Hamish Hamilton. London. 1991. 1st UK edition of the 1990 US original. 267 PP with 1 map of the South-West Pacific. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing. Fine. 22.2 x 14. 0241129052
Travel in 1989 through different island groups of the Western Pacific: America at Sea (Palau, Guam, Saipan, Marshalls). Annals of self-determination (Kiribati, Fiji, Vanuatu) and Franconésie (New Caledonia & French Polynesia).
52323 MALHERBE, Michel PARLONS MAORI
$45.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2007. 1st Ed., in the Parlons series. 190, (2) PP with 2 maps. Pictorial soft cover. French & Maori text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.6. 2296027558
Polynesian language of New Zealand. Pages 77 to 104: Lexicon French / Maori. Pages 105 to 185: Lexicon Maori / French.
58301 MALIFA, Sano LOOKING DOWN AT WAVES - A collection of poems
$15.00 AUD
Mana Publications / The South Pacific Creative Arts Society. Suva. 1975. 1st Ed. (5), 57 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 13.7.
39381 MALINOWSKI, Bronislaw CRIME AND CUSTOM IN SAVAGE SOCIETY
$10.00 AUD
Routledge & Kegan Paul. London. 1949. 5th impression of the 1926 original, in the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method series. XII, 132, (7 publications) PP, plus 6 b/w plates. Fp: Fishing canoes on the lagoon. Cloth cover, gilt title (dulled) on spine. Near fine. Image shows title-page. 27 x 13.8.
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.
62397 MALLATRAIT, Clémence & MESZAROS, Thomas LA FRANCE, PUISSANCE INATTENDUE AU XXIe SIECLE DANS LE PACIFIQUE SUD - Eléments pour une approche géopolitique de l'Océanie
$30.00 AUD
L' Harmattan. Paris. 2010. 1st Ed., in the collection "Diplomatie et Stratégie". Preface by Contre-Amiral (2S) Bertrand Lepeu. 163, (3) PP with 8 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Covers with laminated plastic peeling in places. Internally near fine. French text. 24 x 15.5. 9782296085916
12875 MALM, William P. MUSIC CULTURES OF THE PACIFIC, THE NEAR EAST, AND ASIA
$10.00 AUD
Prentice-Hall History of Music Series. New Jersey. 1967. 12th printing. (8), 169 PP with 1 map on double page map,50 figures and 32 musical scores. Pictorial card cover (slight crease on front cover). Near fine. 22.6 x 15.
A comprehensive work.
58304 MALMALUAN Training Centre & MAVOR, John E. TRADITIONAL BELIEF AND THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
$15.00 AUD
Lotu Pasifika Productions. Suva. 1977. 1st Ed. 40 PP with 8 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.5 x 15.
12908 MALONE, P., SIAPO, A., VAN BASTOLAER, J. et al. INDIGENOUS STRUGGLE IN THE PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD
National Aboriginal Conference. Canberra. 1984. 1st Ed. (5), 83 PP with 8 b/w photos in text. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5.
Nine papers presented at the First Regional Meeting of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples, Pacific Region, held in Canberra on 25, 26 & 27 June 1984. East Timor, West Papua, New Caledonia, French occupied Polynesia, Hawaii, ....
12874 MAMAK, Alex & ALI, Ahmed RACE CLASS AND REBELLION IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1979. 1st Ed. No. 4 in the Studies in Society series. 144 PP with 3 figures & 4 tables, plus 1 map on double page of the South West Pacific with inset map of Malaita Island at back of book. Card cover. Very good. 21.2 x 13.5. 0868610178
The setting and history of inequality in Australia, N.Z., the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Bougainville. Five case studies of rebellion in the South Pacific: Bougainville (1975), Fiji (1920), Maasina Rule in the Solomons, Parihaka rebellion in N.Z., Aboriginal resistance: the Gurindji at Wattie Creek.
54435 MAMAK, Alexander & McCALL, Grant (editors) PARADISE POSTPONED. Essays on Research & Development in the South Pacific
$20.00 AUD
Pergamon Press. Sydney. 1978. 1st Ed. X, 277 PP with 1 figure & 7 tables. Decorated stiff cover. Signature of previous owner on half-title page, o/wise very good. 22.8 x 15.2. 080230040
Proceedings of the Young Nations Conference, held at the University of New South Wales in August 1976.
51224 MARCHANT, Leslie R. FRANCE AND NEW ZEALAND: 1769-1846. A LIST OF NAVAL RECORDS IN PARIS
$35.00 AUD
Department of History, University of Western Australia. Perth. 1962. Reprint ?. Stencilled work printed on recto only. (4), 26 PP. Soft cover, clear plastic. Very good. 29.6 x 21.
30973 MARENCHES, Count De, & OCKRENT, Christine THE EVIL EMPIRE - The Third World War Now
$15.00 AUD
Sidgwick & Jackson. London. 1988. 1st UK edition of the 1986 French original Dans le Secret des Princes, translated by Simon Lee and Jonathan Marks. XIII, 190 PP with 7 maps. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0283994916
The author was head of the French Military Intelligence/Secret Service for 11 years. Coups d'état, containment of Communist threats... The Greenpeace affair.
51063 MARKWITH, Carl FAREWELL TO BIKINI (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1946. Volume 90, No. 1, July 1946. Contains article between P.97 and 116 with 16 b/w photos. Soft cover. Very good. 25.5 x 17.5.
Bikini Atoll in the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands, prior to any testing of Atomic Bombs.
65011 MATHER, Patricia (editor) A TIME FOR A MUSEUM: The History of the Queensland Museum 1862-1986
$25.00 AUD
Queensland Museum. Brisbane. 1986. 1st Ed. Volume 24 of the "Memoirs of the Queensland Museum". Preface by the Honorable Peter McKechnie. X, 386 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 18.5. 0724216456
... Chapter 10: People and lifestyle / Anthropology, by M.C. Quinnell. Chapter 12: Pandora Box / Maritime Archaeology, by R. A. Coleman.
72198 MATSON Line SOUVENIR PASSENGER LIST - S.S. "MONTEREY", First Class
$50.00 AUD
Matson Line. Sydney. 1939. Folded List dated 3rd March 1939. Illustrated card: Map in colour "Route of the Matson Line" on the outside, by E. Melbourne Brindle / Souvenir Passenger list on the inside. Captain E.R. Johanson. Near fine. Format - Map: 26 x 42.6 & folded: 26 x 21.3.
Attractive map by E. Melbourne Brindle. Sailing from Sydney to Auckland 3rd March 1939 at 11.00 a.m.
73460 MATTHEWS, Owen GLORIOUS MISADVENTURES - Nikolai Rezanov and the Dream of a Russian America
$40.00 AUD
Bloomsbury. New York. 2013. 1st Ed. XIV, 384, (2) PP with 2 maps and 29 b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, sketches), plus 16 pages with 5 b/w and 31 colour illustrations. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Top outside edge with a rermainder mar, o/wise fine. 24 x 16.2. 9781620402399
73965 MATTHEWS, Professor R.E.F., GARDINER, John & FLATMAN, Pauline, ... THE STORY OF THE HAURAKI GULF MARITIME PARK
$20.00 AUD
Hauraki Maritime Park. Russell, NZ. 1983. 1st reprint of the original. 176 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.2. 0477061079
First footprints: The Enduring Land. Prehistory and Hisory: pages 102 to 119.
51030 MAUDE, H. E. OF ISLANDS AND MEN - Studies in Pacific History
$30.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. Melbourne. 1968. 1st Ed. XXII, 397 PP with 19 figures, plus 20 b/w plates. FEP: map of the South West Pacific. REP: map of the Central Pacific Islands. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket lightly soiled, o/wise a fine copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
Beachcombers and castaways, pork trade, coconut trade, colonization of the Phoenix Group.
55774 MAUDE, H. E. THE EVOLUTION OF THE GILBERTESE BOTI: An Ethnohistorical Interpretation
$15.00 AUD
Gilbert Islands Extension Centre of the USP & Institute of Pacific Studies. Tarawa & Suva. 2005. Reprint of the 1963 original, published by The Polynesian Society. (4), 5-68, (2) PP with 1 map, 3 genealogical trees and 6 figures, plus 3 plates (figure 5 and 2 b/w illustrations). Inside covers: map of Pacific Islands. Pictorial soft cover. New. 21 x 145.7.
58478 MAUDE, H. E. THE EVOLUTION OF THE GILBERTESE BOTI: An Ethnohistorical Interpretation
$15.00 AUD
Gilbert Islands Extension Centre of the USP & Institute of Pacific Studies. Tarawa & Suva. 1977. Reprint of the 1963 original, published by The Polynesian Society. (4), 5-68, (2) PP with 1 map, 3 genealogical trees and 6 figures, plus 3 plates (figure 5 and 2 b/w illustrations). Inside covers: Map of Pacific Islands. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 145.7.
22616 MAYBURY-LEWIS, David MILLENIUM, Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World
$30.00 AUD
Viking. New York. 1992. 1st Ed. XVIII, 398 PP with b/w & colour illust. P.285-387: photographic essay. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 28.2 x 22.5. 0670829358
An anthropologist demonstrates the wisdom which can be gained from indigenous societies swept aside by modern civilization. Trobriand Islanders and the Kula Ring. Weyewans of Indonesia and their stone-drag. Australian Aborigines and their Dreamtime...
58978 McARTHUR, Norma ISLAND POPULATIONS OF THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Australian National University Press. Canberra. 1967. 1st Ed. XVI, 381 PP with 66 tables, 6 maps & 3 figures. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed, now in protective sleeve. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Foxing. Very good. 24.2 x 15.8.
Studies based on a census of the populations living on 5 island groups: Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Cook Islands and French Polynesia.
57593 McBEAN, Angus HANDICRAFTS OF THE SOUTH SEAS - An illustrated guide for buyers
$15.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission. Nouméa. 1976. 2nd edition. 131 PP with 11 colour and 94 b/w photos. Inside front cover: Map showing area of South Pacific Commission. Pictorial soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed and with a crease at front, o/wise near fine. 23.2 x 15.
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
47701 McCORMICK, Donald ISLANDS FOR SALE
$15.00 AUD
Peter Garnett. London. 1949. 1st Ed. (10), 133 PP with 9 maps, plus 16 pages with 33 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): Heron Island in the Barrier Reef group. Title page with vignette: Island for sale. Eps Map of the world. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Hinges slightly rubbed. Dust jacket tipped in on half title page (see image). Errata slip tipped in on page 13. Ingleton book plate on front endpaper, and his stamp with number catalogue 13390, on rear endpaper. Faint foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.5.
The British Isles, The Great Barrier Reef, The Pacific, The West Indies, The Mediterranean... Islands for all Tastes.
37872 MCDOUGALL, Derek J., MARTIN, Rodney A., SMITH, Gary K. & TRANTER, Bernard C. FOREIGN POLICIES IN THE ASIAN-PACIFIC REGION
$25.00 AUD
Prentice-Hall of Australia. Sydney. 1982. 1st Ed. X, 446 PP with 1 table, 4 cartoons and 11 maps. Card cover. Near fine. 22 x 15.5. 072480451X
The Asian-Pacific region. Soviet Eastern Asia, Mongolia and environs... Australia: defence facilities and establishments.
58507 MCEWEN, J.M. & MACPHERSON, C. UNDERSTANDING POLYNESIANS
$10.00 AUD
Vocational Training Council / A. R. Shearer, Government Printer. Wellington. 1974. 1st Ed. No. 1, by Polynesian Advisory Committee series. 16 PP. Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.
12457 McGUIRE, Paul WESTWARD THE COURSE - The New World of Oceania
$5.00 AUD
O.U.P. Melbourne. 1942. 1st Australian edition. 411 PP with 3 maps, plus 32 pages with 41 b/w photos. Cloth cover. Top corner of title page clipped, ageing of paper, o/wise very good. 22.2 x 14.5.
A profound study of the influence of the Western world on Oceania at the outbreak of the Pacific War.
70591 McKILLOP, Captain William THE LAST OF THE SAIL WHALERS: Whaling off Tasmania and Southern New Zealand by Captain William McKillop (1865-1938)
$55.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2019. 1st Ed. No. 66, in the Roebuck series. Edited by Rhys Richards & Graeme Broxam. XIV, 216, (4 blank) PP with 1 family tree, 8 colour illustrations (including a map of Tasmania) and over 60 b/w illustrations: 5 maps (2 with inset), 6 drawings, 20 sketches by Gordon Grant and 35 photos and portraits. Laminated pictorial boards. Copy signed on title page by Graeme Broxam, publisher and co-editor. As new. 26.2 x 21. 9780992366070
Born Stewart Island, NZ, Coastal trading and seaing in New Zealand southern waters. Settled in Tasmania in 1893.
51284 McKINNON, Malcolm (editor) NEW ZEALAND HISTORICAL ATLAS - KO PAPATUANUKU E TAKOTO NEI
$40.00 AUD
David Bateman / Historical Branch Department of Internal Affairs. Auckland. 1998. Reprint of the 1997 original. 290 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (graphs, maps, photos sketches...). Eps: Map of New Zealand. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 36.5 x 26. 1869533356
32852 McLAREN, C. A. (editor) RIPTIDE IN THE PACIFIC - Surveys of Social, Political and Economic Problems
$25.00 AUD
Auckland University College Labour Club. Auckland. 1948. 1st Ed. 68 PP with 1 map (centrefold). Pictorial soft cover. Good. 21.2 x 13.8.
6 papers presented at a symposium. Power politics in the Pacific, by H. Winston Rhodes... Trusteeship and Pacific destinies, by Keith Sinclair... New Zealand and the Pacific, by W. T. G. Airey.
41598 McLAREN, Fergus B. FERGUS - A Memoir of Fergus Blair McLaren, by His Friends
$20.00 AUD
A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1943. 2nd Ed. 162 PP, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Fp: The reverend Fergus Blair Mclaren, M. A., in 1940. Cloth cover. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 18.5 x 12.8.
Tribute... Killed on the shores of Greece in 1941.
66315 McLEAN, John A MISSION OF HONOUR: The Royal Navy in the Pacific, 1769-1997
$30.00 AUD
Winter Productions. Wellington. 2010. 1st Ed. 518 PP, plus 16 pages with 4 sketch maps and 22 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24.5 x 15.8. 9781872970233
Great Britain, Royal Navy and the Pacific Ocean: from the arrival of Captain Cook in the Pacific, to the handover of Hong Kong to China.
61359 MEAD, Commander Jonathan The Continued Utility of the ANZUS Treaty (in Journal of the Australian Naval Institute, No. 107)
$5.00 AUD
Australian Naval Institute, Inc. Canberra. 2003. No. 107 (Summer 2003). 44 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Contains article page 31 to 37. Pictorial soft cover. A fine set. 29.8 x 21.2.
Also contains: Australia's Ocean Policy, by Lieutenant Commander Virginia Oborn, RAN.
33332 MEAD, Margaret LETTERS FROM THE FIELD 1925-1975
$5.00 AUD
Harper Colophon Books. New York. 1979. 1st paperback edition. XV, 361 PP with 6 maps and 117 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Ageing of paper and foxing spots on edges. Very good. 22.7 x 15.3. 0060906855
71790 MEAD, Sidney M. (Editor) EXPLORING THE VISUAL ART OF OCEANIA: Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia
$60.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1979. 1st Ed. xviii, 455 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dust jacket. A near fine copy. 24 x 21. 0824805984
Published following the 1974 international symposium converned with the state of art in Oceanie, scholarship on the subject, and the future direction of both. Includes the archaeological roots of Oceanic art, rock art, surveyed studies done in various areas of the Pacific ...
73648 MEADE, Lieut. The Hon. Herbert A RIDE THROUGH THE DISTURBED DISTRICT OF NEW ZEALAND; Together with some account of the SOUTH SEAS ISLANDS.
$360.00 AUD
John Murray. London. 1870. 1st edited by his brother R.H. Meade with a preface (including a letter by Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand). XII, 375 PP with 18 cuts (b/w illustrations), plus 2 maps in colour (1 of them folded) and 3 chromolithographic plates. Fp (in colour): "Geyser, Boiling Cataracts, and Steam-Jets on the Waikato". Rebacked copy with new endpapers. Half bound covers retaining the original cloth and the spine pasted down on leather spine. Ageing of paper. Copy lacking the colour plate "Gate Pah Redoubt, Tauranga", facing page 9. An otherwise near fine copy. Scarce. 22.7 x 16.
... being selections from the Journals and Letters of Lieut. The Honorable Herbert Meade, R.N. The author served (1864, 1865) on "HMS Curaçoa" and "HMS Esk". Ingleton catalogue No. 5476.
65296 MEHAUT, Catherine MER ET OUTRE-MER - "Bibliographie des Travaux intéressant l'Histoire Maritime publiés en France de 1962 à 1975"
$25.00 AUD
Les Editions de l'Erudit. Paris. 1984. 1st ed. Preface by Jean Baillou. (6), X, 376, (2) PP with 2571 titles listed. Soft cover, illustrated front. Title page rubbed at top and with name of previous owner. French text. Very good. 21 x 14.5. 2868160042
45520 MERLE, Isabelle & NAEPELS, Michel (editors) LES RIVAGES DU TEMPS - Histoire et Anthropologie du Pacifique
$35.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2003. 1st Ed., No. 3 in Cahiers du Pacifique Sud Contemporain. 232 PP with 1 sketch map of the Pacific, and 4 figures. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Faint foxing. Near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747543676
7 papers on contemporary Pacific by: Chris Ballard, Greg Dening, Jonathan Friedman...
51555 MERLE, Jacques OCEAN ET CLIMAT
$20.00 AUD
IRD Editions. Paris. 2006. 1st Ed. 222, (2) PP with b/w and colour illustrations (26 photos and 104 figures) and 15 windows. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 26 x 17. 2709915847
Interaction: Weather and Ocean.
73531 MEYER, Anthony J.P. OCEANIC ART - OZEANISCHE KUNST - ART OCEANIEN (in Two Volumes)
$200.00 AUD
Könemann. Köln / Cologne. 1995. 1st Ed. Volume I: 320 PP with 357 illustrations (mostly colour photos by Olaf Wipperfürth). Fp: Stone Mortar. FEP: Map of the Pacific Ocean. REP: Map of New Guinea. Volume II: P.321 to 640 with b/w & colour illustrations from P.358 to 731. Fp: A Barava from Choiseul Island. FEP: Map of Micronesia. REP: Map of Polynesia. Orig. cloth cover, gilt title on front cover & spine, dj. Contained in a pictorial slipcase. Dedicatory note on half title page of Volume 1, dated and signed by the author. Text in English, French & German. As new condition. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 32.4 x 27.5. 3895080802
A magnificent work.
55721 MEYLAN, M. A. & GLASBY, G. P. (editors) MANIHIKI PLATEAU, MACHIAS AND CAPRICORN SEAMOUNTS, NIUE, AND TOFUA TROUGH: RESULTS OF TUI CRUISES
$50.00 AUD
SOPAC (South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission) Secretariat. Suva. 1996. 1st Ed. Technical Bulletin 10, SOPAC. VIII, 174, (8 interpolated pages) PP with tables and figures (graphs, maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Head of spine with a slight bump. Spine lightly sunned. Near fine. 29.5 x 21. 9822070055
Results of 2 cruises in 1986, of HMNZS TUI, from Rarotonga to Nuku'alofa.
33389 MICHENER, James A. TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Dymock's. Sydney. 1953. Reprint of the first Australian edition of 1951. V, (3), 309 PP. Cloth cover. Covers marked at hinges, renewed endpapers. Light browning of outside edges. Very good. 21.5 x 13.8.
A collection of tales against the background of the South Pacific: the coastwatcher. The French planter who fell in love with the US nurse, ...
57162 MICHOUTOUCHKINE, Nicolai & PILIOKO, Aloi CATALOGUE DE L'EXPOSITION ETHNOGRAPHIE ET ART DE L'OCEANIE / CATALOGUE OF THE EXHIBITION ETHNOGRAPHY AND ART OF OCEANIA
$200.00 AUD
Académie des Sciences de l'URSS. Moscow. 1989. 2nd edition (revised and supplemented) by Y. Bromley. 104 PP, plus 88 pages with 31 colour and 101 b/w illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Dedicatory note on front endpaper dated and signed by Michoutouchkine and Aloi Pilioko. Near fine. Scarce. 29.7 x 22.5.
Exhibition of the foundation, held for the occasion of the 14th Congress of Pacific Sciences, Moscow, 1979. 132 illustrations of the 700 items exhibited.
70606 MILLER, Barbara THE EUROPEAN QUEST TO FIND TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA: Quiros, Torres and Janszoon
$50.00 AUD
Barbara Miller. Cairns, Qld. 2014. 1st Ed. 332 PP with b/w illustrations (charts & maps, paintings & photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 22 x 15. 9781925023824
57675 MILLER, Charles "Cannibal" CANNIBAL CARAVAN
$20.00 AUD
Lee Furman, Inc. New York. 1939. 1st Ed., with an introduction by L. L. Stevenson. X, 11-318 P, plus 16 pages with 34 b/w photos. Eps: map of New Guinea (insert: south west corner of Dutch New Guinea). Cloth cover. Covers lightly marked. Faint foxing. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.
Adventures in Dutch New Guinea.
19096 MINER, Roy Waldo ON THE BOTTOM OF A SOUTH SEA PEARL LAGOON (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1938. Volume LXXIV, No.3, September 1938. Contains article between P. 365 and 382 with 17 b/w photos & VIII colour plates "Sea Floor Aquarelles from Tongareva" by Else Bostelmann. Soft cover. Very good. 25.5 x 17.5.
Calls in Eastern Polynesia and the atoll of Tongareva (Penrhyn) in the Cook Islands in the Zaca by an expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.
48605 MINISTERE DES ARMEES REVUE HISTORIQUE DE L'ARMEE - TERRITOIRES FRANCAIS DU PACIFIQUE
$50.00 AUD
Revue Historique de l'Armée / Ministère des Armées. Paris. 1965. Special issue. 21st Year of publication, No. 3. Edited by Colonel P. LYET. (2), 206 PP, (CII advertising material) with b/w illustrations (maps, plans, photos), plus 2 plates with 4 colour illustrations. Soft cover, silver medallion on front cover. French text. Near fine. 27 x 21.4.
The Pacific Ocean, by Admiral Picard-Destelan ... Pomaré Vahiné IV, Queen of the Society Islands (1827-1877) by Patrick O'Reilly ... The Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, by Colonel J. Chabanier ...
33518 MITCHELL, Andrew A FRAGILE PARADISE - Nature and Man in the Pacific
$10.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1989. 1st Ed. 356 PP with 6 maps, plus 16 pages with 39 colour photos. Eps: Map of the Pacific. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.2 x 15.5. 0002179423
Broad natural history of the Pacific.
33526 MITCHELL, Andrew A FRAGILE PARADISE - Nature and Man in the Pacific
$5.00 AUD
Fontana. London. 1990. 1st paperback edition of the 1989 original. 256 PP with 7 maps, plus 16 pages with 39 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.4 x 15.2. 000637655X
Broad natural history of the Pacific.
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.
22090 MITCHELL, Mairin THE BRIDGE OF SAN MIGUEL
$10.00 AUD
Herder Publications. London. 1960. 1st Ed. 285 PP. REP: map of the Isthmus of Panama and route to the Pacific taken by Balboa. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). One scratch on the front of the dust jacket. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 22 x 14.3.
Romanced story of the first sighting of the South Sea (Pacific Ocean) by Vasco Nunez de Balboa, 25th September 1513.
14056 MITTON, Robert THE LOST WORLD OF IRIAN JAYA
$100.00 AUD
Oxford Univ. Press. Melbourne. 1983. 1st Ed. IX, 234 PP, (1), with colour illustrations throughout. Hard cover, dj. Light foxing on the inside of the dust jacket, o/wise a near fine copy of a scarce item. 28.5 x 21. 0195543688
The pictorial study of a fast disappearing part of the world. The remarkable work of a young Australian geographer and anthropologist compiled over five years in this remote and primitive area.
47788 MOLINIER, Bernard LA TERRE D'UNE ILLUSION PERDUE
$10.00 AUD
Author. Les Issambres, Var. 2000. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 1 map & 2 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 20 x 13. 2950776124
Louis Antoine de Bougainville and his attempt to settle the uninhabited Islands of Malouines (Falkland Islands) in the South Atlantic.
52418 MONTGOMERY, James (editor) VOYAGES AND TRAVELS ROUND THE WORLD, by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennett, Esq.
$150.00 AUD
John Snow. London. 1840. 2nd edition, corrected. XVIII, 288 PP with 12 engravings (5 on Tahiti), plus 14 b/w plates (9 on Tahiti). Fp: Rev. Daniel Tyerman. Rebacked copy. Card cover, spine reinforced. Binding fair. Title page/frontispiece reinforced at the fold. Small Sunday School Library plate pasted down on verso of the List of Plates page. Ageing of paper and a little foxing, o/wise still a good copy of a rare title. 24.2 x 16.
... deputed from the London Missionary Society to visit their various stations in the South Sea Islands, Australia, China, India, Madagascar, and South Africa, between the years 1821 and 1829. Chapter 2 (page 9) to chapter 35 (page 185): Polynesia, i.e. the islands of Tahiti, Huahine, Raiatea, Bora Bora, Hawaii, Marquesas, Cook and New Zealand...
73212 MOORE, Clive (compiler) PACIFIC HISTORY JOURNAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
$200.00 AUD
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU. Canberra. 1992. 1st Ed. (4), XIII, 445 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Light foxing, mostly on first and last pages, o/wise contents near fine. Scarce. Image shows the title-page. 30 x 21.5. 0731514874
55232 MOORE, W. Robert PACIFIC WARDS OF UNCLE SAM (in National Geographic Magazine, Volume 94, No.1, 1948)
$5.00 AUD
NGS. Washington. 1948. Vol. 94, No. 1, July 1948. Contains article from P.73 to 104 with 2 maps, 11 b/w and 18 colour photos. Soft cover. Near fine. 25.2 x 17.4.
United States Trust Territory of Pacific Islands.
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.
15683 MOOREHEAD, Alan THE FATAL IMPACT - The Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840
$10.00 AUD
Hamish Hamilton. Sydney. 1987. New edition created and produced from the 1966 original. Preface by Manning Clark. 252 PP enhanced by 150 b/w and colour illustrations (paintings, drawings & etchings). Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 27 x 19. 0241123461
Tragic story of a great adventure which turned sour, when good intentions led to disaster, corruption & annihilation.
45733 MOOREHEAD, Alan THE FATAL IMPACT - The Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840
$10.00 AUD
Harper & Row. New York. 1987. 1st US edition (new edition created and produced from the 1966 original). Preface by Manning Clark. 252 PP enhanced by 150 b/w and colour illustrations (paintings, drawings & etchings). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27 x 19. 006015800X
Tragic story of a great adventure which turned sour, when good intentions led to disaster, corruption & annihilation.
75217 MOOREHEAD, Alan THE FATAL IMPACT, An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840
$10.00 AUD
Penguin Books. London. 1968. 1st Paperback edition. 283 PP with 5 maps, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, a little foxing or ageing of paper, o/wise a very good clean copy. 18 x 11.
Tragic story of a great adventure which turned sour when good intentions led to disaster, corruption and annihilation.
75245 MOOREHEAD, Alan THE FATAL IMPACT, An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840
$5.00 AUD
Penguin Books. London. 1975. 3rd reprint of the 1968 paperback edition. 283, (4 publications) PP with 5 maps, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, foxing and ageing of paper, o/wise a very good copy. 18 x 11.
Tragic story of a great adventure which turned sour when good intentions led to disaster, corruption and annihilation.
76005 MOOREHEAD, Alan THE FATAL IMPACT - The Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840
$10.00 AUD
The Reprint Society. London. 1967. 1st "RS" edition of the 1966 original. X, 230 PP with 5 maps (1 on double page) and 5 sketches, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w illustrations. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Slight ageing of paper. Near fine. 20.5 x 13.5.
Tragic story of a great adventure which turned sour when good intentions led to disaster, corruption and annihilation.
45384 MORAN, Michael BEYOND THE CORAL SEA - Travels in the old Empires of the South-West Pacific
$20.00 AUD
HarperCollins. London. 2003. 1st Ed. XXII, 410 PP with 4 maps and 25 head pieces, plus 20 pages with 17 colour and 25 b/w illustrations. Title page: Outrigger canoe. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0002261707
Voyage in the Islands of the Bismarck and Solomon Seas, settled a century ago by Great Britain and Germany.
59331 MORAUTA, Louise (Editor) LAW AND ORDER IN A CHANGING SOCIETY
$15.00 AUD
Research School of Pacific Studies / A.N.U. Canberra. 19874. 1st Ed. Monograph No. 6, in Political and Social Change series. (VI), 119 PP with 8 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 24.5 x 17.5. 0867849355
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 ...
12930 MORRELL, W.P. THE GREAT POWERS IN THE PACIFIC
$5.00 AUD
Historical Association. London. 1963. Historical Association General Series No.54. 35 PP. Stapled card cover. Signature of previous owner. Light foxing around outside edges, and 3 lines of text underlined on P.35 titled "Suggestions for further reading", o/wise very good. 21.5 x 14.
Discovery, rivalry followed by partition and annexation. The Pacific between the two world wars and post-WWII Pacific.
56364 MORRIS, Roger PACIFIC SAIL - Four Centuries of Western Ships in the Pacific
$10.00 AUD
David Bateman. Auckland. 1987. 1st Ed. 192 PP, with charts, drawings & paintings in b/w & colour. Fp: Windjammers in Auckland Harbour. Eps: Drawings of a caravel and of a Dutch sail ship. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. Oblong: 21 x 28. 0908610688
Ships which have sailed the Pacific since the arrival of Magellan.
59616 MORRISSEY, Di THE ISLANDS
$5.00 AUD
Pan Macmillan Australia. Sydney. 2008. 1st Ed. (10), 483 PP with 1 map of the Hawaiian Islands and 15 headpieces. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.2 x 15.5. 9781405038560
Novel set in Hawai'i.
15558 MORTIMER, Lt. George OBSERVATIONS AND REMARKS MADE DURING A VOYAGE
$30.00 AUD
Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wa., USA. 1988. Facsimile reprint of the 1791 original in a limited edition of 220 numbered copies (No.79). VIII, (8), 71 PP, (7). Fp: Facsimile of original title. FEP: Maria Is. REP: Amsterdam Island. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 26 x 18. 0877704562
A voyage made of the brig Mercury to Teneriffe, Amsterdam Island, Maria Island near Van Diemen's Land, Tahiti ... in 1789.
44674 MORTON, Harry THE WIND COMMANDS - Sailors and Sailing Ships in the Pacific
$10.00 AUD
UQP. Brisbane. 1980. 1st Australian edition of the 1975 original. XXVII, 498 PP with 59 b/w figures, plus 64 b/w plates. Eps: Chart of The Pacific Area. Blue cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise contents near fine. 25.5 x 17. 0702215600
The opening and exploration of the Pacific.
56071 MORTON, Harry THE WHALE'S WAKE
$40.00 AUD
University of Otago Press. Dunedin. 1982. 1st Ed. 396 PP with tail pieces by Peggy Morton, plus 40 pages with 108 b/w illustrations. FEP: Australasia whaling grounds. REP: Whaling harbours & shore station locations of New Zealand. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with closed tears at top. Bookplate of Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) on verso of front endpaper. Near fine. 24 x 15.4. 0908569297
Whaling in New Zealand waters from 1792 to the late 1850's, its impact on Maori culture and the shaping of the NZ character.
13679 MOUTOUSSAMY, Ernest L'OUTRE-MER SOUS LA PRESIDENCE DE FRANCOIS MITTERAND
$20.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1996. 1st Ed. 192 PP. Pictorial card cover. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 14.5. 273844301X
The evolution of the French Overseas Departments and Territories during the 14 years in power of the French president François Mitterand.
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.
34886 MOZINO, José Mariano NOTICIAS DE NUTKA - An Account of Nootka Sound in 1792
$15.00 AUD
University of Washington Press / Douglas & McIntire. Seattle / Vancouver. 1991. 1st paperback edition, with a new foreword by Richard Inglis. Reprint of the 1970 original translated and edited by Iris H. Wilson Engstrand. LIV, 143 PP, plus 24 b/w plates. FEP: Vancouver Island and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14.6. 0295971037
Mozino was the official botanist-naturalist of the expedition led by Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra investigating in 1792 the Spanish limits to the North of California.
21354 MRANTZ, Maxine WHALING DAYS IN OLD HAWAII
$25.00 AUD
Aloha Graphics. Honolulu. 1976. 1st Ed. 40 PP with duo tone illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.2.
Brief history of Hawaii followed by whaling & whalers.
56977 MRGUDOVIC, Nathalie LA FRANCE DANS LE PACIFIQUE SUD - Les Enjeux de la Puissance
$50.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2007. 1st Ed. No. 10 in Lettres du Pacifique series. Preface by Michel Rocard. 437, (3) PP with 1 sketch, 2 maps and tables. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 9782296055483
65729 MUNDLE, Robert BLIGH: Master Mariner
$25.00 AUD
Hachette Australia. Sydney. 2010. 1st Ed. XXXII, 368 PP with 6 maps (3 on double page), plus 8 pages with b/w and colour illustrations (facsimile of documents, etchings, paintings & watercolours). FEP: Point Venus, Tahiti. REP: The Providence and her tender Assistant. Hard cover, device and title in blind on front board and spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 9780733625060
21320 MUNGER, James F. TWO YEARS IN THE PACIFIC AND ARCTIC OCEANS AND CHINA
$25.00 AUD
Ye Galleon Press. Fairfield. Wash. 1987. Reprint of the 1852 1st ed. (3), 80 PP. Ep: whaling scene. Hard cover gilt engraved. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 25.3 x 17.7. 0877704015
A journal of every day life on board ship with interesting information on the inhabitants of different countries and the exciting events peculiar to a whaling voyage.
50954 MURPHY, John J. THE BOOK OF PIDGIN ENGLISH (NEO-MELANESIAN) / BUK BILONG TOK PISIN
$25.00 AUD
W. R. Smith & Paterson. Brisbane. 1973 9th edition, new revised and enlarged edition of the 1943 original. Foreword by Basil Morris. 192 PP, plus 20 pages with 6 colour reproductions and 17 b/w illustrations (2 engravings & 15 photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 18 x 11.8.
73672 MURRAY, Hugh (editor) ADVENTURES OF BRITISH SEAMEN IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN, displaying the striking contrasts which the Human Character Exhibits in an Uncivilized State
$200.00 AUD
Constable and Co. Edinburgh. 1827. 1st edition. Volume IV in the "Constable's Miscellany" of Original and Selected Publications. Preface by Hugh Murray. XI, 353 PP with vignette on half title page, plus a portrait of "Tippahee", a New Zealand Chief. Quarter bound, marbled boards, leather spine with 5 raised bands and gilt title "British Seamen". Fine copy. Scarce. Image shows title-page. 14.7 x 9.7.
I - Narrative of the Shipwreck of the "Antelope" in August 1783. II - Mutiny of the Bounty. III - Particulars of the Destruction of a British Vessel on the coast of New Zealand: the Boyd, Captain Thomson.
54465 MURRAY, John THE MINNOWS OF TRITON: Policing, Politics, Crime and Corruption in the South Pacific Islands
$35.00 AUD
John T. Murray. Canberra. 2006. Revised edition of the October 2005 original. 292 PP with 1 map of the SW Pacific. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 20.7 x 14.7. 0646457896
51396 MURRAY-OLIVER, A. A. StC. M. EARLY NEW ZEALAND PAINTINGS 1840 - 1900, FROM THE ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY
$10.00 AUD
R. E. Owen, Government Printer. Wellington. 1966. 1st Ed. Foreword by David C. Seath, Minister of Internal Affairs. No pagination, 20 PP with description of 50 paintings. Pictorial soft cover. (View up the Matavai Valley, 1777). Fine. 20 x 16.2.
Selection of 50 paintings exhibited in 1967.
45958 N/A SECRETARIAT GENERAL DE LA COMMUNAUTE DU PACIFIQUE - Rapport Annuel 1998
$10.00 AUD
Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 1999. 1st Ed., translated from the English original. (2), 34 PP with 5 tables and 20 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 29.7 x 21. 9822036701
SPC: Vision, philosophy, mission, goals...
46858 N/A ECHO DU MONDE. Panorama Economique, historique et culturel de tous les pays hors l'Europe (in 3 volumes)
$75.00 AUD
Editions Metz. Zurich. 1964. 1st French edition translated by E. B. Stefan. Volume I: (8), 360 PP with tables and 34 location maps, plus 114 plates with 345 b/w photos and 4 colour plates on full page. Volume II: 374 PP with tables and 21 location maps, plus 136 plates with 323 b/w photos and 4 colour plates on full page. Volume III: (8), 392 PP with tables and location maps, plus 132 plates with 317 b/w photos and 3 colour plates on full page. Eps: maps of the world. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Occasional foxing. Very good set. French text. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 28.7 x 21.5.
Cultural, Historic and Economic briefs, on the countries of the world outside Europe.
47125 N/A DISCOVERERS - Across the Southern Oceans they came in search of new lands, and discovered AOTEAROA
$15.00 AUD
New Zealand Post. Wellington. 1997. Presentation pack. 3 folds with 7 colour photos and 6 stamps. Fine. 21 x 14.8.
6 of the Discoverers: Maui, Kupe, Abel Tasman, Jean de Surville, James Cook and Dumont d'Urville.
50126 N/A IN MAORILAND. Old Times in a New Country
$25.00 AUD
Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd. Wellington. c. 1909. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 20 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, illustrated front. Staples removed. Near fine. Small format: 14 x 11
52799 N/A SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY, Annual Report 1998
$15.00 AUD
Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 1999. 1st Ed. Edited by Dr. R.B. Dun. (2), 34 PP with 5 tables and 21 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 20.8. 9822036620
SPC: Finance, Land resources, Marine resources, Social resources...
57780 N/A PACIFIC CONSTITUTIONS - Volume 2 : Independent states of Melanesia and Micronesia
$45.00 AUD
Pacific Law Unit & Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Port Vila & Suva. 1983. 1st Ed. (8), 425 PP with 6 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, one stain on outside front edge, o/wise near fine. 29.5 x 19.7.
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. c. 1983. 1st Ed. VI, 507 PP with 13 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on soft cover and outside edges, o/wise near fine. 29.5 x 19.7.
12 Nations, Territories and States (Hawai'i): American Samoa, Cook Islands ... Wallis & Futuna, Western Samoa.
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1948. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft cover (The Cane Cutter). Covers with light wear, otherwise contents are near fine.. 30.2 x 24.
Articles include: The Sugar Shield, by Ruth Ann Curtis. Melanesian Arcadia, by J. G. Coombs. Townsville by Emerson Curtis. ... Mountain of Iron, by George Farwell, Gnangara Pines by James Pollard, A Wooden Ship is Built, by John McPherson, The Quality of Mercy by M. Kathleen Woodburn, ...
58668 N/A FRANCE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
$20.00 AUD
Ministry for Overseas France. Paris. 1956. 1st Ed. 26 PP with 6 sketch maps of French Overseas Territories and 9 b/w photos. Soft cover, illustrated front. Rear cover replaced, occasional foxing. Very good. Oblong: 13.5 x 21.
Published for the "French Industrial and Trade Exposition" held in Sydney, Australia, March-April 1956.
59254 N/A JOURNAL OF PACIFIC STUDIES - REFLECTIONS ON PACIFIC HISTORIOGRAPHY - Volume 20
$30.00 AUD
School of Social and Economic Development / University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1996. 1996. Edited by Doug MUNRO. (4), 297, (3) PP with 1 b/w photo. Soft cover. Sticker of previous owner on front cover and contents page, o/wise very good. 21.3 x 15
23 papers on: Reflections (6): by Dorothy Shineberg, ... Max Quanchi. Historiography (5): by J.G. A. Pocock... Clive Moore. Autobiographical (9): by Andrew Thornley, ... Brij Lal. ...
Nuclear-Free Pacific Campaign. Melbourne. 1982. 3 first issues of 1982. A total of 24 pages with b/w illustrations. Leaf 3/4 of issue No. 1 with "Support Form" clipped, o/wise very good. 30 x 21.
No. 1: Moruroa - That sinking feeling. No. 2: Mururoa or bust. The Peoples Charter for a Nuclear Free Pacific. No. 3: New Caledonia, South Pacific Forum takes soft line on Independence. Pacific peacemaker confronts Trident. Civil Rights, Qld Style...
59606 N/A MICRONESIA
$10.00 AUD
Australian Institute of International Affairs / Department of History, University of Queensland. Brisbane. 1984. Vol. 23, No. 1, April 1984, "World Review , A Journal of Contemporary Relevance". Edited by Glen BARCLAY. 84 PP. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 21.6 x 14.
United States Security Interests in the Pacific Islands, by John C. Dorrance. The changing Geo-politics of ANZUS: the place of the South Pacific, by R. A. Herr. ...
59636 N/A AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC: TROUBLE IN PARADISE
$10.00 AUD
Department of Government, University of Queensland. Brisbane. 1989. Volume 8, No. 2, July 1989. Guest Editor: Randal G. STEWART. 76 PP. 13 articles (P.3 to 51) with 1 map and b/w illustrations (tail pieces, cartoons and 13 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.
Australia in the South Pacific, by Gareth Evans. Australia's partnership in the South Pacific, by Senator John Button. ... Land and Politics in Melanesia, by Peter Larmour.
64079 N/A ART TRIBAL 06 - Supplément "Parcours des Mondes"
$10.00 AUD
Art Tribal / Arts Traditionnels d'Afrique, d'Asie, d'Océanie, et des Amériques. Paris. 2004. Supplement to issue No. 06, of Art Tribal (Autumn 2004). 24 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.7 x 21 1660368006
On the world of "Art Galleries" dealing with Tribal Art and Artifacts, when 59 Art Galleries from 9 countries exhibited in Paris.
74795 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Volume16, No.5 - May, 1950
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1950. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (A Gecko of North Australia). Near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Sheep in the Wahgi Valley (Laurence Le Guay), Tonga - The Friendly Isles (Lex Halliday), Treasure Islands of the Great Barrier Reef (Gwyn Rogers), Wittenoom (Leslie and Coralie Rees), ...
75163 N/A WALKABOUT Australia and the South Seas (Walkabout Magazine, Vol. 2, No.2, December, 1935)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1935. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Mountainering in the New Zealand Alps). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
With the Buffalo Hunters, Arnhem Land, by C. H. Holmes. Tasman Island, by E. K. Sinclair. On the road to Broken Hill, by A. B. Haines. Mutton-Birds of Bass Strait, by M. S. R. Sharland. Glory of the Islands, coast of West Australia, by Ernestine Hill. Levuka (Fiji), by G. Scoresby Shepherd.
75164 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas ( Vol. 2, No.4, February 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (The Lace Lizard "Goanna"). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Articles include: Picnic Racing in the "Outback", by Jim McCarter. Islands in the Sun (Great Barrier Reef), by G. Rogers. Laying the Bass Strait Telephone Cable, by A. B. Haines. A Native Fish-Hunt in New Ireland, by William C. Groves. Water in the Desert (W.A.'s 350-mile Pipe-Line to the Kalgoolie goldfields), by John K. Ewers.
75165 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.5, March 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (The "Joseph Conrad"). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
The "Joseph Conrad" A Full-Rigger in the South Seas, by A. J. Villiers. The Unveiling of a Continent (the Kennedy Expedition: 2nd part), by Russell S. Clark. Ambergris, by Richard Ross. A Nullarbor Sheep Station, by D. R. Nicholls. The Dugong, by G.H. Sunter.
75166 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.6, April 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Launching the Lifeboat at Queenscliff). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Australia's Flying Doctors, by Dr. George Simpson. Whaling at Point Cloates (700 miles North of Perth, W.A.), by John K. Ewers. Storm Warriors (shipwreck! Life-boat ...), by Lorenzo Robertson. The Unveiling of a Continent (Part 3) : with Burke and Wills to the Gulf of Carpentaria, by Russell S. Clark.
75167 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.8, June 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 64 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (A Young Wedge-tailed Eagle). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Cape York Peninsula, (1) The civilised foreground, by Ursula H. McConnel. Below Zero, Life on a Ross Sea Whaler, by Henrik Brammall. Roving the Coral Seas, by C.B. Christesen. Unveiling of a Continent (Part 5): with Eyre along the Great Australian Bight, by Russell S. Clark. The Kanaka Mercantile Marine, by F. A. Hood. Headlands and History, by T. Dunbabin.
75168 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.10, August 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Mustering, Dargo High Plains, Victoria). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Hoof-Beats on Bogong, by Lorenzo Robertson. Does Lasseter's Reef Exist?, by Michael Terry. New Guinea Jewellery, by F. A. Hood. Cape York Peninsula (part 3): Development and Control, by Ursula H. McConnell. Native surgery in the South Seas Islands (Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain), by G. McLaren.
75169 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 2, No.12, October 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Competitor at the Sydney Royal Agricultural Show). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Australia's Antarctic Dependency, by John K. Davis. Fighting the Prickly Pear, by Edward Samuel. Hobart, the City by the Mountain, by C. C. D. Brammall. A Native Feast in Melanesia, by W. C. Groves. "Wilgie-Mia": an Aboriginal Red Ochre Mine, by W. H. Kretchmar.
75170 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 3, No.1, November 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (The "Cathedral", Tawong Station, Corryong). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Lazy Days in Crocodile Land (North Australia), by Ion L. Idriess. In Wild New Guinea, Up the Sepik River, by Brian Stirling. Water Conservation in Australia, by Lewis R. East. My Island Home,: Whitsunday Passage, Qld, by H. G. Lamond.
75171 N/A WALKABOUT MAGAZINE - Australia and the South Seas (Vol. 3, No.2, December 1936)
$50.00 AUD
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1936. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (Turtle Riding at Heron Island, G.B.R.). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Heron Island, a Fairy Isle of Romance, by Colin Roderick. The River Murray Steamers, a Romance of Australian transport in the early days, by L. D. Mackay. New Zealand's Thermal Regions, by Edward Samuel. South Seas Withchery: notes from a Tahitian Journey, by J.K. Stone. Digging for Kauri Gum in New Zealand, by Ronald Vine.
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1937. 56 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (The Drover). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
FEZ (Morocco), by Adrian Brunel. Tending 113,000,000 Sheep, by Arthur Barclay. Rafting down the Markham (New Guinea), by B. U. Kay. The Palaces of London, by Peter Fenn.
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1941. 48 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers (A Student at the Longerenong Agricultural College, Victoria). Covers with light wear, o/wise near fine. 30.5 x 24.5.
Life on a Sheep Station, by Helena Cass. Ayer's Rock (said to be the largest rock in the world), by Frank Clune. Rubber Production, by John Gibb. Australia's Great Gold Story, by C. R. Bradish.
75774 N/A WALKABOUT - Australian Geographical Magazine - Vol. 21, No. 4, April, 1955
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne & Sydney. 1955. Edited by Charles H. HOLMES. 48 PP with b/w photos throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (View of the Railway Bridge across the Hawkesbury River, N.S.W.). Near fine. 31 x 24.
Articles include: Australia's Uninhabited Areas by Alan Foskett, Animals of the Canning Stock Route by L. Glauert, The Vivacious Squirrel Glider by David Fleay, King Island, Bass Strait by Paul R. Dann, The Caves of the Black Stalagmites (Solomon Islands) by Capt. Brett Hilder, Australia in the Antarctic by R.A. Swan, ...
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1949. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w photographs throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (Thoroughbreds). Covers a little rubbed at top near spine, otherwise near fine. 31 x 24.
Articles include: The Quiet Beauty of Dora Creek by Brett Hilder, Campbell Island by Violet A. Roche, The Numbat by David Fleay, The Hedgehoppers by M. Kathleen Woodburn, We are Homesteading by Leone Biltris...
75800 N/A WALKABOUT - Journal of the Australian Geographical Society - Vol. 13, No.8 - June, 1947
$20.00 AUD
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1947. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Pictorial soft covers (Shipbuilding, Whyalla). Near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Contains articles: Building Ships in Australia (George Farwell), New Guinea is Different Now (R. Hamilton), The Wizard of Humbug Scrub (Michael Sharland), Sidelights on Polynesian Life (Laurence Maine), A Woman of Arnhem Land (John Russell), ...
Australian National Publicity Association. Melbourne. 1948. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w illustrations throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (The Pilot - Ray James on "Journal"). Covers with light wear otherwise near fine. 30.5 x 24.
Articles include: Police Patrol in the "Never-Never" by A.F. Anderson, Droving through the Sea by Fred Lord, Boydtown by C. Mervyn Archdall, Makatea by S.G. Martin, Fasciola Hepatica by M. Kathleen Woodburn, People of the Centre by Bertram Keith, ...Queensland Nuts by Ian Desmond.
Australian National Travel Association. Melbourne. 1946. Edited by Charles H. Holmes. 48 PP with b/w photographs throughout. Stapled pictorial soft covers (Fixing Australia's Time). Near fine. 31 x 24.
Articles include: Niuafoou, by M. Kathleen Woodburn, Scheelite from King Island, by William Nolan, Fixing Australia's Time by Stewart Cockburn, Vale of Rasselas by Norman Laird, Sisters of the Outback by Blanche Maynard, The Valued Pituri, by Tarlton Rayment, Sidelights of Polynesian Life, by Laurence Maine, ...
60411 NACOLA, Jo I NATIVE NO MORE - Three Drama Sketches
$10.00 AUD
Mana Publications. Suva. 1976. 1st Ed. (4), 42 PP. Pictorial soft cover, staples. Near fine. 21.6 x 15.2.
33493 NAKANO, Ann BROKEN CANOE - Conversations and Observations in Micronesia
$10.00 AUD
University of Queensland Press. Brisbane. 1983. 1st Australian edition. (XIV), 289 PP with 19 colour and 21 b/w photos by Tim Porter. Fp: Children, Ponape. Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket has a few small rubs and chips around edges, o/wise near fine. 26 x 18.2. 0702216844
Travels through Micronesia in the 1980s, on assignment for the Japanese newspaper Mainchi Daily News.
76315 NALTY, Bernard C. & PRITCHARD, Russ A. (editors) PEARL HARBOR AND THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
Salamander Books, Ltd. London. 2001. Reprint of the 1991 original. 304 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, diagrams, drawings, maps, photos. Eps: Facsimile of Army Air Forces Cloth Charts. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Near fine. 33 x 25.5. 1840653221
The bitter struggle in the Pacific theatre of World War II. Featuring commissioned photographs of artefacts from all the major combatants.
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
59439 NANKIVELL, Paul THE SOLOMON ISLANDS ECONOMY: Prospects for Stabilisation and Sustainable Growth
$15.00 AUD
AIDAB - Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. Canberra. 1991. November 1991 edition. International Development Issues No. 21. XII, 65 PP with 1 map, 22 graphs and 25 tables. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 17.7. 0644241853
14280 NAPIER, William, GILBERT, John, & HOLLAND, Julian EASTERN ISLANDS, SOUTHERN SEAS - A History of Discovery and Exploration
$15.00 AUD
Aldus Books / Jupiter Books. London. 1973. Reprint of the 1971 edition. 488 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj (protected). Clear plastic film covering the dust jacket pasted down on endpapers. Very good. 26.7 x 19.5. 490002927
Towards the lands of spice and treasure, by William Napier. Charting the vast Pacific, by John Gilbert. Lands of the Southern Cross, by Julian Holland.
65079 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1979. 1st Ed. 224 PP with b/w & colour illust. Hard cover, simile leather, device on front board, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with a sunned spine, o/wise a near fine copy. 26 x 18. 0870442546
Ancient India: cities lost in time, by Tee Loftin. Easter Island: Brooding Sentinels of Stone, by Ron Fisher ...
65081 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INTO THE WILDERNESS
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1978. 1st Ed. 208 PP with colour illustrations by H. Tom Hall and with foreword and photos by Lowell Georgia. Hard cover, illustrated front board, dj. Dust jacket with a sunned spine, a few chips or closed tears and a small rub, o/wise a near fine copy. 26 x 18. 087044252X
51032 NAVIS, Christian MYSTERIEUSES CIVILISATIONS DU PACIFIQUE
$25.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2006. 1st Ed. No. 4 in Collection Lettres du Pacifique. 172, (2) PP. Soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 2296006388
Early civilizations in the Pacific Ocean.
18188 NEALE, June E. LANDFALL NELSON, By Sailing Ship 1642-1842
$50.00 AUD
Anchor Press. Nelson, NZ. 1989. Reprint of the 1978 original. (5), 150, (2) PP with 50 b/w illustrations and 1 sketch map of southern part of Cook Strait (on double-page). Pictorial stiff covers. Name of previous owner on inside front cover, otherwise a fine copy. 24 x 18.
The ships which sailed into Nelson waters since the call of Abel Tasman on his "Heemskerck" and "Zeehaen" in 1642 to the arrival of the first migrant ship in 1842 : "Whitby", "Will Watch",...
76365 NEALE, June E. PIONEER PASSENGERS -To Nelson by Sailing Ship: March 1842 - June 1843
$50.00 AUD
Anchor Press Ltd. Nelson. 1982 1st Ed. (16), 188, (4) PP with 1 sketch map of southern part of Cook Strait (on double-page), and 74 b/w illustrations [drawings, sketches, prints (1 on double page), portraits and photos]. Pictorial hard covers, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Dust jacket with a small chip at top of front cover, now in a protective sleeve. An otherwise fine copy. 24 x 17.5.
44050 NEDELJKOVIC, Maryvonne YHI - LES PAYS DU PACIFIQUE EN CRISE: à la recherche de l'unité dans la multiplicité / THE PACIFIC RIM COUNTRIES IN CRISIS: looking for unity within diversity
$35.00 AUD
Centre d'Etude du Pacifique / L'Harmattan. Paris. 2002. 1st Ed. Yearly publication, YHI No. 5. 320 PP with 1 map, 1 table and 4 figures. Soft cover. Fine. French and English texts (with summary in the other language). 21.5 x 13.5. 2747521532
YHI: Australian Aborigines' sun goddess. 13 texts: 2 in English and 11 in French. Australian-Indonesian relations in the post-Timor period, by Andrew Gibson. Memory and Identity: remembering the ANZACS, by Claire Bowen. The Korean Peninsula in the Regional economic cooperation, by Kim Pil-Woo... Bilingual New Zealand a factor of national unity. Australian Aboriginal Languages: Unity, Diversity, Adversity, by Annie Langlois.
48505 NEDELJKOVIC, Maryvonne YHI - TERRE ET TERRITOIRES: Défis et Evolutions dans les Pays du Pacifique/LAND AND TERRITORIES: Challenges and Changes in the Pacific Rim Countries
$30.00 AUD
Centre d'Etude du Pacifique/L'Harmattan. Paris. 2003. 1st Ed. Yearly publication, YHI (No. 6). 170, (2) PP with 2 tables. Soft cover. French and English texts (with summary in the other language). Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747544222
YHI: Australian Aborigines' sun goddess. 7 texts: 3 in English and 4 in French. Law, Practice and Culture, by Ron Crocombe. Australian Aborigines or Aboriginal Australians: from Cultural sovereignty to Political sovereignty. The notion of sovereignty and money havens in the South Pacific, by Ron Crocombe... Beyond boundaries: Blacks in the South Pacific, by F. Clary ...
56024 NEDELJKOVIC, Maryvonne (editor) YHI - MINORITES ET PUISSANCES DANS LE PACIFIQUE
$35.00 AUD
CEPAC / Centre d' Etudes du Pacifique. Le Havre. 1998. 1st Ed. No. 1, January 1998. Foreword by Alain Serieyx, Association France Australie. 168 PP with 2 maps (1 on double page), 3 graphs and 7 illustrations (map, plan, engravings). Soft cover. French and English texts. Fine. 24 x 16. 2747592618
YHI: Australian Aborigines' sun goddess. 8 texts on The Minorities in the Pacific Rim Host Countries: Cognition and Recognition. 1 in English and 7 in French.
58392 NEEMIA, Uentabo Fakaofo COOPERATION AND CONFLICT - Costs, Benefits and National Interests in Pacific Regional Cooperation
$15.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1986. 1st Ed. 172 PP with 1 table, 19 tables and 14 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Signature of previous owner on half-title page, o/wise near fine. 20 x 14.7. 9820200024
67790 NEITZEL, Michael NIUE - Jewel in the Pacific (in Australian Yachting, July 1991)
$5.00 AUD
Baird Publications. Melbourne. 1991. Volume 8, No. 11, July 1991. 64 PP edited by Neil Baird. Contains article pages 28 to 31 with 1 location map, 1 b/w and 5 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 29.7 x 21.
57905 NELSON, Hank TAIM BILONG MASTA - The Australian Involvement with Papua New Guinea
$25.00 AUD
ABC Books / Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Sydney. 1990. New edition of the 1982 original. 224 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Name of previous owner on inside front cover. A very good clean copy. 26 x 20.5. 0733300693
Based on the ABC Radio series, produced by Tim Bowden.
57923 NELSON, Hank P.O.W. PRISONERS OF WAR - Australians Under Nippon
$15.00 AUD
ABC Enterprises / Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Sydney. 1985. 1st Ed. 224 PP with 1 b/w photo, 16 maps and 18 illustrations by Don Moore. Pictorial soft cover. Spine sunned, o/wise near fine. 24.5 x 17.2. 0642527369
Based on the ABC Radio series
73550 NEWTON, Douglas AFRICAN AND OCEANIC ART IN JERUSALEM - The Israel Museum Collection
$70.00 AUD
The Israel Museum. Jerusalem. 2001. 1st Ed. Foreword by James Snyder, Anne and Jerome Fisher, and preface by Martin Wright. 331, (1 blank) PP with 2 maps in colour (Africa and South East Asia & Islands of the Western Pacific), 2 drawings and 186 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 30.2 x 23. 9652782629
African Art: pages 18 to 201. Oceanic Art: pages 202 to 328.
73649 NEWTON, Douglas (editor) ARTS OF THE SOUTH SEAS: Islands Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia - The Collections of the Musée Barbier-Mueller
$100.00 AUD
Prestel Verlag. Munich / London / New York. 1999. 1st English edition. Translated from the French original by David Radzinowicz Howell. Foreword by Jean-Paul Barbier. 368 PP with b/w illusttrations: 1 diagram, 15 maps and c. 330 photos, and c 200 colour photos by Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini. Fp: Domestic altar (Tavu) of a noble house, Selaru, Tanimbar Islands. Erratum page for map of page 22, loosely inserted. Hard cover, title on spine, dj (in protective sleeve). Small bumps on corners, o/wise a fine copy. 31.5 x 25. 9783791320922
Circa 500 objects found in the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva, Switzerland.
60259 NGWELE, S. BAMBOO LEAVES - A Collection of Poems
$15.00 AUD
Commonwealth Youth Programme / South Pacific Creative Arts Society. Suva. 1989. 1st Ed. Introduction by H. G. Alatoa. X, 50 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 21 x 14.7.
62541 NIAUSSAT, Pierre-Marie LE LAGON ET L'ATOLL DE CLIPPERTON
$45.00 AUD
Académie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer & Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées. Paris. 1978. 1st Ed., in Travaux et Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. (8), 190 PP with 83 figures (drawings, graphs, maps, tables and 6 b/w photos). Soft cover a little soiled. Lower corner bumped. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Internally near fine. French text. 24 x 16. 2900098009
47357 NICHOLSON, John THE INCOMPARABLE CAPTAIN CADELL
$20.00 AUD
A Sue Hines Book / Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 2004. 1st Ed. XII, 307 PP with 1 map on double page, 15 location maps, 15 head pieces and 28 b/w illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Portrait of Captain Cadell on title page. Pictorial boards, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Fine. 21.8 x 14.2. 1741141087
Paddle-steamers on the Murray river... Blackbirding and pearling days...
BBC Books. London. 2004. 1st Australian and New Zealand edition of the 1993 original. Foreword by Tim Flannery. 240 PP with 14 maps and colour photos. Fp: Koala chewing gum leaves. Hard cover, dj. Foot of spine slightly bumped, o/wise near fine. 28.6 x 25.5. 056348820
71409 NORDHOFF, Charles & HALL, James Norman MUTINY !
$20.00 AUD
Chapman & Hall. London. 1933. 1st Ed. VIII, 416 PP. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean with tracks of Bounty, open-boat and Pandora. Cloth cover, device on front cover and spine. Covers lightly soiled and with fade spots on rear cover. Occasional foxing (heavy on outside edges). Name of previous owner at top of front endpaper. Very good copy. 20.7 x 13.5.
59178 NORFOLK ISLAND NORFOLK ISLAND - Home Edition -1989 / Universal Business Directories
$10.00 AUD
Universal Business Directories. Auckland. 1989. 1989 edition. 16 PP with 3 b/w photos and advertisements, plus 1 map in colour of Norfolk Island. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.5 x 22.
72071 NORTHCOTT, Cecil JOHN WILLIAMS SAILS ON
$25.00 AUD
Hodder and Stoughton. London. 1939. 1st Ed. 255 PP, plus 6 plates with colour illustrations. Fp (colour): Portrait of John Williams: Missionary - Mariner - Martyr. Vignette on title page. FEP: Map of South Pacific Islands. Cloth cover. Near fine. 19 x 13.
Published for the one hundredth anniversary of his death on the island of Erromanga, New Hebrides.
56211 NOSSAL, Kim Richard & VIVIAN, Carolynn A BRIEF MADNESS: Australia and the Resumption of French Nuclear Testing
$20.00 AUD
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. Canberra. 1997. 1st Ed. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 121. (10), 69 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 14.5. 0731527194
48800 NOURY, Arnaud LE REFLET DE L'AME LAPITA - Tome I
$25.00 AUD
Author. Versailles, France. 2005. 1st Ed. 120 PP with 1 map and over 70 figures (drawings, graphs, photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.3 x 20.7. 2952445508
Lapita pottery and their decorative system.
60388 NOURY, Arnaud LE REFLET DE L'AME LAPITA - Tome I
$40.00 AUD
Author. Versailles, France. 2005. 1st Ed. 120 PP with 1 map and over 70 figures (drawings, graphs, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note to previous owner signed by the author at top corner of title page. French text. Fine. 29.3 x 20.7. 2952445508
Lapita pottery and their decorative system.
63439 NOURY, Arnaud & GALIPAUD, Jean-Christophe LES LAPITA, NOMADES DU PACIFIQUE
$60.00 AUD
IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) Editions. Marseille. 2011. 1st Ed. 127, (1) PP with b/w illustrations (diagrams, drawings, sketches and photos) and colour illustrations (24 maps & insets, and photos). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 27 x 21. 9782709917162
39450 NUGENT, Ann IMPRESSIONS OF THE EXOTIC (in National LIbrary of Australia News - Vol XI, No. 9, June 2001)
$5.00 AUD
National Library of Australia. Canberra. 2001. Volume XI, No. 9, June 2001. Contains article from P.3 to 6 with 7 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Role and meaning of the exotic in the 18th century, as perceived by the participants at the XIth David Nichol Smith Conference, 26-28 March 2001.
60281 NUNN, Judy PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Random House Australia. Sydney. 2004. 1st Ed. (8), 661, (3 publications) PP. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing. Very good. 23.2 x 15.2. 1740513045
Novel set in New Hebrides, now Vanuatu.
71675 O'CONNELL, James F. A RESIDENCE OF ELEVEN YEARS IN NEW HOLLAND AND THE CAROLINE ISLANDS
$30.00 AUD
A.N.U. Canberra. 1972. 1st Ed., No. 4 in the Pacific History Series. Foreword by H. E. Maude, Introduction and annotations by Saul H. Riesenberg. XIV, 232, (2) PP with 10 b/w illust. Eps: Map of the island of Ponape. Cloth cover, dj. Few foxing spots on top outside edge, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14. 0708105386
Account of the early days of Australia (1820-1826) then life in Ponape where he lived for 5 years (1826-1831).
33356 O'DWYER, Brendan (editor) AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$45.00 AUD
Centre for Continuing Education / ANU. Canberra. 1983. 1st Ed. (2), IV, 157 PP with 4 facsimile of newspaper articles and 8 tables. Card cover. Fine. 24.8 x 17.3.
Proceedings of the conference held at A. N. U., 18-19 February 1983, organised and sponsored by The Centre for Continuing Education / ANU and The Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific (Australian Committee).
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
11547 O'NEILL, Robert (editor) INSECURITY! - The Spread of Weapons in the Indian and Pacific Oceans
$15.00 AUD
ANU Press. Canberra. 1978. 1st Ed. X, (2), 280 PP with 1 map, 2 graphs and 23 tables. Hard cover, dj rubbed). Near fine. 22 x 14. 0708105467
Current and future trends in the spread of weaponry in and around the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
11368 O'REILLY, Patrick BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE L'OCEANIE 1950
$10.00 AUD
Musée de l'Homme. Paris. 1951. Extrait du Journal de la Société des Océanistes, Tome VII, Déc. 1951. 44 PP (327-370). Soft cover, staples. French text. Near fine. 24 x 15.
75281 ODGERS, George ACROSS THE PARALLEL - The Australian 77th Squadron with the United States Air Force in the Korean War
$15.00 AUD
William Heinemann Ltd. Melbourne. 1952. 1st Ed. XIV, 239 PP, plus 26 pages with 40 b/w photos. Fp:Squadron Leader Cresswell briefs Meteor Jet pilots. FEP: Map of the Korean Peninsula. REP/ Map of Korea and Japan. Cloth covers, spine lightly sunned. Discreet stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 22 x 14.
Latitude 38° North, dividing the Korean Peninsula.
17109 OLIVER, Douglas L. NATIVE CULTURES OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1989. 1st paperback edition. IX, 172 PP with 19 b/w illustrations by Lois Johnson. Soft covers, pictorial front. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.7 x 15. 0824811828
Physical setting, prehistory, activities and social relations before European influence.
33143 OLIVER, Douglas L. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$15.00 AUD
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, USA. 1951. 1st Ed. X, (4), 313 PP with 7 maps and 23 decorations. Title page: figure from Siuai area. Eps: Map of the Ethnic Areas of the Pacific. Cloth cover. Stamp on recto of rear endpaper, o/wise near fine. 24.2 x 16.
The Islanders. The Aliens. Metamorphosis. Cataclysm and aftermath.
33368 OLIVER, Douglas L. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, USA. 1967. 2nd printing of the 1962 revised edition. XIX, 456 PP with 9 maps and 23 decorations by Sheila Mitchell Oliver. Title page: figure from Siuai area. Cloth cover. Ex-library copy with stamps, 7 pages with perforated cancellation, number on verso of title page and spine. Renewed endpapers. Corners of spine worn and frayed. Internally very good. 20.3 x 18.7.
The Islanders. The Aliens. Metamorphosis. Cataclysm and aftermath.
33369 OLIVER, Douglas L. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$5.00 AUD
Doubleday. New York. 1961. 2nd printing of the revised edition, in the Natural History Library. XXIII, 456 PP with 9 maps and 23 decorations by Sheila Mitchell Oliver. Title page: figure from Siuai area. Soft cover, illustrated front. Near fine. 18 x 10.5.
The Islanders. The Aliens. Metamorphosis. Cataclysm and aftermath.
59596 OLIVER, W. H. & WILLIAMS, B. R. (Editors) THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND
$10.00 AUD
Oxford Univ. Press. Wellington. 1981. 1st paperback edition. XIII, 572 PP with 4 maps, 8 graphs and 11 tables. Pictorial soft cover (slightly rubbed). Spine with creases. Some pencil underlining. Very good. 23.8 x 15. 019558063X
48099 ORSTOM RAPPORT D' ACTIVITE 1974-1976
$10.00 AUD
Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer. Paris. 1977. 1st Ed. Edited by G. CAMUS. (4), 340 PP, VI (index), (2) with b/w illustrations, plus 1 errata slip loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27 x 20.8.
Research and Achievements between 1974 and 1976, of this specialized Institute working between the tropics: Human Sciences, Geology, Hydrology, Oceanography ...
13718 ORSTOM & COLLECTIVE AUTHORS OUTRE-MER FRANCAIS ET EXPLOITATION DES OCEANS
$30.00 AUD
Académie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer & ORSTOM. Paris. 1981. 1st Ed. (2), 204 PP with 2 tables and 8 maps. Soft cover. Near fine. French text. 23.7 x 15.2. 290098025
Inventory in 1980 of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the French overseas dependencies and approach to their development.
33127 OSBORN, Fairfield (editor) THE PACIFIC WORLD - Its vast distances, its lands and the life upon them, and its peoples
$15.00 AUD
W. W. Norton & Co. New York. 1944. 1st Ed. 218 PP with 8 drawings and 9 maps, plus 9 plates on double page (2 b/w & 7 colour). Cloth cover. Spine sunned. Stamp and signature of previous owners on front endpaper. Faint foxing, o/wise near fine. 22.8 x 15.2.
20365 OSBUN, Albert G. TO CALIFORNIA AND THE SOUTH SEAS - The Diary of Albert G. Osbun 1849-1851
$15.00 AUD
The Huntington Library. San Marino, Ca, USA. 1966. 1st Ed. Edited by John Haskell Kemble. XIII, 233 PP with 2 maps and 3 drawings. Fp: Portrait of Albert Gallatin Osbun. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket is a little browned around edges. A near fine copy. 23.6 x 15.8.
Unsuccessful at gold digging in California, he sailed on the brig Rodolph to Samoa, Wallis Island, Tuvalu, and Hawaii, intending to bring back pigs, chickens, yams, etc.. to San Francisco.
40040 OSTER, José & THOMAS, Philippe LE MUSEE DE L'HOMME - Anthropologie Ethnologie Prehistoire
$20.00 AUD
Ouest-France. Rennes, France. 1982. 1st Ed. 32 PP with 1 plan and 19 colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. French text. 23 x 16.3. 285882486X
Anthropology, ethnology and prehistory at the Musée de l'Homme, Paris.
13038 OXENHAM, Stephen (editor) THE ROAD OUT, Rural Development in Solomon Islands
$20.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Nuku'alofa. 1981. 1st Ed. X, 118 PP with 35 b/w photos & many facsimiles of newspaper clippings. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 21 x 14.8.
Chapters written by various authors on rural development: human resources, education, communications, politics, Man and machine, ...
57927 OXENHAM, Stephen (editor) THE ROAD OUT, Rural Development in Solomon Islands
$15.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Nuku'alofa. 1985. Reprint of the 1981 original. X, 118 PP with 35 b/w photos & many facsimiles of newspaper clippings. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 21 x 14.8.
Chapters written by various authors on rural development: human resources, education, communications, politics, Man and machine, ...
33502 PACIFIC PACIFIC TOURISM - As Islanders see it
$20.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1985. Reprint of the 1980 original. VI, 171 PP with 1 comic strip, 6 tables, 9 maps, 12 colour and 34 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 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.
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.
34664 PACIFIC NOTICIAS DE GALAPAGOS (3 Newsletters)
$45.00 AUD
Noticias de Galapagos / Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands. Paris. 1963 & 1964. Issues No. 1 of July 1963, No. 2 of December 1963 and No. 3 of July 1964. No. 1: 19 PP, plus 2 b/w photos. No. 2: 21 PP, plus 1 b/w photo. No. 3: 21 PP, plus 1 b/w photo. Card cover. Near fine. French, English and Spanish texts. 26.6 x 21.
48575 PACIFIC KON-TIKI MUSEET / THE KON-TIKI MUSEUM
$5.00 AUD
Kon-Tiki Muséet. Oslo. 1983. 1st Ed. 24 PP with 1 plan, 3 maps, 3 b/w and 32 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Norwegian and English text. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 8271820591
55799 PACIFIC HAFA ADAI: GUAM - 1988, a visit to the villages
$10.00 AUD
The Palm Press. Tamuning, Guam. 1988. 1st Ed. 184 PP with colour illustrations (coat of arms, seals, maps & plans, photos). Photographs by Don Seery. Pictorial soft cover. Front cover with a light crease. Near fine. 28 x 21.6.
Photo documentary on the villages of Guam.
56632 PACIFIC BUSINESS ADVANTAGE SOUTH PACIFIC - 2009
$10.00 AUD
Business Advantage International. Melbourne. 2009. 1st Ed. Edited by Rose Michael, Jo Shiells & Jacqueline Bennett. 82 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780980608106
Your gateway to the South Pacific Economy.
56774 PACIFIC Universal Business Directories: Nouvelle Calédonie (New Caledonia), Polynesie Francaise (Tahiti French Polynesia), Wallis et Futuna (Wallis & Futuna) - BUSINESS & TRADE DIRECTORY 1995
$20.00 AUD
UBD Publication. Auckland, NZ. 1995. 1995 edition. (10), 395-438, (16), 831-868, (4), 961-972 PP with 2 plans and 3 maps in colour, b/w or colour advertisements. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 21.5.
56787 PACIFIC ALIMENTATION ET SANTE DANS LE PACIFIQUE
$20.00 AUD
Département de la Santé / Commission du Pacifique Sud. Nouméa. 1997. 8 technical Index-Cards. Nos. 1 to 8. A total of 50 pages with b/w and colour illustrations. French text. Fine. 29.5 x 21.
Health problems in the Pacific. 1: Overweight. 2: Diabetes. 3: High blood pressure. 4: Heart diseases. 5: Goutte. 6: Cancer. 7: Tooth decay and Gum problems. 8: Anaemia.
56788 PACIFIC ALIMENTS DU PACIFIQUE SUD
$30.00 AUD
Services de Santé Publique (section nutrition) / Commission du Pacifique Sud. Nouméa. 1993. Revised edition of the 1980 original. 18 technical Index-Cards. Nos. 1 to 18. A total of 86 pages with b/w and colour illustrations. French text. Fine. 29.5 x 21.
Food in the South Pacific: Dalo, Pawpaw, Mango..., Yams... Fish & Sea food.
58404 PACIFIC COOK ISLANDS NEWS - 1974
$10.00 AUD
Cook Islands Broadcasting and Newspaper Corporation. Rarotonga. 1974. 4 issues of 1974: 17th January, 18th, 19th and 20th of February. A total of 38 pages. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 30.5 x 23.
58405 PACIFIC COOK ISLANDS NEWS - 1980
$10.00 AUD
Cook Islands Broadcasting and Newspaper Corporation Rarotonga. 1980. 4 issues of late December 1980: 27th, 29th, 30th and 31st December 1980. A total of 46 pages. Plus 1 issue of "Te Akatauira / Morning Star" (Vol 11, No. 123, 30 Dec 1980). Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 34 x 21.5.
Te Akatauira "Morning Star", the oldest newspaper in the Cook Islands.
58406 PACIFIC COOK ISLANDS NEWS - 1981
$10.00 AUD
Cook Islands Broadcasting and Newspaper Corporation Rarotonga. 1981. 9 issues of early January 1981: 3rd, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th January 1981. A total of 108 pages. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 34 x 21.5.
3rd January: "Full state burial for Albert Henry", premier of the Cook Islands 1965-1978.
58408 PACIFIC COOK ISLANDS NEWS - 1985
$10.00 AUD
Cook Islands Broadcasting and Newspaper Corporation. Rarotonga. 1985. 4 issues of 1985: 25 june, then 3, 4 and 5 October 1985. A total of 48 pages. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 34 x 21.5.
59135 PACIFIC REPORT OF THE FIRST CONFERENCE OF SOUTH PACIFIC LABOUR MINISTERS
$15.00 AUD
AGPS / Australian Department of Labour. Canberra. 1974. 1st Ed. (4), 52 PP. Soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise very good. 25 x 17.8. 0642005176
Conference held Sydney: 30 October to 1 November 1973.
59263 PACIFIC 1987 PACIFIC WORLD DIRECTORY
$20.00 AUD
Pacific Information Bank (Saipan). Saipan. 1986. October 1986 edition. Edited by Francisco T. Uludong. 364 PP with b/w illustrations (22 sketch maps with insets and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 28 x 21.2.
59505 PACIFIC MAN AND CULTURE IN OCEANIA - Volume 12
$15.00 AUD
Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies. Kobe. 1996. Vol. 12, March 1996. Edited by Michiko Intoh & Matori Yamamoto. 101 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 25.7 x 18.2.
6 Papers: ... The Paraoa site: fishing and fishhooks in Mitiaro, Southern Cook Islands, by Richard Walter and Matthew Campbell. ... An Archaeological Survey of Mangareva, by Marshall I. Weisler. ...
59506 PACIFIC MAN AND CULTURE IN OCEANIA - Volume 13
$15.00 AUD
Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies. Kobe. 1997. Vol. 13, March 1997. Edited by Michiko Intoh & Matori Yamamoto. 156 PP with tables and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.7 x 18.2.
7 Papers: Biological origins of Hawaiians, by M. Pietrusewsky ... Prehistoric Maori Fishermen at Kokohuia..., by F. Leach, J. M. Davidson and L.M. Horwood. ...
Department of Business, Massey University. Palmerston North, NZ. 1981. Vol. 10, No. 4, 1981, edited by Jim Richstad, and Floyd K. Takeuchi. (2), 68 PP with 2 organigrams and 2 b/w illustrations. Illustrated soft cover. Near fine. 29.5 x 21.
Communication Institute, East-West Center. Honolulu. 1983. Vol. 12, No. 2, 1983, edited by Jim Richstad, and Floyd K. Takeuchi. (4), 182 PP with 1 table. Illustrated soft cover. Near fine. 22.5 x 15.
59611 PACIFIC PACIFIC ISLANDS COMMUNICATION JOURNAL - Vol. 16, No. 2: Media Freedom in the Pacific Islands
$10.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies. Suva. 1995. Vol. 16, No. 2, 1995, edited by Suzanna Layton. VI, 100, (1) PP with 3 b/w photos and 13 facsimile of front cover of Pacific Islands Newspapers. Illustrated soft cover. Near fine. 22.5 x 15.
Special issue: Media Freedom in the Pacific Islands.
60135 PACIFIC AID HAS FAILED THE PACIFIC (in Issue Analysis No. 33)
$5.00 AUD
Centre for Independent Studies. Sydney. 2003. Issue Analysis, No. 33, 7 May 2003. Edited by Helen HUGHES. 32 PP with 8 tables and 9 graphs/charts. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
60137 PACIFIC THE SOLOMON ISLANDS CENTRE - The University of the South Pacific Extension Services
$10.00 AUD
USP Extension Services. Honiara. 1977. 1st Ed. No pagination, 12 PP with 1 plan, 2 maps and 17 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover, staples. Very good. 25.3 x 17.8.
Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government / ANU. Canberra. 2005. CD-ROM - Volumes 1 to 19, covering the years 1986 to 2004. CD-ROM in a clear plastic box. New. Format: 19 x 13.5.
60651 PACIFIC THE SOUTH PACIFIC AND OCEANIC COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS / SPOCTU SOCIAL CHARTER FOR DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT
$10.00 AUD
SPOCTU. Brisbane. 1995. 1st Ed. Foreword by Susana Tuisawau. 8 PP with 1 portrait. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 26.7 x 19.2.
59826 PACIFIC ARTS MANA, A South Pacific Journal of Language and Literature: Volume 11, No. 2
$20.00 AUD
Mana Publications & South Pacific Creative Arts Society. Suva. 1996. Volume 11, No. 2, 1996. Edited by Subramani. No. 2: IV, 112 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.
59827 PACIFIC ARTS MANA, A South Pacific Journal of Language and Literature: Volume 11, No. 1
$20.00 AUD
Mana Publications & South Pacific Creative Arts Society. Suva. 1995. Volume 11, No. 1, 1995. Edited by Marjorie Tuainekore CROCOMBE & Linda CROWL. No. 1: V, 113 PP with b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.
59828 PACIFIC ARTS MANA, A South Pacific Journal of Language and Literature: Volume 10, No. 2
$20.00 AUD
Mana Publications & South Pacific Creative Arts Society. Suva. 1994. Volume 10, No. 2, 1994. Edited by Marjorie CROCOMBE. V, 96 PP, (1). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15.
Curriculum Development Unit / Teacher's Training College. Avatiu, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. 1975. Vol. 2, No. 3, 1975. (1), 17, (6) PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial front cover, staples. Text in English, with 2 pages in Cook Island Maori. 29.7 x 21.
On the edge of the Pacific: Communism - Vietnam - Dominoes, by Graeme Kitto.
60858 PACIFIC HISTORY SELECTION OF STATISTICS RELATING TO PACIFIC LABOUR MIGRATION
$10.00 AUD
Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education. Toowoomba. c. 1980. Compilation with acknowledgment of sources. 16 PP with 3 graphs, 3 maps and 18 tables. Soft cover. Near fine. 29.3 x 20.7.
Handout compiled for students taking "Pacific History".
33797 PACIFIC SCIENCE ASSOCIATION. GALAPAGOS ISLANDS: A Unique Area for Scientific Investigations - Contribution No.4 of the Charles Darwin Foundation
$30.00 AUD
Charles Darwin Foundation. San Francisco. 1963. Contribution No. 4 of the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands. Reprint from the Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, No. 44. 154 PP with 50 figures. Fp: Colour photos of Academy Bay, Isla Santa Cruz and Sulivan Bay, Isla San Salvador. Soft cover a little browned around the edges, o/wise near fine. Fine. 25.4 x 17.1.
A Symposium presented at the 10th Pacific Science Congress of the Pacific Science Association, University of Hawaii, 21st August to 6 September 1961. Bathymetry, Climate, Archaeology...
Paradises Ink / P.I.P. Publications Pty Ltd. Sydney. 2000. 1st Ed. Edited by Jennifer MOALEM. Foreword by Peter Bloomfield, and a word from Joseph McInerney, CEO PATA (Pacific Asia Travel Association). 348 PP with colour illustrations (1 map on double page, sketch maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.6 x 21.
The most comprehensive holiday manual of the Pacific.
Paradises Ink / P.I.P. Publications Pty Ltd. Sydney. 2005. 1st Ed. Edited by Artemis Gouros. Foreword by Peter Bloomfield, and a word from Peter de Jong, CEO PATA (Pacific Asia Travel Association). 344 PP with colour illustrations (1 map on double page, sketch maps and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 27.6 x 21.
The most comprehensive holiday manual of the Pacific.
Aircalin / Air Calédonie International. Nouméa. 2010. No. 94, November-December 2010. Edited by Jean-Michel MASSON. 172 PP with colour photos. Text in French and English (with Japanese extracts). Fine. 27 x 21.
Bougna, the taste of tradition, by Caroline Idoux. Queenstown, Alpine Adventure Capital, by Pierre Larue. The charms of Tahiti, by Christian Grondin.
45344 PAGDEN, Anthony PEOPLES AND EMPIRES
$15.00 AUD
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. London. 2001. 1st Ed., in the Weidenfeld & Nicolson Universal History series. VIII, 216 PP. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 20.5 x 14. 0297643703
Europeans and the rest of the world, from antiquity to the present. Chapter 4: Conquering the ocean.
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.
33435 PALMER, Bruce & DEAN, Beth SOUTH PACIFIC - Pacific Islands Art and Dance
$5.00 AUD
Fiji Times & Herald Limited. Suva. 1972. 1st Ed. 104 PP with 1 map , 52 b/w and 65 colour photos. Pictorial card cover (rubbed). Ex library copy with stamps on title page and inside back cover, library number on spine, library pocket inside back cover, prize plate. Very good. 27.3 x 21.3.
Published for the first historic South Pacific Festival of Arts.
60204 PALMER, Norman D. THE NEW REGIONALISM IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Lexington Books / D. C. Heath and Company. Lexington, Mass., USA. 1991. 1st Ed., in "Issues in World Politics" series with a foreword by James N. Rosenau. XII, 221, (3) PP with 3 figures. Hard cover, dj. Name label of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise near fine. 23.3 x 16.3. 0669209716
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.
60235 PARFIT, Michael HOTSPOT: ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC [in National Geographic Magazine - Volume 203, No.3]
$5.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2003. March 2003. 132 PP. Contains article from P. 106 to 125 with 1 map (with 3 inserts) and 18 colour photos by Tim Laman. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.4 x 17.5.
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
65046 PARSONS, Ronald FLEET LIST OF BURNS, PHILP AND COMPANY, Sydney ...
$15.00 AUD
Australasian Maritime Historical Society. Woodville, S.A. 1970 & 1972. 1st Ed. no pagination, 34 PP (typescript), with the 1 page "addendum dated June 1972". Soft covers with a few marks, cloth spine. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. Oblong: 17 x 21.
40890 PATTERSON, Carolyn Bennett IN THE FAR PACIFIC - AT THE BIRTH OF NATIONS (in National Geographic Magazine)
$15.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1986. Volume 170, No. 4, October 1986. Contains article from P.460 to 499 with 1 map, 4 national flags and 36 colour photos by David Hiser and Melinda Berge. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.5 x 17.4.
The four island nations: Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands - Republic of Palau (Belau) - Federated State of Micronesia - Republic of the Marshall Islands.
73960 PEARSON, Jane & DENNIS, Andy THE STORY OF MOUNT COOK NATIONAL PARK
$20.00 AUD
Department of Land and Survey. Wellington, NZ. 1991. 6th edition, completely revised and reset of the 1986 original. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus a large colour map (dated 1986) of the Park pasted down inside back cover. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.2. 0477061362
A handbook to help you enjoy the Park. From Diaries, Books and Journals: pages 87 to 93.
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 ???
11476 PEIRCE, Henry Augustus BIOGRAPHY
$10.00 AUD
Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wash. 1976. Reprint of 1880 original printing by A.L. Bancroft of San Francisco. Edition limited to 240 numberedd copies (No. 236). 25 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Few stains (coffee ???) on P.11, o/wise very good. 25 x 17.5. 0877701601
Trader, shipowner and ship master on the Northwest coast of America, Hawaii Islands and the Far East.
43059 PELLISSIER, Jean 5 HOMMES SUR UN RADEAU - Expéditions Tahiti-Nui II et III
$10.00 AUD
Editions de la Pensée Moderne. Paris. 1959. 1st Ed., with a preface by Bob Putigny. 222 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 16 pages with 20 b/w photos. Soft cover, dj (closed tear). Light foxing and ageing of paper, o/wise very good. French text. 21 x 15.3.
Raft voyages from Tahiti to South America and return with wreck on Rakahanga Atoll, and death of Eric de Bisschop.
15667 PEREZ, Michel VOYAGE, DECOUVERTE, COLONISATION, Actes du Cinquième Colloque CORAIL, 15 et 16 Juillet 1992, Nouméa, Nouvelle-Calédonie
$35.00 AUD
C.O.R.A.I.L./U.F.P. Nouméa. 1993. 1st Ed. 258 PP, 2 adv. with some b/w illust. (2 maps, 1 graph, 6 photos). Soft cover. French and English texts. Fine. 21 x 14.6.
Seventeen papers (11 in French, 6 in English) on voyages of discovery by the Portuguese, French, English, Russians and the impact of colonisation.
50816 PEROUSE de MONTCLOS, Dr. Marie-Odile (editor) SANTE MENTALE DE L'ENFANT ET DE L'ADOLESCENT DANS LE PACIFIQUE. Violences face à l'autre
$50.00 AUD
L' Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed. 314 PP with 3 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Texts in either French or English (French synthesis for them). Fine. 24 x 15.5. 274759159X
16 papers presented at a symposium held in Nouméa: 4, 5 & 6 April 2002. 10 in French and 6 in English. Infancy and Mental Health in Australia, by Prof. Campbell Paul... The civilized and the savage: The Stolen Generation and indigenous History, by Dr. Helen Milroy... Le suicide des jeunes Calédoniens, by Nidoïsh Naisseline... The inter-cultural and socio-historical context of aboriginal personal violence in remote Australia, by Prof. Ernest Hunter...
57872 PESCAIA, Mahealani EARLY HAWAIIAN LIFE
$35.00 AUD
Department of Education, State of Hawaii. Honolulu. 1981. 1st Ed. Edited by Jane Kinoshita, with a foreword by Charles G. Clark. (2), IV, 248 PP (typescript) with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. Oblong: 21.2 x 27.5.
Instructional Materials / Resources for Social Studies (Elementary)
31044 PETERSEN, E. Allen IN A JUNK ACROSS THE PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
Elek Books. London. 1954. 1st Ed. 224 PP, plus 16 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: Tani and Allen Petersen aboard their Chinese junk, the "Hummel Hummel". Eps: Map of the Pacific with track of the the junk. Hard cover. Ex Library copy, with stamps on endpapers,. Covers soiled, outside hinges and gutters of endpapers starting. Flap of dust jacket pasted down on half title page. A very good reading copy. 22.2 x 14.5.
Voyage started in Shanghai, 15th April 1938, towards the West coast of the Americas. Return via the South Pacific, leaving from Peru in 1941. Call in the Marquesas, Pago Pago... Shipwrecked on Sudest Island near Rossel Island (South East Papua), then arrival at Samarai 25th October 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dr Petersen joined the New Guinea Volunteers.
54637 PETERSON, Roger Tory THE GALAPAGOS, Eerie Cradle of New Species (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1967. Volume 131, No. 4, April 1967. Contains article from P.540 to 585 with 2 pages of colour illustrations (2 maps, 1 portrait and the Galapagos finches family tree) and 58 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.4
58396 PHELAN, Nancy SERPENTS IN PARADISE
$15.00 AUD
Macmillan. London. 1967. 1st Ed. (6), 215 PP. Hard cover, dj. Occasional foxing. Name of previous owner at top of front endpaper. Very good. 21.2 x 13.5.
56023 PHELAN, Nancy (compiler) CORAL AS A BUILDING MATERIAL
$5.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission. Nouméa. 1952. 1st Ed. Introduction by H. E. Maude. Technical Paper No. 28, July 1952. (4), 8 PP with 1 map and 4 illustrations. Inside front cover; map of the area of the South Pacific Commission. Card covers. Staples removed. Name of previous owner at top of front cover. Very good. 26.3 x 21.3.
57663 PHILLIPS, V. & BRADLEY, P.et al. EXPLORING THE PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
Baybooks. Sydney. 1982. 1st Juvenile edition, in The Making of Australia series. 42 PP with numerous illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 23.5 x 18.5. 0858355426
61046 PIGNEGUY, Dee SALTWATER IN HER HAIR - Stories of Sisterhood at Sea
$20.00 AUD
VIP Publications. Auckland. 2001. 1st Ed. Foreword by Captain Jim Varney. 160 PP with b/w illustrations (documents, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Crease on the spine. Dedicatory note on title page dated and signed by the author. Near fine. Oblong: 20.8 x 25.7. 0958227705
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1984 Edited by Garry BARKER & Malcolm SALMON. 66 PP. Pictorial soft covers (Tranquility in Tuvalu) with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Kava Moves into Medicine by Julie-Ann Ellis, Independence from Uncle Sam by Floyd Takeuchi,..
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1984 Edited by Garry BARKER & Malcolm SALMON. 66 PP. Pictorial soft covers ( Australian O.D.F. soldier in training) with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Rabaul waits for the big blow, Megatonnes of mud mire OK Tedi's Future, Behind Fiji's Cabinet Reshuffle, ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1984 Edited by Garry BARKER & Malcolm SALMON. 66 PP. Pictorial soft covers (A still from the film The Voyage of Bounty's Child) with light wear. Some underlining and marginal notes, otherwise very good. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Tensions Flare in New Caledonia by Garry Barker, Cross Purposes Communications by Liz Fell, The Death of Captain Cook by Prof. Greg Dening, Hydro Power in a Solomons Village by Denis Fisk and Problematical Future of the S.P.C. by Donald Stewart.
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1984 Edited by Garry BARKER & Malcolm SALMON. 74 PP. Pictorial soft covers (Pope John Paul II) with light wear. Some underlining and marginal notes, otherwise very good. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Border Crisis in Papua New Guinea by Ian Glanville, Pope John Paul II Visits PNG, Solomons, Interview with Tofilau Eti, The World according to Muldoon, The Micronesian Imbroglio, The Death of Captain Cook - 2nd and concluding part, by Prof. Greg Dening.
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1984 Edited by Garry BARKER & Malcolm SALMON. 72 PP. Pictorial soft covers (James Nyaro, leader of the anti-Indonesian OPM in Irian Jaya) with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Irian Jaya-Papua New Guinea, Whatever happened to John Meier? by Alan Merridew, Solar Power and the Pacific, Vanuatu by Julie-Ann ellis, Suicide in Western Samoa by Dennis Oliver, ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1984 Edited by Garry BARKER & Malcolm SALMON. 74 PP. Pictorial soft covers (PNG's new Parliament House) with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Australia's aid to the Pacific, New Caledonia's Independence Front, Port-Vila's Tax Haven, ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1984 Edited by Garry BARKER & Malcolm SALMON. 74 PP. Pictorial soft covers (David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand) with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: David Lange, interviewed by Garry Barker, Bob Hawke after the South Pacific Forum in Tuvalu, Aqua City, a revolutionary new Japanese-built cargo vessel, Niuean political leader Young Vivian, ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1984 Edited by Garry BARKER & Malcolm SALMON. 74 PP. Pictorial soft covers (South Pacific Festival of Arts in Noumea) with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Hiwi Tauroa, New Zealand's race relations conciliator, Helen Fraser, Noumea correspondent on the Festival of Arts, National Federaton Party of Fiji, Hawaii: A Question of History by Robert Kiste, Palau Referendum, Andrew Turnbull, Burns Philp's new chief executive, ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1988. Edited by Larry WRITER & Carson CREAGH. 58 PP. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Fiji back from the brink, Sope's Power bid fails, A sporting smokescreen, New Caledonia's South Pacific Games glosses over some ongoing problems, Diving for submarines off Papua New Guinea, ...Special Report: Pacific Defence Dossier by Peter Young.
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1988. Edited by Larry WRITER & Carson CREAGH. 58 PP. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Torres Strait on the brink NZ's illegal immigrant crackdown, Maori lands rights struggle, Léontieff gets tough, Mining the Rim of Fire, Forum: Indonesia - a giant awakens, ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1988. Edited by Larry WRITER & Carson CREAGH. 58 PP. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Special Reports: New Zealand under Prime Minister David Lange, Bid to sack Wingti (PNG), Paris split on New Caledonia by Robert Aldrich, Rangiroa, heart of the French Pacific, ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1988. Edited by Larry WRITER & Carson CREAGH. 58 PP. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Murder, Rape, Robbery (PNG), Keeping the language alive (Vanuatu), Western Samoa Election, New Caledonian election, Special Report: The communications revolution (Liz Fell), ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1988. Edited by Larry WRITER & Carson CREAGH. 58 PP. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: War in New Caledonia, Diro's influence wanes (PNG), Fiji: One year after the coup, Gaddafi's Pacific intrigues, Special Report: Fisheries in Crisis, ..
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1988. Edited by Larry WRITER & Carson CREAGH. 58 PP. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Special Report: Fiji: The Future, Political rivalry spawns riots in Vila, PNG's coalition fails again, New Caledonia: future imperfect, arms shipments, caches and rumours, On the trail of WWII history - searching for war relics, ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1988. Edited by Carson CREAGH. 58 PP. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Tonga's Taufa'ahau Tupou IV celebrates his 70th birthday, Wingti ousted - and Namaliu steps in (PNG), New Caledonia's new deal - Peace at Last - or a recipe for Ruin?, Noumea's Window on Kanak Culture by Nicolas Rothwell, ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1988. Edited by Carson CREAGH. 58 PP. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Japan is looking South to the Pacific, Lini a winner in Vanuatu's constitutional crisis, Has Paris found a solution for New Caledonia, Tuvaluans survive epic ordeal, The canoes of Oceania receive their due, Shocks in store over nuclear testing, ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1988. Edited by Carson CREAGH. 58 PP. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Inside the Pacific Arts Festival; Old foes unite in New Caledonia; Nauruans still grounded: no takeoff in sight; Mixed reception for Forum in Nuku'alofa; a Brighter Future for Pacific Agriculture, ..
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1988. Edited by Carson CREAGH. 58 PP. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Radical new charter for Fiji; Irian Jaya/PNG border dispute worsens; Victory or Apartheid, NZ dfivided over fishing law; Power to the People - the people of Kanaky; Funafuti celebrates a decade of self-determination; Rapanui: a century with Chile; Tonga's cultured crown prince, ...
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1988. Edited by Carson CREAGH. 54 PP. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise contents near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Robbie Namaliu: Pacific leader of the year; NZ Islands Affairs Minister ousted; Palau chooses a new leader; FLNKS gains, National Front looms in New Caledonia; More of the same for US island territories; Fiji employers seek to develop the West's economic model, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 54 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Freedom at Last (Pacific Trust Territories) by Ian Williams, Inside Bougainville by Alfred Sasako, Tax and Tourism on top by David North, Where a Secret Slumbers by Helen Averley. Includes sections on business, travel, sport, focus and books.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 54 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Fiji '91 by Jale Moala, Where the phosphate and time are running out by Ian Williams, Turning the tide for clams by Richard H. Chesher.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 54 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Articles include: Calendar of Fear, Namaliu cracks down on terrorists and the Rascals are on the run by Frank Senge; Samoa intrigue, betrayal and surprises by Ulafala Aiavao; In searh of Amelia Earhart by David Nortth, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 54 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Includes articles as per front cover plus The Friendly Island (Molokai) that wants to be left alone by Ngaire Douglas and other regular articles on the region.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Includes articles as per front cover, plus articles on the Cook Islands, Western Samoa, and the regular sections on business, sport and the South Pacific Games..
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Beryl Cook. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Two pages a little loose and reinforced, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Includes articles as per front cover plus the regular sections on business, sport, etc.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 62 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
A special environment report: The Pacific experience and, can we undo the damage already done? Includes articles on politics, the region, health, sports, yachting, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 62 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Politics: France and Tahiti clash over budgetary control, Melanesian Spearhead scores the right goals. Plus the regular sections on finance, arts, sports and yachting, science, shipping, ..
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Special Report: The Art of Survival by Liz Thompson; Culture and Commerce by Karen Mangnall; Chamorro rights groups seek sovereignty by David North; The Lost world of Irian Jaya, ...Also, the regular articles on politics, business, women, The Forum, etc, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Main article: The FNLKS and the Matignon Accords (New Caledonia). Fiji elections, and regular sections on the environment, aviation, shipping, motoring, sports, business, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Special Report: Tourism in the Region. Politics (PNG elections), Fire in Rarotonga, plus the environment, business, arts, science, diving, shipping, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1993. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1993. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 66 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1993. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 66 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1993. Edited by Martin Tiffany. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1993. Edited by Martin Tiffany. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1993. Edited by Martin Tiffany. 62 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1994. Edited by Martin Tiffany. 64 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1994. Edited by Martin Tiffany. 66 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1994. Edited by Martin Tiffany. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Plus: Killing shocks Vanuatu, The Cook Islands Saga, Apia's political crunch, plus regular features: The Forum, The Region, business, sports, yachting, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Plus: Saving the Dolphins, Maori cross swords with TVNZ, The Forum comes of age, American Samoa's fish canneries, Phasing out the pineapple (Hawaii), The Johnston Atoll revisited, plus regular features: business, sports, yachting, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Plus: The Papal visit; Tragedy strikes home (PNG), plus regular features: business, sports, yachting, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Focus on Vanuatu's health system. Other articles: Vanuatu's boiling lake, Tahiti: strikes, riots and flag burning plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Immigration versus Aid. New Zealand: The Kiwi dilemma, Tourism: But where are the investors, plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Law: The question of dual citizenship (Fij), The state of the Hawaiian movement; Changing course: PNG attemps a new approach in fixing its internal problems. Has the World Bank gone soft and green?; plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
France defies world condemnation; Decolonise French Polynesia and New Caledonia; Widow extradited for trial in Vanuatu; plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Yunus Rashid. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Kina stabilises and points to recovery; Chirac rewards Carlot; Greenpeace blasts US over nuclear testing; Vanuatu's malaria epidemic; Aviation supplement; plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover stories: Commercial sense or sheer madness; No nukes is good nukes; Uncovered at the crossroads. Un chief visits Fiji; plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Yunus Rashid. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Nauru has lost millions of dollars to swindlers; The Chinese tug of war; Fiji's 25th anniversary celebration; Telecommunications feature: the needs of the Pacific and services available; plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Yumus Rashid. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Special Report: A look at reefs around the region and how they can be saved. Plus: Misleading AIDS data, PNG's budget; Return of the Nauruans; Changing hands at SPC: Niuatoputapu - where time stands still.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Debbie Singh. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
PNG's national government is pouring money into fighting the country's worsening crime situation. Plus: The Maisin's logging alternative; The way Fiji could be; French testing affects regional tourism; The smoked bodies of Bulolo...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Debbie Singh. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Why did France conduct its latest spate of nuclear tests in the face of international opposition? Plus: Kava's growing concern; Shipping saga extraordinaire; Security tight on Bougainville; Porgera's pollution, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Debbie Singh. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Diabetes climbs high around the region,.... Will Indonesia listen?; Rethinking sustainable development; A home for Pacific treasures; Micronesia's prospering trust funds, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Debbie Singh. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Special Report: The island silence - HIV and AIDS in the region. Plus: The Rarotonga Treaty; Beti's trail of uncertainty; May Day for the Cooks money crisis; The ups and downs of the cruise business, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Special report: Vanuatu's multi-million-dollar bank "scam". Plus: Freedom of expression under threat; A lesson for the Pacific; Cooks Transition hits home; Leaders tackle employment issues, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Special Report: Sign of the times? Tonga's imprisonment of journalists and MP, ... Vanuatu's Coup... Plus: France ratifies SPNFZ Treaty protocols; PNG's guns-for-drugs trade on rise; Foreign ownership in the Cook Islands; New Caledonia's nickel rush; Festival of Arts unveils its treasures, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Health study on those who worked on the French nuclear test site, ... Nauru's new-new president; Samoa elects Tauese and Eni; Coconut oil up, copper, coffee down; Celebrating the Pacific, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Special Report: A region in mourning - Amata Kabua president of the Marshall Islands. PH211 - a tragedy: Polynesian Airline's fateful flight. Plus: Pauline Hanson's controversial and untempered remarks on racial issues,...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Special Report: Crime and punishment - PNG's crime situation. Plus: Redfern - its other face; Bourainville; SPC's golden year, but challenges lie ahead; The Dalai Lama in Australia, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: The passport business - Western Samoa's passport scandal. Special Report: MSG leaders seek solidarity for success. Plus: Solomon Islands: Looking back after 19 years of independence...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover stories: The Pacific is perhaps the largest Christian region outside Europe, ...State versus religion .. Mormons in Samoa, ... Special Report: The Forum. Conservation consensus: Fisheries conference surprises with agreement from all parties, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover stories: A Time of Change - Fiji and its constitution, .. Special Report: Mining giant spreads benefits - OK Tedi gold and copper mine and BHP. Solomons's worsening crisis, ..
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Bernadette Hussein. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Reality of paedophilia shocks island nation: Fiji. Plus: PNG looks north; Nauruans agree to be part of genome studies; Navigator Islands or Titanic Bay, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Bernadette Hussein. 56 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Massacre! Cyclone Martin's reign of death - Manihiki in the Cooks. Special Report: SPC becomes Pacific Community and hopes for a new start. Plus: Protest march earns a fat zero (Western Samoa); Chinese influx fuels Marshalls' debate, ...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Bernadette Hussain. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Drought in PNG Worsens. Other articles: Fiji dollar drops 20 per cent, US adoptions a major industry, Skate on thin ice (PNG), Leadership struggle on Tuvalu, Preserving sacred burial caves (Cook Islands), ... plus the regular features on Sports, Shipping, Finance, Yachting, Culture and Art.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Bernadette Hussain. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Tourism. Special Report: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (Apia), Samoa's changing finances. Other articles include: Bleak economic outlook continues for the Marshall Islands, Whatever happened to PH211? (Polynesian Airlines) plus the regular features on Sports, Shipping, Finance, Yachting, Culture and Art.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Professionalism: the future for Pacific Rugby. Special Report: Paradise in disarray, Inquiry slams Rarotongan Hotel deal. Other articles: Fine-tuning Samoa's fishing industry, Weather: Relief efforts continue in PNG, The Marshalls' drought of the century, Ups and downs of the Vatu, plus the regular monthly features.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Gambling: The new Pacific drug. Special Report: Bougainville Peace Treaty. Other articles: Pacific aviation vulnerable to attack, Continental cutbacks worry Marshalls, Sea Launch, we have lift off, .. plus the regular monthly features.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Pacific Meltdown, Log Industry in crisis, Marshalls Economy continues to slow, ... Special Report: Nuclear test atolls declared safe! Other articles: Black gold from Gobe, From China, with love, turns into Cooks nightmare, plus the regular monthly features.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Buniness survival skills, Will your business survive the 21st century bug? Thousands die in tidal wave terror (PNG), Kanaks will accept nothing less than Independence, A Cultural Revolution? (Melanesian Arts and Cultural Festival held in Honiara), plus many other articles.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: The South Pacific Killing Fields The Altape Tidal Wave - a first hand account. Other articles: War of words over PNG's economic bail-out, Community television to debut in Fiji, The 8th Va'a World Outrigger Championships, Vanuatu Independence, Focus on New Caledonia plus the regular monthly features.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: A Tight Ship: The challenges of regional shipping. Special Report: Sex, Lies and Videotape: The PNG dilemma. Other articles: Black days for pearl farming, tribal unrest predicted over Porgera gold mine, Cooks economy idle: another "unsustainable" budget, Guam marks US Centennial with new push for Chamorro self determination, home rule, ...plus the regular monthly features.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small chip at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Crisis contagion - IMF and World Bank annual meeting, PNG's debts still accumulating, the Cooks and economic reform. Special Report: Minister's sex scandal rocks Rarotonga. Other articles: Searching for peace in troubled East Timor, Forever at sea, the challenge of setting up sea burials, Gay Pacific Island men too shy for their own good, the ILO urges governments to recognise booming sex industry, Pacific Island juveniles face their crimes, ...plus the regular monthly features.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small hole at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Armed and Dangerous: Unlawful disorder, Fiji's growing security problem. Special Report: Global Warming: Changing climate and sea levels affect Pacific now. Other articles: Turning point in Australia/PNG relationship, APEC officials stumble over fisheries, Majuro's port booms tuna transhipment, Attacking fish poisoning with science, .....plus the regular monthly features.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers a little rubbed, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: If you can't beat 'em... merge them; Fair Trading Act, Section 49: Mergers, .. Special Report: Modern Day Gold Rush (Irian Jaya). Other articles: Hollywood comes to Fiji, Aloha awaits Pentagon approval for Marshalls' air service, Tsunami advance warning and preparation is very necessary, Volcanoes still active in Fiji, ... plus the regular monthly feature articles.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers a little rubbed, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: The fight for high seas control, Law of the Sea article, PNG gets tough on tuna. Special Report: Antarctic meltdown has Pacific implications. Business: "Wheel of Fortune" goes Hawaiian, "Get rich quick" schemes thrive in PNG. Politics: Bougainville accounts for two-thirds of Solomon Islands debt. Waitangi anniversary sees hope for racial harmony, plus the regular monthly articles.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: The end of an era, a new alternative for Fiji's voters. Special Report: Region must rethink maritime safety. EPIRBs save lives but not widespread in Pacific. Business: Marshalls sees pot of gold in Taiwan, Samoa drawn into IOC corruption debate, Kiribati countdown back on track. Aviation: Air Marshalls moving to acquire new planes, Aloha set for first north Pacific flight. Industry: Privatisation electrifies PNG, Work begins on Port Moresby waterfront complex, Gorbachev spokesman goes "tropo" in Hawaii, ... plus other regular monthly articles.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Crossing Fiji's racial divide: Can Chaudhry succeed where others have floundered? Special Report: Higher growth rates expected in the Pacific, Solomons restoring macro-economic stability, Economic recovery uncertain for Tonga, Concerns remain despite Vanuatu reforms. Business: FATERA will eventually replace SPARTECA, Iridium hits the PNG telecommunications market. Technology: Bridging the information gap. US accused of dragging its feet over obligations, America's Cup spin-offs for the Pacific, Fiji vessel to circumnavigate the globe, plus the regular monthly features.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Ethnic tensions in the Solomons; People fear for their lives. Special Report: Tarawa's main islet in appalling state, Seaweed earns money for tiny atoll nation (Kiribati), China sets up "spy" station on Bonriki. Business: Samoan economy soars, Gold prices plunge as kina devalues. Business: Free Trade Area endorsed. Other articles: British nuclear tests in the Pacific, Cook Islands king maker crows,. Yachting: Cruising the Hawaiian Isles...
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Catastrophic Insurance: A World Bank proposal to take on natural disasters. Special Report: A daunting task ahead for new PNG PM; Fiji, Vanuatu could be next diplomatic battleground. Business: Niue National airline to get off the ground. Fiji sugar to spend millions on research centre; Bikini's sharks and shipwrecks hit big-time. Developments: FEMM fatale: Pacific's unhappy affair with reform, Fragmented regional shipping could hinder FTA. Politics; Fragile peace for Solomons, ... plus regular monthly features.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Murder, intrigue and the death penalty, Samoan politics takes a new turn. Special Report: Living three feet above sea level, ADSIS workshop calls for adaptation, Vested interests fight change, but SPREP optimistic. Business: French Polynesia "as rich as New Zealand", Bank of Hawaii to acquire 5.8 million shares in Bank of Queensland, Marshall Islands to drop import tax? Ok Tedi damage 'greater than forecast'., Solomon Islands forest to be signed over for clear felling, US companies offer to trade cash for carbon in greenhouse gas war. Politics: Former Solomon police commander gets short end of stick. Development: Weeds threaten mighty PNG river - WWF report, Indonesian nickel company plans production in New Caledonia, plus the regular monthly articles.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: The Numbers Game, Time for small islands to level the playing field. Special Report: Now East Timor, next West Papua. Business: Southern Cross Cable to increase telecommunication capacity in the region, Marshallese canoe fleet to herald millennium dawn in New Zealand, New Britain could make history with innovative shell money bank, Taiwan plays major economic role in lead-up to Marshalls' elections. Industry: Hawaii - the new Hollywood, South Pacific Tourism Conference hopes to find ways to keep tourism sustainable. Development: The fastest personal computer ever - G4, Peace brings new crisis to Bougainville island, Lord of the Rings shooting begins, Australian Museum devotes gallery to Pacific art, plus the regular monthly features.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: WTO, EU and the Pacific: Why the Pacific is under pressure to set up a Free Trade Area. Special Report: Tony deBrum realigns Marshalls/ADB relations, Marshalls new-look fisheries agency. Business: Chinese vessel faces US$105,000 penalty, PNG rated world's 2nd largest producer of palm oil, Pitcairn looks forward to aviation, Sea Launch promises environmlental impact study, Johnston Atoll Chemical Disposal System to close. Developments: Fresh allegations in Rainbow Warrior saga, More work needed on Rights of the Child in PNG, .. plus the regular monthly features.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: A financial ruck and maul, smaller nations penalised by rugby's commercialisation. Special Report: Forum makes minor recovery from irrelevance. Business: Whales bring good fortune to Jonah's land, French propose ambitious satellite TV, Qantas profit increases 38 per cent, NZ makes it easier to retire in the tropics, The Internet: it's all about addressing demand. Politics: Health protests shake up Marshalls. Development: A 'read' letter day for Tonga's royals, .. plus the regular monthly articles.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Cover story: Lest we forget, A brutal past century for Nauruans, Banabans, Marshallese and Moriori. Special Report: Gordon had lasting effect in Fiji, Tabai still fighting for Kiribati, Tamasese made ultimate sacrifice for Samoa, DeRoburt helped change Nauru's destiny, Queen Salote pushed security at all costs. Business: Madison Nena to receive Seacology Prize, Highlands' high hopes (PNG), Pilot error suspected in Guam crash. Year 2000: Back to basics as Y2K approaches, Slow automation saves India from Y2K bug, . Politics: Pacific island countries criticise inaction over climate change, US annexation of Wake Island illegal. Development: World War II relics stolen amidst lax PNG enforcement. Economy: East Asia top growth amongst developing countries, .. plus the regular monthly articles.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 2000. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 2000. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.
60115 POHNPEI FRIENDS OF THE POHNPEI PUBLIC LIBRARY - 1988 CALENDAR
$10.00 AUD
Friends of the Pohnpei Public Library. Kolonia, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. 1987. 1st Ed. 24 PP with 12 b/w illustrations (Art Work of "World War II sites and events" by Ideia Sackryas). Soft cover, pictorial front. Fine. Oblong: 21.5 x 28.
74767 POIGNANT, Roslyn Myths and Legends of the SOUTH SEAS
$10.00 AUD
Paul Hamlyn / Sun Books. London / Melbourne. 1970. 1st edition in the All-colour paperbacks series. 160 PP with colour illustations by Meg Rutherford. Pictorial stiff covers. Name of previous owner at top of title page. Very good. 218 x 11. 060000130X
49944 POIGOUNE, Dan, BENSA, Alban, SALOMON, Christine, SAND, Christian, BROWN, Peter, ELEVEN APPROACHES TO CULTURE AND NATURE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
Cultural Affairs Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 2005. 1st English edition, with a foreword by Yves Corbel and an introduction by Hamid Mokaddem. 164 PP with 10 head pieces and 3 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 9820001129
5 parts: Culture - Health - Industry, Economy and the Environment - Urbanisation and Land - Expressions of Identity.
46628 POIRIER, Nicolas LES BALEINIERS FRANCAIS EN NOUVELLE-ZELANDE. Des ambitions coloniales de la Monarchie de Juillet dans le Pacifique
$75.00 AUD
Les Indes Savantes. Paris. 2003. 1st Ed. Preface by Jacques Weber. 172, (2) PP with 2 crests, 7 maps and many tables, plus 12 pages with 6 b/w and 13 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24 x 16. 2846540314
French whaling in the Pacific, and attempt to create a French settlement in New Zealand.
11858 POIRINE, Bernard LES PETITES ECONOMIES INSULAIRES: Théorie et Stratégies de Développement
$30.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 1995. 1st Ed. 280 PP, (2 contents pages), (4 adverts.) with tables, diagrams & graphs. Soft cover. French text. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 15.7. 273843343X
Theory and practice on the economies of small island territories or states (development, aid, etc..) Study of the French overseas departments and territories and the Pacific Islands.
48098 POLYNESIAN AIRLINES PACIFIC PANORAMA 10 : THE FRENCH CONNECTION
$10.00 AUD
Polynesian Airlines. Apia. 1989. No.10, Spring 1989. 58 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Contains articles between P.5 and 14 with 15 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.6
Issue featuring the French lifestyle in the Pacific. Published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.
54124 THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY - Volume 79, No. 2
$20.00 AUD
The Polynesian Society. Wellington. 1970. Vol. 79, No. 2, June 1970. 119-268 PP. Edited by Mervyn McLEAN. Soft cover. Fine. 24.2 x 15.2.
A Contact history of the Balade People of New Caledonia 1774-1845, by Bronwen Douglas.
75581 POMPONIO, Alice SEAGULLS DON'T FLY INTO THE BUSH: Cultural Identity and Development in Melanesia
$20.00 AUD
Wadsworth Publishing, Co. Belmont, Ca. 1992. 1st Ed., in the "Wadsworth Modern Anthropology Library" series. XXVI, (4), 242 PP with 9 tables and 22 b/w illustrations (including 6 maps, sketches and photos). Pictorial soft covers. Some underlining in text, and annotations in margins. Faint foxing on outside edges. Very good. 23.3 x 16.5. 0534162606
65496 PONIATOWSKI, Michel HISTOIRE DE LA RUSSIE D'AMERIQUE ET DE L'ALASKA
$20.00 AUD
Horizons de France. Paris. 1958. 1st Ed. Preface by Michel de Saint-Pierre. XVI, 363 PP with 1 location map and 4 maps, plus 10 pages with 14 b/w illustrations. Eps: Ville de St-Pierre et St-Paul au Kamchatka (Petropavlosk). Decorative cloth covers. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise near fine French text. 21.3 x 15.5.
13248 POOKONG, Kee (editor) ASIA-PACIFIC MIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA [in Asian and Pacific Migration Journal]
$10.00 AUD
Scalabrini Migration Center. Quezon City, Philippines. 1994. Special issue Volume 3, No. 2-3, 1994. Pages 199 to 529 with numerous tables in text. Soft cover. Near fine. 23 x 15.3.
Includes papers on: Asian immigrant settlement and adjustment in Australia - Roaming Yuppies: Hong Kong migration to Australia - Australia and Pacific Islander migration...
72507 PORTER, Captain David JOURNAL OF A CRUISE MADE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN by Captain David Porter, in the United States Frigate ESSEX in the Years 1812, 1813 and 1814 (Volume I)
$65.00 AUD
Gregg Press. Upper Saddle River, N.J. 1970. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1822. Volume I: (VI), LXXVI, 246 PP, plus 5 b/w plates: 3 folded (1 table, 2 maps "Gallapagos Islands") & 2 engravings (Galapagos Turtle & Coastal views Galapagos Islands). Decorated cloth cover. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 839815735
The frigate used the Galapagos Islands as a base during the war of 1812, between the United States and Great Britain. Chapter X: departure for Washington Island (Nuku Hiva), Marquesas Islands.
55165 PORTS PORT OF SEATTLE
$20.00 AUD
Public Information Department / Port of Seattle. Seattle. 1986 Clear plastic envelope containing 11 documents. 3 Information sheets (2 pages each): The Seattle Harbour, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, The Tax Levy. 4 folded flyers: The Port in short - In Out and about Sea-Tac International Airport - Pier 86 Grain Terminal - Jet Aircraft Noise and you. Facilities Handbook: A Directory of Port of Seattle facilities and Servoces, 92 PP with 1 plan at centrefold, 1 map and 17 b/w photos. Brochure Landing of Opportunity, 12 PP with 1 graph, 1 map and 28 colour photos. Tradelines Port of Seattle, U. S. A., issue for March / April 1985: 8 PP with b/w illustrations. Port of Seattle Annual Report 1984: 32 PP with colour illustrations (graphs, tables, photos). Near fine condition. Image shows the Facility Handbook. 28 x 21.5.
73926 POTTON, Craig THE STORY OF MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS MARITIME PARK
$20.00 AUD
Marlborough Sounds Maritime Park Board. Blenheim, NZ. c. 1985. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus a large colour map of the Park, with location map pasted down inside back cover. Pictorial stiff covers. Stamp of previous owner at top of title page, o/wise fine. 21 x 14.2. 0477061435
History and settlement: pages 126 to 157.
73961 POTTON, Craig FROM MOUNTAIN TO SEA - THE STORY OF WESTLAND NATIONAL PARK
$20.00 AUD
Department of Conservation. Wellington, NZ. 1991. 1st Ed. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus a large colour map of the Park (dated 1984) pasted down inside back cover. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.2. 0477061303
History: pages 124 to 155. .
73962 POTTON, Craig THE STORY OF NELSON LAKES NATIONAL PARK
$20.00 AUD
Department of Conservation. Wellington, NZ. 1988. 2nd edition of the 1983 original. 160 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus a large colour map of the Park (dated 1988) pasted down inside back cover. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 21 x 14.2. 0477061141
History: pages 84 to 101. .
75277 POYER, Lin THE NGATIK MASSACRE, History and Identity on a Micronesian Atoll
$15.00 AUD
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...
44085 PROUST DE LA GIRONIERE, Muriel LA FRANCE EN NOUVELLE-ZELANDE 1840-1846 - Un Vaudeville Colonial
$40.00 AUD
Editions du Gerfaut. Paris. 2002. 1st Ed. 302, (2) PP with 16 copies or facsimiles of documents and 14 b/w illustrations (2 plans, 6 maps...), plus 4 pages with 6 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 21.8 x 14.6. 2914622090
Attempt of French settlement at Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand.
60256 PULEA, Mere THE FAMILY, LAW AND POPULATION IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$15.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1986. 1st Ed. VIII, (2), 199 PP with 1 map, 51 tables, 1 poster and 17 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Rubbed patch on lower part of front cover, o/wise very good. 21 x 14.6.
69263 PUXLEY, W. L. STRAYED AMONG LONELY ISLANDS
$30.00 AUD
Williams & Norgate. London. 1949. 1st Ed. 176 PP, plus 6 pages with 6 b/w illustrations and the Fp: Photo of W. Lavallin Puxley. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket chipped and with small pieces missing. Very good. 18.5 x 12.5.
Travels and natural history in Australia, New Zealand and some remote islands. Mauritius, Kerguelen (in 1928), Kermadecs, Lord Howe, Galapagos.
71924 PUXLEY, W. Lavallin GREEN ISLANDS IN GLITTERING SEAS
$45.00 AUD
George Allen & Unwin Ltd. London. 1925. 1st Ed. 317, (2) PP, plus 17 plates with 31 b/w illustrations (1 painting and 30 photos). Fp: Duk-Duks (secret society of New Guinea). Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover ad spine. Front cover a little flecked. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 15.
Wanderings in the Pacific Islands.
60228 QUAMMEN, David THE NAME GIVER - Carl Linnaeus, Botanist: the Man who Named Plants (in National Geographic Magazine)
$5.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 2007. Volume 211, No. 6, June 2007. Contains articles between P. 72 and 87 with 3 b/w illustrations (1 portrait & 2 facsimiles), and 13 colour photographs by Helene Schmitz. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
Swedish botanist who treasured nature and gave a system for naming species.
43804 QUANCHI, Max JACARANDA ATLAS OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$25.00 AUD
Jacaranda / John Wiley & Sons Australia. Brisbane. 2003. 1st Ed. IV, 156 PP with colour illustrations (maps and photos). FEP: Map of the world. REP: The language of maps. Pictorial soft cover. Folded flyer loosely inserted. Fine. 30 x 23.5. 9780701636623
Up-to-date and accurate coverage of the Pacific Islands.
61585 QUANCHI, Max TEACHING PACIFIC HISTORY - An occasional Newsletter for Teachers of Pacific History, Volume 2, No. 2
$5.00 AUD
Pacific History Association. Brisbane. 1990. Vol. 2, No. 2, November 1990. No pagination, 12 PP. Soft cover, illustrated front, staples. Fine. 21 x 15.
11967 QUANCHI, Max & ADAMS, Ron (editors) CULTURE CONTACT IN THE PACIFIC, Essays on Contact, Encounter & Response
$15.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1993. 1st Ed. XIV, 186 PP with b/w illust. incl. maps. Pict. soft cover. Signature on half-title page, o/wise near fine. 24.6 x 17.4. 9780521422840
Pacific society: pre-European, their European discovery, relations between islanders & Europeans, colonialism to independence, ...
45445 QUANCHI, Max & McCALL, Grant (editors) TEACHERS, TEACHING AND HISTORY
$15.00 AUD
Teaching The Pacific Forum / Sasakawa Pacific Island Nations Fund Project. Brisbane. 1996. 1st Ed. (4), 59, (1) PP with tables and 11 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.5.
Papers from the TTPF Hilo Workshop 8-13 July 1996.Fiji, Tonga, Palau, Nauru...
66430 QUANCHI, Max & SHEKLETON, Max POSTCARDS FROM OCEANIA: Port Towns, Portraits and the Picturesque during the Colonial Era
$75.00 AUD
University of the South Pacific Press. Suva. 2015. 1st Ed. 202 PP with b/w or colour illustrations of 221 postcards. Pictorial soft cover. Note on title page signed by the authors. New. 25 x 17.5. 9789820109414
51561 QUANCHI, Max, & SO'O, Asofou (editors) TEACHING HISTORY - A Guide for Teachers Teaching History for the First Time
$10.00 AUD
The Council of Presidents of Pacific Island History Associations (History COPs). Brisbane. 2003. 1st Ed. 20 PP with 6 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.7.
37019 QUANTIN, Paul Archipel des Nouvelles-Hebrides, ATLAS DES SOLS et de quelques données du Milieu Naturel / New Hebrides Archipelago, ATLAS OF SOILS and of Natural Environment data
$240.00 AUD
ORSTOM (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer). Paris. 1972 to 1978. 1st Ed. 7 booklets for a total of 259 PP, plus 18 large folded maps in colour, and a 30 pages explanatory booklet, contained in a decorated box. Fine. Except for the bilingual (French/English) explicative booklet, text is in French. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 47.5 x 37. 270990263X
Atlas of Vanuatu: Natural environment, pedogenesis, land use - Soils.
Collins. London. 1972. 1st Ed. in the International Library series. 127 PP with 62 b/w and 120 colour photos. Eps: Mappemonde. Pictorial laminated boards. Sellotape marks on endpapers which are also rubbed in parts. Contents clean and otherwise a very good copy. 26 x 18.5. 001001698
Techniques for survival... The primitive soul. Authority and the community...
33172 RABLING, Harold THE STORY OF THE PACIFIC - Explorers of the Earth's Mightiest Ocean
$15.00 AUD
W. W. Norton. New York. 1965. 1st Ed. 192 PP with 2 maps and 40 b/w illust. Title spread: Model of a fifteenth-century caravel with Lateen sails. Decorated cloth cover, dj (price clipped and a little rubbed). Still a near fine copy. 20.8 x 14.
33173 RABLING, Harold PIONEERS OF THE PACIFIC - The Story of the South Seas
$10.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1966. 1st Australian edition, of the 1965 US original The Story of the Pacific - Explorers of the Earth Mightiest Ocean. 147 PP with 2 maps and 23 b/w illust. Title spread: The Resolution and the Discovery at anchor in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. Decorated hard cover, dj. Near fine. 22.2 x 14.
57918 RABLING, Harold PIONEERS OF THE PACIFIC - The Story of the South Seas
$5.00 AUD
Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1966. 1st Australian edition, of the 1965 US original The Story of the Pacific - Explorers of the Earth Mightiest Ocean. 147 PP with 2 maps and 23 b/w illust. Title spread: The Resolution and the Discovery at anchor in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii. Decorated hard cover, dj (price clipped). Ex library copy with stamps on front endpaper and title page. Sellotape marks on endpapers. Very good reading copy. 22.2 x 14.
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.
73277 RAY, Sidney Herbert COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE MELANESIAN ISLAND LANGUAGES
$100.00 AUD
The University Press & Melbourne University Press. Cambridge. 1926. 1st Ed. XVI, 598 PP with tables, plus 6 plates with maps of (New Caledonia, New Hebrides & Solomon Islands). Green cloth covers, gilt title on spine. Minute insect damage (small holes), on covers near spine and corresponding endpapers, the 6 first and 20 last leaves. Signature of previous owner at top of front endpaper. Otherwise, contents clean and near fine. Scarce. 24.5 x 17.
40483 REED, A. H. THE STORY OF NEW ZEALAND
$25.00 AUD
A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1950. 5th edition limited to 2000 copies of the 1945 original. 528 PP with 14 maps, 122 b/w illustrations and 31 crossword exercises. FEP: Map of North Island. REP: Map of South Island. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Dust jacket chipped and foxed. Faint foxing spots on outside edges and few pages, o/wise near fine. 22.3 x 14.52.
65733 REED, A. H. THE STORY OF HAWKE'S BAY
$45.00 AUD
A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1958. October 1958 edition, with a foreword by the Right Hon. Walter Nash, Prime Minister of New Zealand. 312 PP, plus 24 pages with 79 b/w illustrations. FEP: Napier in the earlier Seventies (1870). REP: Map and sketch plan of Hawke's Bay. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket chipped at head and foot of spine. Signed by the author on title page. Card "With Greetings", signed by the author, loosely inserted. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22.3 x 14.5.
45435 REED, A. W. WONDER TALES OF MAORILAND
$10.00 AUD
A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1973. Reprint of the 1964 original. (6), 122 PP with 15 head pieces, 6 tail pieces and 56 drawings (illustrations by A. S. Paterson). Hard cover, dj. Dust jacket with a closed tear and a small chip. Near fine. 25.4 x 19.5.
Book complete but a misbound copy with pages 75 to 90 twice present.
58505 REED, A. W. THE STORY OF THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Reed Education. Wellington. 1972. 1st Ed. 24 PP with line drawings by Conrad Frieboe. Illustrated soft cover. Faint foxing. Signature of previous owner on title-page, o/wise very good. 24.8 x 18.5. 0589043889
58544 REED, A. W. THE COOK ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1970. 1st Ed., in the Reeds Pacific Social Studies Readers series. 16 PP with line drawings by E. H. Papps. Illustrated soft cover. Faint foxing. Signature of previous owner on title-page, o/wise very good. 24.8 x 18.5. 0589044486
58258 RENFREW, Colin & BAHN, Paul ARCHAEOLOGY, Theories, Methods, and Practice
$20.00 AUD
Thames and Hudson. London. 1997. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1996 (original of 1991). 608 PP with over 550 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 18.7. 0500276879
47383 RENSEL, Jan, & RODMAN, Margaret (editors) HOME IN THE ISLANDS: Housing and Social Change in the Pacific
$15.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 1997. 1st Ed. VII, 264 PP with 7 tables and 39 figures (maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0824819349
Housing: Rotuma Island... Papua New Guinea... New Zealand... Hawaii.
40028 REYNELL BELLAMY, R. THE REAL SOUTH SEAS
$30.00 AUD
John Long Limited. London. 1933. 1st Ed. 253 PP, plus 1 folded map of "Oceania", 2 maps of "New Guinea and neighbouring groups" & "New Caledonia & Loyalty Islands" and 32 pages with 40 b/w photos. Fp: New Caledonian fishermen with tomahawks and fish spears and some of the catch. Cloth cover, gilt device (coconut tree) on front cover, gilt title on spine. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.
Experiences after a four years' sojourn.
51739 RICHARDS, Rhys WHICH PAKEHA ATE THE LAST MOA
$25.00 AUD
The Paremata Press. Paremata, NZ. 1986. 1st edition, limited to 250 copies. 48 PP with 11 drawings (from Duff, 1951) at the centrefold, and 5 b/w photos. Soft cover, staples, dj. Near fine. 21 x 14.7.
51757 RICHARDS, Rhys WHALE TEETH ARTEFACTS IN THE WESTERN SOLOMON ISLANDS (in Tuhinga)
$15.00 AUD
Te Papa Museum of New Zealand. Wellington. 2006. Extract from Tuhinga (Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) No. 17. Pages 69 to 79 with 1 map and 8 colour photos. Plastic covers, clear plastic front, spiral bound. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
66268 RICHARDS, Rhys CAPTAIN CHARLES BAYLEY: Whaling Master 1813-1857
$20.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2014. 1st Ed. No. 65 in the Roebuck series. VI, 54 PP with 5 tables, 5 b/w illustrations (1 portrait, 2 paintings, 2 maps with insets and 4 photos) and colour illustrations (1 graph, 2 photos and 6 paintings). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 9780992366025
75110 RICHARDS, Rhys SAMOA'S FORGOTTEN WHALING HERITAGE - American Whaling in Samoan Waters 1824-1878
$125.00 AUD
Lithographic Services Ltd. Wellington. 1992. 1st Ed. XI, 208 PP with b/w illustrations (sketches, diagrams, paintings, photos). Pictorial stiff cover with light wear and a short tear and rub at foot of spine. Contents near fine. Scarce. 29.8 x 20.7. 0473016079
Reminiscences and souvenirs of Samoa, through logbooks of whaling ships. History of the Samoa Islands.
56109 RICHARDS, Rhys and Margaret PACIFIC ARTIFACTS BROUGHT HOME BY AMERICAN WHALEMEN
$50.00 AUD
Paremeta Press. Paremata, NZ. 2000. 1st Ed. Preface by Michael A. Jehle. (2), 65 PP with 2 maps and tables. Soft cover. Note to previous owner, Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) signed by Rhys Richards, tipped in on half title page. Fine. 25.5 x 17.5. 0473073773
A report by Rhys and Margaret Richards for the New Bedford Whaling Museum, October 2000.
51742 RICHARDS, Rhys, & ROGA, Kenneth NOT QUITE EXTINCT. Melanesian barkcloth ('tapa') from western Solomon Islands
$40.00 AUD
The Paremata Press. Paremata, NZ. 2005. Revised 1st edition limited to 500 copies. 100 PP with 2 maps, over 50 b/w or colour illustrations of tapa motifs, 14 b/w and 19 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 26 x 20. 0958201323
57816 RIDGELL, Reilly PACIFIC NATIONS AND TERRITORIES. The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia
$30.00 AUD
Bess Press, Inc. / Pacific Region Educational Laboratory. Honolulu. 1988. 2nd edition, revised from the 1982 original. VI, 170 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps and 101 photos). Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 28.5 x 22.2. 0935848509
49562 RIGBY, Nigel , Van Der MERWE, Pieter, & WILLIAMS Glyn PIONEERS OF THE PACIFIC. Voyages of Exploration, 1787-1810
$15.00 AUD
University of Western Australia Press. Perth. 2005. 1st Australian edition. 144 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (charts & maps, drawings & engravings, paintings & photos). Half title page (in colour): Bay on the South coast of Australia, by William Westall. Title spread: Entrance of Rio de Janeiro. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.3. 1920694641
Chapter 1: In the Wake of Cook. Chapter 2: Gentleman, Scholar and Seaman: Arthur Phillip and Australia. Chapter 3: The Spirit of Discovery: the tragic voyage of Laperouse... Chapter 5: Lost voyage of Alejandro Malaspina... Chapter 7: Matthew Flinders' circumnavigation of Australia.
71324 ROBERT, Derek LOOK AT ME NOW - A Sailor in the South Pacific
$30.00 AUD
Travel Book Club. London. 1964. Reprint (2nd Impression) of the 1963 original. (8), 198 PP. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing spots on outside edges and on page margins mostly, o/wise a very good clean copy. 22 x 14.5.
While sailing the Pacific on a British Phosphate Commission ship, then on a passenger ship, the author, an English Merchant Navy officer, visited Nauru, PNG, Fiji, Tahiti, New Caledonia... He finally settled at Bellbird, Victoria.
51364 ROBERT, Willem C. H. CONTRIBUTIONS TO A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS (3 Volumes)
$250.00 AUD
Philo Press. Amsterdam. 1969 - 1972. Volume I (2nd edition, revised and enlarged): X, 275 PP. Volume II (1st Ed.): XII, 227 PP, plus large folded chart of Malay Archipelago and Australia at rear of book. Volume III (2nd edition, entirely revised and greatly enlarged): X, 401 PP, (2 adv.). Blue cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Ex library copy with stamp of the General Assembly Library - New Zealand in blind on front cover, gilt library number on spine, plate of the Library on front endpaper and empty library pocket on rear endpaper. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 23 x 15.5.. 9060220455, 906
Massive work compiled by Willem Carel Hendrik Robert. Volume I: Printed Material relating to Discovery, Exploration and Travel issued in the Netherlands to 1921. Volume II: Index and Bibliography of Dutch Manuscripts and Manuscript-charts relating to the Discovery. Volume III: Printed Material relating to Discovery, Exploration and Travel, issued in Europe, except the Netherlands, to 1853 with a geographical index and an index of ships cited.
45846 ROBERTS, Stephen H. HISTORY OF FRENCH COLONIAL POLICY (1870-1925) (in two volumes)
$70.00 AUD
P. S. King & Son. London. 1929. 1st Ed. Monograph No. 95 in the Studies in Economics and Political Science series. Volume I: XVI, 374 PP with 9 maps and diagrams, plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Map of the French Empire. Volume II: VIII, 375-741, (9 adv.) PP with 8 maps, plus 1 folded map. Hard cover, gilt title on spine. Ex Library copies with stamps on both endpapers and on title page of each volume. Shelf number on spine. Covers of both volumes lightly soiled and with sunned spine. Some foxing, o/wise very good. Scarce. 25.3 x 16.
75191 ROBERTSON, Dougal SURVIVE THE SAVAGE SEA
$20.00 AUD
Praeger Publishers. New York. 1973. 1st US edition. 269 PP with 13 b/w photos & 33 drawings by Pam Littlewood. Eps: Colour map of the Central Eastern Pacific with routes of the yacht "Lucette" and the raft. Cloth covers, devices and title on spine. Name of previous owner at top of half title page. Very good. 21.3 x 14. 0236154613
The ordeal following the ramming / sinking of the schooner Lucette by killer whales on 15 June 1972. Rescued after 37 days adrift.
75258 ROBIE, David EYES OF FIRE - The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior
$100.00 AUD
Little Island Press / AUT University. Auckland. 2015. 5th edition. Preface by Bunny McDiarmid and foreword by Walter Hadye Lini. XII, 194, (4) PP with 15 colour and 50 b/w photos, 3 maps, 3 cartoons (1 in colour). Fp (in colour): Rainbow Warrior on the morning after the bombing. Pictorial soft covers. Newsletter of "Earth Island Journal" losely inserted. Dedicatory note on half title page, dated and signed by David Robie. Fine. Oblong: 17.7 x 22.7. 9781877484285
30th Anniversary Edition. From Spain, through the Marshall Islands to bombing (16/07/1985) then final resting place in New Zealand.
46682 ROBILLARD, Albert B. (editor) SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$15.00 AUD
Kegan Paul International. London. 1992. 1st Ed. XVI, 507 PP with maps and tables. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.6. 07103 04005
New Caledonia: Social Change, Political Change and Tradition in a Settler Colony, by John Connell... French Polynesia: A nuclear Dependency, by Ben Finney...
11544 ROBINSON, David (editor) THE PACIFIC VISION
$20.00 AUD
University of Guam Gallery of Art. Guam. 1971. 1st Ed., No.3 in the Micronesian Working Papers series. No pagination, 16 PP with 22 b/w illust. by: Sainson, A.W. Denis, Danvin, J. Wedgebrough, E. Paris... Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 26.5 x 21.5.
Catalogue of an exhibition on the way in which Micronesia was presented to 18th and 19th Century European and American audiences.
52991 ROBINSON, Kathryn, GUINNESS, Patrick & PENNELL, Emma (editors) THE ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY - Vol. 6, No. 1
$15.00 AUD
ANU / Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Canberra. 2005. Vol. 6, No. 1, April 2005. (2), 98, (4) PP with 2 maps, 2 b/w photos and 3 tables. Soft cover. Fine. 24.8 x 17.5.
Frontiers, Sovereignty, and martial tactics: Borneo, Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore growth triangle, by Matthew Amster and Johan Lindquist. Autonomy, Identity and illegal logging West Kalimatan, by Reed L. Wadley and Michael Eilenberg... Literal meanings: the case of Mekeo Sorcery (Papua New Guinea), by Mark Mosoko.
60195 ROBINSON, Kenneth THE DILEMMAS OF TRUSTEESHIP. Aspects of British Colonial Policy between the wars
$10.00 AUD
Oxford University Press. London. 1965. 1st Ed. Preface by Watson Kirkconnell. VIII, 95 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Some underlining of text and scoring in margins, o/wise very good. 20.3 x 13.5.
39825 ROBSON, R.W. & TUDOR, Judy (Editors) PACIFIC ISLANDS YEAR BOOK AND WHO'S WHO
$15.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1963. 9th edition. 496, (2), 156, (LXXII, XLVIII & 12 adverts.) PP with tables and maps, plus 5 folded maps (Pacific Ocean, Hawaii Islands, French Oceania, the Bismarck Archipelago and Territory of Papua New Guinea). Fp: The Wealth-Producer of the Pacific Islands: The Coconut Palm and what it gives to mankind. Cloth cover, dj (repaired). Spine of dust jacket sunned, foxing spots on outside edges, short notes on front endpaper. Very good. 21.7 x 14.
39824 ROBSON, R.W. (Editor) PACIFIC ISLANDS YEAR BOOK
$15.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1959. 8th edition. 479, (LXXX & 4 adverts.) PP with tables and maps, plus 5 folded maps (Pacific Ocean, Hawaii Islands, French Oceania, the Bismarck Archipelago and Territory of Papua New Guinea). Fp: The Wealth-Producer of the Pacific Islands: The Coconut Palm and what it gives to mankind. Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 14.2.
48894 RODGERS, Richard, HAMMERSTEIN, Oscar & LOGAN, Joshua MARY MARTIN in the Musical Play SOUTH PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
Theatre Royal. London. c. 1950. 1st Ed., adapted from James Mitchener's Tales of the South Pacific. 20 PP with 33 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers. Small crease on lower corners, o/wise fine. 27 x 20.7.
Produced by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, Leland Hayward & Joshua Logan. Music by Richard Rodgers...
72558 ROE, Michael (editor) THE JOURNAL & LETTERS OF CAPTAIN CHARLES BISHOP on the North-West Coast of America, in the Pacific & in New South Wales 1794-1799
$25.00 AUD
Hakluyt Society. Cambridge. 1967. 1st edition in the Second Series, No. CXXXI. LVI, 341 PP, plus 6 b/w plates: frontispiece and 5 maps (2 of them folded). Fp: A page of Bishop's Memoranda on ship Nautilus. Cloth cover, gilt device "Victoria" on front cover, gilt title on a lightly sunned spine.. Near fine. 22 x 14.5.
18098 ROEDELBERGER, F. A. & GROSCHOFF, Vera I. WILD LIFE OF THE SOUTH SEAS
$20.00 AUD
Constable. London. 1967. 1st English edition translated from the German original edition (switzerland) "Fauna Ferner Inselm / Faune des Iles" by Peter J. Whitehead. 216 PP with 1 map on double page and 225 b/w photos, plus 24 pages with 25 colour photos. Cloth cover, gilt device engraved on front, dj. Back cover of dust jacket with piece missing at top. Very good. 24.5 x 22.
250 photographs illustrating the animal life of the Indo-Pacific, Indonesia, Australia, Oceania and Galapagos.
53822 ROEDERER, Patrice (editor) 20 000 LIEUES SUR LES MERS - LA MARINE ORSTOM
$25.00 AUD
ORSTOM / Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération. Paris. 1998. 1st Ed. 120, (4) PP with 1 plan, 2 facsimile of documents and 46 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 16.
Oceanographic Research Vessels in the employ of the Orstom, a research institute working in tropical waters of overseas French Territories or former Colonies. Oceans: Atlantic, Indian and Pacific. Inland: Lake Chad in central Africa.
46972 ROGERS, Captain Woodes A CRUISING VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope
$100.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. Facsimile of the 1712 original. No. 63 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. XXII, 428, 56 appendix, (14 alphabetical index) pp, plus 5 folded maps. Fp: A map of the world with the ships "DUKE" and "DUTCHESS" tracks round it from 1708 to 1711. Simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine), glassine protection. Foxing spots on outside edges, otherwise a fine copy. 22 x 14.5. 9060720059
The 1708-1711 expedition of the "Duke" and "Dutchess" led by Captain Rogers. Cape Horn, plundering the "Spanish" west coast of America, call at Juan Fernandez Island (Robinson Crusoe) and account on Alexander Selkirk's sojourn...
47908 ROSE, Ronald INOKE SAILS THE SOUTH SEAS
$20.00 AUD
Collins. London. 1966. 1st Ed. no pagination, 48 PP with 57 colour photos. Pictorial boards, dj. Dust jacket lightly soiled and with closed tears, o/wise near fine. 29.4 x 21.5.
Juvenile story set on Naviti island, Fiji.
57115 ROSE, Samantha, QUANCHI, Max & MOORE, Clive A NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR THE STUDY OF THE PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD
AAAPS / Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies. Brisbane. 2009. 1st Ed. XIV, 203 PP with 3 maps, 6 graphs, 6 tables, 8 b/w and 6 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 9780646515717
73410 ROSENKILDE NIELSEN, Bent DANSKE PIONERER PAA STILLEHAVET - Den Danske Somandspioner tilegnet
$150.00 AUD
C. A. Reitzels Forlag. Kobenhavn. 1944. 1st edition of April 1944. 142, (2 publications) PP, plus 32 plates with 42 b/w photos. Quarter bound, marbled boards. Sprinkled outside edges. Ageing of paper (war economy paper). Near fine. Rare. Danish text. 24 x 17.5.
49481 ROSS, J.O'C. THIS STERN COAST. The Story of the Charting of the New Zealand Coast
$30.00 AUD
Reed. Wellington. 1969. 1st Ed. 277 PP with 69 b/w illustrations (paintings, charts, photos ..). Hard cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22 x 14.8.
The sea surveyors of New Zealand's coastline and coastal waters, from Tasman and Cook to the Royal New Zealand Navy men of the present day.
53468 ROSS, Ken REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC: The Quarter-Century 1970-1995
$20.00 AUD
Strategic & Defence Studies Centre/RSPS/ANU. Canberra. 1993. 1st Ed. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 100. (10), 206 PP with 1 map. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 14.5. 0731515978
Chapter 8: Regional cooperation. Chapter 9: Papua New Guinea. Chapter 10: Fiji. Chapter 11: New Caledonia. Chapter 12 Vanuatu. Chapter 13: the Quiet States.
73938 ROTH, Hal TWO ON A BIG OCEAN - The story of the first circumnavigation of the Pacific basin in a small sailing ship
$15.00 AUD
The Macmillan Company. New York. 1972. 1st printing. (14), 288 PP with 8 maps and 48 b/w photos. Fp: The 35-foot sailboat "Whisper". Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean with the track of "Whisper". Cloth covers, silver lettering title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Dust jacket with small chip at head of spine and in a protecctive sleeve. Foxing spots on outside edges. Still a near fine copy. 24 x 16.
19 months (1968-1969) circumnavigation from San Francisco to Tahiti, Cook Islands, Samoa, Gilbert & Ellice... Japan, Alaska and Canada.
52865 ROUCHEUX, Nicole & TETOKA, Floriane PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1978-1979
$10.00 AUD
Author. Auckland. 1978. 1st Ed. Preface by R. D. Muldoon, Prime Minister of New Zealand. 224 PP with advertisements, and 23 maps & plans. Soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. 19.8 x 13.
6 countries : New Caledonia, Fiji, New Hebrides, Sydney, New Zealand and Tahiti, in 1 book.
73327 ROUX, Jean-Claude & SHEKLETON, Max (editors) Les Souvenirs du Colon EDMOND CAILLARD aux Nouvelles-Hébrides (Vanuatu) 1903 1913 - Une Jeunesse aux colonies d'antan
$55.00 AUD
L'Harmattan. Paris. 2016. 1st edition, No. 35 in "Collection Portes Oceanes". 337, (11) PP with 2 maps of the New Hebrides and Ambrim Island and 37 b/w photos. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Fine. French text. 23.7 x 15.2. 9782343104300
Life of French white settler in Vanuatu 1903 to 1913.
64952 ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND - JOURNAL - Vol. IV, No. 4
$25.00 AUD
The Historical Society of Queensland (Inc.). Brisbane. 1951. Journal Vol. IV, No. 4, December 1951. Foreword by G. Greenwood. 447-590 PP with 2 b/w plates. Soft covers, browning around edges and spine. Ageing of paper, o/wise near fine. 21.4 x 13.7.
8 papers read to the Society in 1951 "The Jubilee Year" (Second half-century of Australia existence) by: Allan A. Morrison, Clem Lack, Glenville Pike, C.G. Austin, Arthur Laurie... Image shows list of all contents.
14886 RUBY, Robert H. & BROWN, John A. MYRON EELS AND THE PUGET SOUND INDIANS
$10.00 AUD
Superior Publishing. Seattle. 1976. 1st Ed. 122 PP, 1 map, 4 PP Index with b/w & colour illust. Fp: Portrait Rev. Myron Eels. Hard cover, gilt title on spine & front cover, dj. Very good. 27.2 x 27. 087564337X
A pictorial record of the implements, tools, weapons of the Indians of Puget Sound in Washington State in the late 19th century.
17107 RUHEN, Olaf OPENING THE OCEANS
$15.00 AUD
Nautical Press. Sydney. 1987? 1st Ed. 189 PP, plus 31 pages of prints and 1 folded chart of the voyages of Captain Cook in pocket at rear of book. Hard cover, dj. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Very good. 26.8 x 19.5. 0949756067
Study of exploration of the Pacific: Anson, Wallis & Carteret, Cook, followed by the French, Spanish, Russians, Americans...
49428 RUHEN, Olaf OPENING THE OCEANS
$10.00 AUD
Nautical Press. Sydney. 1987? 1st Ed. 189 PP, plus 31 pages of prints and 1 folded chart of the voyages of Captain Cook in pocket at rear of book. Hard cover. Dust jacket tipped in on endpapers. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Near fine. 26.8 x 19.5. 0949756067
Study of exploration of the Pacific: Anson, Wallis & Carteret, Cook, followed by the French, Spanish, Russians, Americans...
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
55397 RUNDALL, Charlotte, TYRRELL, Nichola et al. (editors) AMONG THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC.
$10.00 AUD
Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1997. 1st Australian edition of the 1996 original, in the Reader's Digest Travels & Adventures series. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. 28.6 x 21.5. 0864490364
Part 1: The Islands of Paradise, an evocation. Part 2: The South Seas Dream, an adventure, by John Dyson (condensed from his The South Seas Dream).
58971 RUSSIER, Henri LE PARTAGE DE L'OCEANIE
$300.00 AUD
Vuibert et Nony, Editeurs Paris. 1905. 1st Ed. XII, 394 PP with 2 diagrams, 11 maps, 23 tables and 93 b/w photos, plus 1 large folde map "Carte de l'Océanie" at rear of book. Errata slip between pages X & XI. Quarter bound, marbled boards, gilt title on spine. French text. Near fine. 25.7 x 17
Thesis of 1904: University of Lyon.
58539 RUTHERFORD, Danilyn RAIDING THE LAND OF THE FOREIGNERS
$25.00 AUD
Princeton University Press. Princeton, NJ. 2003. 1st paperback edition. XXII, (2), 296 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps and 9 photos). Fp: Papuan and Chinese children. Pictorial soft cover. Signatures of previous owners on half title page and title page, o/wise fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0691095914
The limits of the Nation on an Indonesian frontier (the island of Biak off the coast of Western New Guinea).
57411 RYMAN, Anders NAVIGATING BY NATURE IN MICRONESIA (in Boat International - Issue 116, February 1996)
$20.00 AUD
Boat International. Kingston Upon Thames. 1996. 113, (47 advertisements) PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Contains article pages 56 to 63 with 2 maps and 18 photos. Pictorial dsoft cover. Fine. 30 x 22.5.
Sailing the "Yapese Empire", with Mau Piailug.
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...
50542 SAILING DIRECTIONS / INSTRUCTIONS NAUTIQUES INSTRUCTIONS NAUTIQUES. ILES DE L'OCEAN PACIFIQUE A L'OUEST DU MERIDIEN 170° E - 1er Volume
$25.00 AUD
Imprimerie Nationale/Service Hydrographique de la Marine. Paris. 1971. 1st Ed. Série K, Volume VIII, with a foreword by R. Grousson. XXII, 304 PP with tables and b/w figures (13 coastal views, 5 figures, 2 port plans and 8 plates with 12 charts), plus 4 folded maps. Correction No. 1, 1973 (13 with 1 port plan) loosely inserted. Hard cover. Covers lightly soiled. French text. Very good. 27.6 x 19.5.
Sailing directions for: New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Carolines, Marianas.
58970 SAINT-YVES, G. L'OCEANIE
$300.00 AUD
Maison Alfred Mame et Fils. Tours. No date, circa 1895. 1st Ed. 398, (2) PP with 6 maps (2 of them: Océanie & Australasie, on full page) and 74 b/w illustrations (16 on full page). Fp: Cascade de Barron, dans le Queensland. Cloth cover, colour illustration on front board, gilt title and decorations on front board and spine. All edges gilt. Inside top of spine perhaps a little loose, o/wise a fine copy. Scarce. French text. 30 x 21.5.
Australia: Pages 7 to 146. Dutch East Indies: Pages 147 to 204. Philippines, Carolines & Marianas. ... Hawaii: Pages 356 to 369. New Zealand: Pages 370 to 394.
36634 SANZ, Carlos BIBLIOGRAFIA PRINCIPAL DE LOS DESCUBRIMIENTOS AUSTRALES (in Publicaciones de la Real Sociedad Geografica)
$20.00 AUD
Real Sociedad Geografica. Madrid. 1967. Issue No. 472, Serie B. 24 PP with 1 illustration (facsimile of Le Continent Austral by Armand Rainaud). Soft cover. Fine. Spanish text. 24.5 x 17.
Essential biography on the discovery of the Great South Land.
52960 SARKOZY, Nicolas DISCOURS aux Parlementaires de la Majorité - Palais de l'Elysée 20 Juin 2007
$20.00 AUD
Palais de l'Elysée. Paris. 2007. 1st Ed. 66 PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 21 x 14.8.
President of France to the Members of Parliament.
45998 SARMENTO RODRIGUES, Commodore M. M. (editor) ENQUETE SUR L' ANTICOLONIALISME - INQUIRY ON ANTI-COLONIALISM
$30.00 AUD
Ministerio do Ultramar. Lisbon. 1957. 1st Ed. Volume II in Estudios de Ciencias Politicas e Sociais. 394 PP. Soft cover (foxing spots). Pages uncut. Very good. Texts in English, French and Spanish. 25.7 x 19.5.
12 papers: 1 in Spanish, 3 in French and 8 in English. Developments towards self-government in dependent territories of the United States, by Professor Henry Wells. Self-government movements in Australia and New Zealand in the nineteenth century, by Professor C. H. Currey. The South Pacific and Australia, by Professor A. P. Elkin.
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.
59207 SASAKAWA SPINF - The Sasakawa Pacific Islands Nations Fund
$10.00 AUD
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Tokyo. c. 2003. Folded poster (2 folds). Top half: map of the Pacific Islands. Lower half with information on 22 Islands States or Territories, with their flag in colour, and 7 b/w or colour photos with comments from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Poster size: 62 x 44. Folded size: 31 x 22.
Nations or territories: 7 for Micronesia, 5 for Melanesia and 10 for Polynesia.
40684 SCARR, Deryck (editor) MORE PACIFIC ISLANDS PORTRAITS
$15.00 AUD
A. N. U. Canberra. 1979 1st Australian edition. XII, 298 PP with 7 maps. Eps: Map of the Pacific. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. Ex library copy with stamp on title page and its verso, pocket on half title page, number on spine of dust jacket, and sellotape marks on endpapers. Internally clean and a very good reading copy. 21.7 x 14. 0708118011
Stories of colourful characters, islanders or expatriates: Naisseline of Maré, Bouarate of Hienghène, Robert Louis Stevenson & Samoa, Hipour & the Star Path Navigators...
73440 SCHMIT, Claude (editor) UTA, Une Belle Histoire
$125.00 AUD
UTA / Union des Transports Aériens. Paris. c. 1980. 1st Edition. Foreword by Francis C. Fabre, Chairman. (2), 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with wear around edges and extremities of spine. Contents near fine. French text. 29.5 x 21.
History of this French airline, linking France to Africa since 1935 and Oceania as of 1st January 1956 with flights from Paris - Saigon - Port Darwin - Noumea ... Then to Auckland, New Zealand a year later ...
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.
47878 SCHWARTZ, Susanna 24 HOURS IN AUCKLAND. A quick city guide (in SilverKris)
$10.00 AUD
Singapore Airlines. Singapore. 2004. Issue for April 2004. 104 PP. Contains article from P.28 to 30 with 1 plan and 4 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. 27.6 x 21.2.
49609 SCOFIELD, John NEW GUINEA (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1962. Volume 121, No.5, May, 1962. Contains article between P.583 and 637 with 5 maps and 64 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.2 x 17.5.
Dutch New Guinea & Australian New Guinea.
71464 SCOTT, Ernest LAPEROUSE
$40.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1912. 1st edition. 104 PP with 1 b/w illustration "Lapérouse Coat of Arms", plus 1 folded chart of La Pérouse voyage and 12 plates. Fp: portrait of La Pérouse. Card cover, dj tipped in by the spine. Spine worn and split at hinges. Internally very good. 18 x 15.3.
Life of La Pérouse prior to his expedition, voyage of discovery in the Pacific, disappearance.
Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU. Canberra. 1991. 1st Ed. (2), II, 822, 48 (index) PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Fine. 30 x 21.5. 0731512928
50762 SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY PACIFIC ISLANDS REGIONAL MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS REPORT 2004
$35.00 AUD
Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 2004. 1st Ed. VIII, 156 PP with 1 map, graphs and tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.8. 9820000513
Covers 8 goals: Eradication of poverty & hunger, achieve universal primary education, gender equality, reduction of child mortality, improvement of maternal health, combat againsy HIV/AIDS, malaria .., environmental sustainability and global partnership for development.
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.
42417 SEGAL, Gerald RETHINKING THE PACIFIC
$30.00 AUD
Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1990. 1st Ed. XI, 400 PP with 16 figures (31graphs). Cloth cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0198273452
The wider context: the decline of the superpowers, the new paths to development for Third World states, and the growing interdependence in the global economy are all factors challenging local economies and societies.
62489 SHADBOLT, Maurice POLYNESIA WONDERFUL MARINERS
$5.00 AUD
Reader's Digest. Sydney. 1975. Article pulled out from the February 1975 issue of Reader's Digest Magazine. Pages 23 to 29 with 2 colour illustrations (1 map and 1 painting). Soft cover. Fine. 19.3 x 14.
69044 SHADBOLT, Maurice & RUHEN, Olaf LES ILES DU PACIFIQUE SUD
$10.00 AUD
Flammarion / National Geographic Society. Paris / Washington. 1977. 1st French edition of the 1971 reprint of the 1968 US original. 212 PP with over 250 b/w and colour photos. Title spread: Canoeists fish by lantern light as the sun dips behind the ragged heights of Moorea. Cloth cover, title on front board and spine. Near fine. French text. 26 x 17.7. 2082010058
Polynesia: Tahiti, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga & New Zealand. Melanesia: Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons & New Guinea.
76339 SHADBOLT, Maurice & RUHEN, Olaf ISLES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$50.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1968. 1st Ed. Foreword by Gilbert M. Grosvenor. 212 PP with over 250 bw and colour photos. Title spread: Canoeists fish by lantern light as the sun dips behind the ragged heights of Moorea. Eps: Sketch map of the Pacific Islands. Hard cover (cloth binding reproducing a design of Tonga tapa), dj. Dedicatory note to previous owner, dated March 8, 1969 and signed by co-author Olaf Ruhen, on front endpaper. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. 25.5 x 18.
Polynesia: Tahiti, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga & New Zealand. Melanesia: Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons & New Guinea.
55692 SHARMA, Dr Kamlesh INDIGENOUS GOVERNANCE
$25.00 AUD
KP's Publications. Canberra. 2005. 1st Ed. 75, (5) PP with 1 portrait and 5 headpieces. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.2 x 17.6. 0975802801
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.
44619 SHARP, Andrew ANCIENT VOYAGERS IN THE PACIFIC
$5.00 AUD
Pelican Book / Penguin . London. 1957. Paperback edition of the 1956 original. 240 PP with 3 maps, plus 12 plates with 14 b/w photos. Illustrated soft cover. Ageing of paper. Very good. 18 x 11.2.
Man's arrival and early development in the islands of the Pacific. Polynesian origins and migrations...
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.
58228 SHARP, Nonie THE RULE OF THE SWORD - The Story of West Irian
$15.00 AUD
Kibble Books & Arena. Malmsbury, Vic. 1977. 1st Ed. (4), 76 PP, plus 4 pages with 1 map and 4 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 13.2.
14841 SHAW, Henry I. Junior TARAWA: A Legend is Born
$5.00 AUD
Macdonald. London. 1969. 1st UK edition, in Purnell's History of WWII - Battle book No.8. 160 PP with b/w illust. (maps & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Spine sunned, o/wise very good. 21 x 13.8. 356029654
The atoll of Betio secured by the US Marines in 76 hours in November 1943.
11542 SHEARS, Richard & GIDLEY, Isobelle THE RAINBOW WARRIOR AFFAIR
$15.00 AUD
Unwin. Sydney. 1985. 1st Ed. XII, 217 PP with 3 full-page maps & 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 0868618594
31923 SHEARS, Richard & GIDLEY, Isobelle THE RAINBOW WARRIOR AFFAIR
$5.00 AUD
Unwin. Sydney. 1985. 1st Ed. XII, 217 PP with 3 full-page maps & 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Pict. soft cover. Very good. 19.8 x 12.8. 0868618594
44763 SHEKHDAR, Jim & GRIFFITHS, Edward BOLD MAN OF THE SEA - My Epic Journey
$20.00 AUD
Hodder & Stoughton. London. 2001. 1st Ed. XVI, 255 PP with 1 map on double page, plus 16 pages with 31 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. 23.4 x 15.2. 0340822759
Rowing single-handed for 274 days (29 June 2000 to 30 March 2001) across the Pacific, from Ilo in Peru to North Stradbroke Island, southern Queensland.
32268 SHERRY, Frank PACIFIC PASSIONS - The European Struggle for Power in the Great Ocean in the Age of Exploration
$15.00 AUD
William Morrow. New York. 1994. 1st Ed. 431 PP with 2 maps, and 18 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 16. 0688075185
56209 SHERWOOD, Dick (editor) OPERATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN MARITIME WARFARE: Implications for the Western Pacific
$20.00 AUD
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. Canberra. 1994. 1st Ed. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 105. (18), 159 PP with 38 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.6 x 14.5. 0731520114
Papers presented at a seminar hosted by the Royal Australian Navy's Maritime Studies Program and the Australian Naval Institute.
51633 SHINEBERG, Dorothy THEY CAME FOR SANDALWOOD
$20.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1967. 1st Ed. 299 PP with facsimile of the title page of the Log of the Louisa and 2 maps, plus 12 pages with 22 b/w illustrations. Fp: Andrew Cheyne's plan of the Isle of Pines, 1842. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 22 x 14.5.
A study of the sandalwood trade in the South West Pacific 1830-1865.
72727 SHINEBERG, Dorothy CAPTAIN EDWARD WOODIN AND THE SANDALWOOD TRADE OF THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC (in Papers and Proceedings Volume 13, No. 4)
$5.00 AUD
Tasmanian Historical Research Association. Hobart. 1966. Volume 13, No. 4, August 1966. 101 - 147 PP. Contains article pages 133 to 144. Stapled card covers. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5.
Paper read to the Association on 8 December 1964. Other article: Of Ships and Sealing Wax: the Montagu, the Navy and the Law, by P.A. Howell
55368 SHINEBERG, Dorothy (editor) THE TRADING VOYAGES OF ANDREW CHEYNE 1841-1844
$25.00 AUD
Australian National University Press. Canberra. 1971 1st Ed., No. 3 in the Pacific History series. Foreword by H. E. Maude. XV, 351 PP with the facsimile of a page of the manuscript, 5 maps, and 10 drawings & sketches. Eps: The voyages of Andrew Cheyne on the Diana, Bull & Naiad. Cloth cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned. Near fine. 21.2 x 13.8. 0708101259
Travels between Sydney and China after trading in sandalwood out of New Caledonia, the Solomons and Micronesia.
74537 SHORTLAND, Edward THE SOUTHERN DISTRICTS OF NEW ZEALAND; A Journal, Passing Notices of the Customs of the Aborigines
$40.00 AUD
Capper Press / The Caxton Press. Christchurch, NZ. 1974. Reprint of the 1851 original. XVI, 316, 32 (publications) PP with drawings, plus 1 b/w plate, 1 large folded map, 5 genealogical tables and 6 "details" maps. Fp: Map of the Southern Districts of New Zealand tipped in on verso of half title page. Hard covers, dj. A fine copy. 22 x 14.5.
16269 SIERS, James TARATAI - A Pacific Adventure
$10.00 AUD
Millwood. Wellington. 1977. 1st Ed. (2), 306 PP with maps & b/w or col. illust. Fp: Taratai II under sail. Eps: Map of the S.W. Pacific with route of Taratai. Pictorial soft covers with light wear. Dedicatory note on verso of FFEP, o/wise near fine. 23 x 18.3. 0908582005
The Taratai expedition, a traditional sailing attempt between Tarawa (Kiribati), Suva (Fiji) and Papeete (Tahiti).
47425 SIERS, James RAROTONGA
$15.00 AUD
Millwood Press. Wellington. 1977. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 27 b/w and 125 colour photos. Hard cover (rubbed), dj (chipped). Page 93/94 with closed tear (repaired). Very good. 21 x 17.5.
Main island of the Cook Islands.
73412 SIEVERS, Prof. Dr. Wilhelm & KÜKENTHAL, Prof. Dr. Willy AUSTRALIEN, OZEANIEN und POLARLÄNDER
$100.00 AUD
Bibliographischen Institut. Leipzig & Wien. 1910. 2nd edition of the 1902 original. XII, 640, (4 publications) PP with 198 b/w illustrations in text, plus 14 plates with maps in colour (4 on single page, 10 on double pages for 21 maps and 13 insets), 9 plates in colour with tissue guard, and 15 b/w plates with 22 woodcuts. Illustrated endpapers. Quarter bound, cloth boards, title on front board, gilt title and decoration on leather spine. Outside edges marbled. Covers soiled, hinges of spine rubbed, some rust marks in the gutters and a few loose pages where staples have rusted in the first few pages and the last few pages of the gathering. Nota: from the 1880s, wire staples were used as a substitute to stitching: a habit which luckily did not last long. Very good. Complete. Gothic German text. 25.7 x 18.5.
42959 SIGRAH, Raobeia Ken & KING, Stacey M. TE RII NI BANABA
$40.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 2001. 1st Ed. 367 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches and photographs). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 9820203228
The backbone of Banaba, or history of Ocean Island (Banaba).
59499 SILVERMAN, Martin G. DISCONCERTING ISSUE: Meaning and Struggle in a Resettled Pacific Community
$25.00 AUD
The University of Chicago Press. Chicago. 1971. 1st Ed., in the Symbolic Anthropology series. Foreword by David M. Schneider. XVIII, 362 PP with 1 map, 2 tables and 10 figures. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed. Near fine. 23.5 x 16. 0226757501
Banabans of Ocean Island, Kiribati, and their resettlement on Rambi Island, Fiji.
16253 SIMPSON, Colin PLEASURE ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$5.00 AUD
Methuen. Sydney. 1979. 1st Ed. (6), 239 PP with 7 maps, plus 32 pages with 54 colour photos. Eps: Easter Island scene. Hard cover, decoration on front cover, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 15. 0454001584
The beautiful islands of the South Pacific: Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Cooks, French Polynesia and Easter Island.
59213 SIMPSON, Colin PLEASURE ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Methuen. Sydney. 1979. 1st Ed. (6), 239 PP with 7 maps, plus 32 pages with 54 colour photos. Eps: Easter Island scene. Hard cover, decoration on front cover. Dedicatory note on half title page (from Ulysses, by Tennyson). Near fine. 23.5 x 15. 0454001584
The beautiful islands of the South Pacific: Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Cooks, French Polynesia and Easter Island.
60716 SINCLAIR, Andrew THE SAVAGE - A History of Misunderstanding
$5.00 AUD
Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1977. 1st Ed. (8), 168 PP. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket chipped at foot of spine. Ex Library copy with 4 stamps and renewed endpapers. Foxing. Very good. 24 x 16. 0297772260
30290 SINCLAIR, Keith V. LAPLACE IN NEW ZEALAND, 1831
$10.00 AUD
Heritage Press. Waikanae, NZ. 1998. 1st edition with a foreword by John Dunmore. Translated with Introduction and Notes by Keith V. Sinclair. 155 PP with 11 b/w plates, notes, bibliography & index. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 0908708459
The French expedition led by Captain Laplace on the Corvette Favorite during his circumnavigation.
62287 SINKER, William BY REEF AND SHOAL - Being an account of a Voyage amongst the Islands in the South-Western Pacific
$35.00 AUD
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. London. 1905. 3rd edition. Preface by L. P. Robin. VI, 7-64, (16 publications) PP with 1 map and 6 b/w illustrations by H. J. Ford. Fp: "Southern Cross". Red cloth cover, title on front board. Covers with speckled patches, and a defective spine, o/wise very good and very clean and bright internally. 17.2 x 12.
Maiden voyage of the "Southern Cross" built 1903 at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Sailed from Norfolk Island on 17th September 1903, New Hebrides, Banks, Torres... return to Norfolk Island 18th November 1903.
58229 SISSONS, Jeffrey NATION AND DESTINATION: Creating Cook Island Identity
$25.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP Centre in the Cook Islands. Rarotonga. 1999. 1st Ed. 140 PP with 2 maps and 37 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Signs of dampness on lower part of covers and pages. Very good reading / working copy. 21 x 14.7. 982020142X
56180 SMITH, Anita AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF WEST POLYNESIAN PREHISTORY: Terra Australis 18
$45.00 AUD
Pandanus Books / RSPAS, ANU. Canberra. 2002. 1st Ed. , Volume 18 in the Terra Australis series. XVI, 230 PP with 69 tables and 26 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21. 01740760190
72065 SMITH, Ian THE NEW ZEALAND SEALING INDUSTRY - History, archaeology, and heritage management
$50.00 AUD
Department of Conservation / Te Papa Atawhai. Wellington. 2002. 1st edition of June 2002. (V), 72 PP with 6 tables and 21 figures (graphs, maps, photos & sketches). Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. Scarce. 29.8 x 21. 0478222505
60790 SMITH, Margaret ISABELLE'S WEDDING / TE 'AKAIPOIPO'ANGA O ISABELLE
$45.00 AUD
Wellington / Whanganui a Tara. 1992 & 1993. 1st Ed. 3 booklets & 16 photograph cards (in colour). "Isabellle's Wedding Day, notes for students": 20 pages with 2 documents and 16 b/w photos. - "Te 'Akaipoipo'anga o Isabelle": 32 pages with 2 documents and 16 b/w photos. - "Isabelle's Wedding: suggestions, activities and background information for teachers": 15 pages. Plastic folder containing the 3 booklets and 16 colour photos (format: 16 x 24). All photographs by Dave Wood. Text in English and Cook Islands Maori. Fine. 25.5 x 21. 0478055994 - 0478056648 - 0478056168
Wedding in the Cook Islands.
45843 SMITH, Mary Benton & REA, Frederic M. ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Lane Books. Menlo Park, Ca. 1966. 1st printing in May 1966, A Sunset Travel Book. 96 PP with 5 maps on full page and 151 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. 27.4 x 21.
50788 SMITH, Nancy & STEWART, Robert (editors) AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HISTORY - SPECIAL ISSUE NEW ZEALAND - Volume 18, No.10, June, 1976
$15.00 AUD
Australian Museum. Sydney. 1976. Pages 345 to 380 with 5 colour photos and 43 b/w illustrations. Inside covers: Maps of New Zealand.
Gondwana Genesis, by C. A. Fleming. From Hawaiki to Te-Ika-A-Maui, by Janet Davidson... Islands, Oceans and Marine Life Patterns by Alan Baker and John Yaldwyn.
55961 SMITH, Nancy, STEWART, Robert (editors) ANH Australian Natural History - Volume 18, No. 12, 1976
$15.00 AUD
The Australian Museum. Sydney. 1976. December 1976. 421-452 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.5.
A Satellite View of Australia, by J. F. Huntington. A most successful invasion: the diversity of Australia's Skinks, by Allen E. Greer. Botanaviti: the elusive Fijian Frogs, by John C. Pernetta and Barry Goldman. People, Pigs and Punishment (Highlands of Papua New Guinea), by D. K. Feil...
33160 SMITH, T. R. SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION - An analysis after twenty-five years
$15.00 AUD
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs / Price Milburn. Wellington. 1972. 1st Ed. 248 PP, plus 8 pages with 20 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the South Pacific Commission Area. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 15.8. 0705503461
60280 SMITH, Valene L. (editor) HOSTS AND GUESTS - The Anthropology of Tourism
$20.00 AUD
Basil Blackwell. Oxford. 1978. 1st UK edition of the 1977 US original. VI, (2), 254 PP with b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket rubbed and with small chips. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 23.3 x 15.5. 063118970X
Chapter 2: Tourism as a form of Imperialism. ... Chapter 5: Tourism in Tonga: troubled times, by Charles F. Urbanowicz. ... Tourism in Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia). ... Chapter 14: The Polynesian Cultural Center: A Multi-ethnic Model of seven Pacific Cultures, by Max E. Stanton.
49476 SNOW, Philip & WAINE, Stefanie THE PEOPLE FROM THE HORIZON - An Illustrated History of the Europeans among the South Sea Islanders
$10.00 AUD
Phaidon Press. Oxford. 1979. 1st Ed. 296 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title spread: Landing on Tikopia. Cloth cover. Dust jacket tipped in on endpapers. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper. Faint foxing on outside edges and few pages. Very good. 28.7 x 25. 0714820067
The contact between two cultures: European & Pacific. Misunderstandings, clashes, attractions, exchanges,...
69503 SNOW, Philip & WAINE, Stefanie THE PEOPLE FROM THE HORIZON - An Illustrated History of the Europeans among the South Sea Islanders
$20.00 AUD
Phaidon Press. Oxford. 1979. 1st Ed. 296 PP with b/w & colour illust. Title spread: Landing on Tikopia. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket a little sunned on rear near spine, o/wise a fine copy. 28.7 x 25. 0714820067
The contact between two cultures: European & Pacific. Misunderstandings, clashes, attractions, exchanges,...
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.
62819 SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES - Tome VIII / No. 8
$75.00 AUD
Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1952 1st Ed., Volume 8, December 1952. Edited by R.P. Patrick O'REILLY. 361, (5) PP with figures, plus 8 plates with 1 large folded sheet "Le Code Pomare", 6 paintings and 9 b/w photos. Soft cover. Most pages are uncut. French text. Slight ageing and foxing of paper around outside edges. Near fine. 27.8 x 18.3.
Le Code Pomaré of 1819. Myths from Buka Island, by Paul Montauban & Patrick O'Reilly. North Malekula Society, by Jean Guiart. ...
75708 SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES: Tome XV, No. 15 / Tome XVI, No. 16 / Tome XVII, No. 17
$150.00 AUD
Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1959, 1960 & 1961. 3 issues bound together. Volume 15: 470, (4) PP, plus 3 folded maps and 3 colour plates. Volume 16: 240, (2) PP, plus 1 colour and 4 b/w plates & Volume 17: 142, (4) PP. Cloth cover, seal of the "New Zealand General Assembly Library" on front cover, gilt title on label pasted down on spine. Plate of the New Zealand General Assembly Library pasted down on front endpaper. Contents are fine. 27.5 x 19.
Vol. 15: " Tahiti et la Polynésie Française". Les débuts du Papeete Français by R. Dauvergne. Items in English include : The Tahitian Pork Trade: 1800-1830, by H.E. Maude. Missionary Policy in Mangareva, by C. W. Newbury. Vol. 16: L'Ethnographie et l' Océanie dans les Pays-Bas, by S. Kooijman. Vol. 17: Premiere mission catholique aux Iles Salomon, by C. Rozier. Essai d'évangelisation des Iles Marquises, by P. O'Reilly.
75709 SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES: Tome XVIII, No. 18 / Tome XIX, No. 19 / Tome XX, No. 20
$150.00 AUD
Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1962; 1963 & 1964. 3 issues bound together. Volume 18: 210, (2) PP, plus 1 b/w plate. Volume 19: 394, (4) PP, plus 24 b/w plates. Volume 20: 186 PP, plus 11 b/w plates. Cloth cover, Seal of the "New Zealand General Assembly Library" on front cover, gilt title on label pasted down on spine. Plate of the New Zealand General Assembly Library pasted down on front endpaper. Contents are fine. 27.5 x 19.
Vol. No 18: Ethnologie Océanienne en U.R.S.S., by D. D. Tourmarkine. Essai de classification des peuplades de Papouasie, by A. Dupeyrat. Le Lieutenant Caro et séjour de Bougainville à Tahiti, by E. Taillemite. Vol. No. 19: "Wallis et Futuna". Chronologie de Wallis et Futuna / Le Maire et Schouten à Futuna en 1616... By R.P. O'Reilly. ... Vol. 20: Daingangan, artiste de la terre, by K. Kupka. Recherche océanienne dans la Pologne d'aujourdhui, by A. Godlewski, L'ancien pidgin français parlé en Nouvelle-Calédonie, by K.J.Hollyman, Importance sociale de Makatéa dans la Polynésie Française.
39840 SOLOMON ISLANDS BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS - Report for the years 1959 and 1960
$30.00 AUD
HMSO. London. 1962. 1st Ed. 80 PP with tables, plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos and 1 large folded map tipped in at back of book. Soft cover. Signature of previous owner at top of front cover. Staples removed, o/wise very good. 21.3 x 14.
59732 SOLOMON ISLANDS O'O, A Journal of Solomon Islands Studies - Vol. 2, No. 1
$25.00 AUD
O'O, USP, Solomon Islands Centre. Honiara. 1989. Vol. 2, No. 1, 1989. Edited by Esau TUZA. 78 PP with figures and tables. Pictorial soft cover. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 26.5 x 18.5.
O'O = Drum. Pushing options of Pacific Island writers, by Linley Chapman. The role of telecommunications in the Nation's Economy, by John M. Kaliuae. Logging is no development, by Billy Abana. ...
73588 SOTHEBY'S ARTS D'AFRIQUE ET D'OCEANIE
$40.00 AUD
Sotheby's. Paris. 2011. June 2011 edition. 132 PP with 8 period photos (2 colour and 6 b/w) and over 111 colour photos (some with details) of 111 artifacts. FP: Lega Mask, Democratic Republic of the Congo. FEP: Malangan from Northern New Ireland. Pictorial soft covers (Hemba ancestor figure, southern Niemba, Democratic Republic of the Congo). Texts in English and French. Near fine. 27 x 21.
Catalogue of auction sale: 15th June 2011 listing 392 items. Collections of: Pierre Guerre / Thomas G.B. Wheelock, Burkina Faso / Alain Lagarde, Congo / Raphaël Stora ...
47887 SOUMILLE, Pierre (editor) Dossier ITINERAIRES D'OUTRE-MER (in Ultramarines - No. 18-19)
$25.00 AUD
AMAROM (Amis des Archives d'Outre-Mer) / IHCC (Institut d'Histoire Comparée des Civilisations). Aix en Provence. 1999. December 1999. 64 PP with 64 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 29.8 x 21.
Special issue. Files on France and her colonies. Forced or voluntary migrations by Christophe Beyeler... From the Indian Ocean to Indochina: a French family (1720-1956), by Jacques Spielmann...
11997 SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION THE PACIFIC ISLANDS TODAY, People and Places
$20.00 AUD
S.P.C. / South Pacific Commission. Nouméa. 1962. December reprint of the 1962 original. 72 PP with maps, tables, graphs, sketches & b/w photos of the islands and its peoples. Spiral bound pictorial card cover. Very good. 21 x 17.
Contents include: High Islands and Low Islands; How many Islands?; Volcanoes; Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia; The People of the Pacific; Where Did We Come from?..
62483 SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION SPC / THE SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY and its role in the region
$5.00 AUD
Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Nouméa. 2000. Folded brochure: 3 folds with colour illustrations (1 flag, 1 map and 20 photos). Fine. Format: 30 x 15.
SPC: Guardian of the resources of the Pacific Islands.
63521 SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION SOUTH PACIFIC BULLETIN - Vol. 16, No. 1
$5.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau. Sydney. 1966. Vol. 16, No. 1, 1st quarter 1966. Edited by C. E. Birchmeier. 64 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover (Coffee from the Highlands, transferred from an aircraft). Near fine. 27 x 21.5.
Weather Service in Papua and New Guinea, by Hon. J. D. Anthony. ... Honiara, Capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, by J. L. O. Tedder.
63522 SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION SOUTH PACIFIC BULLETIN - Vol. 19, No. 2
$5.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau. Sydney. 1969. Vol. 19, No. 2, 2nd quarter 1969. Edited by C. E. Birchmeier. 64 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover (Nan Madol, Ponape). Near fine. 27 x 21.5.
Rhinoceros Beetle Project, by A. Catley. ... Public Health and Hygiene Department of New Caledonia and Dependencies, by Dr. H. Boutin. The Stamps of Nauru, by F. Collas.
63523 SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION SOUTH PACIFIC BULLETIN - Vol. 20, No. 3
$5.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau. Sydney. 1970. Vol. 20, No. 3, 3rd quarter 1970. Edited by C. E. Birchmeier. 64 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover (M.V. Tagua, off Atiu, Cook Islands). Near fine. 27 x 21.5.
Paddy Rice project, Makham Valley, Morobe district, by M. Boerner. ... Fishing Gear and boats of the South Pacific, by V. T. Hinds. The Stamps of New Caledonia, by J. Dequeker.
63524 SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION SOUTH PACIFIC BULLETIN - Vol. 21, No. 1
$5.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau. Sydney. 1971 Vol. 21, No. 1, 1st Quarter 1971. Edited by C. E. Birchmeier. 64 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, photos). Lacks pages 27 to 30 (article on Tagabe Agricultural School, New Hebrides)/ Pictorial soft cover (Children's Ward, Central Colony Hospital, Tarawa). Very good. 27 x 21.5.
Pacific Islands Fishing Boats and Gear, by V. T. Hinds. Stamps of the Tokelau Islands, by Ben C. Goffman.
63525 SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION SOUTH PACIFIC BULLETIN - Vol. 22, No. 1
$5.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau. Sydney. 1972. Vol. 22, No. 1, 1st quarter 1972. Edited by C. E. Birchmeier. 64 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover (South Pacific Commission Headquarters, Nouméa). Near fine. 27 x 21.5.
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the SPC, by G. F. D. Betham. ... The Tokelau Islands, by Kazimierz Wodzicki. Pacific Islands Fishing Boats and Gear, by V. T. Hinds. Stamps of New Guinea, by F. Collas.
63526 SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION SOUTH PACIFIC BULLETIN - Vol. 23, No. 1
$5.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau. Sydney. 1973. Vol. 23, No. 1, 1st quarter 1973. Edited by C. E. Birchmeier. 64 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover (Flare lighting ceremony, Yanuca Island). Near fine. 27 x 21.5.
House design in the Solomon Islands by D. Stafford Woolard. The Stamps of French Polynesia, by Raoul Teissier.
63529 SOUTH PACIFIC COMMISSION SOUTH PACIFIC BULLETIN - Vol. 30, No. 4
$5.00 AUD
South Pacific Commission Publications Bureau. Sydney. 1980. Vol. 30, No. 4, 4th quarter 1980. Edited by Kevin Earl. 52 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover (singsing welcome , Port Moresby). Near fine. 27 x 21.5.
The 20th South Pacific Conference - Port Moresby, by Caroline Nalo. ... Atoll survival - a century on Palmerston Island, by Pamela Takiora Ingram Pryor.
59504 SOUTH PACIFIC TOURISM ORGANISATION SOUTH PACIFIC TOURISM (11 issues)
$50.00 AUD
The South Pacific Tourism Organisation. Suva. 1997 / 2001. 11 issues edited by Robert KEITH-REID & Peter LOMAS. 1 (March-May 1997), 3 (Oct-Dec 1997) to10 (Third Quarter, 1999), 12 & 13 (First Quarter 2001). A total of 4598 PP with colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine set. 27.2 x 20.7.
73248 SPEISER, Felix SÜDSEE, URWALD, KANNIBALEN. Reise-Eindrücke iaus den Neuen Hebriden
$120.00 AUD
R. Voigtländers Verlag. Leipzig. 1913. 1st Ed. (II), VI, 308 PP, plus 100 plates with 185 b/w photos and 1 folded plate at rear of book with 2 maps "Coral Sea" & "New Hebrides ". Fp: Bowman from Nitendi. Top outside edge tinted. Marbled endpapers. Original cloth cover, decoration on front cover and spine, title in red letters on front cover and spine . Top part of plates 89/90 cut out with 1 photo missing (top of 89) and half of the photo on the verso (plate 90). Underlining in text. Slight ageing of paper with occasional foxing. German text, Gothic script. Very good copy. 24 x 17.5.
Privileged impressions while in the New Hebrides before WWI.
55061 SPENNEMANN, Dirk H. R. MAKMOK. Notes on the occurence, utilisation, and importance of Polynesian Arrowroot (Tacca leontopetaloides) in the Marshall Islands
$35.00 AUD
Historic Preservation Office, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Majuro Atoll. 1992. 1st Ed. Occasional Papers in Traditional Food Crops. XII, 97 PP with over 13 tables and 49 figures. Soft cover. Fine. 28 x 21.5.
59190 SPOEHR, Alexander (editor) PACIFIC PORT TOWNS AND CITIES - A Symposium
$25.00 AUD
Bishop Museum Press. Honolulu. 1963. 1st Ed. (10), 90 PP with 1 graph, 1 map & 6 tables, plus 3 folded maps in pocket at back of book. Soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of half title page, o/wise fine. 25.6 x 17.6.
Symposium held at the 10th Pacific Science Congress of 1961. Cities of S.E. Asia: Medan, Dumaguete City. Cities of the Pacific: Nouméa (by Jean Guiart), Suva (by Nayacakalou) & Papeete (by Douglas L. Oliver, Michel Jullien, Paul Kay and Richard Moench).
60136 SPRINGALL, R. C. & QUANCHI, Max AN AUSTRALIAN ROLE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC / FROM THE ISLANDS: Attitudes towards Australia and Australians (in Dyason House Papers)
$10.00 AUD
Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. Melbourne. 1980. Volume 7, Number 1 - Sept. 1980. 8 PP. Near fine. 28.5 x 22.
21295 STANBURY, Peter & BUSHELL, Lydia (editors) SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS
$10.00 AUD
Macleay Museum / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1984. 1st Ed. (6), 130 PP with 7 tables, 3 maps, 5 figures & 53 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Spine lightly sunned, o/wise fine. 24 x 18. 0909635269
An introduction to the Pacific islands. Contributions on: European Discovery (Robert Langdon), Landforms (John Connell), Botany (Wee-Lek Chew), Languages (Darrell Tryon), Arts (Beth Dean & Victor Carell), Whaling (William Dawbin), Crops & Farming (Peter Searle), Politics and Independence (Stuart Inder).
50988 STANLEY, David SOUTH PACIFIC Handbook
$15.00 AUD
Moon Publications. Chico, Ca., USA. 1992. Reprint of the 4th edition of 1989 (original of 1979). 740 PP with 40 charts, 136 maps, b/w illustrations (photos, engravings), plus 18 pages with 75 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.7 x 13. 0918373298
60260 STEAD, C. K. (editor) The Faber Book of CONTEMPORARY SOUTH PACIFIC STORIES
$15.00 AUD
Faber and Faber Limited. London. 1994. 1st Ed. XVII, 286 PP. Hard cover, dj (creases and chips with repaired tears). Ageing of paper. Name of previous owner on title page. Near fine. 22.2 x 14 0571167659
60278 STEFFEN, Jerome O. (editor) THE AMERICAN WEST, New Perspectives, New Dimensions
$5.00 AUD
The University of Oklahoma Press. Norman. 1981. 2nd printing in paperback form, of the 1979 original. IX, 238 PP with 2 tables and 6 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14. 0806117443
35444 STEPHEN, Ann (editor) PIRATING THE PACIFIC - Images of Travel, Trade & Tourism
$20.00 AUD
Powerhouse Publishing. Sydney. 1993. 1st Ed. 79 PP with 1 map, 14 colour and 33 b/w illust. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). Oblong: 21 x 26.5. 9781863170420
Catalogue of the exhibition "South Pacific Stories", held at the Powerhouse Museum September 1993 - October 1994. 3 Essays on visual culture and colonial history in the Pacific. "I could not see as much as I desired" by Ross Gibson. The beautiful and the damned by Nicholas Thomas.
74695 STEPHENSON, Pamela TREASURE ISLANDS. Sailing the South Seas in the Wake of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
$10.00 AUD
Headline Book. London. 2005. 1st paperback edition. (XVI), 399 PP with b/w illustrations (10 maps, 17 headpieces and 17 photos), plus 24 pages with 77 colour photos. Pictorial soft covers. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges, o/wise very good. 23.3 x 15.3. 9780755314058
42240 STERNDALE, Handley Bathurst MY ADVENTURES AND RESEARCHES IN THE PACIFIC, by a Master Mariner
$40.00 AUD
Mulini Press. Canberra. 2001. 1st edition of some 40 articles published in a serial form by the Australian Town and Country Journal between January 1871 and February 1872. Introduced and edited by Dirk H.R. Spennemann and Jane Downing. XLIV, 327 PP, with 1 map and 15 b/w woodcuts. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.7. 0949910864
Reminiscences ?? Beche-de-mer trade in the Caroline Islands in the 1860s... Year 1871/1872, for the Pacific Island Trading Company limited, on the atoll of Suwarrow, where he was rescued by Bully Hayes... Chapter 6 on Pearl fishing. Chapter 7 on the Beachcombers...
60746 STEVENSON, Robert Louis ISLAND NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS
$5.00 AUD
Hogarth Press. London. 1987. New edition of the 1893 original, with an introduction by Lisa St Aubin de Teràn. (10), 3-150 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Slight ageing of paper and foxing. Good reading copy. 19.6 x 13. 0701207671
3 tales by R.L. Stevenson or Tusitala (Teller of Tales). The beach of Falesa. The bottle imp. The isle of voices.
34504 STEVENSON, Robert Louis & OSBOURNE, Lloyd THE WRECKER
$15.00 AUD
Cassell. London. 1892. 16th thousand. VII, 428, (12 adv.) PP, plus 12 b/w plates illustrated by William Hole and W. L. Metcalf. Fp: 'That kind of an accident', said he. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Covers rubbed and worn around edges, spine sunned, signature previous owner at top of title page. Very good. Image shows title-page and frontispiece. 20 x 13.
The yarns of Loudon Dodd, started in Taio Hae, Marquesas Islands.
33521 STEWART, Dr. Robert A. C. (editor) PACIFIC PROFILES
$10.00 AUD
Extension Services / University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1982. 1st Ed. IX, 259 PP with 5 b/w illust. Eps: Map of the South West Pacific. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 21 x 15.
Personal experiences of 100 South Pacific Islanders: Infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.
56667 STEWART, I. G. THE SHIPS THAT SERVE NEW ZEALAND, Volume 1: British and European Line
$25.00 AUD
A.H. & A.W. Reed. Wellington. 1964. 1st Ed. Preface by W. C. Comber. 255 PP with 156 b/w illust. plus 12 pages with 17 colour illust. FEP: Routes of vessels engaged in NZ, UK, Europe trade. REP: Mediterranean, North Sea & the Channel. Hard cover. Covers laminated with clear plastic. Copy lacking the title page. Fleet List (3 folds) of Shaw Savill Group, April 1973, tipped in on the half title page. Some clippings of magazines, losely inserted. Good working copy. 24.7 x 19.3.
49784 STICKLES, William RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN'S SOUTH PACIFIC, easy-to-play Piano Selections
$10.00 AUD
Williamson Music Ltd. London. 1956. 1st Ed. 16 PP with musical scores. Pictorial soft cover. Occasional foxing. Near fine. Oblong: 21.5 x 28.
Some Enchanted Evening. Dites Moi. A Wonderful Guy. Younger than Spring-Time. Bali Ha'i.
54889 STINNETT, Caskie, GOLD, Don ... (editors) SOME ENCHANTED ISLANDS (in Holiday - Volume 42, No. 1, July 1967)
$30.00 AUD
Holiday / The Curtis Publishing Company. Philadelphia, Pa. 1967. 116 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 34 x 27.
The Philippines, by John Griffin. Samoa, by Caskie Stinnett. The Outer Islands of Hawaii, by Kenneth Lamott... Micronesia, by Carl Purcell... New Caledonia, by Horace Sutton. The fascination of Fiji, by Richard Atcheson...
65870 STONE, Andrew J. A WALK IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS: A Kokoda Trail Experience - A Modern Soldier's Personal story
$20.00 AUD
Australian Military History Publications. Sydney. 1997. 1st Ed. X, 102 PP with 2 maps and 44 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Signature of previous owner on title page, o/wise fine. 21 x 15. 0958669341
44057 STONE, Craig, BRIGNALL, John, & COWIE, David & Linda STONES OF REMEMBRANCE - Mercy Ships Pacific - The First Decade
$15.00 AUD
Marine Reach. Tauranga, New Zealand. 2000. 1st Ed. 112 PP with b/w and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 21. 0473070030
On board ships servicing isolated islands. Faith and healing (minor surgery, dental assistance, eye problems, etc....).
35762 STOUT, Wesley W. SECRET
$20.00 AUD
Chrysler Corporation. Detroit. 1947. 1st Ed., with a foreword by K. T. Keller. (8), 67 PP with 22 b/w & 14 colour photos, and 10 figures (b/w & colour). Fp: All the pure uranium metal to be had in 1941 came from the laboratory of a Westinghouse lamp plant at Bloomfield, N.J. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Image shows the title page and frontispiece. Head of spine frayed and torn on 1/2 cm. Contents are fine. A scarce item. 20.5 x 13.5.
In the tremendous endeavour which produced the atom bomb, and thus brought World War II to a sudden close, Chrysler Corporation had an important part. K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler Corporation.
39791 STRANDBERG, Olle TIGERLAND & SOUTH SEA
$15.00 AUD
Michael Joseph. London. 1954. 3rd Impression of the 1953 original English edition, translated from the Swedish by M.A. Michael. 235 PP, plus 12 pages with 14 b/w photos. Fp: The schooner California under sail. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price-clipped). Foxing spots on edges and some pages, o/wise near fine. 20.8 x 14.2.
Two years' travel through South-East Asia and the Paradise on Earth, supposedly in the South Seas.
18797 STRANGE, James JAMES STRANGE'S JOURNAL AND NARRATIVE OF THE COMMERCIAL EXPEDITION FROM BOMBAY TO THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA
$30.00 AUD
Ye Galleon Press. Fairfield, Washington. 1982. Reprint of the 1928 original, with an introductory material by A.V. Venkatarama Ayyar, and notes by John Hosie & F. W. Howay. 144, (2 colophon) PP with 3 b/w plates, plus folded map in back pocket. Eps: chart of the Cook Channel and Strange Island near Nootka Island. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Occasional light foxing spots, o/wise fine. 23.8 x 16.2. 0877702675
Expedition to the North-west Coast of America in 1786, which sailed from Bombay on 08/12/1785, on board the Captain Cook and The Experiment.
72353 SUAREZ, Thomas EARLY MAPPING OF THE PACIFIC: The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers, and Cartographers who Mapped the Earth's Greatest Ocean
$100.00 AUD
Periplus Editions. Singapore. 2004. 1st edition. 224 PP with 223 figures with b/w or colour illustrations. Half title page: Volvelle on a north polar projection. Fp (in colour): Islamic World Map. FEP: World map, circa 1700) by Frederic de Wit. REP: Physical Map of the Pacific, by Philippe Buache. Pictorial laminated boards and illustrated dj (front: Pacific Ocean, by Abraham Ortelius / back: North Pacific, by Joao Teixeira Albernatz). Dedicatory note on title page, signed by the author. Fine (as new condition). 31.3 x 22.8. 9780794400921
45966 SUHONEN, Alli K. (editor) GOOD BOOKS - On Pacific History for Classroom Use
$5.00 AUD
Teaching The Pacific Forum. Brisbane. 1999. 1st Ed., with a preface by Grant McCall and Max Quanchi. (2), 19 PP with 15 b/w illustrations (15 front cover of books). Soft cover. 29.8 x 20.8.
69 titles
55970 SUNDERLAND, Reverend J. P. & BUZACOTT, Reverend A. (editors) MISSION LIFE IN THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC. Being a Narrative of the Life and Labours of the Reverend A. Buzacott
$40.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / U. S. P. Suva. 1985. Reprint of the 1866 orig. XXII, 288 PP with 10 b/w illustrations in text. Pictorial soft cover. Covers lightly rubbed. Signature of previous owner inside front cover. Very good. 19.5 x 12.5.
A narrative of the life and labours in the islands of the Pacific in the 1850's: teaching, medical practices, missionary voyages, hurricanes & famine.
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.
57683 SWAN, Epi NONU
$15.00 AUD
Learning Media / Ministry of Education. Wellington. 1995. 1st Ed. 32 PP with colour illustrations (8 diagrams by Barry Way & 37 photos by Justine Lord). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 18. 0478057008
Nonu = a paopao (traditional fishing canoe) from Nukunonu, Tokelau Archipelago.
57684 SWAN, Epi KO TE NONU
$15.00 AUD
Learning Media / Ministry of Education. Wellington. 1995. 1st Ed. 32 PP with colour illustrations (8 diagrams by Barry Way, and 37 photos by Justine Lord). Pictorial soft cover. Text in Tokelauan. Fine. 24 x 18. 0478057318
Nonu = a paopao (traditional fishing canoe) from Nukunonu, Tokelau Archipelago.
57685 SWAN, Epi NONU - Notes for teachers
$15.00 AUD
Learning Media / Ministry of Education. Wellington. 1995. 1st Ed. 56 PP with b/w illustrations (9 diagrams by Barry Way). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 18. 0478057326
Book to accompany the titles: Ko te Nonu (Tokelauan) and Nonu (English)
57858 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD BRITISH MISMANAGEMENT IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$25.00 AUD
Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney. 1907. 1st Ed. 24 PP. Soft cover, illustrated front. Covers fragile and reinforced. Ageing of paper. Very good. 21.4 x 14.
Being a series of articles reprinted from the "Sydney Morning Herald" (Sydney, Australia), Oct. - Nov., 1907
20416 SZABO, Michael MAKING WAVES
$20.00 AUD
Reed. Auckland. 1991. 1st Ed. (16), 248 PP (16), with b/w & colour illust. (maps, line drawings & photos). Title page: Rainbow Warrior, Rungelap. Ep: Anti-whaling campaign. Soft cover with dj. Fine. 27.2 x 19.5. 0790002302
Greenpeace New Zealand. Protest voyages into nuclear testing zone of Mururoa. Whale protection. Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.
74534 TAPP, E. J. EARLY NEW ZEALAND: A Dependency of New South Wales 1788-1841
$20.00 AUD
Melbourne University Press. Melbourne. 1958. 1st Ed. XI, 192 PP with 2 maps, plus 6 b/w plates. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Name and addresss of previous owner on front endpaper. Foxing spots on outside edges. Contents near fine. 22 x 14.5.
42891 TARTE, Daryl ISLANDS OF THE FRIGATE BIRD
$20.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1999. 1st Ed. 223 PP with 11 maps and 27 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 9820201470
33424 TAUSIE, Vilsoni ART IN THE NEW PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / South Pacific Commission. Suva. 1980. 1st Ed. X, 89, (4 adv.) PP, plus 8 pages with 1 b/w & 16 colour photos and 28 pages with 44 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5.
33425 TAUSIE, Vilsoni ART IN THE NEW PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / South Pacific Social Sciences Association. Suva. 1981. 2nd printing of the 1980 original. X, 89, (4 adv.) PP, plus 8 pages with 1 b/w & 16 colour photos and 28 pages with 44 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.8 x 14.5.
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.
50113 TAYLOR, C. R. H. MILESTONES. Some Events in New Zealand History
$15.00 AUD
Bank of New South Wales. Wellington. 1959. 1st Ed. 20 PP with 18 b/w illustrations. Illustrated soft wrappers. Fine. 24 x 15.5.
The Maori and his age-old land... Captain Cook takes possession...
52377 TAYLOR, C. R. H. A PACIFIC BIBLIOGRAPHY - Printed matter relating to the Native Peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia
$25.00 AUD
The Polynesian Society. Wellington. 1951. 1st Ed., with an introduction by H. Ian Hogbin. Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Volume 24. XXX, 492 PP, plus folded map of Oceania at back of book. Red cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (price clipped). Head and foot of spine slightly rubbed, dust jacket torn and repaired, o/wise near fine internally. 25.5 x 16.
This volume includes 65 pages of references under 26 subjects, on the Maori of New Zealand. Every island group in the Pacific is covered similarly. It is a guide and handbook to writings on Oceania and its peoples.
71397 TAYLOR, James PICTURING THE PACIFIC - Joseph Banks and the Shipboard Artists of Cook and Flinders
$50.00 AUD
Adlard Coles. London. 2018. 1st Ed. Foreword by Richard J. Westall. 256 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (artworks, drawings, engravings, prints, paintings). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 25.2 x 19.5. 9781472955432
72518 TAYLOR, John Patrick THE OTHER SIDE: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu
$75.00 AUD
University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2008. 1st Ed. No. 22 in the Pacific Islands Monograph series. XIV, 238, (4) PP with 1 table, 3 maps and 36 figures (drawings, plans, photos). Eps: Map of "The Pacific Islands. 9780824833022
61879 TAYLOR, Nancy M. (editor) THE JOURNAL OF ENSIGN BEST 1837-1843
$40.00 AUD
Government Printer. Wellington. 1966. 1st Ed. 645 PP with 5 maps, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): Ocean Bay, Port Underwood, in Cloudy Bay (1848). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed and with a lightly sunned spine. Foxing spots on edges. Near fine. 25.2 x 15.7.
Voyage to New South Wales on the "James Pattison", where he arrived 25/10/1837. Sojourn on Norfolk Island August 1838 to April 1839. New Zealand up to January 1843.
65637 TAYLOR, Nancy M. (editor) THE JOURNAL OF ENSIGN BEST 1837-1843
$25.00 AUD
Government Printer. Wellington. 1966. 1st Ed. 645 PP with 5 maps, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w plates. Fp (in colour): Ocean Bay, Port Underwood, in Cloudy Bay (1848). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly rubbed and with a lightly sunned spine. Foxing spots on edges. Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 25.2 x 15.7.
Voyage to New South Wales on the "James Pattison", where he arrived 25/10/1837. Sojourn on Norfolk Island August 1838 to April 1839. New Zealand up to January 1843.
60368 TCHERKEZOFF, Serge POLYNESIE / MELANESIE - L'Invention Française des "Races" et de Régions de l'Océanie (XVIe-XXe Siècles)
$35.00 AUD
Au Vent des Iles. Papeete. 2008. 1st Ed. 374 PP, (4) with 23 sets of maps (14 in colour and 18 in b/w)16 b/w illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. French text. Fine. 22.5 x 14.5. 9782915654523
On the Pacific Ocean and its regions: Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
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.
33379 TEASDALE, Bob & Jennie (editors) VOICES IN A SEASHELL - Education, Culture and Identity
$45.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / USP & UNESCO. Suva. 1992. 1st Ed. (6), 76 PP with 1 b/w photo. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 20.3 x 14.3. 9820101190
Papers presented at the Rarotonga Seminar. Contribution of education to the survival of small cultures.
44563 TERRY, Martin LURE OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS (in Signals No. 61)
$10.00 AUD
Australian National Maritime Museum. Sydney. 2002. No. 61, December 2002-February 2003. 40 PP. Contains article from P. 10 to 12 with 5 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 20.8.
The voyages of the great 19th-century French explorer Dumont d'Urville.
35034 THAKUR, Ramesh (editor) THE SOUTH PACIFIC - Problems, Issues and Prospects
$35.00 AUD
Macmillan / University of Otago. London. 1991. 1st Ed. XVII, 232 PP with 1 map, 4 figures and 9 tables. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 24 x 16. 0333557042
14 papers of the 25th Otago Foreign Policy School, 1990. New Zealand and the South Pacific, by Fran Wilde... France as a Pacific Actor, by Georges Martins... Australia and New Zealand from a distance by Margaret M. Taylor...
73979 THATCHER, David THE HAURAKI GULF BOATIES ATLAS
$25.00 AUD
Captain Teach Press. Auckland. 1999. 1st Ed. 122 PP with tables, b/w location maps and 24 colour maps on full page. Laminated illustrated stiff covers, spiral bound. Stamp of previous owner at top of title page. Near fine. 30 x 22. 1877197165
... For both Power and Sail.
47683 THOMAS, Larry OUTCASTS / LES EXCLUS
$20.00 AUD
ADCK / Grain de Sable. Nouméa. 2004. 1st French edition, translated by Sonia Lacabanne from the 1995 edition (University of the South Pacific). 179, (3) PP with 12 portraits and 11 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 15 x 11. 2909407314
Theatre play.
72517 THOMAS, Nicholas VOYAGERS - The Settlement of the Pacific
$45.00 AUD
Head of Zeus / Apollo Book. London. 2021. 1st edition in "The Landmark Library" series. 228 PP with 6 maps with colour on double page, 7 head pieces "Tupaia's map", b/w and colour illustrations (26 on double page). Hard cover, dj. New. 20 x 14.5. 9781838930486
32397 THOMAS, Nicholas & LOSCHE, Diane DOUBLE VISION - Art Histories and Colonial Histories in the Pacific
$10.00 AUD
Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1999. 1st Ed. XII, 289 PP with 62 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 24.7 x 17.5. 9780521659987
This book explores the ambivalence of European perceptions of the Pacific and juxtaposes them with the indigenous visual cultures that challenge western assumptions about art and representation.
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.
13300 THOMPSON, Anne-Gabrielle (editor) THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. An annotated guide to bibliographies, indexes and collections in Australian Libraries
$15.00 AUD
Research School of Pacific Studies / A.N.U. Canberra. 1986. 1st Ed. X, 127 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17.5. 0867848327
479 entries.
54887 THOMPSON, Edward K. HUNT, George P... (editors) ASIAN SPECTACULAR (Asia's Vacationland) - Special Double Issue (in Life International)
$30.00 AUD
Time-Life International. Amsterdam. 1964. Volume 37, No. 3, August 24, 1964. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Soft cover. Very good. 34.5 x 26.5.
Pre Olympic Issue for the Games at Tokyo (October 1964). Traveler Beware, by C. Northcote Parkinson. Pages 18 to 87: Japan, by Lee Griggs, Robert Fisher, Carleton Mitchell... Pages 90 to 104 South Seas... Hong Kong, by Dong Kingman. Singapore, by Richard M. Powers... Australia by Ernest Shirley...
51521 THOMSON, J. P. THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC (in National Geographic Magazine)
$10.00 AUD
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1921. Article pulled out from Volume XL, No. 6, December 1921. Pages 543 to 558 with 15 b/w photos. Soft cover. Very good. 25.5 x 17.6.
11700 THORNE, Alan & RAYMOND, Robert MAN ON THE RIM - The Peopling of the Pacific
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1989. 1st Ed. 288 PP with 17 maps, b/w & colour illustrations. FEP: Map of human migrations in the Pacific Basin. REP: Map of animals & plants domesticated in the Pacific. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 29 x 21.5. 0207163468
How the continents making up the rim of the Pacific Ocean were settled, the last being Polynesia around 1000 years ago.
57657 THORNE, Alan & RAYMOND, Robert MAN ON THE RIM - The Peopling of the Pacific
$10.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1989. 1st Ed. 288 PP with 17 maps, b/w & colour illustrations. FEP: Map of human migrations in the Pacific Basin. REP: Map of animals & plants domesticated in the Pacific. Hard cover, dj. Gift note to previous owner on half title page. Near fine. 29 x 21.5. 0207163468
How the continents making up the rim of the Pacific Ocean were settled, the last being Polynesia around 1000 years ago.
33440 THROSBY, C. D. & GANNICOTT, K. G. THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
National Centre for Development Studies / A.N.U. Canberra. 1990. 1st Ed. Islands/Australia Working Paper No. 90/9. (2), VIII, 53 PP, (4 adv.) with 14 tables. Soft cover, staples. Near fine. 29.8 x 21. 073150710X
59025 THROSSELL, Karen THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. Australia, 'The Empire', ANZUS, Nuclear Disarmament and Neutrality
$15.00 AUD
Hyland House. Melbourne. 1988. 1st Ed. 144 PP with b/w illustrations (cartoons, graphs and photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 18.5. 094706219X
10261 TIFFIN, Chris (editor) SOUTH PACIFIC IMAGES
$15.00 AUD
South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Brisbane. 1978. 1st Ed. VIII, 222 PP. Pict. soft cover. Near fine. 21.5 x 14. 0909892628
Selected papers presented at the 1st Conference of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies by New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomons & Western Samoa.
11835 TODD, Ian ISLAND REALM - A Pacific Panorama
$20.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1974. 1st Ed. (8), 214 PP with 19 maps, 32 drawings by Lindsay Wilson and 61 b/w photos, plus 48 pages with 63 colour photos. EPS: Map of the Pacific with winds and currents. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 28 x 22. 0207127611
A contemporary observation over time and space within the realm of the Pacific: community & individual culture, history, political life, ...
33530 TODD, Ian ISLAND REALM - A Pacific Panorama
$10.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1974. 1st Ed. (8), 214 PP with 19 maps, 32 drawings by Lindsay Wilson and 61 b/w photos, plus 48 pages with 63 colour photos. EPS: Map of the Pacific with winds and currents. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Top and bottom edges of covers speckled, light foxing of endpapers, note on verso of front endpaper. Good. 28 x 22. 0207127611
A contemporary observation over time and space within the realm of the Pacific: community & individual culture, history, political life, ...
60338 TOMPKINS, Robert (Bob) COMPENDIUM OF AUSTRALASIAN MERCHANT SHIPS 1831 - 2008
$70.00 AUD
Nautical Association of Australia Inc. Melbourne. 2008. 1st Ed. 316 PP. Pictorial soft covers with some wear around corners and a little creased. Some pencil marks against a vessel in the margins with occasional hand written addition of a vessel at the bottom of a few pages. An otherwise very good clean copy. Scarce. Oblong: 21 x 29.7. 9780959907995
A listing of non-sail-powered Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific merchant ships.
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
60186 TONGIA, Makiuti KORERO - A Collection of Poems of the Cook Islands
$15.00 AUD
Mana Publications. Suva. 1977. 1st Ed. (2), 29 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.5 x 14.5.
12905 TOOMIN, Philip & Pauline BLACK ROBE AND GRASS SKIRT
$15.00 AUD
Horizon Press. New York. 1963. 1st Ed. 286 PP. Eps: Map of the South-West Pacific. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 21.5 x 14.8.
The contrast between Western concepts of civilization and the beauty and trials of life in primitive land, witnessed by a U.S. Federal Judge appointed to the native courts of the U.S. T.T.P.I.
64136 TRAVEL NEW ZEALAND - Scenic Playground of the Pacific
$10.00 AUD
G.H. Loney, Government Printer. Wellington. c. 1930. Travel brochure. Inside covers: world map and addresses of NZ Government Tourist Department Free Travel Services. Fine. 22.5 x 21..
11501 TRUMBULL, Robert TIN ROOFS AND PALM TREES - A Report on the New South Seas
$5.00 AUD
ANU Press. Canberra. 1977. 1st Ed. X, 302 PP with 17 maps, plus 16 PP with 34 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Pacific Islands. Hard cover, cloth spine. Spine lightly sunned. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 23.5 x 15. 0708107443
Description of the various archipelagoes of the South Pacific in the mid 1970's.
73246 TRUMBULL, Robert TIN ROOFS AND PALM TREES - A Report on the New South Seas
$10.00 AUD
ANU Press. Canberra. 1977. 1st Ed. X, 302 PP with 17 maps, plus 16 PP with 34 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Pacific Islands. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, and with light insect damage. Ex Library copy with stamps on front endpaper, recto and verso of title page, and pocket on rear endpapers. Foxing spots on outside edges. Otherwise contents clean and near fine. 23.5 x 15. 0708107443
Description of the various archipelagoes of the South Pacific in the mid 1970's. Chapter 5: New Caledonia, nickel plated paradise.
54588 TSUKAMOTO, Yushiro MAGNETIC SURVEY OF JAPAN 1954-55 (in The Bulletin of the Hydrographic Office)
$20.00 AUD
Maritime Safety Board. Tokyo. 1961 . 1st Ed. Publication No. 945, Volume XV: (2), IV, 228, (2) PP with 10 tables [table X: covering 133 locations (tables and sketch maps on Magnetic observations)], plus 7 folded charts in colour. Papered boards. Near fine. 25.5 x 18.5.
50443 TUDOR, Judy (editor) PACIFIC ISLANDS YEAR BOOK AND WHO'S WHO - Tenth Edition
$100.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1958. 10th edition, January 1968. 719, (XCVI & XLVIII advertisements) PP with tables and maps, plus 6 folded maps (Pacific Ocean, Hawaii Islands, French Oceania, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, the Bismarck Archipelago and Territory of Papua New Guinea). Fp: The Wealth-Producer of the Pacific Islands: The Coconut Palm and what it gives to mankind. Erratum page following the Devaluation of Sterling on 18th November 1967, tipped in on page 7. The 1969 supplement (31 PP pasted down on rear endpaper). Hard cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Publisher card "With the Compliments of Mrs Tudor" pasted down on front endpaper. Contents near fine. 21.7 x 14.
65240 TUDOR, Judy (editor) PIM's PACIFIC - STORIES FROM THE SOUTH SEAS
$15.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1965. 1st Ed. 223 PP with 26 b/w illustrations (drawings and tail pieces), plus 16 b/w plates. Eps: Map of the Pacific Islands. Decorated hard cover. Outside edges browned. Very good. 20.5 x 14.
PIM or the Pacific Islands Monthly.
39827 TUDOR, Judy (Editor) PACIFIC ISLANDS YEAR BOOK
$10.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1972. 11th edition. 542, (CXII adverts.) PP with tables and maps, plus 2 folded maps (Pacific Ocean, Territory of Papua New Guinea). Hard cover with a few marks. No dj. Browning of paper on outside edges. Very good. 21.7 x 14.
21279 TWYNING, John P. & BAYS, Peter WRECK OF THE MINERVA
$70.00 AUD
Ye Galleon Press. Fairfield, Wa., USA. 1996. Facsimile reprints of two separate books: Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning among South Sea Islands, 2nd edition of the 1850 original, and Wreck of the Minerva, 1850. 108 PP, (4), 109-229, (8 Index), 1 colophon with 8 b/w illustrations. Fp: Facsimile of title-page Shipwreck and Adventures of John P. Twyning. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Light foxing on outside page edges, o/wise a fine copy. 26 x 18.5. 0877705747
The wreck in September 1829 on Nicholson's Reef. Two narratives by one of the boatsteerers and the sailing master of the Australian brig Minerva on a sperm whaling voyage. Twyning lived for 20 years in the Islands and returned to England after the death of his wife from Horn Island (Futuna). Only two copies of the original are known to be held in Australia.
59744 UBD BUSINESS AND TRADE DIRECTORY 1994 Universal Business Directories: Nouvelle Calédonie (New Caledonia), Polynesie Francaise (Tahiti French Polynesia), Wallis et Futuna (Wallis & Futuna) -
$20.00 AUD
UBD Publication. Auckland, NZ. 1994. 1994 edition. (11), 394-435, (10), 802-821, (2), 906-908 PP with 1 plan of Nouméa and 3 maps in colour, b/w or colour advertisements. Pictorial soft cover. English text with some advertisements in French. Fine. 27.2 x 21.5.
31089 ULLMAN, James Ramsey WHERE THE BONG TREE GROWS - The Log of one man's Journey in the South Pacific
$10.00 AUD
The World Publishing. Cleveland, Ohio, USA. 1963. 2nd printing. 316, (3) PP. Eps: Map of the Pacific Islands with routes taken. Decorated cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Dust jacket rubbed, old watermarks on covers, o/wise very good. 24 x 15.8.
A one year voyage of discovery to the South Seas starting in San Francisco on a cargo ships. Then by plane, flying boat, Islands trading schooners, outriggers and yacht between Tahiti and Los Angeles for the return. Place visited: Hawaii, Guam and Micronesia, Fiji, Polynesia (Tonga, Niue, both Samoas, Cook Islands and French Polynesia).
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
75598 VALKS, Hans (editor) PACIFIC TRAVEL - FACT FILE: April 1991 - April 1992
$20.00 AUD
Braynart Group / Universal Press. Singapore. 1991. 16th yearly edition. c. 600 PP wiith c. 2000 colour illustrations (19 interpolated pages, c. 20 maps and photos) with thumbnail index by country. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 24 x 18.
Most comprehensive.
76367 VAN DER GRIJP, Paul ISLANDERS OF THE SOUTH: Production, kinship and ideology in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga
$50.00 AUD
KITLV Press. Leiden. 1993. 1st edition translated by Peter Mason. Publication No. 154. X, 264 PP with over 8 tables and b/w illustrations: 1 map of Tonga, 1 page "key to symbols", 25 diagrams, and 28 photos. Stiff covers, illustrated front cover. Fine. 24 x 16. 9067180580
33144 Van LOON, Hendrik Willem THE STORY OF THE PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1940. Reprint of the November 1940 original. 315 PP with 92 drawings by the author. Fp: The great discoverers of the Pacific. FEP: Map of the Pacific Ocean. REP: Route of the migratory Polynesians. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper, some foxing of pages and edges, pieces missing from the dust jacket. Very good. 22.2 x 15.
The prehistoric Pacific. The earliest history of Polynesia. The quest of the great unknown continent of the south... Abel Tasman. Jacob Roggeveen. James Cook.
33165 Van LOON, Hendrik Willem THE STORY OF THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1940. Reprint of the November 1940 original. 315 PP with 92 drawings by the author. Fp: The great discoverers of the Pacific. FEP: Map of the Pacific Ocean. REP: Route of the migratory Polynesians. Cloth cover. Ex-library copy, with 2 library stamps, sellotape marks on endpapers, some foxing, rear endpaper with piece missing (repaired). Good reading copy. Image shows the frontispiece and title-page. 22.2 x 15.
The prehistoric Pacific. The earliest history of Polynesia. The quest of the great unknown continent of the south... Abel Tasman. Jacob Roggeveen. James Cook.
72526 Van LOON, Hendrik Willem THE STORY OF THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD
George G. Harrap. London. 1948. February 1948 reprint of the November 1940 original. 315 PP with 92 drawings by the author. Fp: The great discoverers of the Pacific. FEP: Map of the Pacific Ocean. REP: Route of the migratory Polynesians. Cloth cover. Very good. Image shows Frontispiece and Title-page. 22.2 x 15.
The prehistoric Pacific. The earliest history of Polynesia. The quest of the great unknown continent of the south... Abel Tasman. Jacob Roggeveen. James Cook.
56577 VAN TRINH, Tao, CELESTIN, Nicole (editors) L ' AMAROM A 20 ANS (in Ultramarines)
$25.00 AUD
AMAROM / Amis des Archives d'Outre-Mer & Institut d'Histoire Comparée des Civilisations. Aix en Provence. 2004. Issue No. 24. 72 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
Special issue on the 20th aniversary of AMAROM, containing articles on: Africa, French West Indies, Asia, IndoChina and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, Middle East, Indian Ocean and Pacific.
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.
60412 VERAMU, Joseph C. LET'S DO IT OUR WAY - A Case Study of Participatory Education in a Rural Fijian School and Community
$10.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific Studies / University of the South Pacific. Suva. 1992. 1st Ed. X, 127 PP with 2 maps and 18 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 9820200760
52109 VERIN, Pierre & VECCELLA, Robert (editors) L'AMERIQUE HISPANIQUE ET LE PACIFIQUE. Hommage à Hugo Neira
$30.00 AUD
Karthala. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed. 211, (5) PP with tables and 6 maps. Pictorial soft cover. French & Spanish texts. Fine. 21.5 13.5. 2845867123
2 texts in Spanish and 9 in French. Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza and the naming of the Marquesas Islands by Annie Baert.
66111 VERIN, Pierre & VECCELLA, Robert (editors) L'AMERIQUE HISPANIQUE ET LE PACIFIQUE. Hommage à Hugo Neira
$40.00 AUD
Karthala. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed. 211, (5) PP with tables and 6 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Dedicatory note on title page dated and signed by co-author Annie Baert. French & Spanish texts. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 21.5 13.5. 2845867123
2 texts in Spanish and 9 in French. ... Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza and the naming of the Marquesas Islands by Annie Baert.
48082 VERNAY, Jean-François & LE MESTRE, Monika (editors) LA CREATION (in CORRESPONDANCES OCEANIENNES, Revue Culturelle Calédonienne)
$10.00 AUD
Correspondances Antipodéennes. Nouméa. 2004. April 2004. 38 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 30 x 21.
David Unaipon, le Léonard de Vinci australien, by Valérie Djenidi. On David Malouf, by Marine Simplot.
13786 VICTOR, Frances Fuller FLOTSAM AND JETSAM OF THE PACIFIC
$5.00 AUD
Ye Galleon. Fairfield, Wa., USA. 1994. Reprint of the 1901 edition by the Oregon Historical Quarterly. 24 PP. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0877705453
Tales of ocean life and trade to the Columbia River and the Oregon coast by Captain Francis A. Lemont while serving on board the Owyhee, the Sultana and the May Dacre.
14343 VILLARET, Bernard AU VENT DES ILES - deux cent soixante quinze paradis (ou enfers) insulaires de par le monde
$10.00 AUD
Berger-Levrault. Paris. 1975. 1st Ed. 357 PP with 20 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Very good. French text. 21 x 15.2.
From Spitzbergen island in the North to New Zealand in the South. The Pacific Islands, West Indies ...
11826 VILLARET, Bernard, BATAILLE, M. C., et al... LES ILES DU PACIFIQUE
$10.00 AUD
Larousse. Paris. 1980. 1st edition in Collection Monde et Voyages. 240 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Title Page: Nguzu Nguzu of the Solomon Islands. FEP: Outrigers from New Caledonia. REP: Spear fisherman. Pictorial laminated boards a little worn. Foxing spots on first and last leaves, o/wise very good. French text. 26.5 x 22.5. 2030532223
The islands of the Pacific Ocean: geography & discovery. The Galapagos to Australia, Hawaii to New Zealand & Easter Island.
10924 VILLIERS, Alan PILOT PETE
$15.00 AUD
Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1963. Reprint of the 1953 original. 64 PP with 61 illustrations by H. T. Cauldwell. Eps. Hard cover, dj. Small stain on lower part of front cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Note on the verso of the front endpaper, o/wise near fine. Scarce. 22.2 x 14.5.
Novel set on a rocky island, far away in the South Pacific.
10302 WADDELL, Eric & NUNN, Patrick D. (editors) THE MARGIN FADES - Geographical Itineraries in a World of Islands
$15.00 AUD
Institute of Pacific studies. Suva. 1993. 1st Ed. X, 297 PP with 17 figures & 15 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5. 0982020092X
Thirteen essays presenting a new portrait of geography in the Pacific: Contemporary Industrialization of Fiji. Jean-Marie Tjibaou: Kanak Witness to the World. What Future Pacific Cities?...
46996 WAKEFIELD, Edward Jerningham ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND 1839-1844 (in Two Volumes)
$60.00 AUD
N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1971. Reprint of the 1845 original. No. 74 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. Volume I: (2), X, 482 PP, 1 large folded map at rear of volume. Volume II: (2), X, 546 PP. Hard cover, simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front and spine), glassine covers. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine set. 22 x 14.7. 9060720946
Adventure in New Zealand from 1839 to 1844; with some account of the beginning of the British colonization of the Islands.
75856 WALBRAN, Captain John T. BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST NAMES: Their Origin and History
$25.00 AUD
Douglas & McIntyre. Vancouver. 1977. 1st paperback edition of the 1971 reprint (1909 original). Preface by M. P. Jordan and introduction by G. P. V. Akrigg. XVI, (4), 546 PP, plus 21 b/w plates and 2 maps of the coast line of British Columbia on double page (Southern Coast Line & Northern Coast Line). Fp: Portrait of Captain Vancouver, RN. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Wrinkles on the clear plastic protection of front cover and spine, otherwise near fine. 21.5 x 14. 9780888941435
63517 WALDMAN, Michael PLANET USTINOV - Following the Equator with Sir Peter Ustinov
$10.00 AUD
Simon Schuster. London. 1998. 1st Ed., with an epilogue by Sir Peter Ustinov. 256 PP with 6 b/w photo and colour illustrations (8 maps with 1 insert and 210 photos). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 26.5 x 20.5. 0684819759
Travels (a century later) in the footsteps of Mark Twain: Hawaii, Kiribati, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, India, Mauritius & South Africa.
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
51366 WALKER, Ian TALL SHIPS AND CANNIBALS. The Story of Captain Richard Copping of Hobart Town
$25.00 AUD
Navarine Publishing. Hobart. 2005. 1st edition limited to 1000 copies. Publication No. 60 in the Roebuck Society series. VIII, 152 PP with 42 b/w illustrations. FEP: Map of the Northern & Southern Hemispheres. REP: Map of Oceania. Pictorial laminated boards, dj. Fine. 097513311X
IRD Editions. Paris. 1999. 1st Ed. 310 PP with 41 location maps, 29 botanic sketches and 114 colour photos. Pictorial laminated card covers. Fine. French text. 26.7 x 13.5. 2709914301
Traditional Fruit growing and Food in Oceania. Ethnobotanic inventory of fruits in Oceania. Scientific, common (English, French and Bichlamar) and vernacular names.
11808 WARD, Marion W. & van NUFFEL, Sandra (editors) CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL MELANESIA - Fifth Waigani Seminar
$25.00 AUD
Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU/ UPNG. Canberra. 1972. 1st Ed. Opening address by M. To Liman. 556 PP (typescript) with figures. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 25.5 x 20.5. 0708107532
Papers delivered at the 5th Waigani Seminar held in Port Moresby 14-20 May 1971.
57879 WARD, Marion W. & van NUFFEL, Sandra (editors) CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL MELANESIA - Fifth Waigani Seminar
$20.00 AUD
Research School of Pacific Studies/ANU/UPNG. Canberra. 1972. 1st Ed. Opening address by M. To Liman. 556 PP (typescript) with figures. Pictorial soft cover. Covers rubbed, corners worn, name of previous owner on title page. Very good working copy. 25.5 x 20.5. 0708107532
Papers delivered at the 5th Waigani Seminar held in Port Moresby 14-20 May 1971. Title XI: Transport - The role of co-operative in coastal shipping, by Michael R. Grey.
57889 WARD, Marion W., TARUA, Susan C. & DUDLEY, May (editors) THE POLITICS OF MELANESIA - Fourth Waigani Seminar
$20.00 AUD
Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU/ UPNG. Canberra. 1970. 1st Ed. Preface by C. D. Rowley. 734 PP (typescript) with figures. Pictorial soft cover. Front cover with rubbed patch. Name of previous owner on title page. Very good working copy. 25.5 x 20.5. 0708107524
47 papers delivered at the 4th Waigani Seminar held in Port Moresby 9-15 May 1970.
54640 WARD, Professor R. G. (editor) THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY / RESEARCH SCHOOL OF PACIFIC STUDIES - ANNUAL REPORT 1992
$10.00 AUD
ANU / RSPS. Canberra. 1993. 1st Ed. 150 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5.
Report of the Director, by Professor R. G. Ward... The work of the School in 1992: Divsion of Pacific and Asian History, by Professor D. Denoon... Division of Society and Environment (Anthropology, Biogeography and Geomorphology... ) ...
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.
53119 WARD, R. Gerard (editor) AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC 1790-1870, A history, geography and ethnography pertaining to American involvement and Americans in the Pacific taken from contemporary newspapers, etc. [in 8 volumes]
$450.00 AUD
The Gregg Press. Ridgewood, N.J., USA. 1966 & 1967. 1st edition with b/w illustrations. Introduction by Ernest S. Dodge. Vol. 1: (4), 316 PP with 35 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Advertising sailing card of the clipper ship "Robin Hood". Vol. 2: XIII, 596 PP with 56 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: U.S. Sloop of war "Portsmouth". Vol. 3: XIII, 655 PP with 59 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Advertising card of the clipper ship "Anglo Saxon". Vol. 4: XIII, 695 PP with 52 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: A Marquesan Chief. Vol. 5: XIII, 578 PP with 41 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Man of the New Hebrides. Vol. 6: XI, 572 PP with 32 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Chief of Rarotonga. Vol. 7: XIII, 545 PP with 31 illust., plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Chief Poulaho, from Tonga. Vol. 8: VII, 295 PP. Fp: Barque "Mermaid". Volume 1 in a slipcase containing also 8 large folded charts. All volumes in original decorated cloth cover. Occasional foxing. Very good complete set. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 26.5 x 17.5.
Volume 1: Abaiang to Baker. Volume 2: Bampton reefs to Futuna. Volume 3: Gaferut to Kwajalein. Volume 4: Ladd's Island to Motu Iti. Volume 5: Namoluk to Pingelap. Volume 6: Pitcairn to Tabiteuea. Volume 7: Tahiti to Zephyr shoal. Volume 8: Appendix and Index. 8 Charts: Cape Horn to Cape Corrientes. Pacific Ocean: S.E. sheet (Cook Island to Easter Island). Pacific Ocean / S.W. sheet (New Guinea/Australia to Tonga). Pacific Ocean / N.W. sheet (Japan to Philippines). Archipel des Tuamotu. Tonga or Friendly Islands. Fiji Islands. Cape Corrientes to Kodiak Island.
53371 WARD, R. Gerard (editor) AMERICAN ACTIVITIES IN THE CENTRAL PACIFIC 1790-1870, A history, geography and ethnography pertaining to American involvement and Americans in the Pacific taken from contemporary newspapers, etc. - Volume 5
$35.00 AUD
The Gregg Press. Ridgewood, N.J., USA. 1967. 1st Ed. Vol. 5: XIII, 578 PP with 41 illustrations, plus 7 folded maps. Fp: Man of the New Hebrides. Decorated cloth cover. Ex library copy, with library stamp (in blind) on title page and page 37, and withrawn stamp on outside edges. Contents are otherwise near fine. 26.5 x 17.5.
Vol. 5: Entries for Namoluk to Pingelap. 23 on Nauru (34 pages), 10 on New Caledonia (16 pages). 4 on New Guinea (34 pages)... 16 on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas ( 45 pages
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...
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..
12108 WAVRIN, Marquis de GALAPAGOS - Iles Enchantees
$10.00 AUD
Libris. Liege. 1942. 1st Ed. 252 PP, plus 8 pages with 6 b/w photos and 1 map of the Galapagos. Pictorial soft covers, a little cocked, o/wise good condition. French text. 19 x 13.
A three-month stay in the Galapagos Archipelago by a naturalist before WWII.
51024 WEBER, Thérèse & WATSON, Jeanie (editors) COOK'S PACIFIC ENCOUNTERS: The Cook-Forster Collection of the Georg-August University of Göttingen
$45.00 AUD
National Museum of Australia. Canberra. 2006. 1st Ed., with an introduction by Craddock Morton. XIV, 110 PP with 2 maps in colour (Pacific voyages of Captain Cook, and Polynesian migration routes), b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial card covers. Folded flyer for exhibition and photocopy of press review loosely inserted. Fine. 21.5 x 24. 1876944471
Catalogue of the exhibition held at the National Museum of Australia: 22nd June to 10 September 2006, together with 3 essays. Cook's voyages to the Pacific by Michelle Hetherington. Pacific cultural heritage: the Göttingen Cook-Forster collection by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin & Gundolf Krüger. Collecting from the Collectors: Pacific islanders and the spoils of Europe, by Jennifer Newell.
59586 WEDGWOOD, Camilla H. DEATH AND SOCIAL STATUS IN MELANESIA
$30.00 AUD
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. London. 1927. Reprint from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. LVII, July-December 1927. 377-397 PP. Soft cover. Dedicatory note at top of front cover to Ian H. Hogbin ..., dated and signed by C.H. Wedgwood. Foxing spots throughout, o/wise fine. Scarce. 27.5 x 18.8.
37588 WEEKS, Stanley B. & MECONIS, Charles A. THE ARMED FORCES OF THE USA IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
$20.00 AUD
Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. in The Armed Forces of Asia series. XX, 300 PP with 5 maps, 8 tables and 8 organigrams. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.8 x 15. 1864489219
Organisation, roles and functions of each branch of the armed forces of the United States of America in the Asia and Pacific region. Historical background...
76364 WEINER, Annette B. & SCHNEIDER, Jane CLOTH AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE
$25.00 AUD
Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC. 1991 1st paperback edition in the "Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry". XVI, 432 PP with 27 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers illustrated front. Light foxing around page edges, otherwise fine. 23 x 15. 0874749956
Chapter 2: Why Cloth? Wealth, Gender, and Power in Oceania. Chapter 3: Cloth and the Creation of Ancestors in Madagascar. ...Chapter 12: The Changing Fortunes of Three Archaic Japanese Textiles.
50505 WENDT, Albert THE ANGRY YOUNG MEN OF OCEANIA (in Courier)
$10.00 AUD
UNESCO. Paris. 1976. February 1976 Special Issue The Search for Cultural Identity. Contains article between P.4 and 11, & page 32 with 9 b/w photos.
Young writers and artists are leading a cultural reawakening in the Pacific.
60636 WENDT, Albert POULIULI
$5.00 AUD
Penguin Books. Sydney. 1987. Paperback reprint of the 1977 original. (6), 147 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Faint ageing of paper. Name of previous owner on preliminary page, o/wise very good. 18 x 11. 0140096817
57868 WEYER, Edward, Jr. PRIMITIVE PEOPLES TODAY
$20.00 AUD
Crescent Books. New York. c. 1965. 1st Ed. 288 PP with 14 sketch maps, 58 colour and 154 b/w photos. Hard cover, decoration in blind on front and back boards, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 28.5 x 22.2.
Sub-title: A uniquely revealing account of life outside civilization.
62294 WHITCOMBE & TOMBS THE STORY OF THE PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD
Whitcombe & Tombs. Auckland. c. 1935. Revised and enlarged edition. 153 PP, plus 12 pages with 4 maps and 15 b/w illustrations. Title page: Drake's first view of the Pacific Ocean. Fp: Captain James Cook (1728-1779). Cloth cover, illustrated front. Foxing. Very good. 18.2 x 12.5.
51758 WHITE, Geoffrey M. & LINDSTROM, Lamont (editors) CHIEFS TODAY - Traditional Pacific Leadership and the Postcolonial State
$20.00 AUD
Stanford University Press. Stanford, Ca. 1997. 1st Ed., in Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific series. XIV, 6, 344 PP with 1 genealogical tree and 1 map on double page. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22.5 x 15. 9780804728515
33285 WHITE, Osmar TIME NOW, TIME BEFORE
$10.00 AUD
Heinemann. London. 1967. 1st Ed. X, 260 PP with 6 head pieces by Erica McGilchrist. Eps: Map of Australia and surrounding seas. Hard cover, dj with chips around edges. Stamp of a previous owner on half title page and last page. Name of previous owner at top of title page. Some foxing, o/wise near fine. 22.5 x 14.2.
The author, an Australian newspaper writer describes 6 episodes of life in South-East Asia and the South Pacific between 1949 and 1963. 2 in Papua New Guinea, 1 in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, 1 in the Anglo French condominium of the New Hebrides, 1 in Indonesia, and 1 in Portuguese Timor.
57712 WIEST, Andrew & MATTSON, Gregory Louis THE PACIFIC WAR
$20.00 AUD
MBI Publishing Company. St Paul, Mn, USA. 2001. 1st US edition, in the Campaigns of World War II series. 256 PP with b/w photos and colour illustrations (maps, artworks and 3 photos). Pictorial laminated boards, dj (closed tear). Near fine. 30.2 x 23.5. 0760311463
57319 WILLIAMS, Basil & DUNCAN Jim NEW ZEALAND IN FOCUS
$10.00 AUD
Books for Pleasure. Auckland. 1977. 1st Ed. No pagination, 62 PP with colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. 29.2 x 21. 086866066X
57636 WILLIAMS, Glyndwr THE GREAT SOUTH SEA: English Voyages and Encounters, 1570-1750
$15.00 AUD
Yale University Press. New Haven, USA. 1997. 1st Ed. XV, 300 PP with 4 maps and 42 b/w illust. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner on title page. Fine. 24 x 16. 0300072449
The world encompassed: Drake and his Successors. Dampier's explorations and writings... Anson's circumnavigation.
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
State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. 2008. 1st Ed. Foreword by Regina Sutton. VI, 42 PP with 10 b/w and 20 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.2. 0731371933
Catalogue to an exhibition held in 2009. Mapping of Antarctica, 1657-1990. James Cook: Death of a hero. Art of the Surveyor...
76375 WILSON ANASTASIOS, Meaghan THE PACIFIC IN THE WAKE OF CAPTAIN COOK WITH SAM NEILL
$25.00 AUD
HarperCollins Publishers. Sydney. 2018. 1st edition by Sam Neill. XIV, 448 PP with b/w illustrations: 3 maps on double page, 6 head pieces and 14 b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 80 colour illustrations. Hard covers, dj. Fine. 24.4 x 16. 9781460756393
57740 WILSON, Donald C., GROSSMAN, David L. & KENNEDY, Kerry J. (editors) ASIA AND THE PACIFIC - Issues of Educational Policy, Curriculum and Practice
$15.00 AUD
Detselig Enterprises. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 1990. 1st Ed. (6), 198 PP with tables and figures. Pictorial soft cover. Note at top of title page signed by co-editor Donald C. Wilson. Fine. 23 x 15.3. 1550590081
33714 WILSON, Margaret (editor) SOUTH PACIFIC FESTIVAL OF ARTS - SOUVENIR PROGRAMME
$30.00 AUD
South Pacific Festival of Arts. Port Moresby. 1980. 1st Ed. 120 PP with b/w and colour illust. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 28.8 x 21.2.
Souvenir programme published for the Third Festival held in Port Moresby and regional centres of Papua New Guinea, between 29th June and 12th July 1980.
73697 WINCHESTER, Simon THE PACIFIC - The Ocean of the Future
$10.00 AUD
William Collins. London. 2015. Reprint. (XIV), 492 PP with b/w illustrations and 3 double-page maps. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.6. 9780007550760
76340 WINCHESTER, Simon THE PACIFIC - The Ocean of the Future
$20.00 AUD
William Collins. London. 2015. 1st Ed. XVI, 492 PP with 12 engravings on title page and chapter openers, 38 b/w illustrations including 3 maps on double-page. FEP: Hokule'a. REP: US Navy Fleet. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.5. 9780007550753
National Geographic Society. Washington. 1978. 1st Ed. 224 PP with colour illustrations, including photos by James A. Sugar. Hard cover, device on front board, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket with a sunned spine and a few small chips, o/wise a near fine copy. 26 x 18. 0870442538
54767 WINKELMANN (Photos by) VIEWS OF NEW ZEALAND
$120.00 AUD
Wildman & Arey. Auckland. c. 1920. Album with 18 pages with 18 sepia plates by Winkelmann, tipped in and 9 tissue sheets . Soft covers with light shelf wear, front cover with gilt title and a circular photo vignette, ties with tassel. Near fine. Oblong: 22.8 x 28.6..
A scarce item.
11812 WINSLOW, John H. (Edit.) THE MELANESIAN ENVIRONMENT (Ninth Waigani Seminar)
$20.00 AUD
ANUP. Canberra. 1977. XXXIV, 562 PP with tables & figures in text. Eps: Map of South Pacific showing population figures. Orig. cloth cover (front speckled), o/wise contents near fine. 24 x 18.5.
Papers from various contributors following the Ninth Waigani Seminar held in Port Moresby from 2-8th May, 1975. Chapters on the Environment and its role in Prehistory, Fishing, Conservation, Extracting Minerals and Energy, Forest Resources, Tourism, Health and Planning.
58991 WISNIOWSKI, Sygurd TIKERA OR CHILDREN OF THE QUEEN OF OCEANIA
$15.00 AUD
Auckland University Press. Auckland. 1972. 1st edition in the "New Zealand Fiction" series, of the 1877 Polish original "Dzieci Krolowej Oceanii". Translated by Jerzy Podstolski. Edited and introduced by Dennis McEldowney. XXVI, 311 PP with 1 map of North Island of New Zealand. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Near fine. 22.3 x 14.5.
71416 WITHEY, Lynne VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY, Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
$20.00 AUD
Hutchinson. London. 1988. 1st UK edition. 512 PP with 36 b/w illustrations. Eps: Mappemonde with Voyages of Captain James Cook. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Discreet signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 24.2 x 16. 0091736021
Account of the last great age of European sea exploration, making use of the fragments of oral traditions, collected by early missionaries and anthropologists as well as the discoverers' notes.
53182 WOJCICKI, L. John FROM HELL TO HOPE: How Nouvelle France became Australia's New Italy (in Historic Australia)
$10.00 AUD
Historic Australia / DBS Publishing. Sydney. 1983. Volume 1, No. 3, March / April 1983. 100 PP. Contains article P. 51 to 53 with 3 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover with a few small creases. Very good. 29 x 21.
59204 WOLFF, Bente EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR OCEANISTS - DIRECTORY OF MEMBERS 1996
$15.00 AUD
The European Society for Oceanists / Institute of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen. 1996. 1st Ed. 111 PP. Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15.
Directory up to date: End November 1996.
33185 WOOD, Gordon L. THE PACIFIC BASIN
$15.00 AUD
Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1930. 1st Ed. XII, 340 PP with 180 b/w illust. (maps, photos and sketches). REP: regional map of the Pacific (in colour). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Rear endpaper split, some pencil underlining. Good. 20.5 x 14.
General Survey. Malaysia and the East Indies. Australia. New Zealand. The Pacific Islands. Asia. North and South America.
73292 WOODHOUSE, Margaret & TRYON, Gaye (compiler) Cumulative Index to the PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY: Volumes 16 to 25 (August 1945 to July 1955)
$65.00 AUD
Pacific Manuscript Bureau, Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU. Canberra. 1984. 1st edition, Robert Langdon (editor). 346 PP. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine. Fine. 28.7 x 21.8. 0867844744
12888 WOODS, Gay (editor) SOUTH PACIFIC DOSSIER
$15.00 AUD
Australian Council for Overseas Aid. Canberra. 1978. 1st Ed. Foreword by Michael P. Sullivan. (2), 132 PP with 1 map & b/w illust. Pictorial soft covers with light foxing, o/wise near fine. 29.7 x 21. 0909831130
A general view and fact sheet on the nations and territories of the South West Pacific. The hopes, dreams & aspirations of their inhabitants.
58674 WORLD BANK KNOWLEDGE FOR DEVELOPMENT - World Development Report 1998/99
$15.00 AUD
The World Bank / Oxford University Press. New York. 1999. 1st printing, September 1999. Foreword by James D. Wolfensohn. VIII, 251, (5) PP with 5 colour plates (1 world map and 4 headpieces), 10 tables, 37 figures and 60 boxes. Pictorial card covers. Near fine. 26.5 x 20. 0195211189
75197 WORTH, Captain Henry J. VOYAGE OF H.M.S. "CALYPSO" TO THE PACIFIC
$30.00 AUD
Colin Hinchcliffe, "Empire Books". York, UK. c.1995. Facsimile reprint of articles published in "The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle", issues of 1852. 52 PP (recto only). Soft covers, device and title on front cover, spiral bound. Near fine. 29.9 x 21.
The author, Captain Henry J. Worth of H. M. S. Calypso, sailed from Plymouth on 18th March 1846 / Teneriffe 11/04/1846 / Rio de Janeiro 18/05/1846 / 01/07/1846 Diego Ramerez (Cape Horn) / Valparaiso 17th July 1846 ... Central America & Island of Cocos ... Tahiti and Society Islands. ... Pitcairn Island ... return on 13th September 1848.
74536 WRIGHT, Harrison M. NEW ZEALAND, 1769-1840: Early Years of Western Contact
$20.00 AUD
Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Mass. 1980. 3rd printing of the 1959 original. Harvard Historical Monograph No. XLII. XII, 225, (3 publications) PP with 1 map of New Zealand North Island and an insert. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dust jacket. A fine copy. 20.5 x 14. 0620003674
Chapter II: Traders and Whalers.
65721 WRIGHT, Malcolm THE GENTLE SAVAGE
$25.00 AUD
Lansdowne Press. Sydney. 1966. 1st Ed. Foreword by Commander Eric Feldt. (10), 172 PP, plus 12 pages with 25 b/w photos. Fp: The approaching monsoon seen from a New Guinea beach. Eps: map of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Name of previous owner on title page. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Occasional foxing. Near fine. 22 x 14.
41097 WRIGHT, Rob WITH HOOK, LINE AND SNORKEL IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD
Pacific Publications. Sydney. 1969. 1st Ed. 168 PP with 1 map on double page, 1 drawings and 3 tail pieces, plus 32 pages with 1 sketch and 62 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean. Hard cover, dj. Dedicatory note on title page, signed by the author. Near fine. 22.4 x 14.2.
The author's personal experiences, mostly in Fiji.
72397 WYNNE, Barry THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO DIE - Teehu Makimare's 2,000 mile drift in an open boat across the South Seas
$35.00 AUD
Souvenir Press. London. 1966. 1st Ed. Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister of New Zealand. 158 PP with 3 maps & 2 plans, plus 12 pages with 25 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Faint foxing on outside edges, signature of previous owner on FFEP, o/wise near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
A short inter island (Manihiki to Rakahanga) trip of the "Tearoha" that ended 64 days later in Erromango, Vanuatu.
60099 YENSEN, Helen, HAGUE, Kevin & McCREANOR, Tim HONOURING THE TREATY - An Introduction for Pakeha to the Treaty of Waitangi
$10.00 AUD
Penguin Books. Auckland. 1989. 1st Ed. 157 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Offsetting of the inside of covers and ageing of paper. Very good reading copy. 19.8 x 13 014012425X
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
75338 YOUNG, John M.R. AUSTRALIA'S PACIFIC FRONTIER, Economic and Cultural Expansion into the Pacific: 1795-1885
$15.00 AUD
Cassell Australia. Melbourne. 1967. 1st edition in Problems in Australian History series. (6), 111, (3 index) PP. Library binding: hard cover with original soft wrappers pasted down, clear plastic protection. Ex-library copy with stamps on title page, and number on spine. Very good working copy. 21.8 x 14.
Sealing trade, bay and offshore whaling, beachcomber community, sandalwood, blackbirding...
42180 YPMA, Herbert PACIFIC ISLAND
$15.00 AUD
Stewart, Tabori & Chang. New York. 1996. 1st US edition of the 1996 original published by Thames and Hudson. World Design series. 160 PP with 145 full-colour photographs. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 23. 1556704798
Tatau, the origin of the tattoo. Maori mythology... Coral churches of the Cook Islands...
13278 ZELDINE, Georges L'HEMISPHERE PACIFIQUE, Réalités et Avenirs
$20.00 AUD
Author. Nouméa. 1984. 1st Ed. 80 PP with 1 map. Pictorial card cover. Dedicatory note at top of title page signed by the author. Foxing spots on outside edges. French text. Near fine. 20.9 x 14.5.
Geostrategy and policy of the Pacific rim countries. France's point of view, with her overseas territories.
40008 ZELLNER, Peter PACIFIC EDGE - Contemporary Architecture on the Pacific Rim
$20.00 AUD
Thames and Hudson. London. 1998. 1st Ed. 224 PP with 496 illustrations (b/w photos, plans, sketches and 216 colour photos). Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27.8 x 25.8. 050034163X
A survey of the region's contemporary architecture, presented thematically rather than geographically to demonstrate the cross culture architecture.