Oceania
From A Narrative Of Missionary Enterprises In the South Sea Islands 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, we can help you find the oceania books you are looking for. As the world's largest independent marketplace for new, used and rare books, you always get the best in service and value when you buy from Biblio.com, and all of your purchases are backed by our return guarantee.
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Voyages To the South Seas, Indian and Pacific Oceans, China Sea, North-West Coast, Feejee Islands, South Shetlands, &C
by Fanning, Edmund
Journal of the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-2. Under Command of D. Lindsay (Including Map Folder with Two Maps)
by LINDSAY, David (D.)
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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$85.00
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38 and 39
by GREY, George
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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$110.00
Life in Feejee, or Five Years Among the Cannibals
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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LA VIE DE SAINT FRANÇOIS XAVIER DE LA COMPAGNIE DE JESUS, APOSTRE DES INDES ET DU JAPON
by Bouhours, Dominique
Paris: Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1682. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, [16], 633 pages, [11]. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in contemporary full leather with paneled spine bearing gilt titling and tooling. Binding shows moderate wear and rubbing, with minor splitting to head and tail of front hinge. Text block has light age toning and foxing, with early ink ownership markings to front pastedown, front free end paper, and title page. Title page bears an ex-library stamp reading "Ursuline...
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$550.00
The Soil Resources of the Fiji Islands (Complete In Two Volumes)
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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$175.00
The Voyage of the Endeavour
by WOOD, G. Arnold, M.A
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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A Short Account of a Northwest Voyage Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, & 1798
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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Historical Records of New South Wales. Vol. III. - Hunter 1796-1799
by BLADEN, F. M. (ed.)
(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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$75.00
Cobba-Cobba
by DE GRYS, Francy
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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The Man in Our Lives
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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Byron's Journal of His Circumnavigation 1764-1766
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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Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd. and the Predecessor Partnerships
by DEAN, Arthur L
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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$250.00
A Guide to Marine Life on South African Shores
by J.H. Day
Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1969. Hardcover. Ex-Library. 1969 First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. No DJ. Ex-Library with standard markings. Wearing on covers. Slight staining on edge of pages. 300p.
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$28.95
John Ledyard's Journal of Captain Cook's Last Voyage
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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John Knatchbull From Quarterdeck to Gallows Including the Narrative Written by Himself in Darlinghurst Gaol 23rd January - 13th February 1844
by RODERICK, Colin
(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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$45.00
Historical Records of New South Wales. Vol. II. - Grose and Paterson
by BLADEN, F. M. (ed.)
(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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Hawaii Times and Tides -- INSCRIBED copy
by YARDLEY, Maili
(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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The Far West Coast
by DENTON, V. L
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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South Pole Radio News - TWO issues
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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The Philippine Journal of Fisheries Vol. 1 No. 1
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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La Austrialia del Espíritu Santo - COMPLETE set in two vols
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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Plants of the Fiji Islands
by PARHAM, J. W
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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![From Tahiti to Moorea; How to Wrap your Pareo / Comment porter votre Pareu Tahiti; Around Moorea; Tourist Brochure [Lot of Four Tahitian Publications, One Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/274/702/1512702274.0.b.jpg)
From Tahiti to Moorea; How to Wrap your Pareo / Comment porter votre Pareu Tahiti; Around Moorea; Tourist Brochure [Lot of Four Tahitian Publications, One Signed]
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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Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas and Round the Globe in His Majesty's Ship the Centurion, under the Command of Commodore George Anson
by THOMAS, Pascoe
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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![THE STATESMAN'S POCKET YEAR BOOK OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1922-1928 [SEVEN VOLUMES BOUND AS ONE]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/585/680/1351680585.0.b.jpg)
THE STATESMAN'S POCKET YEAR BOOK OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1922-1928 [SEVEN VOLUMES BOUND AS ONE]
by Johnson, W. L. [Government Statist]
Adelaide [S. Aust.]: R. E. E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1922-1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, [2], 113, [5], [2], 117, [5], [2], 116, [6], [2], 118, [4], [2], 119, [3], [2], 121, [5], 122, [4]; G; bound in half gray/green buckram, cardboard boards, black titling to spine; with most of the original wraps, lacking only the front wrap for 1928.; containing the years 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1927, and 1928.; ex-library, with all usual markings, including stamps, bookplate, and perforated...
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