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The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830
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lii+393 pages with 3 folding maps with one in back pocket, 18 illustrations and plates, appendices and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with blind-stamped edges to the cover in original jacket. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 116. First edition. In the wake of the navigators who opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the nineteenth century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave that merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was the Welshman John Davies who spent just over fifty years of his life on Tahiti and neighboring islands. He witnessed the rise of the Pomare dynasty, conversion to Christianity, reaction to attempt at theocratic government and the gradual encroachment of alien commerce and European rule. His colleagues have made their contribution to the history and anthropology of Polynesia. Davies himself, teacher, linguist and careful observer, wrote his own story of the mission, its personalities and their contact with the Polynesians, from the early phase of disillusionment through three decades of political and economic change, destruction and reconstruction. From this contact there emerged the uneasy compromise of missionary and indigenous beliefs and institutions that characterized Tahiti and its neighbors before and after the advent of French administration.
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Cronica de la Nueva Espana
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xxiv+843 pages with plates and index. Quarto (10 3/4" x 7 3/4") rebound in half red leather with gilt lettering to spine with original wrappers bound in. From the library of Zelia Nuttal and George M Foster. Limited to 500 copies. First edition. Cervantes de Salazar was one of the principal chroniclers who gathered data on the history and ethnography of Mexico. His most important book Cronica de la Nueva Espana (Chronicle of New Spain), written at the command of City Council. The manuscript of this work was sent by the author to Spain in 1567 with a request for the post of royal chronicler. This manuscript was uncovered in the early 1900s uncatalogued in the National Library of Madrid as an anonymous manuscript. the first volume was published in 1914 and the second and third in 1936. The Chronicle is fragmentary since the first part, which was to include the period up to the conquest of Yucatan, either was never written or was lost; and the second part, which was to be a history of the conquest,…
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Relaciones del Siglo XVIII: Iztlahuacan y sus Pueblos
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130 pages. Octavo (8" x 7 3/4") issued in wrappers. Edited by Luis Vargas Rea. From the library of professor George M Foster. Biblioteca Aportaci Histica, Ultimo Ejemplar de Esta Coleccion. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 61.Ixtlahuac is a word of Nahuatl origin; the name means "flat place". It was founded by Toltecs approximately A.D. 610; it is hard to be certain of the exact date of founding, because none of the groups who inhabited the region — Tecuexes, Tepehuanes, Coanes, Cazcanos, and Zacatecos — had a written language in this period. This Relacion is document 99 of the papers of Tronsco and the manuscript is located in Mexican Museum Library.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions…
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Noticias Sacadas de un Mss. Intitulado Relaciones de todas las cosas que en el Nuevo Mexico se han visto y sabido asi por mar como por tierra desde el ano 1538 hasta el de 1626
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Moose Fort Journals 1783-85
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Forced Native Labor in Sixteenth Century Central America
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130 pages. Octavo (8" x 7 3/4") issued in wrappers. Edited by Luis Vargas Rea. From the library of professor George M Foster. Biblioteca Aportaci Histica, Ultimo Ejemplar de Esta Coleccion. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 61.Ixtlahuac is a word of Nahuatl origin; the name means "flat place". It was founded by Toltecs approximately A.D. 610; it is hard to be certain of the exact date of founding, because none of the groups who inhabited the region — Tecuexes, Tepehuanes, Coanes, Cazcanos, and Zacatecos — had a written language in this period. This Relacion is document 99 of the papers of Tronsco and the manuscript is located in Mexican Museum Library.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions…
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72 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6 1/2") issued in wrappers. The rest of the title reads Fr. Geronimo de Zarate S Predicador de la Orden de los Menores de la Provincia del Santo Evangelio;dirigidas a Ntro Rmo. Pe Fre Francisco de Apodaca, Comisario General de todas las de esta Neueva Espana. Extractadas por Jose F Ramirez. Edited by Luis Vargas Rea. From the library of George M Foster. Biblioteca Aportaci Historica second series. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 51.Among the documents which the royal decree of February 21, 1790, ordered to be copied and sent to Spain was the well-known work entitled Las relaciones del Nuevo Mexico by Geronimo de Zarate Salmeron, A Franciscan. This important source composed in 1626 by one who had accompanied Juan de Onate to New Mexico, was copied into the second volume of the Memorias de Nueva Espana. One of these copies of Zarate's account is preserved in the second volume of the section "Historia" of the Archivo General de la Nacion in Mexico…
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The History of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830
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lii+393 pages with 3 folding maps with one in back pocket, 18 illustrations and plates, appendices and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with blind-stamped edges to the cover. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 116. First edition. In the wake of the navigators who opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the nineteenth century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave that merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was the Welshman John Davies who spent just over fifty years of his life on Tahiti and neighboring…
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The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799-1830: Second Series, No.CXVI
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The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799-1830 [Second Series, No. CXVI]
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Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg. Quarto. LIV, 392pp. Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. In the wake of the navigators who finally opened up the Pacific came missionaries, traders and finally administrators. In the early decades of the 19th century Polynesia was a rich field for the curious and the calculating, for writers and adventurers. The pioneer European settlers in Eastern Polynesia were ministers and mechanics sent out on the crest of an Evangelical wave the merged with the currents and eddies of trade and whaling to break down the isolation of the islands and their inhabitants. Among the pioneers was Welshman John Davies (1772-1855) who spent just over 50 years of his life on Tahiti and neighbouring islands. He witnessed the rise of the Pomare dynasty, conversion to Christianity, reaction to attempts at theocratic government, and the gradual encroachment of…
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The History of the Tahitian Mission 1799-1830
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THE HISTORY OF THE TAHITIAN MISSION 1799-1830
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Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1961 First edition. Edited by C. W. Newbury. liv, 392pp. 11 plates (1 folding), 6 text illustrations, 3 folding maps, folding table, large folding maps in rear pocket. Notes, index. Bibliography. Gilt-lettered and decorated blue cloth. A very fine and crisp copy (uncut) with printed dust jacket (lightly foxed, spine-faded). Davies was missionary to the South Sea Islands who spent 50 years on Tahiti and neighboring islands observing the "gradual encroachment of alien commerce and European rule." This account provides a wealth of information on decades of political and economic change. C. N. Newbury, editor of Davies' manuscript History, includes an epilogue which continues the history to 1860. Also included are supplementary papers from the correspondence of the missionaries..
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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Lucky You, What Science Has Done For Us
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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The Natyasastra - A Treatise on Hindu Dramaturgy and Histrionics Ascribed to Bharata-Muni, Volume I (Chapters I-XXVII)
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ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.
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Moose Fort Journals 1783-85
by Edwin Ernest "E E" Rich (1904-1979) editor
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xxx+392+iv pages with 3 fold out maps, appendixes and index. Royal octavo (9½" x 6½")issued in blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Edited by E.E. Rich, Assisted by A.M. Johnson. Introduction by G.P. de T. Glazebrook. Hudson Bay Record Society volume XVII. Number 1549 of a limited edition.A fort was built near the mouth of the Moose River on James Bay North East Ontario, Canada, by Charles Bayly, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, in the early 1670s. In the struggle between the English and French in Canada, the fort changed hands several times and shortly after 1696 was destroyed. In 1730 the company built a post close to the ruins of the original fort. This post has been in continuous operation to the present day. This is the first publication of the Record Society to deal specifically with affairs at the "Bottom of the Bay."Condition:Pages unread. A very good to fine copy without jacket as issued.
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Archivo Historico de Queretaro: Nicolas de San Luis Funda HUIMILPA, Queretaro en 1529
by Jose Maria Reyes from the library of professor George M Foster
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45 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") issued in wrappers. Edited by Luis Vargas Rea. From the library of professor George M Foster. First edition limited to 100 copies.George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in Latin America, and worldview. The quantity, quality, and long-term value of his scholarly work led to his election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976. Virtually all of…
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A Pictorial School History of the United States to Which are Added the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States
by Anderson, John J
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5 Barclay Street, New York: Clark & Maynard, Publishers. Embossed stamped leather, worn at edges & aling spine, hinges are starting, light off-setting on title, text is clear, mostly very clean with moderate amount of dust soil basically to turning edges , solid. Includes many, many maps, prints, engravings etc., several full color maps including, EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI AS OCCUPIED BY THE INDIANS; EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI AT THE CLOSE OF THE REVOLUTION; DOUBLED COLOR OF PART OF THE SOUTHERN STATES; SOUTHERN WESTERN STATES (during Lincoln's administration: Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Illinois); Maryland & Eastern Virginia (Lincoln's Administration); EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI AT THE CLOSE OF THE CIVIL WAR; TERRITORIAL GROWTH OF THE U.S.; EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI AT THE CLOSE OF THE MEXICAN WAR; TERRITORIAL GROWTH OF THE U.S.; and more.WONDERFUL old & scarce collectible for anyone who loves maps! . Fair. Hardcover. 1873.
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