Oceania
From Voyages & Discoveries In the South Seas 1792-1832 to The Ship Of Flame, a Sage Of the South Seas, from Voyages To the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-West Coast, Feejee Islands, South Shetlands, &C to A Song For Satawal,
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Oceania Books & Ephemera
by Michener, James a And Day, A Grove
(Sydney): Angus and Robertson, 1963. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Pp. [2], 3-277, [1]. Foreword by John McGeorge. Illustrated with a section of 16 plates, reproducing old portraits, pages of manuscript, the title page of a pamphlet, etc. References. Bibliography. Index. Decorated endpapers. Bound in black cloth with Knatchbull's signature in gilt on the front board, gilt lettering on spine. Former owner name on front free endpaper. In the color pictorial dust jacket that shows light...
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(Lawai, Kuai): Woolsey Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. 126. Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photography. With a list of Hawaiian-English words. Bound in tan cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket, which is price-clipped. Slight mottling to last few leaves, but no evidence of dampstaining. Inscribed by the author on the. From the author of Hawaii Cooks. Here Yardley presents her personal view and...
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Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. 8vo. Pp. ix, 297. Twelve illustrations and seven maps, bibliography, index. Printed in England. Gray-green publishers cloth, titles and illustrations in black on the cover and spine: back board minimally indented, a few pencil annotations, otherwise crisp and square with bright leaves. In the gray-green dust jacket repeating the covers with price 6/- on the spine and publishers advertising on the back panel: short closed...
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Berkeley: University of California Press. 8vo. 159pp., 2 maps, 5 plates. Bib., Index. Boards, d.j. Dust jacket lightly worn and chipped at extremities, otherwise VG/G
Adelaide, SA: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. FIne. Occasional full plate illustrations; spot illustrations throughout.. Two volumes. Pp. xi, 412; vii, 482. Frontispieces. Color plates. Vol. I with two fold-out maps. Bound in faux red leather with gilt lettering on spine. Light foxing to endpapers and edges. Bookseller tag (Robinsons Bookshop, Frankston) on front pastedowns. Facsimile of first edition published in London by Boone, 1841. Grey, 1812 - 1898, was...
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(Mona Vale, NSW): (Landsdown Slattery & Company), 1978. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. xxvii, [1], 2- 936. Introduction by F. M. Bladen. Illustrated with a couple two-color maps: one is a fold-out of the first farms on the Hawkesbury River; the other a fold-out of Port Stephens. Tables. Index. Bound in brown cloth, blindstamped decoration on front board, gilt lettering on spine. First published in Sydney, 1893. Includes a section on Norfolk Island, and...
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by [TRAVEL POSTER - Hong Kong]
[American President Lines]. First Edition. Near Fine. Travel poster printed in full color, recto only. Measures 23.25 inches x 34.5 inches (59cm x 87cm). Near Fine condition, with slight waviness along left edge that would be readily flattened under glass. No tearing, no creases, but two slight abrasions verso, as if tape had been hastily removed, not affecting image. Very slight fading to color along the "LSON" of Wilson, but only slightly perceptible, and that might be a production flaw, or design...
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by STIEHR, Réjane and Michel; Fançois de Goulet [TAHITI and MOOREA French Polynesia Tourist Guides]
Moorea; Vicennes, France: Stiehr; Goulet, 1970. Stiff Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. Patrick Stiehr (photos), Ken Morgan. One lot of four Tahitian tourist publications, all 8vo: From Tahiti to Moorea pp. 128; Pareu Tahiti (3rd edition) pp. 28; Around Moorea pp. 28; Moorea pp. 6. All with illustrated wraps saddle stapled, illustrated with black & white photo reproductions and maps. Around Moorea cover signed by the author, Francois de Goulet, edges lightly age toned. "Pareu Tahiti" rear cover has an ink...
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by [RABANAL, Herminio and Guillermo Blanco, D. V. Villadolid, Claro Martin, et al.]
Manila: Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources / Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, 1951. First Edition. Printed Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. With many b&w photographic plates, figures, tables, drawings. Printed paper wraps. Slight erausure to upper fore-edge corner of cover, else a lovely copy of the inaugural issue of this worthy and informed periodical. Includes articles on "The Preparation and Management of Bangos Fishpond Nursery in the Philippines," "The Cultivation and Biology of...
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Melbourne: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1926. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good+. Small 8vo. Pp. vi; 116. Frontispiece (The Endeavour). With seven other illustrations, including a map of the South Seas showing the tracks of the explorers who preceded Cook. Green cloth with blue lettering on cover. Dust jacket with loss to head and tail of spine; former owner's rubber stamp to ffep. Melbourne bookseller's tag affixed to front pastedown. All else remarkably well preserved. Wood, who wrote "The Discovery of...
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Amsterdam and New York: Nico Israel / Da Capo, 1971. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Facsimile edition of that published in 1745 by Birt, Newbury and Collyer. 8vo. Pp. 347. With a 39 pp. appendix documenting loot taken as prize treasure, astronomical data, etc. Simulated vellum with the clear protective cover. Thomas sailed on Anson's "Centurion" as mathemetician for four years -- the full length of its voyage. This account was published three years before Anson's official account. This is the...
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by A Lady [WALLIS, Mary Davis]
Ridgewood, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1967. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Thick 8vo. Pp. xv; 422. Glossary of Feejeean terms. Fold-out chart. Off-white sail cloth with printed design and title printed on spine. A very attractive copy with no detracting qualities. A facsimile reprint of the first edition, 1851. The author, Mary Davis Wallis, was the wife sea captain Benjamin Wallis of Salem, Massachusetts. For the 1840s and into the 1850s, Captain Wallis dominated trade in beche-de-mer -- sea cucumber -...
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Suva, Fiji: By Authority of the Government Printer, 1972. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated throughout with color and b&w photographs. 8vo. Pp. x, 462, xxix. Color frontispiece. Four color plates. With b/w illus., including some photo reproductions. With a section on Fijian orthography and a couple-page biography of Berthold Seemann. In addition, a brief history of botanical explorations in Fiji. Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Full green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. This copy in...
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by [BYRD, Richard Evelyn]
(Battle Creek, Michigan): (General Foods), 1932. First Editions. Tabloid Newspapers. Bifolium measuring 10 7/8 inches x 16 inches. Each issue printed double-sided on one sheet, folded to four pages. Illustrated with many black and white photos. Both issues with vertical and horizontal creases from original mailing. First issue with a minor half-inch tear at fore-edge center crease. Issue Vol. I No. 2 carries the banner headline "Byrd Broadcasts Make Radio History" and issue Vol. I No. 3 offers fresh...
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Honolulu: Alexander & Baldwin, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Pp. [iv], v-xiv, [2], 3-245. Frontis. black & white photograph of the Alexander & Baldwin Ltd, building on Bishop Street in Honolulu. Illustrated throughout with two-color sketches and the occasional black & white photograph. Includes fold-out family tree of Alexander & Baldwin family relationships; that fold-out with a couple light stains. Endpapers decorated with facsimiles of various Alexander & Baldwin legal documents. Bound...
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by KELLY, Celsus (translator & editor)
Cambridge: The University Press, Cambridge for the Hakluyt Society, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good-. Two volumes. 8vo. Vol. I: pp. xvii, 270; vol. II: pp. xv, 273-446. Ethnological introduction and other contributions by G. S. Parsonson. Blue cloth with stamped gilt device and lettering. Hakluyt Society Second Series: No. CXXVI & CXXVII. Printed in England. Volume I with fold-out maps and charts, index. Marginal notes in pencil both volumes. In the pale blue dust...
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by BYRON, John with Robert E. Gallagher (ed.)
Cambridge: The Hakluyt Society by Cambridge University Press, 1964. First Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. The publisher's Second Series, No. CXXII. 8vo. Pp., lxxxii, [2], 3-230. Frontis. portrait. Illustrations and maps. Bibliography. Index. Bound in light blue cloth with publisher's gilt ship emblem on front board, lettering in metallic copper on spine. In the dust jacket that shows light wear at head and tail of spine, with spine also a touch faded. Please see photos. Prices in US...
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North Adelaide: Corkwood Press, 1999. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Map Case Fine. Australiana. One text volume and one map folder, uniformly bound. 8vo. Pp. 207. Folding box contains two large-format maps, one in color. Text volume contains a several-page vocabulary of words and phrases collected from the Pidong tribe at the head of the Murchison River. Handsomely bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spines. Both the text volume and map box are in presentable condition, with...
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Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Good-. Douglas Maxted (dust jacket design). 8vo. Pp. [10], 11-238. Illustrated with black-and-white photography throughout. Endpaper maps. Bound in cream cloth with brown lettering stamped on spine. A bright copy in the illustrated dust jacket that shows fading to spine, edge-wear, notably with chips at head and tail of spine, and old, small tape repairs on verso. A fourth-generation Australian and nurse, de Grys...
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by LEDYARD, John [with] James Kenneth Munford (ed.)
Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University, 1963. First Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 8vo. Pp. l, [6], 7-264. Introduction by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Notes on flora by Helen M. Gilkey; notes on fauna by Robert M. Storm. Illustrated with reproductions of the title page and preliminaries from the first edition of Ledyard's journal (Hartford, 1783). Endpaper maps. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Bound in taupe cloth with gilt lettering within blue letter blocks on front board and spine. In the...
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by GUTHRIE, John [name on dust jacket:] (John Brodie)
London: Neville Spearman, 1955. Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good+. EB. Small 8vo. Pp. ix, 100. Introduction by Alan W. Mitchell.Afterword by Nigel Palethorpe. Frontis. photo portrait of the author. Illustrated with reproductions of family photos. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. Boards a tad splayed; offsetting to endpapers. A handsome copy in the illustrated dust jacket with spine faded, price of 7/6 intact on front flap. First published 1946,...
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(Mona Vale, NSW): (Landsdown Slattery & Company), 1978. Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Pp. [v], vi-xxxviii, [1], 2-856. Preface by Alexander Britton. Introduction by F. M. Bladen. Frontis. two-color map is a 1796 "Plan of Settlements of New South Wales." Another fold-out map in three-color presents "New South Wales in 1798". A third map is Van Diemen's Land ad parts of South Australia by Lieutenant Flinders. Tables. Index. Bound in brown cloth, blindstamped...
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by JOHNSON, Ebenezer (M. S. Batts, editor)
Vancouver: The Alcuin Society, 1974. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Fritz Jacobsen. 4to. Pp. 22. Introduction by Basil Stuart-Stubbs. Notes. Dark green half cloth over light green paper covered boards, title in black on paper tag mounted to the cover, endpaper illustrations and maps. Edition limited to 450, this copy hand numbered 270. Corners lightly bumped. Written by a youthful American deckhand, one of the earliest accounts of a voyage to the Pacific Northwest. A few copies were privately...
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by TWYFORD, I. T. and A.C.S. WRIGHT
London: Government of Fiji, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover and Map Case. Very Good. Large 8vo. Pp. xxix, 570; 23 loose folded color map sheets (scale 2 miles = 1 inch), 4 tables side-stapled, two folded color legends, one folded figure sheet. Volume 1 illustrated with maps, figures and tables in the text, black & white photo plates. Green cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Map box complete plus an extra copy of the Tables section. Boards crisp, binding tight, as unread save the loose Contents...
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by Roger M. Keesing and Peter Corris
Melbourne: Oxford University Press. 8vo. xi,219pp.,29 plates, 3 maps. Cloth, d.j. front endpaper rubbed; previous owner's name, otherwise near Fine/Fine.