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Alice's visit to the Hawaiian Islands

by KROUT, MARY H

New York [et al]: American Book Co, 1900. 12mo, pp. [5]-208; double-p. frontispiece map in color, a number of illustrations in the text throughout, mostly from photographs; near fine in original decorative green cloth. Fictional account of a trip to the islands, for advanced students. Issued in the publisher's Eclectic School Readings series. Not in American Travellers Abroad.

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$40.25

On Ari'is in Tahiti

by Salmon, Tati

New Plymouth [New Zealand]: Thomas Avery, 1910. 8vo, pp. [39]-46 (i.e. 8 pages); original printed salmon wrappers, stapled; spine chipped, staples rusty; good. An offprint from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, volume.19, no. 1. A study of fourteenth-century migration from Tahiti to New Zealand. O'Reilly & Reitman 5064.

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$86.25

Cruise of the "Alert." Four years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene waters. (1878-82.)

by COPPINGER, RICHARD WILLIAM, Dr

London: Swan Sonnenschien and Co., n.d., 1883. Large 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], 256; 16 full-p. wood-engraved illustrations from photographs by F. North, R. N., and from sketches by the author, identified on the title as Staff Surgeon in the Royal Navy; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and red on upper cover, in gilt only on spine, t.e.g.; several signatures extended, top of spine cracked, bottom of spine and extremities rubbed; all else very good. Ferguson 8682 citing the 1883 edition: "In the... Read more about this item

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$258.75

Voyages to the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-West Coast, Feejee Island, South Shetlands, & c.

by Fanning, Edmund

Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press. 1970. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Faint discolouration to spine. Glue stain to hinges at free endpapers [appears to be a publication flaw as other Gregg Press book has the same issue]. 324 pages. Includes " With an Account of the New Discoveries Made in the Southern Hemisphere Between the Years 1830-1837 also, The Origin, Authorization, and Progress of the First American National South Sea Exploring Expedition, With... Read more about this item

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$22.88

Catálogo de las lenguas de las naciones conocidas, y numeracion, division, y clases de estas segun la diversidad de sus idiomas y dialectos

by Hervás y Panduro, Lorenzo

Madrid: en la imprenta de la administracion del Real Arbitrio de Beneficencia se hallará en la librería de Ranz calle de la Cruz, 1800. First edition, 2 volumes (of 6) in 1; small 4to, pp. xvi, 396; 480; 4 folding tables (2 in each volume); later three-quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 3, t.e.g.; a nice copy. This, an Ayer Linguistics duplicate with a Newberry release stamp on the verso of the second flyleaf. These first two... Read more about this item

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$747.50

A voyage of pleasure. The log of Bernard Gilboy's transpacific cruise in the boat ''Pacific'' 1882-1883

by Tompkins, J. B., editor

Cambridge, MD: Cornell Maritime Press, 1956. First edition thus, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1],64; frontispiece portrait, 6 plates, plus a large folding track chart at the back, and a folding plate of the line drawings of the Pacific; near fine copy in the dust jacket. A single-handed passage from San Francisco to (almost) Australia. It was originally published by the author in Sydney in 1883.

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$40.25

History and general views of the Sandwich Islands' mission

by Dibble, Sheldon, Rev

New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1839. First edition, 12mo, pp. 268; orig. brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends a little cracked and bare spots neatly inpainted; modest foxing; old library label removed from spine; old manuscript ex-libris on blank flyleaf reading "No. 159 David Whitcombs Apprentice Library, Templeton, 1848; a good, sound copy. Forbes 1141: "The text contains two parts. The first two chapters are on the early history of the Islands up to the visit of Captain Cook. Chapter III,... Read more about this item

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$747.50

Moresby mice. A souvenir of the Papuan campaign

by Graham, G. B. (Bill)

Melbourne: Robertson and Mullins, n.d., 1943. 4to, pp. [24]; illustrated throughout with photographs and cartoons by Graham; original cloth-backed pictorial boards printed in green and black; small abrasion at the gutter near the bottom of the spine; all else very good. "The Aussies and the Yanks in Papua ... who fought and worked and laughed together during the grim days of 1942-43."

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$51.75

Two scrapbooks documenting the life of Ululani Franklin Lemon

Honolulu. Two folio albums, 16½" x 14½" and 14½" x 12¼", about 200 pp. total, containing ephemera, news clippings, and photographs. Ululani Franklin Lemon - "Uncle Nani" - was born in Honolulu in 1881 to a naturalized Canadian father and a Hawaiian mother. He lived his entire life in Honolulu and died there in 1950. In 1902 he graduated Kamehameha School for Boys as a scholarship student. He had flourished during his school years, establishing himself as a star athlete in gymnastics, track and field... Read more about this item

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$4,025.00

Exploring the deep Pacific

by RAITT, HELEN

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1956. First edition, 8vo, xvi, 272; endpaper maps, illustrations in the text, 16 photographs on rectos and versos of 8 plates; a fine copy in the dust jacket. "A woman's story of her adventures in the man's world of an oceanographic expedition" (cover).

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$34.50

Alexander Baranov & a Pacific empire

by Engstrom, Elton, & Allan Engstrom

Juneau, AK: the authors, 2004. First edition, 4to, pp. xvi, 227, [4]; illus. throughout (some in color); fine copy in the dust-jacket. This copy signed by both authors on the half-title-p. Baranov was Chief Manager of the Russian American Company from 1790 to 1818 and was known to Americans as the "Governor of Alaska," during Alaska's earliest era of exploration and commercial development.

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$51.75

A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world, undertaken and performed by royal authority. Containing an authentic, entertaining, full, and complete history of Captain Cook's first, second, third, and last voyages, undertaken by order of His present Majesty, for making discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c. in the southern and northern hemispheres ... To which will be added, genuine narratives of other voyages of discovery round the world, &c. undertaken, performed, and written by English circum-navigators

by Cook, James, Capt., & George William Anderson

London: Alex. Hogg, 1784. First collected edition of Cook's three voyages, folio, 2 volumes in 1; pp. iv, [4] list of subscribers, [5]-398; [399]-655, [1]; complete with the engraved frontispiece portrait of Cook, and with the full complement of 155 engraved plates an charts, but without the large folding world map; clean tear in D2 (no loss; one plate with tear at the top causing partial loss to the imprint and border, a half dozen or so other plates torn, with old repairs on versos and no loss;... Read more about this item

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$4,600.00

Grammar and vocabulary of the Lau language, Solomon Islands

by Ivens, Walter G

Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1921. 12mo, pp. 64; frontispiece and 2 plates, ex-Iowa State, with their bookplate marked withdrawn, withdrawn rubberstamp on title-p., preface, 1 plate, and 1 internal page; all else good and sound in later green cloth, gilt lettering on spine.

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$34.50

Yankee whalers in the south seas. Drawings by Richard M. Powers

by Whipple, A. B. C

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954. First edition, 8vo, pp. 304; map endpapers, illustrated throughout; occasional ink annotations, else fine in a lightly chipped jacket. Whaling lore, cannibalism, shipwrecks, and the story of Mocha Dick and Melville's classic novel.

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$28.75

The Right Hon. R. J. Seddon's (the Premier of New Zealand) visit to Tonga, Fiji, Savage Islands and the Cook Islands

by Seddon, R. J

Wellington, N.Z.: John Mackay, Government Printer, 1900. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], 445; folding map printed in colors; numerous full-p. illustrations from photographs; spine slightly discolored, but generally a very good, sound copy in original red cloth, gilt-lettered direct on spine and upper cover. An account of the visits made by the Prime Minister of New Zealand to various islands in the South Pacific during his convalescence. Eight appendices record various proclamations and addresses both... Read more about this item

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$172.50

Pitcairn: the island, the people, and the pastor. To which is added a short notice of the original settlement and present condition of Norfolk Island

by Murray, Thomas Boyles, Rev

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d., 1860. Twelfth edition, with a new preface bringing parts of the text up to date, 12mo, [2], xiv, [15]-414, [4] ads; engraved frontis, 17 plates, and a few small illustrations in text; very good in original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine, and gilt vignette of a ship on the upper cover.

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$230.00

Opening the Oceans

by Ruhen, Olaf

Sydney: Nautical Press. No DateCirca 1980. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. With 31 b/w plates and one folding map [32x49cm] exhibiting the discoveries made by Captain James Cook during his three voyages in H.M.S. Endeavour & H.M.S. Resolution. 189 pages. Study of the 18th and 19th century exploration of the Pacific. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all... Read more about this item

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$11.77

A trip through the Hawaiian Islands 7 - reels pictures - 7 and lecture showing native life in the islands and the world's largest active volcano Kilauea in active eruption..

by [Bonine, Robert Kates?]

Portland: Holly Press, n.d., 1920. Very large advertising broadside (poster) in three sections, each approximately 28" x 42" and approximately 84" x 42" overall, printed in black on tan paper; previous folds, but essentially fine and handsome. The type face, along with the fact that the Kilauea was erupting frequently in the early 1920s point to the first half of the 1920s as a date of printing. The illustrated film program is almost certainly based on the films of Robert Kates Bonine (1862-1923), a... Read more about this item

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$1,725.00

The Asiatic islands and New Holland: being a description of the manners, customs, character, and state of society of the various tribes by which they are inhabited: illustrated by 26 coloured engravings

by Shobrel, Frederic

London: R. Ackermann, n.d., 1824. First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 12mo, pp. [2], vii, [3], 291; [2], 289; 26 hand-colored plates; front hinge cracked at contents-page; slightly later half green calf over marbled boards, label missing on spine, otherwise very good. Many of the plates are after the drawings of Louis Choris. Issued as part of The World in Miniature series, published in 43 volumes 1821-27, and available separately from the publisher. Volume I is devoted to the Philippines, Sumatra, Java, the... Read more about this item

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$977.50

太平洋戦争への道 / Taiheiyou sensou e no michi [= The road to the Great Pacific War]

by Japan Association of International Relations

Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1963. 8vo, 8 vols, including a final volume out of series; text in Japanese; text illustrations, 3 folding maps; full gray cloth, title in white and gilt on spines; prospectuses for 6 volumes and two errata slips laid in, slight rubbing to spine of vol. 1, else fine. An important record of the Pacific Theater of World War II. The Japan Association of International Relations, led by Hikomatsu Kamikawa, conducted a three-year research project on the events leading up to Japan's... Read more about this item

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$402.50

Ko "Aotea" Waka. Te haerenga mai a Turi ke Aotea-Roa eni. Na Hetaraka Tautahi I korero, otira na raua ko Werahiko Taipuhi [drop title]. With: The Aotea canoe. The migration of Turi to Aotea-Roa (New Zealand)

by Hetaraka, Tautahi

[New Plymouth, New Zealand, 1900. 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [200]-210; [211]-233, [1]; original plain wrappers loose, but present). First edition in Tahitian and first edition in English of The "Aotea" Canoe, and 14th-century emigration from Tahiti to New Zealand. An offprint from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. 9. The first not in O'Reilly & Reitman; the second O'Reilly & Reitman 4620.

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$172.50

A dictionary of the Maori language ... sixth edition, revised and augmented under the auspices of the Polynesian Society

by Williams, Herbert W

Wellington: R. E. Owen, Government Printer, 1957. 8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 499, [5]; text in double column; full red cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; corners bumped, ex-library with call number on spine, perforated stamp on title page and checkout slip tipped in to free endpaper; very good.

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$40.25

Ka Palapala Hemolele a Iehova ko kakou akua o ke Kauoha kahiko a me ke Kauoha hou i unuhiia mailoko mai o na olelo kahiko Paiia no ko Amerika poe hoolaha Baibala

Oahu & Honolulu: Na na misionari i pai, 1843. First octavo edition, and the first one-volume edition of the Bible in Hawaiian. 8vo, pp. 1451, [1]; original full Hawaiian sheep, black morocco label lettered in gilt on spine; vertical crease in spine, small chips at spine ends, the whole moderately scuffed, old Bowdoin accession label at base of spine, upper joint cracked at the top. Contained in a new brown cloth clamshell box. Ex-Athenian Society of Bowdoin College, with the Society's bookplate, a... Read more about this item

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$7,475.00

A narrative of missionary enterprises in the South Sea islands; with remarks upon the natural history of the islands, origin, languages, tradition, and usages of the inhabitants ...Twenty-first thousand

by Williams, John, Rev

London: John Snow, 1840. 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 154; text in double column; frontispiece portrait, folding map of Polynesia, plus a number of wood engravings in the text; bound with: Koempfer, Engelbert, An account of Japan...abridged and arranged from the translation of J. G. Schuechzer, pp. xvi, 105; text in double column, wood-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page; bound with: Bligh, William, Lieut., Narrative of the mutiny on the Bounty, on a voyage to the South Seas...to which are added some... Read more about this item