49242
ADKINS, Lesley & Roy
ABANDONED PLACES

London. 1990. New Burlington Books. 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
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$15

56787

ALIMENTATION ET SANTE DANS LE PACIFIQUE

Nouméa. 1997. Département de la Santé / Commission du Pacifique Sud. 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.
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$20

56788

ALIMENTS DU PACIFIQUE SUD

Nouméa. 1993. Services de Santé Publique (section nutrition) / Commission du Pacifique Sud. 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.
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$30

55618
ANDERSON, Atholl, SWADLING, Pamella & CHOWNING, Ann, FIRTH, Raymond ... MOKOREA,
LA PÊCHE TRADITIONNELLE EN OCEANIE (in Journal de la Société des Océanistes)

Paris. 1981. Société des Océanistes. Tome XXXVII, No. 72-73, September-December 1981. Introduction by Marie-Claire Bataille-Benguigui. (2), 143-317, (5) PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. French text. 27.4 x 18.
Traditional Fishing in Oceania. 15 texts (1 in French, 3 in French & Reo Maohi and 11 in English).
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$65

30738
ANDREWS, Phillip & ENGEL, Leonard (editors)
NAVY YEARBOOK

New York. 1944. Duell, Sloan and Pearce. 1st Ed. (VIII), 376 PP with 435 photos between pages 25 and 192) and 42 pages of advertising material in the data section (between pages 193 and 365). Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine, dj. (repaired, rubbed and worn). Near fine. Scarce. Oblong: 23.5 x 31.
In words and photographs: a vivid, memorable picture of the navies of the world in 1944. Pages 1-24: Naval chronology WWII. Pages 25-104: 167 b/w photographs of the US Navy... Pages 193-365: Data section. Pages 366-376: Index.
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$45

53840

ART AND ASIA PACIFIC - Quarterly Journal - Vol. 1, No. 1, Inaugural Issue

Sydney. 1993. Fine Arts Press. Inaugural Issue, December 1993 edited by Dinah. DYSART. 100 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 22.5.
Conference Report: Pacific Arts Symposium, by Pamela Zepelin. 6 articles on Art in Philippines by Julie Ewington, Alice G. Guillermo, Rachel Mayo...
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$15

38620
AUPLAT, Elisabeth
PAROLES OCEANIENNES / PACIFIC VOICES: VIIIe Festival des Arts du Pacifique (23 Octobre - 3 Novembre 2000)

Nouméa. 2000. Comité Organisateur du Festival des Arts du Pacifique (COFAP). 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).
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$30

55648
AVON PRINT
OLD MAPS & CHARTS

Sydney. c. 1975. Avon Print Pty Ltd. 1st Ed. No pagination, 12 PP with 13 b/w illusrations. Soft cover. Very good. 26 x 21.
Catalogue of limited editions of old maps and charts.
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$5

56235
BAERT, Annie
DES ILES BIEN PEU SECRETES. Les récits de trois voyages espagnols dans le Pacifique aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles et leur diffusion à travers l' Europe et l' Amérique (in Revue Française d'Histoire du Livre)

Bordeaux. 1997. Société des Bibliophiles de Guyenne. Extract from No.s 94-95. 165 - 186 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, clear plastic front cover, spiral bound. French text. Fine. 24 x 15.5.
Three Spanish Voyages of exploration in the Pacific. Voyage to the Solomon Islands: 1567-1568. Voyage to the Marquesas: 1595-1596. Voyage to Vanuatu: 1605-1606.
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$10

30889
BAKER III, A. D. (editor)
US NAVAL VESSELS 1943

London. 1986. Arms and Armour Press. Reprint of the 1943 original ONI-54 Series U.S. Naval Vessels. No pagination, 278 PP with 227 line drawings and 679 b/w photos. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. Oblong: 17 x 26. 0853687862
Depicting the might of the US Navy at the height of the Second World War.
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$35

39187
BAKER, J. T., CARTER, R. M., SAMMARCO, P. W. & STARK, K. P. (editors)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GREAT BARRIER REEF CONFERENCE

Townsville. c. 1984. James Cook University / Australian Institute of Marine Science. 1st Ed. XVIII, (2), 545 PP with tables, graphs, maps. Pictorial soft cover. Book plate inside front cover. Near fine. 29.4 x 21.
90 papers presented at this seminar hosted by James Cook University and A.I.M.S., August 28-September 2 , 1983. Geoscience, Community Structure, Metabolism, Evolution of Islands, Oceanography, and Reef resource management
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$40

56849
BAKER, Simon
THE SHIP - RETRACING COOK'S ENDEAVOUR VOYAGE

Irvington, N.Y. 2003. Hydra Publishing. 1st US edition of the 2002 UK original. 224 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: Endeavour under sails. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 27.7 x 20. 1592580041
Book published to accompany the television series The Ship, first broadcast on BBC in 2002.
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$35

42642
BALLANTYNE, R. M.
CAPTAIN COOK'S ADVENTURES - An Account of his Voyages and Discoveries in the South Seas

London. c. 1870s. Nisbet & Co. Juvenile edition, in Nisbet's Supplementary Readers of the Ballantyne series. 102 PP. Fp: Captain Cook sailing round the coast of New Zealand. Cloth soft cover, illustrated front. Signature of previous owner at top of recto of the frontispiece. Ageing of paper with a few small tears, occasional foxing, o/wise very good. 18.5 x 12.5.
Ferguson 6569, Beddie 264, and Ingleton 6168 describe only: The Cannibal Islands; or, Captain Cook's adventures in the South Seas.
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$55

55728
BARR, Kevin J.
SQUATTERS IN FIJI: The need for an attitudinal change

Suva. 2007. Citizen's Constitutional Forum. 1st Ed. CCF Housing and Social Exclusion Policy Dialogue Paper No. 1, 2007. (2), 39, (3 blank) PP with 7 colour illystrations (1 map and 6 phoos). Pictorial soft cover. New. 29.7 x 21. 9789823390215
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$10

56126
BARROW, Sir John
THE MUTINY & PIRATICAL SEIZURE OF H.M.S. BOUNTY

London. 1947. Oxford University Press. Reprint of the 1914 edition (original of 1831). No. 195 in The World's Classics series. Introduction by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge. XXIV, 376 PP. Cloth cover, device in blind on front cover, gilt title on spine. Slight ageing & foxing of paper. Very good. 15 x 10.
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$10

56205
BATEMAN, Sam (editor)
MARITIME COOPERATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION: Current Situation and Prospects

Canberra. 1999. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. 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.
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$35

56206
BATEMAN, Sam and BATES, Stephen (editors)
REGIONAL MARITIME MANAGEMENT & SECURITY

Canberra. 1998. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. 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 Mai - 1 June 1997.
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$35

56357
BEARDSLEY, Charles
GUAM PAST AND PRESENT

Tokyo. Charles E. Tuttle. 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.
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$20

56202
BEDFORD, Stuart
PIECES OF THE VANUATU PUZZLE: Archaeology of the North, South and Centre

Canberra. 2006. Pandanus Books / RSPAS, ANU. 1st Ed. Foreword by Matthew Spriggs. Volume 23 in the Terra Australis series. XX, 326 PP with 95 tables and 138 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21. 0174076093X
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$65

56203
BEDFORD, Stuart, SAND, Christophe & CONNAUGHTON, Sean P. (editors)
OCEANIC EXPLORATIONS: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement

Canberra. 2007. ANU E Press. 1st Ed. Volume 26 in the Terra Australis series. X, 300 PP with tables and figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.6 x 21. 9781921313325
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$65

20595
BENCHLEY, Peter
GHOSTS OF WAR IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC - WRECK OF THE COOLIDGE [in National Geographic]

Washington. 1988. N.G.S. Volume 173, No. 4, April 1988. Contains articles P. 424 to 467 with bw and colour photos. Pict. soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
Wrecks of planes, and ships in the South Pacific War zone. Wreck of the President Coolidge, sunk off Santo, Vanuatu in 1942 and now a popular diving destination.
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$10

56995
BENNETT, Judy & LECKIE, Jacqui (conveners & editors)
PACIFIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION - 17th Biennial Conference " Te Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa" (The Great Ocean of Kiwa - Oceania)

Dunedin. 2006. PHA Conference Secretary 1st Ed. No pagination, 116 PP, folded flyer/poster of conference loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.8 x 21.2.
Program of the 17th Conference held at University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa / New Zealand: 7-10 December 2006.
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$25

55717
BIRKS, Lawrence
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AT SIGATOKA DUNE SITE, FIJI

Suva. 1973. Fiji Museum. Bulletin No. 1. X, 176 PP with tables, over 50 figures and 50 b/w plates, plus 2 folding plates (figures 3 & 4). Drawings bu Winifred Mumford. Soft cover. Fine. 27.6 x 21.5.
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$45

56854
BLUMER, Rev. R.C. & ROWLAND, E. C.
THE PACIFIC AND YOU: Our Duty to our Neighbours

Sydney. 1943. The Australian Board of Missions. 1st Ed. Preface by Bishop G. H. Cranswick. VIII, 120 PP, plus 14 pages with 1 map in colour and 18 b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 engraving and 18 photos). Soft cover. Covers damaged at spine. Note at top of front cover. Very good. 20.7 x 14.1.
Action of the Church Missionary Society to be carried out at the end of the Pacific War.
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$50

55968
BONNEMAISON, J., HUFFMAN, K., KAUFMANN, C. & TRYON D. (editors)
VANUATU OCEANIE, Arts des Îles de cendre et de corail

Paris. 1996. Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux / ORSTOM. 1st edition, with a foreword by Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Jean Hubert Martin, Ralph Regenvanu and Clara B. Wilpert. Preface by José Garanger. (16), 368 PP with 383 b/w and colour illustrations. Eps: Map of Central Pacific Ocean. Laminated illustrated stiff cover. French text. Lower corner with a slight bump, o/wise fine. 24.4 x 22. 2711829146
Published in April 1996 to accompany a travelling exhibition held in Port Vila and Nouméa in 1996, then in Basle, Switzerland in 1997 and Paris in 1997/98. Lavish illustrations.
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$120

56318
BROWN, Alexander Crosby (editor)
LONGBOAT TO HAWAII, An Account of the Voyage of the Clipper Ship HORNET of New York bound for San Francisco in 1866, as recorded in the Journals of Captain Josiah A. Mitchell, Master, and Henry and Samuel Ferguson, Passengers

Cambridge, Maryland. 1974. Cornell. 1st Ed. 254 PP with b/w illustrations (charts, tail-pieces, sketches, woodcuts...). Fp: Clipper Hornet. Eps: Voyage of the clipper ship Hornet. Orig. cloth cover, gilt title on spine, price clipped dj with a few small chips, o/wise a fine copy. 28.5 x 22. 080332015
Records of the journals of the Captain, two of the passengers and a newspaper reporter writing under the pen name of Mark Twain. Cape Horn, fire at sea, longboat voyage of 4000 miles.
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$60

55967
BRYAN, E. H. Jr.
THE HAWAIIAN CHAIN

Honolulu. 1954. Bishop Museum Press. 1st Ed. IV, 71 PP with 2 maps, 4 tables and 35 b/w photos. Soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Dedicatory note with the Aloha of.. dated Christmas 1954 and signed by the author, inside front cover. Near fine. 25.7 x 17.5.
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$40

56081
BUSCH, Briton Cooper
WHALING WILL NEVER DO FOR ME, The American Whaleman in the Nineteenth Century

Lexington, USA. 1994. University Press of Kentucky. 1st Ed. XII, 265 PP with 5 tables. FEP: World Whaling Grounds. Cloth cover, dj. Bookplate of Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) on verso of front endpaper. Fine. 24.2 x 16. 0813118387
Study on the difficult and colourful life aboard the 19th century American whaling vessels. Crime & punishment, Whalemen and American consuls abroad, desertion... waterfront havens and the Honolulu riot of 1852. Index of whaleships P. 247 to 259.
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$55

56632

BUSINESS ADVANTAGE SOUTH PACIFIC - 2009

Melbourne. 2009. Business Advantage International. 1st Ed. Edited by Rose Michael, Jo Shiells & Jacqueline Bennett. 82 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. New. 29.7 x 21. 9780980608106
Your gateway to the South Pacific Economy.
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$25

56770
CAMPBELL, Andrea (editor)
THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE LIST 1997

London. 1997. Foreign & Commonwealth Office / The Stationery Office. 32nd edition; January 1997. (6), 331 PP. Soft cover, illustrated front. Fine. 24.3 x 15.6. 0115917535
Home departments. British representatives in Commonwealth, Foreign countries and in the Republic of Ireland. ... Biographical notes and Lists of Staff...
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$30

56019
CAPELL, A.
AROSI GRAMMAR

Canberra. 1971. Pacific Linguistics / A.N.U. 1st Ed., in Pacific Linguistics, Series B - No. 20. IV, 90, (8 list of publications) PP with 1 sketch map of San Cristobal. Card cover, staples, title on front cover and gilt title on spine. Stamp of previous owner on preliminary page. Near fine. 25.3 x 20.
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$100

47670
CHAMONAL, François & Rodolphe
VOYAGES GEOGRAPHIE MARINE AMERICANA

Paris. c. 1995. François et Rodolphe Chamonal. 1st Ed. 226, (2) PP with 90 b/w illustrations, plus 9 colour plates. Fp (in colour): Y-Erran-Gou-La-Ga (Aborigines from New Holland). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 25.4 x 18.5.
Catalogue of 1129 books, manuscripts... on Maritime subjects, Voyages and Geography.
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$20

47671
CHAMONAL, Rodolphe
LIVRES ANCIENS VOYAGES GEOGRAPHIE MARINE

Paris. c. 2001. Rodolphe Chamonal. 1st Ed. 345, (7) PP with over 190 b/w and 57 colour illustrations, plus 8 colour plates. Fp (in colour): Penguins. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 25.4 x 20.8.
Catalogue of 1058 books, manuscripts... on Maritime subjects, Voyages and Geography
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$35

56043
CHEESMAN, L. E.
THE CYCLOPS MOUNTAINS OF DUTCH NEW GUINEA (in The Geographical Journal)

London. 1938. The Royal Geographical Society. Extract from: Vol. XCI, No. 1, January 1938. Pages 21 to 30 with 1 map, plus 2 pages with 4 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5.
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$25

56092
CHEEVER, Rev. Henry T.
THE WHALE AND HIS CAPTORS; or THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES, and The Whale Biography, as gathered on the homeward cruise of the Commodore Preble

Fairfield, Wash. 1991. Ye Galleon. Facsimile reprint of the 1850 original. XIII, 14-314, 6; colophon PP with 34 b/w engravings. Eps: Sperm whale rammed by steam whale chaser. Hard cover, Simile leather, gilt title on front cover and spine. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 0877704872
Whaling in the North & South Pacific (including Rimatara Island of the Austral Group) & Atlantic Oceans in 1844 & 1845.
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$55

56227
CHUNG, Ying Shing Anthony
A DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR OF MEREI (Vanuatu)

Canberra. 2005. Pacific Linguistics / ANU. 1st Ed. Pacific Linguistics No. 573. XI, 74 PP with 2 maps and 20 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0858835606
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$60

46803
CLUNIE, Fergus (editor)
DOMODOMO - Fiji Museum Quarterly - 1985 - September - Volume III: No. 1

Suva. 1985. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Volume III, No. 1 for 1985. 40 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps, 7 drawings or engravings) and 1 colour photo. Inside back cover: map of the Fiji Islands. Pictorial soft cover (the mânâ or mangrove-lobster). Fine. 22.5 x 19.2..
The mana, or mangrove-lobster. Fijian and Tongan war arrows.
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$25

46804
CLUNIE, Fergus (editor)
DOMODOMO - Fiji Museum Quarterly - 1985 - September - Volume III: No. 2

Suva. 1985. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Volume III, No. 2 for 1985. 41- 88 PP with b/w illustrations (1 maps, 4 drawings, 23 engravings) and 3 colour photos. Inside back cover: map of the Fiji Islands. Pictorial soft cover (Thakombau, alias The Vuni Valu King of Feejee). Fine. 22.5 x 19.2..
Faces from the 'Fifties' (1850's). Aquatic species introduced to Fiji. Ornithological observations on Rabe Island.
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$30

55677
CLUNIE, Fergus (editor)
DOMODOMO - Fiji Museum Quarterly - 1985 - Volume III: No. 3

Suva. 1985. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Volume III, No. 3 for 1985. 89- 128 PP with b/w illustrations (4 maps, 3 drawings, 1 photo) and 5 colour photos. Inside back cover: map of the Fiji Islands. Pictorial soft cover (Common noddy, Anous stolidus). Fine. 22.5 x 19.2..
Seabird nesting colonies of the Ringgold Islands. A brief environmental history of Fiji, by John Gibbons. ...
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$25

55678
CLUNIE, Fergus (editor)
DOMODOMO - Fiji Museum Quarterly - 1985 - Volume III: No. 4

Suva. 1985. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Volume III, No. 3 for 1985. 129- 160 PP with 1 map. Inside back cover: map of the Fiji Islands. Pictorial soft cover (Cardinal honey eater of Rotuma). Fine. 22.5 x 19.2..
Distribution of Fijian land and freshwater birds... by Dick Watling. Notes on the bats and birds of Rotuma.
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$25

55679
CLUNIE, Fergus (editor)
DOMODOMO - Fiji Museum Quarterly - 1986 - Volume IV, No. 1

Suva. 1986. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Volume IV, No. 1. 48 PP with b/w illustrations (sketches, drawings and 1 photo). Inside back cover: map of the Fiji Islands. Pictorial soft cover (a western Viti Levu centre-poled house). Staples removed. Fine. 22.5 x 19.2..
The centre-poled houses of western Viti Levu, by Susan Freeman. Letters from the Highlands of Viti Mevu, 1877, by John Archibold Boyd.
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$30

55680
CLUNIE, Fergus (editor)
DOMODOMO - Fiji Museum Quarterly - 1986 - Volume IV, No. 3

Suva. 1986. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Volume IV, No. 3. 97-140 PP with b/w illustrations (4 maps and 2 photos). Inside back cover: map of the Fiji Islands. Pictorial soft cover (Namosi and Mount Voma). Fine. 22.5 x 19.2..
Travels in the interior of Viti Levu by Eduard Graeffe, translated from the German by Stefanie Vuikaba Waine.
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$30

46805
CLUNIE, Fergus (editor)
DOMODOMO - Fiji Museum Quarterly - 1986 - Volume IV, No. 4

Suva. 1986. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Volume IV, No. 4 for 1986. 141- 172 PP with b/w illustrations (1 sketch, 5 drawings and engravings, 13 photos). Inside back cover: map of the Fiji Islands. Pictorial soft cover (man beating a Lali). Fine. 22.5 x 19.2..
Lali - The Drums of Fiji. A slit-gong club from Fiji.
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$30

55973
CODRINGTON, R. H.
THE MELANESIANS - Studies in their Anthropology and Folk-lore

Oxford. 1969. Clarendon Press. 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.
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$100

55724
COLE, Shari & KULATEA, Vitolia
CULTURAL CRAFT OF NIUE: PANDANUS WEAVING / TAU KOLOA FAKAMOTU HA NIUE: TAU KOLOA LAUFA

Alofi, Niue & Suva, Fiji. 1996. Government of Niue, Community Affairs Department & Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. 1st Ed. (4), 100 PP with 9 drawings and over 470 b/w photos by Don Cole. Pictorial soft cover. English and Niue text. Fine. 29.8 x 21 9823460019
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$55

18856
COLEMAN, Neville
HAZARDOUS SEA CREATURES

Brisbane. 1993. Underwater Geographic. 1st Ed. 64 PP with colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22 x 15. 0947325050
A personal survival guide. Dangerous: sharks, gropers, surgeon fish, mantis shrimp.... Venomous: sea snake, stingray, scorpionfish, geography cone... Poisonous: ciguatera affected fish, globefish, pufferfish,...
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$25

42314
CONDOMINAS, Georges
ESQUISSE D'UNE ETUDE SUR LA NAVIGATION ET LA PECHE AUX NOUVELLES-HEBRIDES

Nouméa. 2001. IRD / Vanuatu National Cultural Centre. 1st Ed., in Documents Scientifiques et Techniques III 4, May 2001. 47 PP with 3 maps and 16 drawings, plus 26 b/w plates with drawings and 9 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. French text. 29 x 20.2.
On navigation and Fishing in Vanuatu. First edition of a manuscript written in 1947, after studying these subjects from archival documents held then by the Museum of Mankind (Musée de l'Homme) in Paris.
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$50

55709
CONTE, Alex, SIMPSON, Stanley, BAINIMARAMA, Commodore Josaia Voreqe, URWIN, Greg
HOW SHOULD FIJI RESPOND TO THE THREAT OF TERRORISM?

Suva. 2005. Citizen's Constitutional Forum. 1st Ed. Foreword by Reverend Akuila Yabaki. Opening remarks by Eugène Berg. (4), 152 PP. Pictorial soft cover. New. 20.7 x 14.6. 9823390096
Results of a public workshop hosted by the Citizens' Constitutional Forum and the Fiji Human Rights Commission.
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$20

55509
COOK, James & CLARK, John
COOK'S ENDEAVOUR JOURNAL: The Inside Story

Canberra. 2008. National Library of Australia. 1st Ed. 194, (2) PP with 19 facsimile pages of manuscript and 72 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. New. 18.7 x 18.4. 9780642276506
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$25

55478
CRAWFORD, David and Leona
MISSIONARY ADVENTURES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC

Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo. 1967. Charles E. Tuttle. 1st Ed. 280 PP, plus 6 b/w plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Spine lightly sunned. Top corner of rear endpaper clipped. Foxing on outside edges. 21.8 x 15.
Missionary works in Micronesia: Federated States of Micronesia (Ponape, Kusaie/Kosrae...), Marshall Islands and Gilbert Islands (Kiribati).
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$55

55990
CROCOMBE, Ron & ALI, Ahmed (editors)
FOREIGN FORCES IN PACIFIC POLITICS

Suva. 1983. Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. 1st Ed. Volume 4 in the Politics in the Pacific Islands series. XV, 325 PP with 1 map, 5 tables & 11 b/w photos.. Pictorial soft cover. Covers lightly rubbed, a little foxing, o/wise near fine. 21 x 14.5.
Transition to independence or deeper dependence of the island nations & territories around the Pacific Rim. Issues at stake: strategic, economic, ideological...
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$30

55730
CROCOMBE, Ron, & RAVUVU, Asesela (editors)
PACIFIC PERSPECTIVE - Journal of the South Pacific Social Sciences Association: Volume 9, No. 2 1980

Suva. 1980. South Pacific Social Sciences Association. 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.
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$20

56944
CROCOMBE, Ron G. (editor)
LAND TENURE IN THE ATOLLS - Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Tokelau, Tuvalu

Suva. 1995. Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Reprint of the 1987 original. XVII, 246 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (maps, plans, & photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9820100151
Common themes, particular problems of land tenure in various island nations and the different approaches to their solutions.
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$40

55731
CROCOMBE, Ron, RAVUVU, Asesela & NEEMIA, Uentabo (editors)
PACIFIC PERSPECTIVE - Journal of the South Pacific Social Sciences Association: Volume 11, No. 2 1980

Suva. 1982. South Pacific Social Sciences Association. 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
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$20

55688
CROWE, Ellie & William
EXPLORING LOST HAWAI'I - Places of Power, History, Mystery & Magic

Waipahu, Hawai'i. 2005. Island Heritage Publishing. 1st Ed. XVII, 2- 211 PP with maps, location maps and plans, 11 b/w illustrations and many colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. 25.4 x 17.8. 0896103838
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$55

56226
CROWLEY, Terry
NESE: A diminishing Speech variety of Northwest Malakula (Vanuatu)

Canberra. 2006. Pacific Linguistics / ANU. 1st Ed. Pacific Linguistics No. 577. Edited, and with a preface by John Lynch. XIII, 81 PP with 2 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0858835665
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$60

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

Melbourne. 1995. Miegunyah Press. 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, dj. Fine. 24.7 x 18. 0522843905
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 (Indian Ocean) in early 1853 and Mellish (Coral Sea) in 1858, where they found the abandoned wreck of the French naval vessel Duroc.
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$90

56239
DAVID, Andrew, FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Felipe, NOVI, Carlos & WILLIAMS, Glyndwr (editors)
THE MALASPINA EXPEDITION 1789-1794 - The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina (Volume I: Cadiz to Panama)

London & Madrid. 2001. Hakluyt Society & Museo Naval. 1st Ed. Series III, No. 8. Introduction by Donald C. Cutter. Volume I: XCVIII, 338 PP with 9 sketch maps and 39 b/w and colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Alejandro Malaspina. Eps: Tracks of the Malaspina Expedition. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 25.2 x 18. 0904180727
Volume I: Cadiz (30th July 1789) to Panama (14th December 1790).
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$50

56240
DAVID, Andrew, FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO, Felipe, NOVI, Carlos & WILLIAMS, Glyndwr (editors)
THE MALASPINA EXPEDITION 1789-1794 - The Journal of the Voyage by Alejandro Malaspina (Volume II: Panama to the Philippines)

London & Madrid. 2003. Hakluyt Society & Museo Naval. 1st Ed. Series III, No. 11. Volume II: XX, 511 PP with 7 sketch maps and 44 b/w or colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Portrait of José Bustamante Y Guerra. Eps: Tracks of the Malaspina expedition Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. dj. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise fine. 25.2 x 18. 0904180816
Volume II: Panama (15th December 1790) to the Philippines (3rd October 1792).
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$50

48808
DE FREYCINET, Rose
A WOMAN OF COURAGE - The Journal of Rose de Freycinet on her Voyage around the World 1817-1820

Canberra. 2003. National Library of Australia. Reprint of the 1996 original. Translated from the 1927 French original and Edited by Marc Serge Rivière. XXVI, 189 PP with 5 maps/charts, 26 b/w and 30 colour illustrations. Fp: Memorial to the French explorer Lapérouse. Eps: The Uranie at anchor, Rawak Island, Papua. Pictorial soft cover (ïle Timor, reception at Diely, c1818). Fine. 24 x 20. 064210767X
During a round the world scientific expedition from 1817-1820, on board the Uranie, under the command of her husband, Louis de Freycinet, Rose stowed away and wrote a diary: Toulon, Canaries, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Mauritius, Bourbon, Shark Bay (WA), Timor, Papua, Guam, Hawaii, Port Jackson. Shipwrecked in the Falklands.
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$40

46795
DE LESSEPS, J. B. B.
LE MESSAGER DE LAPEROUSE, du Kamchatka à Versailles

Barbizon, France. 2004. Editions Pôles d' images. 1st edition in the "Récits Introuvables" series. Reprint of the 1790 original, with the biographical introduction by Ferdinand de Lesseps of the 1880 edition. XII, 191 PP with 1 musical score, 2 maps and 22 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. New. 24.5 x 15. 2951610092
Historical Journal of the Voyage of M. de Lesseps accross Siberia, Russia and northern Europe. He left the Lapérouse expedition at Petropavlosk, Kamchatka.
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$100

55604
DE ROSAMEL, Capitaine de Corvette Joseph
POHNPEI, Micronésie, en 1840. Voyage de circumnavigation de la Danaïde

Paris. 2005. Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. 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. New. 24.4 x 16. 2854300092
Call of Danaïde in Pohnpei (Bonnebey, Ponape) 7th to 21st of March 1840.
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$75

56173
DENOON, Donald (editor)
EMERGING FROM EMPIRE? DECOLONISATION IN THE PACIFIC

Canberra. 1997. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies - A.N.U. 1st Ed. (4), III, 208 PP. Soft covers. New. 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...
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$60

13296
DENOON, Donald, BALLARD, Chris & HANCOCK, Peter (editor)
MINING AND MINERAL RESOURCE POLICY ISSUES IN ASIA-PACIFIC, Prospects for the 21st Century

Canberra. 1997. Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies - A.N.U. 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.
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$80

56837
DEROIN, Guy Michel
MINO, La Pieuvre du Grand Bleu.

Port Vila. 2007. Alliance française du Vanuatu. 1st Ed. No. 2 in "Une Nouvelle Légende du Fils des Chefs Tabu" series. 55 PP with illustrations by the author. Illustrated endpapers. Pictorial soft cover. French text. New. 29.3 x 21. 9782952910019
Comic strip on Mino, a young manbush from Vanuatu.
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$40

56838
DEROIN, Guy Michel
MINO, Seven Laef Blong Mi

Port Vila. 1998. Author. 1st Ed. No. 1 in "Wan Niufala Stori blong Pikinini blong Jif Tabu" series. 51 PP with illustrations by the author. Illustrated endpapers. Pictorial soft cover. Bichlamar text. New. 30 x 21.8. 9782952910019
Comic strip on Mino, a young manbush from Vanuatu.
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$40

56945
DICKSON, Diane & DOSSOR, Carol
WORLD CATALOGUE OF THESES ON THE PACIFIC ISLANDS

Canberra. 1970. ANU Press. 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
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$45

56704
DILLON, Peter
A LA RECHERCHE DE LAPEROUSE, Voyages dans les mers du Sud

Barbizon, France. 2005. Editions Pôles d'images. 1st edition in the "Récits Introuvables" series. Improved edition of the 1830 French original (English original of 1829). Preface by Alain Conan. VI, 312 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, charts, maps). Pictorial soft cover. French text. New. 24.5 x 15. 2915561044
Peter Dillon of Vanikoro.
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$80

56213
DINNEN, Sinclair, MAY, Ron & REGAN, Anthony J. (editors)
CHALLENGING THE STATE: The Sandline Affair in Papua New Guinea

Canberra. 1997. National Centre for Development Studies, RSPAS / ANU. 1st Ed. Pacific Policy Paper No. 30. X, 227 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.5 x 14. 0731523660
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$40

37329
du CHATENET, Gaetan
GALAPAGOS

Paris. c. 1980. Editions Delroise. 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
Origins. Flora (cacti, prickly thickets, coldenia...). Fauna: marine iguanas, tortoises, seals... birds.
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$45

55494
DUCKWORTH, Captain (S) A. D. (editor)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS AND MARINE ENGINEERS - 1951

London. 1951. Institution of Naval Architects & Institute of Marine Engineers. Reproduced from the Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, Volume 93, 1951. 224 PP with b/w figures (drawings, plans & photos), plus 38 pages with 81 figures (mostly photos) and 5 folded plates. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board. Covers damaged (speckles, edges worn and spine missing). Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper. Some ageing and foxing of paper. Internally very good. 28.3 x 21.5.
Some aspects of pre-fabrication in ship construction, by N. G. Eckerbom. Pages 179 to 193 (with 23 figures): U.S. Fleet maintenance and battle-damage repairs in the Pacific during World War II, by Captain Ralph K. James, USN.
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$30

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 Domestiqu

Nouméa. 1954. South Pacific Commission. 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.
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$20

50723
DUNMORE, John
WHERE FATE BECKONS. The Life of Jean-François de La Pérouse

Sydney. 2006. ABC. 1st Australian edition. 296 PP with 6 maps, plus 8 pages with 10 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. New. 24 x 16. 0733316468
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$45

15528
DUNMORE, John
WHO'S WHO IN PACIFIC NAVIGATION

Melbourne. 1992. Melbourne University Press. 1st Australian edition of the 1991 US original. XVI, 312 PP. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 24.1 x 15.8. 052284488X
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$45

20709
DUPUY, Colonel Trevor Nevitt
THE NAVAL WAR IN THE PACIFIC: THE RISING SUN OF NIPPON

New York. 1963. Franklin Watts. 1st Ed., No. 11 in The Military History of World War II series. (6), 90 PP with 14 maps & plans & 34 bw photos. Illust. hard cover. Very good. 22 x 18.5.
Growth of Japanese Sea power: rivalry with Russia, China then United States. Pearl Harbour to the struggle for Guadalcanal.
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$15

55435
DUTTON, Kenneth R.
EARLY COLONIAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS FRANCE AND THE FRENCH (in Explorations)

Melbourne. 2008. ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. No. 41, December 2006 (issued June 2008). 36 PP. Contains article from P.3 to 24. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.
Issue also contains: The case against the allegation that Lapérouse's men killed 20 aborigines on 26 January 1788, by Ivan Barko (pages 42 to 48).
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$15

50363
EDGEWORTH DAVID, Professor T. W.
THE ATOLL OF FUNAFUTI. BORINGS INTO A CORAL REEF. Section IV: NARRATIVE OF THE SECOND AND THIRD EXPEDITIONS.

London. 1904. Royal Society. "Author's Copy" - Reprinted from the Atoll of Funafuti. Pages 40 to 60 with 1 b/w photo of the fertilising wheel. Soft cover. Near fine. 30.2 x 23.
The Atoll of Funafuti. Borings into a coral reef and the results. Being the report of the Coral Reef Committee of the Royal Society.
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$75

42176
ELBERT, Samuel H. & MONBERG, Torben
FROM THE TWO CANOES - Oral Traditions of Rennell and Bellona Islands

Copenhagen & Honolulu. 1965. Danish National Museum & University of Hawaii Press. 1st Ed. Volume I - Language and Culture of Rennell and Bellona Islands series. X, 428 PP with 1 figure and over 15 genealogy trees, plus 8 pages with 15 b/w photos, and 3 folded plates (2 of them maps) at rear of book. Soft cover, illustrated front. Very faint foxing on outside edges. Rennellese or Bellonese and English text. Very good. 25.5 x 18.
Two Polynesian outliers South of the Solomon Islands.
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$80

56070
ELLIS, Richard
MEN AND WHALES

New York. 1991. Alfred A. Knopf. 1st Ed. XV, 542 PP, with 292 b/w illustrations (including 15 paintings & 10 maps by the author), 3 pages of glossary terms and 22 pages of bibliography. Fp: A gam between the bark Sunbeam and the ship James Arnold. Eps: Engraving from the Nuremberg (1760) edition of the 1720 Dutch work by C.F. Zorgdrager of the Greenland whale fishery. Hard cover, device on front cover, gilt title on cloth cloth spine, dj. Bookplate of Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) on verso of front endpaper. Fine. 28.5 x 23. 0394558391
The complex history of men and whales, from the first commercial whaling by Basques of 10th Century France and Spain, to the International Whaling Commission and the worldwide movement to protect the whales.
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$50

55689
EMBERSON-BAIN, 'Atu (editor)
DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE OR MALIGNANT GROWTH?. Perspectives of Pacific Island Women

Suva. 1996. Marama Publications. Reprint of the 1994 original. (12), XIII, (3), 290 PP with b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: map of the South West Pacific Islands. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25.3 x 17.5. 982326001X
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$40

11421
ERSKINE, Commodore James Elphinstone
NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON TO NEW GUINEA

Bathurst, NSW. 1984. Robert Brown & Associates. Facsimile edition of the 1885 original. Limited to 1000 numbered copies (No. 721/1000). (2), (IV), 9 PP, plus 3 chromo-lithographs plates, 1 folded map of route from Sydney to New Guinea and 35 b/w photos plates. Hard cover (simile leather), gilt decorated covers, gilt title on front cover, all edges gilt, slipcase. Fine. Large format: 41.5 x 34.
A series of photographs taken between October & December 1884 at the time of the establishment of a Protectorate over the Southern shores of New Guinea.
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$200

56272
FABRICIUS, Wilhelm
NAURU 1888-1900, An account in German and English based on official records of the Colonial Section of the German Foreign Office held by the Deutsches Zentralarchiv in Potsdam

Canberra. 1992. Research School of Pacific Studies / ANU. 1st Ed. Translated and edited by Dymphna Clark and Stewart Firth. XIV, 322 with 4 maps & 2 facsimile pages of the Illustrirte Zeitung dated 14th March 1885. Pictorial soft cover. German and English text. Faint foxing in outside edges, o/wise near fine. 24.9 x 17.4. 0731513673
Rare insight of Nauru as it appeared to the Germans when they raised their flag and administered the island as part of their colonial possessions in the tropical Pacific. Nauru in pre-phosphate days.
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$55

56834
FAESSEL, Sonia (editor)
JEUNES LITTERATURES DU PACIFIQUE SUD

Nouméa. 2004. G.R.H.O.C. (Groupe de Recherche en Histoire Océanienne Contemporaine) / Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. 1st Ed. 183 PP. Pictorial soft cover. French text. New. 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...).
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$35

55768
FALEOMAVAEGA, Eni F. H.
NAVIGATING THE FUTURE: A Samoan Perspective on U.S.-Pacific Relations

Suva. c.1995. Kin Publications / Institute of Pacific Studies, USP. Reprint. XXIV, 146, (2) PP with 1 map and 26 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21.2 x 13.7. 0964442612
Member of the US Congress for American Samoa, married to Hinanui Bambridge Cave of Papeete.
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$35

20038
FANNING, Edmund
VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD; with selected sketches of Voyages to the South Seas, North and South Pacific Oceans, China, etc.,

Upper Saddle River, N.J., USA. 1970. The Gregg Press. Facsimile of 1833 edition. (2), XII, 13-499 PP plus 5 bw plates (3 on full page and 2 on double pages). Fp: The Aspasia, Cape Horn bearing N. by E. 50 leagues. Decorated cloth cover. Light foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 16. 0839805519
Early visit to the Marquesas Islands in May 1798, discovery of Fanning Island 11th June 1798...
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$80

11948
FESTIVAL OF PACIFIC ARTS
PROGRAMME SOUVENIR: 4ème Festival des Arts du Pacifique, Nouvelle Calédonie 1984

Nouméa. 1984. OCSTK / Office Culturel Scientifique et Technique Kanak. 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.
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$40

55708
FIELD, Michael
BLACK SATURDAY: New Zealand's Tragic Blunders in Samoa

Auckland. 2006. Reed Publishing. 1st Ed. 228 PP with 1 plan of Apia and 81 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. 19 x 13. 0790011035
28th December 1929.
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$55

56219
FINDLAY, Trevor (editor)
VERIFYING A TEST BAN

Canberra. 1989. Peace Research Centre / ANU. 1st Ed. Peace Research Centre, Monograph No. 4. (2), VII, 127 PP with 29 figures. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.3. 0731505549
... 5: Verification of a Nuclear Test Ban, by Oleg Kedrov... 7: New Zealand's role in Nuclear Detection, by Warwick Smith.
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$30

56106
FISHER, Tim & HALL, Susan (editors)
TRAVELLERS ART

Canberra. 2003. National Library of Australia. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jan Fullerton. 20 PP with 2 b/w and 6 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 21. 0642107726
Booklet accompanying the exhibition.
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$15

55765
FITZPATRICK, Philip
BAMAHUTA: Leaving Papua

Canberra. 2005. Pandanus Books. 1st Ed. 314 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18 x 14. 1740761367
Patrol Officer prior the Independence of Papua New Guinea.
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$40

56065
FORSTER, Honore (compiler)
THE SOUTH SEA WHALER - An Annotated Bibliography...

Sharon, Mass. Kendall Whaling Museum. 1985. 1st Ed. IX, 157 PP. Fp: South Sea Whaling by W.E. Norton. Eps: Map of the Pacific Ocean. Cloth cover. 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
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$70

56579
FOUGERE, Eric
ESCALES EN LITTERATURE INSULAIRE - Iles et Balises

Paris. 2004. l'Harmattan. 1st Ed., in Littératures Comparées series. 244 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. French text. Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2747568377
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$50

55707
FRAENKEL, Jon
THE MANIPULATION OF CUSTOM: from Uprising to Intervention in the Solomon Islands

Wellington. 2004. Victoria University Press. 1st Ed. 262 PP with 2 graphs, 3 maps and 12 tables. Pictorial soft cover. New. 22 x 14.2. 0864734875
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$50

56223
FRAENKEL, Jon & FIRTH, Stewart (editors)
FROM ELECTION TO COUP IN FIJI: The 2006 Campaign and its Aftermath

Canberra. 2007. Asia Pacific Press & ANU E Press. 1st Ed. XXVIII, 483 PP with 4 maps, 7 figures and 34 tables. Pictorial soft cover. New. 21 x 14.8. 9780731538126
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$65

56048
FRANK, Stuart M.
HERMAN MELVILLE'S PICTURE GALLERY, Sources and Types of the Pictorial Chapters of MOBY-DICK

Fairhaven. Mass. 1986. Edward J. Lefkowicz. 1st Ed. XXV, 133 PP with 102 b/w illustrations. Fp: Whalemen's scrimshaw. Pictorial soft cover. Copy with the half title page signed by the author and a signed dedicatory note by the editor Edward J. Lefkowicz. Fine. 24 x 22.8. 0961719451
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$100

56020
GAIL, R. & DEVAMBEZ, L.
SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TROCHUS

Nouméa. 1958. South Pacific Commission. 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. Soft cover. Name of previous owner at top of front cover. Near fine. 25.5 x 20.5.
Trochus Niloticus, Linn.
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$20

56840
GARDISSAT, Paul & GRINDLEY, Pauline
LA LEGENDE DE LA LUNE ET DU SOLEIL. Légende de Pentecôte, province de Penema

Port Vila. 2007. Centre Culturel du Vanuatu. 1st Ed., in the Nabanga Pikinini series. No pagination, 16 PP with colour illustrations by David Tovovur. Pictorial soft cover. French text by Rufino Pineda (Bichelamar traduction by Anna Naupa). New. 29.8 x 21. 9789829032256
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$20

56842
GARDISSAT, Paul & GRINDLEY, Pauline
LA LEGENDE DE LA NOUVELLE LUNE. Légende de Malo, province de Sanma

Port Vila. 2007. Centre Culturel du Vanuatu. 1st Ed., in the Nabanga Pikinini series. No pagination, 16 PP with colour illustrations by David Tovovur. French text by Rufino Pineda (Bichelamar traduction by Anna Naupa). Pictorial soft cover. New. 29.8 x 21. 9789829032249
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$20

56841
GARDISSAT, Paul & GRINDLEY, Pauline
LA LEGENDE DE LA PIERRE CARNIVORE. Légende d'Ambrym, province de Malampa

Port Vila. 2007. Centre Culturel du Vanuatu. 1st Ed., in the Nabanga Pikinini series. No pagination, 16 PP with colour illustrations by David Tovovur. Pictorial soft cover. New. French text by Rufino Pineda (Bichelamar traduction by Anne Naupa & Joel Simo). 29.8 x 21. 9789829032263
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$20

56839
GARDISSAT, Paul & GRINDLEY, Pauline
LE RAT ET LA PIEUVRE. Légende d' Ifira, province de Shefa

Port Vila. 2007. Centre Culturel du Vanuatu. 1st Ed., in the Nabanga Pikinini series. No pagination, 16 PP with colour illustrations by David Tovovur. Pictorial soft cover. French text by Rufino Pineda (Bichelamar traduction by Anna Naupa). New. 29.8 x 21. 9789829032270
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$20

41300
GARDNER, Irvine C.
CRUSOES OF CANTON ISLAND [in National Geographic Magazine]

Washington. 1938. N.G.S. Volume LXXIII, No. 6, June 1938. Contains article from P. 749 to 766 with 7 b/w and 11 colour photos. Soft cover (rubbed). Lower part of spine worn, o/wise very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
Life on a tiny Pacific atoll that has flashed into world importance (observing an eclipse in 1937, and refuelling stop between the US and Australasia).
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$10

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

Papeete. 1999. Au Vent des îles. 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.
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$60

13816
GILLETT, R., IANELLI, J. et al.
TRADITIONAL SAILING CANOES IN LAU - Na Camakau mai na Yatu Lau

Suva. 1993. Institute of Pacific Studies. 1st Ed. X, 94 PP with 41 colour & 6 b/w photos, 2 plans & 2 maps in text. Pictorial soft cover. Text in English and Fijian. Fine. 21 x 15. 982020089X
Sailing canoes of the Lau Group, the Eastern part of the Fiji Archipelago. Wood (quality, selecting the tree), tools, building, rigging, sailing.
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$30

55662
GORDON CUMMING, C. F.
AT HOME IN FIJI (in two volumes)

Edinburgh. 1881. William Blackwood and sons.. 1st Ed. Vol. I: X, 293, (24 publications) PP, plus 1 folded map at rear, and 3 b/w plates with tissue guard. Fp: Our home in Fiji. Vol. II: VIII, 324, (4 publications) PP, plus 4 b/w plates with tissue guard. Fp: Hot springs, Isle Ngau. Decorated cloth cover (cannibal fork), title on front board, gilt title on spine. Covers soiled and lightly rubbed, spine frayed. Foxing. Minute insect damage (one hole) on first 6 leaves of Volume I (not affecting text or illustration). Very good. Scarce. 21x 15..
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$350

15701
GRAY, William R.
VOYAGES TO PARADISE: Exploring in the Wake of Captain Cook

Washington. 1981. National geographic Society. 1st Ed. 216 PP with colour illust. (maps & photos). Hard cover, dj. Very good. 26 x 18. 0870442848
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$15

55987
GREEN, Michael
MACARTHUR IN THE PACIFIC: From the Philippines to the Fall of Japan

Osceola, Wi. 1996. Motorbooks International. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 2 maps and around 200 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27 x 21. 0760302022
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$40

38594
GUIART, Jean
DECOUVERTE DE L'OCEANIE - Tome I: Connaissance des îles

Nouméa & Papeete. 2000. Le Rocher à la Voile & Haere Po. 1st Ed. 277 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. New. 21 x 15.
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$55

47783
GUIART, Jean
LA DECOUVERTE DE L'OCEANIE - Tome II: Connaissance des Hommes

Nouméa & Papeete. 2003. Le Rocher à la Voile & Haere Po. 1st Ed. 364 PP with 164 b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. French text. New. 21 x 15.
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$75

55616
GUIART, Jean, MAYER, Raymond & NAU, Maline, TJIBAOU, Jean-Marie, HUCHET, Catherine
IDENTITE MELANESIENNE (in Journal de la Société des Océanistes)

Paris. 1976. Société des Océanistes. Tome XXXII, No. 53, December 1976. (2), 267-328 PP with b/w illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. French text. 27.4 x 18.
On Melanesian Culture and Identity.... Medical practices and funeral ceremony of the Dunkwi Anga (Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea), by Ivan G. Mbagintao.
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$40

21264
GUNSON, Niel
THE DALTON JOURNAL, Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1829

Canberra. 1990. National Library of Australia. 1st Ed. XII, 140 PP with 12 b/w illust. Eps: Facsimile of Log Book. Hard cover, scrimshaw illustration on front cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. 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.
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$25

56067
GUNSON, Niel
THE DALTON JOURNAL, Two Whaling Voyages to the South Seas 1823-1829

Canberra. 1990. National Library of Australia 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.
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$45

54121
GUNSON, W. N. & FIRTH, Stewart (editors)
THE JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY - Volume 26, No. 1 - 1991

Canberra. 1991. Australian National University. Volume XXVI, No. 1, June 1991. 126, (2) PP. Soft cover. Faint foxing. Fine. 25 x 17.5.
Ignoble Savages and other European visions: the La Pérouse affair in Samoan History, by Jocelyn Linnekin.
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$15

54117
GUNSON, W. N. & SCARR, Deryck (editors)
THE JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY - Volume 13, Parts 3-4, 1978

Canberra. 1978. Australian National University. Volume XIII. Parts 3-4: 129-256 PP. Soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 17.
Capital punishment and British and Australian adinistrations in Papua and New Guinea, by Hank Nelson. From Fiji to Papua: the work of the vakavuvuli, by David Wetherell. John Henry Holmes in Papua, by R. Reid.
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$15

54118
GUNSON, W. N. & SCARR, Deryck (editors)
THE JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY - Volume 17, Nos. 1& 2 - 1982

Canberra. 1982. Australian National University. Volume XVII. No. 1-2: 112 PP. Soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 17.
No. 1: Outriggerless canoes and glorious Beings, Pre-contact prophecies in the Society Islands, by H. A. H. Driessen. No. 2: The massacre of the Mystery (Aoba Island, Vanuatu), by Michael Gilding.
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$15

54119
GUNSON, W. N. & SCARR, Deryck (editors)
THE JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY - Volume 19, Nos. 1 & 2, 1984

Canberra. 1984. Australian National University. Volume XIX. Nos. 1-2: 120 PP. Soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 17.
No. 1: Hawaii 1778-1854, by Caroline Ralston. No. 2: The uses and misuses of capital: New Caledonia's mining industry, by Anne-Gabrielle Thompson.
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$15

55799

HAFA ADAI: GUAM - 1988, a visit to the villages

Tamuning, Guam. 1988. The Palm Press. 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.
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$10

19881
HAKLUYT, Richard
DIVERS VOYAGES TOUCHING ON THE DISCOVERIE OF AMERICA

Fairfield, U.SA. 1981. Ye Galleon. Facsimile reprint of the 1582 orig. in a limited edition of 478, numbered copy. 110 PP, (5 index), 1 colophon, with 1 illust. in text and a double-page maps plus 2 folded maps in rear pocket (one 1527, one 1582). Decorated eps. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt-engraved spine and front cover, dj. Fine. 23.5 x 15.8. 087770242X
Voyages of discovery of America and adjacent islands by: John Cabot, Robert Thorne, John Verarzanus, Nicolo and Antonio Zeno, John Ribault, ...
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$35

56980
HANDY, E. S. Craighill & PUKUI, Mary Kawena
THE POLYNESIAN FAMILY SYSTEM IN KA-'U, HAWAI'I

Rutland, Vermont. 1993. Charles E. Tuttle. 9th printing of the 1972 edition (original of 1958). Hawaiian Classic reprints. Introduction to the new edition by Terence Barrow. Concluding chapter by Elizabeth Green Handy. XX, 259 PP with 1 map. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 18.3 x 10.6. 0804810311
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$20

56049
HAYES, Walter
THE CAPTAIN FROM NANTUCKET AND THE MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, A Recollection of Mayhew Folger, Mariner, who Discovered the last Mutineer & his Family on Pitcairn's Island: together with Letters & Documents never previously published

Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1996. The William L. Clements Library. 1st edition limited to 1500 copies. 144 PP with 5 bw and 12 colour illust., as well as 6 facsimiles of Log entries, letters... between P.100 and 131. Fp (in colour): Portrait of Mayhew Folger. Decorated endpapers. Cloth cover, device on front, gilt title on spine. Half title page with dedicatory note to Honore Forster, Australian Historian(Whaling Specialist), signed by the author. Bookplate of Honore Forster on front endpaper. Fine. Scarce. 26 x 19.7.
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$300

40892
HEINL, Major Robert D.
PALMS AND PLANES IN THE NEW HEBRIDES / NAVY WINGS OVER THE PACIFIC (in National Geographic Magazine)

Washington. 1944. N.G.S. Volume 86, No. 2, August 1944. Contains article from P.229 to 256 with 1 map with an inset, 17 b/w and 12 colour photos (Navy wings over the Pacific). Soft cover. Fine. 25.5 x 17.4.
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$10

33342
HEMPENSTALL, Peter & RUTHERFORD, Noel
PROTEST AND DISSENT IN THE COLONIAL PACIFIC

Suva. 1984. Institute of Pacific Studies / University of the South Pacific. 1st Ed. VIII, 200 PP with 3 maps, 4 tail pieces and 19 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 22 x 14.5.
The contest of Colonial Authority in Samoa. The 1959 Fiji strike. The Spanish Micronesian wars...
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$25

56938
HEMPENSTALL, Peter J.
PACIFIC ISLANDERS UNDER GERMAN RULE, A Study in the Meaning of Colonial Resistance

Canberra. 1978. A.N.U. 1st Ed. XII, (4), 266 PP with 6 maps in text plus 8 pages with 19 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Pacific. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket sunned. Near fine. 22 x 14.5. 0708113508
Detailed study of the resistance of Samoans, Ponapeans & New Guineans under German rule.
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$65

56172
HENNINGHAM, Stephen & BALL, Desmond (editors)
SOUTH PACIFIC SECURITY: ISSUES & PERSPECTIVES

Canberra. 1991. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. 1st Ed. No. 72, in the Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence series. XXII, 155 PP with 4 maps & 18 tables. Pictorial soft cover. 20.6 x 14.5. 0731511573
Trends and prospects in the Asia/Pacific security context, South Pacific security and defence environment. France in the South Pacific, by Yves Pimont ...
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$35

54140
HENNINGHAM, Stephen & WARD, Alan (editors)
THE JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY - Volume 30, No. 2 - 1995

Canberra. 1995. Australian National University. Volume XXX, No. 2 (December 1994): 129-256 PP. Soft cover. Faint foxing. Fine. 24 x 16.5.
The return to Rabaul 1945, by Hank Nelson. The trial of Consul Pritchard, by Andrew E. Robson. ...
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$20

56215
HERDA, Phyllis, REILLY, Michael & HILLIARD, David (editors)
VISION AND REALITY IN PACIFIC RELIGION - Essays in Honour of Niel Gunson

Christchurch / Canberra. 2005. Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies / Pandanus Books, RSPAS / ANU. 1st Ed. (10), 344 PP. Pictorial soft cover. New. 22 x 14. 01740761197
... Tupa'ia: the trials and tribulations of a Polynesian Priest, by Hank Driessen. God in Samoa and the introduction of Catholicism, by Andrew Hamilton... 'Through a glass darkly': ownership of Fijian Methodism, by Andrew Thornley...
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$30

55752
HERENIKO, Vilsoni
WOVEN GODS - Female Clowns and Power in Rotuma

Suva & Honolulu. 1995. Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i & Institute of Pacific Studies, USP. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 197, (3) PP with 1 plan, 2 maps and 20 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. 23.2 x 15.5. 9820201101
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$35

56054
HESSELT VAN DINTER, Maarten
TRIBAL TATTOO DESIGNS FROM THE PACIFIC

Amsterdam. 2007. Mundurucu Publishers. 1st Ed. Introduction in English, French and Spanish. 283 PP with 1 map on double page, 47 colour plates (2 on double page) and hundreds of b/w illustrations (drawings, engravings, paintings & photos). Pocket on back cover with CD ROM. Pictorial soft cover. New. 15 x 15. 9789081054393
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$50

56063
HEZEL, Father Francis X.
FOREIGN SHIPS IN MICRONESIA

Saipan. 1979. Trust Territory Historic Preservation Office / Author. Hezel. 1st Ed. IV, 185 PP, plus 6 maps of districts. Bound copy, cloth cover with original copy in its pictorial soft cover, gilt title on spine. Compliment slip to Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) signed by the author. Very good. 27.3 x 21.
A compendium of ship contacts with the Caroline & Marshall Islands 1521-1885.
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$100

56297
HILDER, Brett
THE VOYAGE OF TORRES - The Discovery of the Southern Coastline of New Guinea and Torres Strait by Captain Luis Baéz de Torres in 1606

Brisbane. 1980. University of Queensland Press. 1st Ed. XXXII, 194 PP with 64 bw illustrations, plus 8 pages with 5 colour plates. Fp: Luis Baéz de Torres. Eps: Portion of B.A. 2759a, showing Torres' track along the whole southern coast of New Guinea. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner at top corner of front endpaper. Faint foxing on outside edges. Fine. 24.5 x 18.5. 070221275X
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$80

56997
HOARE, Merval (editor)
ELIZABETH ROBERTSON'S DIARY, NORFOLK ISLAND 1845

No place. 1996. Newey & Beath. Reprint of the 1988 original. 64 PP, plus 6 b/w plates. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20 x 13.2. 731653769
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$20

56051
HOHMAN, Elmo Paul
THE AMERICAN WHALEMAN: A Study of Life and Labor in the Whaling Industry

New York. 1928. Longmans, Green & Co. 1st Ed. XIV, 355 PP with 1 diagram (drawing of a sperm whale) and tables, plus 16 plates with 21 b/w illustrations (drawings & photos). Fp: Sperm whaling - the chase. Original cloth cover, gilt title on black leather labels on front cover and spine. Bookplate on front endpaper of Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist). Slight ageing of paper and extremities of spine a little worn, o/wise a fine copy. 24 x 16.5.
From his 1924 Thesis, submitted in partial fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Economics, Division of History, Government, and Economics, Harvard University.
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$100

56055
HOOPER, Steven
PACIFIC ENCOUNTERS: Art & Divinity in Polynesia 1760-1860

Wellington. 2006. Te Papa Press. 1st New Zealand edition. 288 PP with 10 maps in colour, 37 figures in text (15 b/w and 22 in colour), and 268 colour illustrations in catalogue. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.6 x 22. 9781877385209
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$80

56034
HOPE, Dennis
A PORTRAIT OF NORFOLK ISLAND

Brisbane. 1992. Robert Brown & Associates (Qld) Pty Ltd. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Dr. Lionel Gilbert. 64 PP with 36 b/w illustrations (28 on full page) by the artist. Title spread: Crankmill, Kingston. Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Dated and signed by the author on front endpaper. Fine. Oblong: 23.7 x 32. 01862730679
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$30

56095
HORDERN HOUSE
PACIFIC VOYAGES, From the Dr. F.E. Ellis Collection

Sydney. 1989. Hordern House. 1st Ed. No pagination, 166 PP with 57 b/w and 9 colour illustrations. Soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 18. 0958847886
Catalogue detailing 150 items: 6 on Bligh. 8 on Cook... 4 on Kotzebue. 2 on Krusenstern...
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$45

56094
HORDERN HOUSE
VOYAGES

Sydney. 1994. Hordern House. 1st Ed. No pagination, 176 PP with 96 b/w and 33 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 18. 01875567097
Catalogue detailing 174 items.
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$30

34749
HORNADGE, Bill & KITCHING, Cy
THE PITCAIRN ISLANDS STAMP CATALOGUE

Dubbo, NSW. 1981. Review Publications 2nd revised edition of the 1976 original. 224 PP with 1 map of Pitcairn Island, and b/w illust. (engravings, postal markings and stamps). Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 20.3 x 12.5.
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$20

56346
HORTON, D. C.
THE HAPPY ISLES - A Diary of the Solomons

London. 1966. Travel Book Club. Reprint of the 1965 original. (10), 198 PP with 3 maps. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
District Officer in the Solomon Islands between 1937 and 1942: Tulagi, Ysabel, Malaita and Guadalcanal.
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$10

32352
HORVAT, William J.
ABOVE THE PACIFIC

Fallbrook, Ca., USA. 1966. Aero Publishers. 1st Ed. Foreword by Arthur Godfrey. 211 PP, (12 appendix) with 2 maps, 1 facsimile of newspaper clipping and 154 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Covers and spine lightly soiled with a very little insect damage. Dedicatory note on half title page signed by the author. Foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise very good. 27.2 x 18.5.
Development of aviation in Hawaii.
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$40

57023
HOTIMSKY, C. M.
THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK - A Letter from Russia, 1779

Sydney. 1962. Wentworth Books. 1st Ed. 16 PP with 3 b/w illustrations. Fp: Meeting of the English and Russians in the Harbour of Petropavlosk in 1779. Soft cover. Ingleton bookplate inside front cover (Ingleton No.: 11124 on lower corner of back cover). Near fine. 21 x 13.6.
Letter of 26 December 1779 from Professor Peter Simon Pallas of the Imperial Academy at St. Petersburg to Anton Büsching, relating the death of Captain James Cook.
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$35

43950
HOWARTH, Stephen
MORNING GLORY - A History of the Imperial Japanese Navy

London. 1983. Hamish Hamilton. 1st Ed. XVIII, 398 PP with 5 maps (1 on on double page) and 15 sketches of Japanese warships on a double page, plus 16 pages with 35 b/w illustrations. Hard cover, dj. Spine of dust jacket lifghtly sunned. Faint foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise a fine copy. 24 x 16. 024111115
An account of the Imperial Japanese Navy, from its strange beginnings to the third largest naval force in the world and its tragic end only fifty years later.
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$35

56948
HOWE, K. R. (editor)
VAKA MOANA: VOYAGES OF THE ANCESTORS - The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific

Auckland. 2008. David Bateman & Auckland War Memorial Museum. Reprint of the 2006 original. Foreword by T.L. Rodney Wilson. 360 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Half title page: Taurapa, stern post of a Maori war canoe. Fp: Kawe, goddess from Nukuoro. Hard cover, dj. New. 29.8 x 24. 9781869536251
Polynesian oral traditions, by Rawiri Taonui. Voyaging and Settlement, by Geoffrey Irwin. Ocean sailing canoes, by Ben Finney... Western ideas about Islanders' origins, by K. R. Howe...
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$90

43808
HOWE, K.R., KISTE, Robert C. & LAL, Brij V. (Edit.)
TIDES OF HISTORY - The Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century

Honolulu. 1994. University of Hawaii Press. 1st US edition. XVIII, 475 PP with b/w photos & maps in text. Eps: Map of the Pacific Islands. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 18. 0824815971
Chapters contributed by various specialists on the Pacific. Sections on: Colonisation, Decolonisation, Uncertain Times.
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$35

55980
HUMPHREYS, C. B.
THE SOUTHERN NEW HEBRIDES. An Ethnological Record

New York. 1978. AMS Press. 1st AMS edition. Reprint of the 1926 original published by Cambridge University Press. XVI, 214 PP with tables and 3 sets of figures. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Stamp of previous owner on front endpaper, o/wise fine. 22.2 x 14.5. 0404141390
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$110

55758
INIA, Elizabeth K.
KATO'AGA: Rotuman Ceremonies.

Suva. 2001. Institute of Pacific Studies, USP. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Alan Howard and Jan Rensel. 266 PP with 1 map and 24 b/w photos. Glossary (pages 235 to 266). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 9820203414
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$25

46434
IRVINE, Lucy
FARAWAY

London. 2000. Doubleday. 1st paperback edition. XIV, 386 PP with 5 maps, plus 32 pages with 13 b/w and 73 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Spine slightly creased. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.5. 0385601808
Adventures and life in the second half of the 20th century on the faraway island of Pigeon Island, Lom Lom group, Reef Islands, Solomon.
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$20

56123
IRWIN, Geoffrey
THE COLONIZATION OF THE PACIFIC PLATE: Chronological, Navigational and Social Issues (in Journal of the Polynesian Society)

Auckland. 1998. The Polynesian Society. Vol. 107, No. 2, June 1998. (4), 109-216 PP. Contains article P.111 to 143 with 1 table and 3 figures. Soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.5.
Other articles: The creation of the Sealord Deal, by Paul Moon. Local ethnography, regional systems: the Mekeo case, by Mark S. Mosko.
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$20

55610

JAPAN MARITIME SELF DEFENCE FORCE - 1963 Training Fleet

Tokyo. 1963. Asagumo Shimbun (Organ Paper of Defense Agency). 1st Ed. 1/07/1963. No pagination, 12 PP with b/w illustrations. Centrefold: 1963' Training Cruise. Flyer on the Japanese Training fleet with map of the cruise, photos of the 4 warships and portrait of rear Admiral Koji Takikawa, loosely inserted. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 26 x 18.
7th Overseas Training Cruise, and the first to go to Europe (Napoli, Toulon, Kiel and Portsmouth) via Indian Ocean an Suez Canal.
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$20

55979
JENNINGS, John
THE SALEM FRIGATE

Sydney. 1946. Invincible Press. 1st Australian edition. Foreword by T. Tisdall. 407 PP. Eps: Map. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on a lightly sunned spine. Faint foxing. Very good. 22 x 14.
Novel with an historical background. Story of the Frigarte Essex, USN: 1800-01 to Batavia, Indonesia. 1802-03 to Tripoli, Libya. 1812-14 to Eastern Pacific and the Marquesas Islands.
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$15

56072
JONES, A. G. E.
SHIPS EMPLOYED IN THE SOUTH SEAS TRADE 1775-1859, VOLUME 2

Canberra. 1992. Roebuck Society. 1st edition. Publication No. 46 of the Roebuck Society. XXIV, 720 PP with b/w illustrations, 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
Ships employed in the South Seas trade, Admiralty protections from impressment and aspects of the South Seas trade.
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$80

55601
JUMEAU, Michel-Alain & PIOGER, Yves
BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE L'ILE DE PAQUES

Paris. 1997. Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. 1st Ed. Publication No. 46. (2), XIII, 233 PP. Soft cover, clear plastic front. French text. Fine. 29.8 x 21.
Bibliography of Easter Island. 4 pages: List of ships calling between 1722 and 1937. 3 pages: Museums with Ethnographic collections. 227 pages with 4422 entries.
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$100

55766
KAYSER, Alois
NAURU ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO - 3. Games & Sports

Nauru & Suva. 2005. University of the South Pacific Centre on Nauru & Institute of Pacific Studies, USP. 1st Ed., translated from the German original by Pamela Adams. 84, (2) PP with 17 drawings. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9820203554
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$20

55976
KEESING, R. M. (editor)
'ELOTA'S STORY. The Life and Times of a Solomon Islands big Man

Brisbane. 1978. University of Queensland Press. 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.
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$15

11576
KEESING, Roger M.
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY - A Contemporary Perspective

New York. 1976. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. 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.
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$25

55444
KERRIGAN, Michael
CHARLES DARWIN'S - The Voyage of the Beagle, The Journals that revealed Nature's Grand Plan

Sydney. 2005. ABC Books. 1st Australian edition. 208 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Eps: Route of the Beagle. 0733316115
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$45

55690
KIRCH, Patrick V. & RALLU, Jean-Louis (editors)
THE GROWTH AND COLLAPSE OF PACIFIC ISLAND SOCIETIES: Archaeological and Demographic Perspectives

Honolulu. 2007. University of Hawai'i Press. 1st Ed. XVI, 392 PP with 56 tables and 72 figures, engravings, graphs, maps & plans, photos). Pictorial soft covers. New. 22.8 x 15. 9780824831486
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$80

56175
KIRK, Robert & SZATHMARY, Emöke
OUT OF ASIA, Peopling the Americas and the Pacific

Canberra. 1985. Journal of Pacific History. 1st Ed. XIV, 226 PP with figures, maps, tables & photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.5. 0959547746
Studies the peopling of these areas explaining language, lapita pottery, genetics...
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$35

39909
KLEMENSEN, Arvid
STRANGE ISLAND - The Noona Dan in the South Seas

Sydney. 1965. Ure Smith. 1st Australian edition, translated from the 1963 Danish original by Joan Bulman. 190 PP with 1 cutaway of the Noona Dan, plus 26 pages with 31 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 22.8 x 16.
Danish scientific expedition to Marquesas (Nuku Hiva in June 1961), Palawan, New Britain...
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$25

12897
KNOX-MAWER, June
A SOUTH SEA SPELL

London. 1975. John Murray. 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).
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$20

55760
KOCH, Gerd
SONGS OF TUVALU

Suva. 2000. Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. 1st English edition translated from the German original by Guy Slatter. 196 PP with 2 maps, musical scores and 30 b/w illustrations (1 drawing of slit drums, and 29 photos), plus 2 Compact Discs in pockets on endpapers. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 22 x 15.5.
9820203147
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$35

55691
KOMITI FAATONU O LE TUUFAATASIGO O LE TUSI (editor)
O LE SU'EGA FAALUMAGA I TU MA AGA, TALA O LE VAVAU MA LE TALA FAASOLOPITO E FAAMAUTUINA AI LE FILEMU MA PULEGA LELEI I AIGA, I NUU, I EKALESIA

Apia, Samoa. 2007. Samoa Distance and Flexible Learning Centre / USP. 1st Ed. XXVI, 226 PP. Soft cover. Samoan text. New. 24.2 x 17. 9789820108127
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$55

55750
LAL, Brij V
GIRMITIYAS - The Origins of the Fiji Indians

Suva. 2004. Fiji Institute of Applied Studies. New edition of the 1983 original. Foreword by Clem Seecharan. (8), 190 PP with1 engraving, 2 facsimile of documents, 3 diagrams, 3 maps, 10 graphs, 14 b/w photos and 26 tables. Pictorial soft cover. New. 21.2 x 14.8. 9823010234
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$30

56218
LAL, Brij V.
A TIME BOMB LIES BURIED: Fiji's Road to Independence, 1960-1970

Canberra. 2005. ANU E Press. 1st Ed. Monograph No. 1, in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia series. IX, 106 PP. Pictorial soft cover. New. 25 x 17.5. 9781921313608
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$40

56217
LAL, Brij V. (editor)
THE DEFINING YEARS: Pacific Islands, 1945-65

Canberra. 2005. Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS / ANU. 1st Ed. (3), IV, 154 PP with 1 table and 2 maps. Pictorial soft cover. New. 25 x 17.5. 0909524270
End of World War II to the advent of decolonisation in the 1960s.
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$40

55710
LAL, Brij V. (editor)
ISLANDS OF TURMOIL - Elections and Politics in Fji

Canberra. 2006. Asia Pacific Press / ANU E Press. 1st Ed. XIII, 282 PP. Pictorial soft cover. New. 20.6 x 14.8. 0731537513
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$55

56221
LAL, Brij V. & LUKER, Vicki (editors)
TELLING PACIFIC LIVES: Prisms of Process

Canberra. 2008. ANU E Press. 1st Ed. XIV, 301 PP with few figures. Pictorial soft cover. New. 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...
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$40

56892
LANGDON, Robert
THE LOST CARAVEL

Sydney. 1975. Pacific Publications. 1st Ed. 368 PP with 14 text illustrations and 23 maps, plus 24 pages with 59 b/w photos. Eps: Map of Tuamotus & Society Islands. Hard cover, dj. Ex Library copy with stamp on front endpaper, verso of title page, and last page. Review by Peter Corris in "The Australian", 05.07.1975, loosely inserted. Foxing, o/wise very good. 24 x 17. 0858070219
On the Caravel "San Lesmes" of the Loaisa expedition, lost in 1526.
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$35

56153
LANGE, Raeburn
ISLAND MINISTERS - Indigenous Leadership in Nineteenth Century Pacific Islands Christianity

Canberra. 2005. Pandanus Books / ANU. 1st Ed. 436 PP with 8 maps. Eps: Maori ministers of the Anglican Diocese of Waiapu, North Island, New Zealand. Pictorial soft cover. New. 25 x 17.7. 01740761766
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$50

55660
LANYON-ORGILL, Peter A. (editor)
CAPTAIN COOK'S SOUTH SEA ISLAND VOCABULARIES

London. 1979. Author. 1st limited edition (131 original subscribers). XV, 287 PP. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine. Covers speckled. Content in near fine condition (occasional foxing). 25.5 x 16.
Collection including not only the Tahitian vocabulary, but some obscure languages from Australia, Torres Strait, New Guinea, Easter Island, Marquesas, Tonga, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), New Caledonia, Tasmania, Cook Islands, Hawaii... A complement to the J.C. Beaglehole books on Captain Cook.
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$125

55598
LAROCHE, Marie-Charlotte
EASTER ISLAND

Paris. 1981. Société des Océanistes. 1st Ed., in the Dossier du Pacifique series. 32 PP with 39 b/w illustrations with captions in French and English and including sketch map at centrefold. Inside front cover: location map. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 19 x 14.
Stamps and Post Office in French Polynesia.
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$20

56231
LARSEN, May & Henry
BLACK SAND, New Hebrides: Its People and Places

Edinburgh. 1961. Oliver & Boyd. 1st English edition, translated from the French original 'Sable Noir by John & Patricia Russell. XVI, 178 PP with 1 plan and 2 maps, plus 6 colour plates and 32 plates with 66 b/w photos. Fp (in colour): 'Rom' figure wearing dance mask. Hard cover, dj. Spine sunned and rubbed at head and foot. Ex-Libris of Dr. Paul A. C. V. Geraghty on front endpaper. Occasional foxing. Excellent copy. 21.5 x 15.5.
Voyage of a naturalist through the New Hebrides archipelago.
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$30

54797
LAVILLE, Jean & BERKOWITZ, Captain Joseph
PACIFIC ISLAND LEGENDS - Life and Legends in the South Pacific Islands

Nouméa. 1944. Librairie Pentecost. 1st Ed. 168 PP with 1 map of New Caledonia/New Hebrides, 9 b/w photos, 23 drawings on full page, and 18 drawings in text. Original cloth cover, dj. Occasonal foxing. Very good condition. Rare with dust jacket. 20.2 x 14.2.
Many of the well-known (the Rat and the Octopus) or lesser-known (the Revel of the Devil) legends of the South Pacific islands (mainly New Caledonia & New Hebrides).
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$150

55491
LESURE, Michel, VILLIERS, Patrick, TAILLEMITE, Etienne, BOUDRIOT, Jean ...
2000 ANS SUR LA MER (in L'Histoire)

Paris. 1981. L'Histoire. No. 36, July / August 1981. Special Issue. 132 pp with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (rubbed). French text. Very good. 27.4 x 20.
19 papers. Battle of Lepanto, by Michel Lesure. Suffren, a Napoleon on the high seas, by André Zysberg. Exploring the Pacific: Cook to Dumont d'Urville, by Etienne Taillemite. The 74 guns ship, by Jean Boudriot.
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$10

56062
LEVESQUE, Rodrigue (editor)
SHIPS THROUGH MICRONESIA - A Chronological Listing of Signifant Ships that passed through Micronesian Waters from Magellan's time to the present 1521-1991

Gatineau, Canada. 1991. Lévesque Publications / Les Editions Lévesque. Preliminary edition. XII, 137, (7) PP with 3 maps, 1 sail plan of a full-rigged ship and 14 sketches of sailing ships, plus 34 pages with 33 b/w illust. of ships (photocopy quality). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.3 x 21.5. 0969036736
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$60

15605
LEWIS, David
FROM MAUI TO COOK - The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific

Sydney. 1977. Doubleday. 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. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 23.5 x 18. 086824001X
Pacific exploration, from prehistoric times, seen through the eyes of a modern-day seagoing adventurer.
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$15

56960
LEWIS, David
THE VOYAGING STARS, Secrets of the Pacific Island Navigators

Sydney. 1978. Collins. 1st Ed. 208 PP with 26 drawings, plus 12 pages with 15 b/w & colour photos. Eps: Map of the South West Pacific and 2 insets (Carolines/Marianas & Santa Cruz). Hard cover, dj. Bookplate of previous owner on verso of front endpaper. Few foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise near fine. 21.7 x 14. 0002164043
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$30

56060
LEWIS-HUGHES, J. H.
WHALES ! LAUNCH THE BOATS !, The Story of Norfolk Island Whaling and the American Connection

Killara. 1992. Pub. by author. Limited edition. (3), 26, (10 appendices, indexes) PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 16 illustrations (2 hand painted). Typescript monograph in spiral bound wrappers. Compliment slip to Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist), tipped in on inside front cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21. 0646126865
Norfolk Islanders working on American whalers and the whaling industry up to its eventual decline in the 1960's.
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$60

55761
LILIGETO, Wilson Gia
BABATA, Our Land, Our tribe, Our People: a historical and cultural materials of Butubutu Babata, Marovo

Suva. 2006. Institute of Pacific Studies, USP. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Edvard Hviding. XXII, 162 PP with 3 tables, 7 maps, 9 genealogy tree, 14 figures and 33 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. 21 x 14.7. 9782953350708
Recollections by Marovo Islanders, translated by Wilson Gia Liligeto, Secretary to the Chief of Babata Tribe, Marovo Island.
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$45

42567
LINDSTROM, Lamont & GWERO, James (editors)
BIG WOK - Storian blong Wol Wo Tu long Vanuatu

Christchurch / Suva. 1998. Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies . Institute of Pacific Studies, USP. 1st Ed. XII, 308 PP with 3 maps and 54 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Fine. Bichlamar text. 21 x 14.7. 1877175099 / 98
World War II in Vanuatu (Anglo-French condominium of the New Hebrides, at the time).
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$35

11989
LINDSTROM, Lamont & WHITE, Geoffrey M. (editors)
CULTURE, KASTOM, TRADITION - Developing Cultural Policy in Melanesia

Suva. 1994. Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. 1st USP edition. XX, 297 PP with 2 maps & 32 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.8 x 14.6. 9820201020
Cultural development programmes and policies in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Different perspectives surveyed: rural and urban, local and national, men's and women's,....
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$30

11768
LINI, Father Walter
BEYOND PANDEMONIUM, From the New Hebrides to Vanuatu

Suva. 1980. Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 2 maps and 11 b/w photos. Eps: maps of the South Pacific and of Vanuatu. Pictorial boards. Fine. 21.5 x 15.2. 908583125
Autobiographical sketch of the first Prime Minister of Vanuatu, who led his country towards independence by fighting the Anglo/French Condominium which had governed the island nation since 1906.
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$25

55996
LOMB, Dr. Nick
TRANSIT OF VENUS: The Scientific Event that led Captain Cook to Australia

Sydney. 2004. Powerhouse Publishing. 1st Ed. 24 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. New. 29.7 x 21. 1863171053
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$10

43728
LONG, David F.
NOTHING TOO DARING, A Biography of Commodore David Porter, 1780-1843

Annapolis. 1970. United States Naval Institute. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 396 PP with 7 maps, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w illustrations. Fp: David Porter. Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 23.8 x 17.4. 0870214942
War of 1812 with Great Britain. First imperial actions of the U.S. Navy (Marquesas in 1813, Puerto Rico in 1822). With the Mexican Navy...
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$45

55789
LOTI, Pierre
L' ILE DE PÂQUES - Journal d'un aspirant de La Flore

Paris. 2006. Editions Christian Pirot. Paperback edition (limlited to 2000 copies) of the 1988 edition by Pierre-Olivier Combelles. Preface by Yves La Prairie, and an introduction by Pierre Loti-Viaud. 143 PP with 1 map and 33 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, illustrated dj (Moaï on the slopes of the Ronoraraku volcano). Dust jacket with a closed tear, o/wise fine. French text. Oblong: 21.7 x 23. 2907326007
Call of the French frigate La Flore, at Easter Island in January 1872. Description by midshipman Julien Viaud, later known as Pierre Loti.
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$75

47848
LYNCH, John & CROWLEY, Terry
LANGUAGES OF VANUATU. A new survey and bibliography

Canberra. 2001. Pacific Linguistics / ANU. 1st Ed., Pacific Linguistics 517. XIV, 187 PP with tables and 15 maps. Pictorial soft cover. New. 25 x 17.5. 0858834693
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$85

56564
McCAFFRIE, Jack (editor)
POSITIONING NAVIES FOR THE FUTURE: Challenge and Response - Proceedings of the Royal Australian Navy Sea Power Conference 2004

Canberra. 2007. The Sea Power Centre - Australia / Halstead Press. 1st Ed. Foreword by Vice Admiral C. A. Ritchie. 272 PP with 1 table and 1 map. Laminated pictorial boards, dj. New. 23.7 x 15.8. 1920831339
24 papers: Strategies - Operations - Technology - Challenges (Royal Australian Navy, Asia-Pacific Navies) and Responses (USN, RAN, RNZN, French Navy).
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$40

55783
MacCLANCY, Jeremy
FAIRE DE DEUX PIERRES UN COUP: une brève Histoire du Vanuatu jusqu'à l'indépendance

Port-Vila. 2002. Centre Culturel de Vanuatu / Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta / Vanuatu Cultural Centre. 1st French edition. Translation of the 1980 To Kill a Bird with Two Stones by Stéphane Camille. 184 PP with 1 map & 36 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 9829032035
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$35

56098
McCORMICK, Anne & McDONNELL, Derek
PACIFIC VOYAGES & EXPLORATION, From the Carlsmith Collection and Other Sources

Sydney. 1987. Hordern House. 1st Ed. 160 PP profusely illustrated with 160 b/w & 31 colour illustrations. Bound copy, cloth cover with original front and Bookplate of Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) on front endpaper. Presentation card signed by co-author Derek McDonnell, loosely inserted. Fine. 30 x 21. 095884786X
Catalogue detailing 289 items of the Carlsmith family collection of Pacific voyages: Cook, Bligh, La Pérouse ...
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$75

55769
McCOY, Mary M. & HAVEA, Siotame Drew
MAKING SENSE OF TONGA: A Visitor's Guide to the Kingdom's Rich Polynesian Culture

Nuku'Alofa, Tonga. 2006. Training Group of the Pacific. 1st Ed. IV, 44 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. New. 20.2 x 15.7. 9789829800121
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$35

56942
MACDONALD, Barrie
CINDERELLAS OF THE EMPIRE - Towards a history of Kiribati and Tuvalu

Canberra. 1982. A.N.U. Press. 1st Ed. XX, 335 PP with 3 maps. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 24 x 15. 0708116167
Early contacts, Christianization, labour trade, Pax Britannica and colonial rule, WWII. From the colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands to the nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu.
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$85

56120
McEVEDY, Colin
THE PENGUIN HISTORICAL ATLAS OF THE PACIFIC

London. 1998. Penguin Reference. 1st Ed. VIII, 120 PP with 4 headpieces and over 50 maps and insets in colour. Pictorial soft cover. Mint condition. 27.8 x 21.7. 0140254285
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$75

55726
MACLELLAN, Nic (editor)
NO TE PARAU TIA, NO TE PARAU MAU, NO TE TIAMARAA, For Justice, Truth and Independence

Suva. 2000. Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC). 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...
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$40

10297
McQUARRIE, Peter
STRATEGIC ATOLLS, Tuvalu and the Second World War

Christchurch. 1994. Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies & USP. 1st Ed. (XV), 187 PP with 15 maps and plans, and 43 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 0958330050
Coastwatching during N.Z. control. Arrival of U.S. Forces after Pearl Harbour. Rescue of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, ...
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$40

56036

MARINER'S MIRROR [THE]. The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 50, No. 2

Greenwich. 1964. Society for Nautical Research. Volume 50, No. 2, May 1964. Editor: Captain T. D. Manning. IV, 81-160 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings... photos), plus 4 b/w plates. Soft cover. Occasional foxing. Fine. 24 x 17.2.
No. 2: Annual Lecture The North Ferriby Boats, by E. V. Wright. Alexander Dalrymple and the Rediscovery of the Islands of Solomon, by Dr. Colin Jack-Hinton...
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$20

55992

MARINER'S MIRROR [THE]. The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 55, No. 4

Greenwich. 1969. Society for Nautical Research. Volume 55, No. 4, November 1969. Editor: Captain T. D. Manning. (2), (II), 355-484 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings... photos), plus 5 b/w plates. Soft cover (front cover soiled). Occasional foxing. Fine. 24 x 17.2.
No. 4: Annual Lecture: Some Problems of Cook's Biographer by Professor J.C. Beaglehole. A Commander for the Armada, by Peter O'Malley Pierson. The Panther Affair, by W. E. May. The Bridgewater Flatner, by Alan Shaw. His Majesty's Armed Tender Lady Nelson 1799-1825, by Clifford W. Hawkins...
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$20

55867

MARINER'S MIRROR [THE]. The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 56, No.3

London. August 1970. Society for Nautical Research. Edited by BACH, John, GEESON, N. T. & SEXTON, R. T. (II), 255-364, (2) PP with b/w illustrations, plus 4 pages with 6 b/w photos. Contains articles from P.259 to 273, and P. 275 to 298 with 1 figure. Soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.
The maintenance of Royal Navy Vessels in the Pacific Ocean, 1825-1875. H.M. Sloop Investigator.
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$20

55868

MARINER'S MIRROR [THE]. The Journal of the Society for Nautical Research - Volume 65, No.2

London. 1979. Society for Nautical Research. Volume 65, No. 2, May 1979. (16), (II), 103-196 PP with b/w illustrations. Contains articles: pages 105 to 135 with 14 figures. Soft cover. Fine. 24.5 x 17.
Captain Cook Commemoration, by Professor C. C. Lloyd. Captain Cook's Ships, by A. P. McGowan. The principal Scientific Instruments taken on Captain Cook's Voyages of Exploration, 1768-80, by Derek Howse.
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$20

55674
MARTIN, John
TONGA ISLANDS. William Mariner 's Account (Volumes I & II combined)

Nuku'alofa, Tonga. 1991. Vava'u Press. 5th edition of the 1817 original. Publisher's note by Pesi Fonua. 399 PP with 1 musical score (on 2 pages), 1 map, 1 tail piece and 3 b/w plates. Fp: Mr Mariner in the costume of the Tonga Islands. Pictorial soft cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Fine. 21 x 14.5.
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$50

42741
MAUDE, H. C. & H. E. (editors)
AN ANTHOLOGY OF GILBERTESE ORAL TRADITION

Suva. 1994. Institute of Pacific Studies / University of the South Pacific. 1st Ed. XX, 289 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 646172654
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$50

55774
MAUDE, H. E.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE GILBERTESE BOTI: An Ethnohistorical Interpretation

Tarawa & Suva. 2005. Gilbert Islands Extension Centre of the USP & Institute of Pacific Studies. 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.
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$15

33827
MAWER, Granville Allen
AHAB'S TRADE - The Saga of South Seas Whaling

Sydney. 1999. Allen & Unwin. 1st Ed. XIV, 393 PP with head & tail pieces, 6 maps, 12 b/w photos and 20 b/w illust., plus 8 pages with 13 colour illust. Hard cover, dj. New. 23.5 x 15.5. 1864485795
Rise and fall of the whaling industry in the Pacific.
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$30

11187
MESCAM, Genevieve
PENTECOST, An Island in Vanuatu

Suva. 1989. U. S.P. 1st Ed. X, 60 PP with 2 maps, 19 b/w illustrations & 12 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 20.8 x 14.6. 9820200520
A survey of the central part of the island of Pentecost compiled from motifs found on dyed basketry & mats.
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$25

55721
MEYLAN, M. A. & GLASBY, G. P. (editors)
MANIHIKI PLATEAU, MACHIAS AND CAPRICORN SEAMOUNTS, NIUE, AND TOFUA TROUGH: RESULTS OF TUI CRUISES

Suva. 1996. SOPAC (South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission) Secretariat. 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.
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$70

15453
MITCHELL, T. C. (editor)
CAPTAIN COOK AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

London. 1979. British Museum. 1st edition. 249 PP with 4 maps and 158 b/w illustrations. Fp: Captain Cook. Cloth cover, dj. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 24.5 x 18.7. 0714100889
Banks's Artists and his Endeavour Collections, by A.M. Lysaght. Ancient Pacific Voyaging, by Brian Durrans... Tracing the history of Hawaiian Cook voyage artefacts in the Museum of Mankind, by Adrienne L. Kaeppler...
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$25

47788
MOLINIER, Bernard
LA TERRE D'UNE ILLUSION PERDUE

Les Issambres, Var. 2000. Author. 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
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$45

45384
MORAN, Michael
BEYOND THE CORAL SEA - Travels in the old Empires of the South-West Pacific

London. 2003. HarperCollins. 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. New. 24 x 16. 0002261707
Voyage in the Islands of the Bismarck and Solomon Seas, settled a century ago by Great Britain and Germany.
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$45

45450
MORDAUNT, Elinor
THE VENTURE BOOK

London. 1926. The Bodley Head. 1st Ed. XIV, (2), 272 PP with 30 drawings by the author, plus 19 plates with 24 b/w photos. Fp: A typical native woman of Martinique. Title page: drawing "Sa Laka Evei". Cloth cover. Device on front cover and spine. Few foxing spots on outside edges and pages, o/wise near fine. 22.4 x 14.5.
Voyage in 1924, on the El Kantara of Messageries Maritimes: Marseille, Martinique, Guadeloupe (West Indies), Panama Canal, Tahiti. To Samoa, Tonga, Fiji on the schooner Monterey. To New Zealand and Australia.
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$80

55767
MORRIS, Aldyth
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - Appointment on Moloka'i

Honolulu. 1995. University of Hawai'i Press. 1st Ed. (6), 57 PP with 10 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover, staples. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0824816714
Theatre play, first produced as RLS, by the Hawaii Performing Arts Company in 1977.
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$25

56364
MORRIS, Roger
PACIFIC SAIL - Four Centuries of Western Ships in the Pacific

Auckland. 1987. David Bateman. 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 fowing spots on outside edges. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 28. 0908610688
Ships which have sailed the Pacific since the arrival of Magellan.
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$35

56977
MRGUDOVIC, Nathalie
LA FRANCE DANS LE PACIFIQUE SUD - Les Enjeux de la Puissance

Paris. 2007. L'Harmattan. 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. New. 24 x 15.5. 9782296055483
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$75

16119
MULLER, Gerhard F.
VOYAGES FROM ASIA TO AMERICA (For Completing the Discoveries of the North West Coast of America)

Amsterdam. 1967. N. Israel. Facsimile reprint of the 1761 original. No. 26 in the Bibliotheca Australiana series. (2), VIII, XLIII, 76 PP, plus 2 maps (on full page) and 2 large folded maps (Fp: A map of the Russian discoveries on the North West Coast of America. At rear: A map of Canada and North part of Louisiana). Simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (on front cover and spine). Fine. 26 x 20.
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$100

55642
MURPHY, Robert Cushman
THE ROMANCE OF SCIENCE IN POLYNESIA. An Account of Five Years of Cruising among the South Sea Islands (in National Geographic Magazine)

Washington. 1925. National Geographic Society. Article pulled out of Volume XLVIII, No. 4, October 1925. 355-426 PP with 2 maps, 3 artist views, 16 colour plates Iridescent Isles of the South Seas and 64 b/w photographs by Rollo H. Beck. Plastic covers, clear plastic front, spiral bound. Fine. 25.5 x 18.
Tuamotus, Tubuai or Austral Islands, Rapa (Oparo)
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$40

56228
MUSGRAVE, Jill
A GRAMMAR OF NEVE'EI, Vanuatu

Canberra. 2007. Pacific Linguistics / ANU. 1st Ed. Pacific Linguistics No. 587. X, 146 PP with 3 maps and 40 tables. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 9790858835801
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$65

56024
NEDELJKOVIC, Maryvonne (editor)
YHI - MINORITES ET PUISSANCES DANS LE PACIFIQUE

Le Havre. 1998. CEPAC / Centre d' Etudes du Pacifique. 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.
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$50

55434
NETTELBECK, Colin
WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED FRANCE (in Explorations)

Melbourne. 2008. ISFAR / Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. No. 40, June 2006 (issued June 2008). 36 PP. Contains article from P. 2 to 17. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.
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$15

17481
NEWBY, Eric
THE WORLD ATLAS OF EXPLORATION

Sydney. 1982. Colporteur Press. 1st Australian Ed. with an introduction by Sir Vivian Fuchs. 288 PP with bw & colour illust. (charts, maps, drawings, photos & paintings). Hard cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Very good. 29 x 23. 0861340493
A 4000 year odyssey of Man's exploration of his world.
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$20

54795
NEYRET, Jean
PIROGUES OCEANIENNES - Tome I: MELANESIE

Paris. 1974. Association des Amis des Musées de la Marine. 1st Ed. (2), 187 PP with location maps, numerous illustrations and explanations. FEP: Outriggers from Fiji & New Guinea. REP: Outriggers from New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. Pictorial stiff cover. Spine with a crease. French text. Near fine copy. 29.7 x 21.
Outriggers and canoes from Melanesia, including Australia, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, Santa Cruz & the Solomons, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago.
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$200

54796
NEYRET, Jean
PIROGUES OCEANIENNES - Tome II: POLYNESIE, MICRONESIE, INDONESIE, INDE, AUTRES CONTINENTS

Paris. 1974. Association des Amis des Musées de la Marine. 1st Ed. (4), 315 PP with location maps, numerous illustrations with explanations. FEP: Outriggers from the Tuamotus & the Carolines. REP: Outriggers of the Sulu Sea and Java East Coast. Pictorial stiff cover. French text. Fine. 30 x 21.
Outriggers and canoes from Polynesia, Micronesia, Indonesia, India, Asia, Africa the Americas & Europe.
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$220

55442

NORFOLK ISLAND - BICENTENNIAL LOG-BOOK

Norfolk Island. 1988. Norfolk Island Philatelic Bureau. 1st Ed. No paginations, 16 PP with colour drawings and 23 stamps in colour. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 29.7 x 21.
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$25

12873
O'CONNELL, James F.
A RESIDENCE OF ELEVEN YEARS IN NEW HOLLAND AND THE CAROLINE ISLANDS

Canberra. 1972. A.N.U. 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. Bookplate of Rhys Jones & his signature opposite title page. Cloth cover, dj. 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).
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$45

55772
OROTALOA, Rexford
SUREMADA - Faces from a Solomon Island village

Suva. 1989. Mana Publications. 1st Ed. VI, 66 PP with 8 b/w illustrations by Thomas Wangi. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 14.7. 9820200261
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$20

56885
O'SULLIVAN, Dan
IN SEARCH OF CAPTAIN COOK. Exploring the Man Through His Own Words

London. 2008. I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd. 1st Ed. VIII, 263 PP with 3 maps and 9 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. New. 24 x 16. 9781845114831
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$60

33435
PALMER, Bruce & DEAN, Beth
SOUTH PACIFIC - Pacific Islands Art and Dance

Suva. 1972. Fiji Times & Herald Limited. 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.
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$15

51810
PAMBRUN, Jean-Marc Tera'ituatini
LA NAISSANCE DE HAVAI'I - Te ti-pu-ra'a'o Havai'i

Papeete. 2006. Editions le Motu. 1st Ed. Preface by Vahi Sylvia Tuheiva-Richaud. 16, 30 PP, plus 30 illustrations by Jean-Luc Bousquet. Pictorial soft cover. French and Ma'ohi (by Winston Pukoki) text. New. 29.8 x 21. 2915105316
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$65

56930
PARKIN, Ray
H.M. BARK "ENDEAVOUR" - Her place in Australian History - With an Account of her Construction, Crew and Equipment and a Narrative of her Voyage on the East Coast of New Holland in the Year 1770.

Melbourne. 2006. The Miegunyah Press. Paperback edition of the 2nd edition of 2003 (the original of 1997 was No. 13 in the Second numbered series of the Miegunyah Press). XII, 468 PP with 2 reproductions of original drawings by Parkinson, as well as plans, charts and illustrations by the author. Pictorial soft cover. New. 23.5 x 17.8. 0522853110
Not only on the Bark "Endeavour", but the description of Australia by the participants to this voyage of discovery (Cook, Banks, Parkinson, Pickersgill...), while following the East Coast from Cape Howe to Cape York.
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$45

55722
PARRY, John T.
THE NORTH COAST OF VITI LEVU: BA TO RA. Air Photo Archaeology and Ethnohistory

Suva. 1997. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Bulletin No. 10, 1997. (2), VII, 166, (8 Appendix) PP with tables and figures, plus 16 pages with 13 b/w plates and 3 large folded maps in rear pocket. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 28 x 21.2.
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$60

40890
PATTERSON, Carolyn Bennett
IN THE FAR PACIFIC - AT THE BIRTH OF NATIONS (in National Geographic Magazine)

Washington. 1986. N.G.S. 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.
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$15

56844
PELAU, GARDISSAT, Paul & GRINDLEY, Pauline
MARAPIT LE VOYAGEUR. Légende de l' île de Hiu, province de Torba

Port Vila. 2007. Centre Culturel du Vanuatu. 1st Ed., in the Nabanga Pikinini series. No pagination, 16 PP with colour illustrations by David Tovovur. French text by Rufino Pineda (Bichelamar traduction by Anna Naupa). Pictorial soft cover. New. 29.8 x 21. 9789829032232
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$20

14869
PENFIELD, Thomas
FIGHTING YANKS AROUND THE WORLD

Racine, Wis. 1943. Whitman. 1st Ed. 100 PP with 67 maps (mostly full-page) and 43 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Creases and chips on covers. Very good condition. 32.2 x 23.
Short histories on the combat zones where the American forces were fighting for freedom during WWII. Two large newspaper maps of the Pacific Zone and European Front loosely inserted.
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$25

56023
PHELAN, Nancy (compiler)
CORAL AS A BUILDING MATERIAL

Nouméa. 1952. South Pacific Commission. 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. Soft cover. Staples removed. Name of previous owner at top of front cover. Near fine. 26.3 x 21.3.
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$20

56091
PHILBRICK, Nathaniel
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA - The Epic True Story that Inspired MOBY DICK

London. c. 2000. Flamingo / HarperCollins. Reprint of the paperback edition. XVIII, 302 PP with 2 maps, 2 plans, 1 tail piece and 14 head pieces, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Fine. 19.7 x 13. 06531202
The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged whale, far out in the Pacific, November 1820.
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$20

56366
POTTER, John Deane
ADMIRAL OF THE PACIFIC, The Life of Yamamoto

London. 1965. Heinemann. 1st Ed. XII, 332 PP including bibliography & index, plus 12 pages with 23 b/w illustrations. Fp: Yamamoto in full regalia. Eps: Map of the North Pacific Ocean. Cloth cover, dj (price clipped). Foxing on outside edges. Very good. 22.2 x 14.7.
Detailed account of the preparations involved prior to Japan's attack in the Pacific: conferences, arguments, espionage & counter-espionage, code breaking, planning, etc... The Battle of Midway & the threat to America...
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$35

56643
PRICE, Willard
RIP TIDE IN THE SOUTH SEAS

London. 1936. William Heinemann Ltd. 1st Ed. XIV, 323 PP, plus 48 b/w plates and the frontispice. Fp: Stone money. Eps: map of westerern part of Central Pacific. Cloth cover, gilt device on front board, gilt title on spine. Coloured top outside top edge. Occasional foxing. Fine. 22 x 15.
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$35

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

Paris. 1972 to 1978. ORSTOM (Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer). 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. 47.5 x 37. 270990263X
Atlas of Vanuatu: Natural environment, pedogenesis, land use - Soils.
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$240

55711
RAKUITA, Tui
LIVING BY BREAD ALONE: Contemporary Challenges Associated with Identity and Belongingness in Fiji

Suva. 2007. Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education and Advocacy. 1st Ed. VI, 87 PP. Pictorial soft cover. New. 21.2 x 14.8. 9789829058256
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$20

55732
RANDELL, Shirley (editor)
REPUBLIC OF VANUATU NATIONAL ELECTIONS, 2 MAY 2002: Report of the Elections Observer Group

Port Vila. 2002. Blackstone Publishing. June 2002 edition. XIII, 147 PP with tables and 19 b/w photos. Inside front cover: location map and map of Vanuatu. 9823290237
A Joint Electoral Commission / Transparency International - Vanuatu Project.
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$25

56137
REDOR, Florence
LE DOCTEUR NEL, CHIRURGIEN-BALEINIER DE L' ALBATROS, Le Havre (1837-1840)

Nantes. 1980. Author & Université de Nantes. Thesis. (2 photocopy of an 1843 document), (10), 265, (1) PP (recto only), with 4 graphs, tables and 2 maps. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Signed manuscript letter from the author to Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist), loosely inserted. French text. Fine. 30 x 21.
Thesis for her Ph.D. in Medicine, held Nantes, 4th April 1980. Chapter I: General History of Whaling. Chapter II: Whaling from the port of le Havre, and doctors or surgeons on French whaling ships. Chapter III (pages 153 to 257): Voyage of the whaling ship Albatros by Jean-Baptiste Généreux Nel, M. D. - Sailed from le Havre on 16 October 1837, Cape Horn, Valdivia (Chile) 24 January 1838, Honolulu (April 1838 then July / August 1838).. Bay of Islands February 1839... Tahiti 30 June 1839... Rio de Janeiro, February 1840. Return to le Havre 18 April 1840.
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$300

56164
RENARD, Gaston (compiler)
CATALOGUE OF THE F.G. COLES AUSTRALIANA COLLECTION, to be sold at Auction by Leonard Joel, July 1965

Melbourne. 1965. Gaston Renard Antiquarian Bookseller. 1st Ed. VIII, 194, (2) PP, plus 9 b/w plates including 2 photos). Fp: F. G. Coles. Soft cover. Faint foxing on outside edges. Near fine. 23.5 x 15.5.
Catalogue with Descriptive and Bibliographical Annotations. 1287 items.
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$25

38419
RENDLE-SHORT, Francesca (editor)
COOK & OMAI - The Cult of the South Seas

Canberra. 2001. National Library of Australia / Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jan Fullerton. VI, 66 PP with 13 b/w and 24 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 22. 0642107319
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Library of Australia, held in February 2001. Captain Cook Pacific voyages and the cultural milieu in which they took place.
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$25

36900
REYNOLDS, Earle
THE FORBIDDEN VOYAGE

London. 1962. Cassell. 1st UK edition. (8), 281 PP with 1 map, plus 6 pages with 7 b/w photos. Fp: Phoenix. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Near fine. 22.2 x 14.5.
Voyage in 1958 of the yacht Phoenix through the US Nuclear testing grounds of Micronesia. Her arrest... Aftermath.
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$25

40262
RICHARDS, Rhys
HONOLULU CENTRE OF TRANS-PACIFIC TRADE - Shipping Arrivals and Departures 1820 to 1840

Canberra/Honolulu. 2000. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau/Hawaiian Historical Society. 1st Ed. 326 PP with 3 tables and 6 b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. New. 25 x 17.6. 0731552105
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$55

56061
RICHARDS, Rhys
SAMOA'S FORGOTTEN WHALING HERITAGE - American Whaling in Samoan Waters 1824-1878

Wellington. c. 1992. Lithographic Services Ltd. 1st Ed. XI, 208 PP with b/w illust. (sketches, diagrams, paintings, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Spine with a light crease lengthwise and a slight bump at foot, o/wise near fine. 29.8 x 20.7. 0473016079
Reminiscences and souvenirs of Samoa, through logbooks of whaling ships. History of the Samoa Islands.
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$125

51742
RICHARDS, Rhys, & ROGA, Kenneth
NOT QUITE EXTINCT. Melanesian barkcloth ('tapa') from western Solomon Islands

Paremata, NZ. 2005. The Paremata Press. 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 soft cover. Near fine. 26 x 20. 0958201323
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$45

13243
ROBIE, David
BLOOD ON THEIR BANNER: Nationalist Struggles in the South Pacific

Sydney. 1989. Pluto Press. 1st Australian edition. Foreword by Marie-Thérèse and Bengt Danielsson. 313 PP with 4 maps (1 on double page) and 18 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Name of former owner on half-title page, o/wise near fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 0949138355
Part 2: Kanaky in revolt. Part 3: Nuclear colonialism (Barbouzes and bombs)... Part 5: Dilemnas of nationalism (The siege of Ouvéa).
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$30

55605
ROSS, Harold M., TERRELL, John, MAMAK, Alexander, BEDFORD, Richard, HOOPER, Anth
RANK AND STATUS IN POLYNESIA AND MELANESIA - Essays in honor of Professor Douglas Oliver

Paris. 1978. Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. 1st Ed. Publication No. 39. Introduction (French text) by Jean Guiart. 93, (3) PP with 1 table, 21 figures and 3 b/w photos. Soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 17.8.
5 essays in English - ... Tahitian Folk Medecine by Anthony Hooper. Tahitian words for Race and Class, by Paul Kay.
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$55

48091
RUFF, Carol
THE KULA RING (in Paradise)

Port Moresby. 1986. Air Niugini. Issue No. 59, October 1986. 38 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Contains article between P.35 and 38 with 2 maps, 11 colour and 2 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28.5 x 21.
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$10

56843
RUNA, Véronique, GARDISSAT, Paul & GRINDLEY, Pauline
LA POULE ROUSSE ET LES CROCODILES DE MER. Légende d' Aniwa, province de Tafea

Port Vila. 2007. Centre Culturel du Vanuatu. 1st Ed., in the Nabanga Pikinini series. No pagination, 16 PP with colour illustrations by David Tovovur. French text by Rufino Pineda (Bichelamar traduction by Anna Naupa). Pictorial soft cover. New. 29.8 x 21. 9789829032287
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$20

56015
RUSDEN, Atholl
RASCAL OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC - An Autobiography

Gold Coast, Qld. 2005. Author. 1st Ed. Foreword and Endnote by Brian McNiven. 408 PP, plus 40 pages with 14 colour and 65 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23 x 15.2. 0646449052
The Pacific Islands 1948 to 1982. Yachting, Chartering: New Zealand,Tahiti, Hawaii... Shipowner based in Port Vila, New Hebrides... Page 223: poem of 1952 by James Norman Hall to his daughter Nancy.
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$30

37091
SAND, Christophe, BOLE, Jacques, OUETCHO, André et al.
CIKOBIA-I-RA - Archaeology of a Fijian Island / Archéologie d'une Ile Fidjienne / I Tukutuku Makawa

Nouméa. 1999. Service des Musées et du Patrimoine. 1st trilingual edition. Volume 9 in Les Cahiers de l'Archéologie en Nouvelle-Calédonie. 58 PP with duotone illustrations (maps, plans, sketches) and colour photos. Pictorial card cover. Fine. English, French and Fijian text. Oblong: 21 x 23.5. 2950931153
Island, North of the Fijian archipelago.
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$55

54122
SCARR, Dereck & WARD, Alan (editors)
THE JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY - Volume 29, Nos 1 & 2 - 1994

Canberra. 1994. Australian National University. Volume XXIX, Nos 1 & 2. No. 1 (June 1994): 124, (4) PP. No. 2 (December 1994): 129-256 PP. Soft cover. Faint foxing. Fine. 24 x 16.5.
No. 1: Rapanui's Tu'u ko Iho versur Mangareva's Atu Motua, by Steven Roger Fischer. Francophonie in post-colonial Vanuatu, by William F. S. Miles. No. 2: The best specimens in all our colonial domain: New Caledonian Melanesians in Europe, by Stephen Henningham.
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$30

55692
SHARMA, Dr Kamlesh
INDIGENOUS GOVERNANCE

Canberra. 2005. KP's Publications. 1st Ed. 75, (5) PP with 1 portrait and 5 headpieces. Pictorial soft cover. New. 24.2 x 17.6. 0975802801
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$25

56209
SHERWOOD, Dick (editor)
OPERATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN MARITIME WARFARE: Implications for the Western Pacific

Canberra. 1994. Strategic and Defence Studies Centre / ANU. 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.
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$35

56921
SHIRAI, Shohei
THE STORY OF PEARLS

Tokyo. 1970. Japan Publicatioons, Inc. 1st printing, May 1970. 132 PP with 62 b/w nd 63 colour photos. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 26.5 x 19
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$30

55449
SILVA, Noenoe K.
ALOHA BETRAYED: Native Hawaiian resistance to American Colonialism

Durham. 2004. Duke University Press. 1st Ed. X, 261 PP with b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. 23 x 15.3. 9780222333494
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$40

56615
SIMEONI, Patricia
ATLAS DU VANOUATOU (VANUATU)

Port Vila. 2009. Editions Géo-consulte. 1st Ed. VIII, 392 PP with tables, b/w or colour illustrations (flags, 90 maps and 306 photos). Laminated pictorial boards. French text. New. 30.5 x 21.5. 9782953336207
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$170

41861
SMALES, Angus & INDER, Stuart
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY - 1930 / 1980 - 50th Anniversary

Sydney. 1980. Pacific Publications. Souvenir Edition, Volume 51, No. 8, August 1980. 182 PP with b/w or colour advertisements, and b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.5 x 20.4.
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$30

56180
SMITH, Anita
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF WEST POLYNESIAN PREHISTORY

Canberra. 2002. Pandanus Books / RSPAS, ANU. 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
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$65

55961
SMITH, Nancy, STEWART, Robert (editors)
ANH Australian Natural History - Volume 18, No. 12

Sydney. 1976. The Australian Museum. 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...
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$15

56814
SMITH, Stephen V., CHAVE, Keith E. & KAM, Dennis T. O.
ATLAS OF KANEOHE BAY: A Reef Ecosystem Under Stress

Honolulu. 1973. The University of Hawaii. 1st Ed., in the University of Hawaii Sea Grant Program. VIII, 128 PP with 55 figures (one of them folded). Soft cover, pictorial front, spiral bound. Covers slightly soiled, signature of previous owner on front cover, o/wise very good. 28 x 21.5.
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$30

55032
SPENNEMANN, Dirk H. R.
'STEAM TO TONGA & SAMOA': The Norddeutscher Lloyd Mail Service 1886 to 1893

Albury, NSW. 2002. Letao Press. 1st Ed. 37, (3 publications) PP with 31 b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 house flag, 1 newspaper clipping, 2 franked stamps, 7 franking stamps, 9 franked envelopes or post cards, and 10 photos). Pictorial soft cover, staples. Very good. 29.7 x 20.7. 01876940085
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$20

55675
SPENNEMANN, Dirk H. R. & PUTT, Neal (editors)
CULTURAL INTERPRETATION OF HERITAGE SITES IN THE PACIFIC

Suva. 2001. Pacific Islands Museums Association / Association des Musées des Îles du Pacifique. 1st Ed. VII, 222 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (graphs, photos) 9829056015
22 papers on heritage in the islands of : Guam, Marianas, Palau, Federated States iof Micronesia (Koror, Chuuk), Marshall, New Caledonia, Fiji, Futuna, Samoa, Cook.
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$45

55671
SPICER, Catherine & RONDO, Blue
FIJI MASI. An Ancient Art in the New Millenium

Burleigh Heads, Qld. 2004. Authors. 1st Ed. IX, 10-120 PP with 2 maps of Fiji, 47 b/w illustrations (6 engravings, 13 photos, 28 Draudrau motifs) and 62 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover (masi kesa). Copy with the original hand-stencilled Masi Kesa pasted down on page IX. Fine. 24.6 x 17.5. 0646437623
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$55

55451
STEVENSON, R. L.
TRAVELS WITH ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON - 3 Volumes set: AN INLAND VOYAGE - ACROSS THE PLAINS - IN THE SOUTH SEAS

London. 2004. The Folio Society. 1st Ed., with minor emendations of the 1911-12 Swanston edition. Introduction by Richard Holmes, and Illustrations by Nick Hardcastle. An Inland Voyage and other Europeans Tales: XXXII, 238 PP, plus 8 b/w illustrations. Across the Plains and Travels from Scotland to California: VIII, 219 PP, plus 8 b/w illustrations. In the South Seas, being an account of experiences and observations in the Marquesas, Puamotus and Gilbert Islands in the course of two cruises on the Yacht Casco (1888) and the Schooner Equator (1889): X, 373 PP, plus 8 b/w illustrations. Cloth cover, gilt title and design by the artist blocked on front cover and spine. Slip case. New. 21.3 x 14.5.
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$100

12915
STEVENSON, Robert Louis
FATHER DAMIEN - An Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu

London. 1910. Chatto & Windus. Reprint. 33 PP, (5). Red cloth, gilt title on front cover and spine. Covers a little worn around edges. Hinge of back cover partly split. 3 lines of text underlined. Foxing, o/wise very good. 17.5 x 11.
Includes a loosely inserted article (on full page) from John O'London's Weekly (Dec.1, 1944), entitled: Letters to Gog and Magog: R.L.S. and Father Damien.
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$25

55797
STOCK, Ralph
THE DREAM SHIP (in National Geographic Magazine)

Washington. 1921. National Geographic Society. Vol. XXXiX, No. 1, January 1921. Issue with 110 PP. Article pages 1 to 52 with 1 map and 43 b/w photos. Issue cloth bound. Lower part of spine damaged on 7 cms. Very good. 25.5 x 17.7.
The story of a voyage of adventure more than half around the world in a 47-foot lifeboat: ... Galapagos, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Tahiti ... Thursday Island.
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$15

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

Suva. 1985. Institute of Pacific Studies / U. S. P. 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.
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$40

55673
TALU, Alaima & QUANCHI, Max
MESSY ENTANGLEMENTS, The papers of the 10th Pacific History Association Conference, Tarawa, Kiribati

Brisbane. 1995. Pacific History Association. 1st Ed. VII, (3), 185 PP printed on 2 columns. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27 x 21.4. 646268015
19 papers on the history of Kiribati, on the labour trade, on some personalities of the Pacific (biographies), ...
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$30

55727
TANGATAPOTO, Vainerere, MOKOROA, Paiere, TATUAVA, Tekura...
ATIU: E Enua E Tona Iti Tangata

Suva. 1993. Institute of Pacific Studies / University of the South Pacific. 1st Maori edition of the 1984 original Atiu: An Island Community (minus 2 chapters). XIII, 219 PP with 1 Crest of Identity, 1 map, 2 sketches and 39 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Maori text. Fine. 30 x 21.
9820200873
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$30

55716
TARTE, Ann, KOYA, Cresantia Frances, LEOTA-ETE, Jakki & TORA, Luisa (editors)
VASU: Pacific Women of Power - Fiji's First All Woman Exhibition

Suva. 2008. Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture / USP. 1st Ed. Foreword by Konai Helu Tbaman. 88 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. New. 29.6 x 21. 9789829803214
Exhibition of September / October 2008: 46 artists.
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$35

56617
TAURU, Liliane & BLADINIERES, Gilbert
KEEN JILA - Pacific Contemporary Art Treasures

Nouméa. 2009. Centre Culturel Tjibaou / Ngan Jila. 1st English edition translated from the French original by Roy Benyon. Introduction by Emmanuel Kasarhérou. 80 PP with 1 map and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. New. 29.7 x 21.2. 9782909407654
Art treasures of 26 Artists: Paula Boi, Yvette Bouquet ... Aloï Pilioko ... Daniel Waswas ...
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$65

56616
TAURU, Liliane & BLADINIERES, Gilbert
KEEN JILA - Trésors de l' Art Contemporain Océanien

Nouméa. 2009. Centre Culturel Tjibaou / Ngan Jila. 1st Ed. Introduction by Emmanuel Kasarhérou. 80 PP with 1 map and colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. French text. New. 29.7 x 21.2. 9782909407487
Art treasures of 26 Artists: Paula Boi, Yvette Bouquet ... Aloï Pilioko ... Daniel Waswas ...
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$65

56068
TAYLOR, A. Carey, WINKS, Robin W. & KUGLER, Richard C.
THE OPENING OF THE PACIFIC, Image and Reality

London. 1971. National Maritime Museum. 1st Ed. Maritime Monographs and Reports No 2. Foreword by Basil Greenhill. 28 PP, plus 1 map on double page at centerfold. Pictorial soft cover. Note to Honore Forster, Australian Historian (Whaling Specialist) at top of front cover, o/wise near fine. 29.5 x 20.8.
3 papers read at a symposium held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich on 7th November 1970: Charles de Brosses, the man behind Cook - Getting to know the beau sauvage - The penetration of the Pacific by American whalemen in the 19th century.
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$35

42961
TEISSIER-LANDGRAF, Marie Claude
LE RUSSE DE BELFORT - Trente-sept Ans de Voyages du Peintre Nicolaï Michoutouchkine en Océanie

Suva. 1995. Institute of Pacific Studies / USP Complex, Vanuatu. 1st Ed. VIII, 105 PP with 56 b/w illustrations (drawings, maps, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 20.8 x 14.6. 9820201012
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$35

34367
THIERCELIN, Dr. Louis
TRAVELS IN OCEANIA - Memoirs of a Whaling Ship's Doctor, 1866

Dunedin. 1995. University of Otago Press. 1st English edition. Edited, annotated and translated from the French original by Christiane Mortelier. 350, (2) PP with 8 maps & plans, and 42 b/w illust. Half title page: figurehead of the Ville de Bordeaux. Title spread: La pêche à la baleine. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 23 x 15.5. 0908569718
Accounts during two voyages started in 1837 and 1863 on the places visited in the Pacific: New Caledonia. The Chatham Islands and New Zealand. Tahiti. Hawaii.
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$45

12940
THOMAS, Marjory C.
COPRA-SHIP VOYAGE TO FIJI'S OUTLYING ISLANDS (in National Geographic Magazine)

Washington. 1950. N.G.S. Volume XCVII, No.1, July 1950. P.121 to 140 with 1 map & 15 b/w photos. Soft cover. Very good. 25.4 x 17.5.
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$10

13300
THOMPSON, Anne-Gabrielle (editor)
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. An annotated guide to bibliographies, indexes and collections in Australian Libraries

Canberra. 1986. Research School of Pacific Studies / A.N.U. 1st Ed. X, 127 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 17.5. 0867848327
479 entries.
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$35

48093
THOMPSON, Liz
SISSANO 'S LEGENDARY CANOES (in Paradise)

Port Moresby. 1987. Air Niugini. Issue No. 60, January 1987. 38 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Contains article between P.5 and 7 with 13 colour photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 28.5 x 21.
Sissano Lagoon, West Sepik Province.
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$10

38064
TONER, Lieutenant (jg) Raymmond J.
MEEHEEVEE - Being an Account of the commerce-raiding Cruise of the United States frigate Essex into the South Pacific Seas under command of Captain David Porter

Chicago. 1940. Albert Whitman. 1st Ed. 319 PP with 5 illustrations and 19 tail pieces by the author. Fp: U.S.S. Essex. Eps: Map with the track of the Essex in 1812-1814. Cloth cover, decoration on front cover. Dedicatory note on recto of frontispiece signed by the author. Some offsetting on endpapers, o/wise a near fine copy. Scarce. 23 x 15.7.
Historical novel partly set in the Marquesas Islands during the Anglo American war of 1812. The main Island of Nuku Hiva was at the time a US dependency known as Washington Islands.
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$55

55841
TOOLEY, Ronald Vere, SCOTT, Valerie G.,
THE MAP COLLECTOR - Issues Nos. 1 to 74

Tring, UK. 1977 to 1996. Map Collector Publications Ltd. Complete run of the 74 issues published. Issue No. 1: December 1977 with 42 PP to issue No. 74: Spring 1996 with 72 PP. 74 issues with a total of 5430 PP, plus 5 index (1-20 , 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, & 51-60) with 90 PP. Each issue with original illustrated soft covers. Spine of 4 isues with minute damage. A fine set. 29.9 x 21.
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$1750

42036
TRAMOND, Joannès, & REUSSNER, André
ELEMENTS D' HISTOIRE MARITIME ET COLONIALE CONTEMPORAINE (1815-1914)

Paris. 1943. Société d' Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. 1st Ed. (6), 728 PP. Soft cover. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges, o/wise near fine. French text. 23 x 14.
Naval Power and Colonies.
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$40

56181
TRYON, Darrell
BISLAMA, An Introduction to the National Language of Vanuatu

Canberra. 1999. Pacific Linguistics / ANU. Reprint of the 1987 original. XIV, 262 PP with 1 map, 1 musical score, tail pieces & 17 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 23.5 x 15.7. 0858833611
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$85

33390
TUDOR, Judy
MANY A GREEN ISLE

Sydney. 1966. Pacific Publications. 1st Ed. 256 PP with 4 maps, plus 12 pages with 35 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Pacific Islands. Hard cover, decoration on front cover, dj. Outside edges browned and with small stains, dust jacket worn and rubbed, name of previous owner on front endpaper. Internally very good. 22 x 14.
A voyage through Fiji, PNG, Tahiti, Cook Islands, the Gilbert & Ellice to Nauru.
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$25

21279
TWYNING, John P. & BAYS, Peter
WRECK OF THE MINERVA

Fairfield, Wa., USA. 1996. Ye Galleon. 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. Fine. 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.
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$55

56774

UBD: Nouvelle Calédonie (New Caledonia), Polynesie Francaise (Tahiti French Polynesia), Wallis et Futuna (Wallis & Futuna) - BUSINESS & TRADE DIRECTORY 1995

Auckland, NZ. 1995. UBD Publication. 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.
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$25

56773

UBD VANUATU - BUSINESS INFORMATION DIRECTORY 1996

Auckland, NZ. 1996. UBD Publication. 1996 edition. (10), 743-757, (3) PP with 1 map in colour, b/w or colour advertisements. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 27.2 x 21.5.
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$15

55555
ULLMAN, L. W.
FIJI SINCE INDEPENDENCE (in The Etruscan)

Sydney. 1973. Bank of New South Wales. Volume 22, No. 3, September 1973, in The Etruscan, Staff Magazine of the Bank of New South Wales. VI, 42 PP. Contains article from P. 8 to 13 with 8 colour and 11 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover (the catch is hauled up the beach at Nadi, Fiji). Fine. 28 x 21.5.
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$10

55751
VAN TREASE, Howard (editor)
ATOLL POLITICS - The Republic of Kiribati

Canterbury & Suva. 1993. University of Canterbury & Institute of Pacific Studies / U.S.P. 1st Ed. XX, 392 PP with 33 tables, 2 graphs, 2 plans, 10 maps, and 48 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 21 x 15. 095833000X
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$30

56577
VAN TRINH, Tao, CELESTIN, Nicole (editors)
L ' AMAROM A 20 ANS (in Ultramarines)

Aix en Provence. 2004. AMAROM / Amis des Archives d'Outre-Mer & Institut d'Histoire Comparée des Civilisations. 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.
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$25

57013
VANUATU / NEW HEBRIDES
POSTER "MAXIME CARLOT" & "PETRE MALSUNGAÏ"

Port Vila. c. 1979. Moderet Pati / Iprimerie de Port Vila Poster in colour: 2 b/w photos and political program. Stiff paper. Bichelamar, French and English text. Fine. 61 x 42.
Pre independence elections of November 1979. "Representative" and his "Deputy" for the Moderate Party.
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$50

57011
VANUATU / NEW HEBRIDES
SANTO MODERET "WAR NALAM" & "AIDAN TABIKEM"

Port Vila. c. 1979. Moderet Pati / Imprimerie de Port Vila Poster: 2 b/w photos and political program. Stiff paper. Fine. Text in Bichelamar. 61 x 42.
Pre independence elections of November 1979. Santo "Representative" and his "Deputy" for the Moderate Party.
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$50

57009
VANUATU / NEW HEBRIDES
VANUA.AKU PATI "GEORGE KALKOA" - Vot Seli Hoo

Port Vila. c. 1979. Vanuaku Pati / Imprimerie de Port Vila Poster in colour: b/w photo and political program. Stiff paper. Text in Bichelamar. Fine. 61 x 42.
Pre independence elections of November 1979.
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$50

57010
VANUATU / NEW HEBRIDES
VANUA.AKU PATI "KALPOKOR KALSAKAU" - Vot Seli Hoo

Port Vila. c. 1979. Vanuaku Pati / Imprimerie de Port Vila Poster in colour: b/w photo and political program. Stiff paper. Fine. Text in Bichelamar. 61 x 42.
Pre independence elections of November 1979.
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$50

57012
VANUATU / NEW HEBRIDES
VILA MODERET "GUY-MICHEL PREVOT" & "MARTIN HIRVIRD"

Port Vila. c. 1979. Moderet Pati / Imprimerie de Port Vila Poster in colour: 2 b/w photos and political program. Stiff paper. Fine. Text in Bichelamar. 61 x 42.
Pre independence elections of November 1979. Port Vila "Representative" and his "Deputy" for the Moderate Party.
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$50

15559
VAUGHAN, Thomas, CROWNHART-VAUGHAN, E. A. P. & PALAU DE IGLESIAS, Mercedes
VOYAGES OF ENLIGHTENMENT, Malaspina on the Northwest Coast 1791/1792

Portland, Oregon. 1977. Oregon Historical Society. 1st Ed. VIII, (2), 62 PP with 46 b/w illustrations (maps, paintings, plans,...). Fp: Alejandro Malaspina. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 22.7 x 20.5. 0875950582
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$30

55592
VIENNE, Bernard
GENS DE MOTLAV - Idéologie et pratique sociale en Mélanésie

Paris. 1984. Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. 1st Ed. Publication No. 42. 434, (2) PP with 17 genealogical trees, 63 tables,and 58 figures (maps, graphs, organigrams). Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 24.5 x 16. 2854300009
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$70

56852
VILAYLECK, Mina (editor)
ASSISES DE LA RECHERCHE FRANCAISE DANS LE PACIFIQUE: Résumés des Communications Scientifiques / Symposium of French Research in the Pacific: Presentations Abstracts

Nouméa. 2004. ARFP (Assises de la Recherche Française dans le Pacifique). 1st Ed. 447 PP. Pictorial soft cover. Covers slightly rubbed. Texts in French or in English. Near fine. 21 x 15.
Symposium held in Nouméa: 24-27th August 2004. Plenary conference (6 papers). Themes: The characteristics of Pacific Islands ecosystems (10 papers). Knowing, managing and developing biodiversity (10 papers). Lithosphere dynamics and geological risks (10 papers). Migration, population movements and settlement strategies (10 papers). Diseases of specific interest in the Pacific (10 papers).
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$45

55682
VUNIDILO, Tarisi Sorovi
NAI TALANOA NI LAPITA - THE STORY OF LAPITA POTTERY

Auckland. c. 2005. Fiji Tuwawa. 1st Ed. 20 PP with colour illustrations (1 map and 18 photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fijian and English text. New. 21 x 21.
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$20

14803
WALLIS, Mary
LIFE IN FEEJEE, OR, FIVE YEARS AMONG THE CANNIBALS

Suva, Fiji. 1986. Fiji Museum. Second printing of the 1983 reprint based on the 1851 original. (2), XV, 16-423 PP plus 1 folded chart of the Fijian archipelago at back. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 20.3 x 14.3.
5 years (1844-1849) wandering about the Islands and in Fiji, with her husband, commanding officer of the bark Zotoff.
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$30

17553
WARD, Peter Douglas
IN SEARCH OF NAUTILUS - Three Centuries of Scientific Adventures in the Deep Pacific to Capture a Prehistoric Living Fossil

New York. 1988. A New York Academy of Sciences Book / Simon & Schuster. 1st Ed. 238 PP with 6 figures, 5 tables, 3 maps & 32 b/w photos. Hard cover, cloth spine, dj (price-clipped). Fine. 24.2 x 16.2. 0671619519
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$15

46806
WATLING, Dick (editor)
DOMODOMO - Fiji Museum - 1988 - Volumes 1-4

Suva. 1988. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Volumes 1 - 4 for 1988. (1), 116 PP with b/w illustrations (1 cartoon, 1 sketch plan, 10 maps and plans, 35 photos). Inside back cover: map of the Fiji Islands. Pictorial soft cover (Map of the sugar producers of Taviuni). Fine. 22.5 x 19.2..
Sugar from Taviuni. The rarest printed work on the Pacific, by Philip Snow. Fiji's coins and currency..., by K. A. Rodgers. Petroglyphs at Maqere, Tavua, Viti Levu...
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$30

46807
WATLING, Dick (editor)
DOMODOMO - Fiji Museum - 1989 - Volumes 1-4

Suva. 1989. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Volumes 1 - 4 for 1989. (1), 54 PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps and plans, 64 portraits, 11 photos). Inside back cover: map of the Fiji Islands. Pictorial soft cover (portraits). Fine. 22.5 x 19.2..
Planters and plantations in Viti Levu - 1875. A list of Adzes at the Fiji Museum...
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$30

55681
WATLING, Dick (editor)
DOMODOMO - Fiji Museum - 1990 - Volumes 1-4

Suva. 1989. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Volumes 1 - 4 for 1990. (2), 70 PP with b/w illustrations (3 maps and plans, 64 portraits, 11 photos). Inside back cover: map of the Fiji Islands. Pictorial soft cover (pttery, Saqa Dina). Fine. 22.5 x 19.2..
Stylistic change of Fijian Pottery (form & decoration), by Rosa Rossitto.
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$30

46798
WATLING, Dick (editor)
DOMODOMO - Fiji Museum Quarterly - 1987 - Volume V, Nos 3 & 4

Suva. 1987. Fiji Museum. 1st Ed., Volume V, Nos. 3 & 4 for 1987. 62 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps, 3 sketches and 12 photos). Inside back cover: map of the Fiji Islands. Pictorial soft cover (Sigatoka dune burials). Fine. 29.7 x 20.8.
Report on the Sigatoka Burials, by Simon Best. Nepalese in Fiji. Customs and Beliefs in upland Viti Levu, by Jean de Marzan.
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$35

10277
WHITE, Geoffrey M, GEGEO, David W., AKIN, David & WATSON-GEGEO, Karen (editors)
BIKFALA FAET, Olketa Solomon Aelanda Rimembarem Wol Wo Tu / THE BIG DEATH, Solomon Islanders Remember World War II

Honiara. 1988. Solomon Islands College of Higher Education / U S P. 1st Ed. X, (2), 242 PP with 4 maps, and 32 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Foxing spots on outside edges. Pidgin English and English text. Fine. 21 x 14.8. 09820201640
Fights behind Japanese lines, ... Guadalcanal Labour Corps... WWII and the origins of Maasina Rule.
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$30

56108
WHITNALL, Avryl & CUMMING, Helen (editors)
ANY NEWS OF LA PEROUSE?

Sydney. 2005. State Library of New South Wales. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dagmar Schmidmaier. 24 PP with 3 b/w and 7 colour illustrations. Pictorial soft cover (back cover with part of Mappemonde... in blind). English and French texts. Fine. Oblong: 20.8 x 21. 0731371526
An exhibition of 2005. Lapérouse Museum: an enduring link with France, by Steve Thompson. The Lure of Exploration / L'attirance des Explorations, by Nathalie Hartog-Gautier. Coastal Profiles / Le Rivage Australien ainsi vu, by Catherine K.
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$25

56856
WICKS, Audrey F. (compiler)
CORAL SEA LOG

Brisbane. 1992. Coral Sea Battle Commemorative Association of Australia. 1st Ed. VI, 156 PP with maps, ships' profiles & photos. Soft cover. Lower corner of front cover with a crease. Name of previous owner on title page, o/wise near fine. 29.5 x 20. 00064608561
A chronicle of events in, around and above the Coral Sea area and its surrounding land and sea masses during April-May, 1942.
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$35

56133

WILLIAM HODGES, 1744-1797: The Art of Exploration

Yale. 2005. Yale Center for British Art. Booklet 16 PP with 2 b/w illustrations (1 map, 1 portrait), and 7 colour illustrations including colour map. Fine. Oblong: 10.8 x 20.2.
Booklet accompanying the Exhibition held at Yale: 27 January to 24 April, 2005.
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$5

55661
WILLIAMS, The Rev. John
A NARRATIVE OF MISSIONARY ENTERPRISES IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS; with remarks upon the natural history of the islands, origin, languages, traditions, and usages of the inhabitants

London. 1841. J. Snow. Reprint: Thirty Six Thousand. IX, 154 PP (on 2 columns) with vignette on title page and 28 b/w illustrations, plus frontispiece and 1 large folded chart. Fp: Portrait of the author by H. Room. Half bound, marbled boards, gilt-engraved spine. Covers lightly rubbed. Bookplate of Philip Snow on front endpaper. Ageing of paper. An excellent copy. 23.8 x 16.
Early achievements of the LMS in the Polynesian islands.
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$190

55983
WILSON, Cecil D. D.
THE WAKE OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS: Work and Adventures in the South Seas

London. 1932. John Murray. 1st Ed. XIV, 254, (4 publications) PP with 1 map, plus 8 pages with 12 b/w photos. Fp: Namu, Graciosa Bay, Santa Cruz. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. Head and foot of spine lightly rubbed. Stamp and signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Foxing. Very good. 22.5 x 14.5.
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$75

51457
WILSON, James
A MISSIONARY VOYAGE to the Southern Pacific Ocean 1796-1798

New York. 1968?. Frederick A. Praeger. Facsimile reprint of the 1799 original, with an introduction by Irmgard Moschner. XIX*, (XII), C, 420 PP, plus 7 folded maps, and 7 b/w plates (6 folded). Hard cover (simile vellum), dj. Closed tear on dust jacket. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.6 x 16.5.
A missionary voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff commanded by Captain James Wilson.
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$100

21232
WILSON, John
THE CRUISE OF THE GIPSY, The Journal of John Wilson, Surgeon on a Whaling Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 1839-1843

Fairfield, Wa., USA. 1991. Ye Galleon Press. 1st edition with introduction and notes by Dr. Honore Forster. XXXII, 404 PP, plus 24 pages with 8 maps & 16 illustrations. Coloured frontispiece: Scene at Agana, Guam in 1840. Eps: Whaling scene. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine. Occasional foxing, o/wise fine. 31 x 23. 0877704880
Detailed and meticulous account of a whaling cruise by a British whaling ship.
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$65

55749
WRIGHT, Andrew & HILL, Lance (editors)
NEARSHORE MARINE RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC - Information for Fisheries Development and Management

Suva & Honiara. 1993. Institute of Pacific Studies & Forum Fisheries Agency. 1st Ed., with a foreword by Sir Peter Kenilorea. XVI, 710 PP with tables, b/w figures (graphs, maps, organigrams, sketches...) and 23 colour photos. Eps: Map of the Southwest Pacific Islands. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 21.7 x 15.5. 9820200822
20 papers on: Marine Aquarium fishes, Flyingfish... Beche de mer... Pearl Oysters... Crabs (mangrove and coconut)... Seaweeds.
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$50

55773
ZANETTE, Didier
100 KUNDU PAPOUS

Nouméa. 2008. DZ Editions. 1st edition limited to 575 copies. Foreword by Daniel Waswas. 148 PP with 3 maps, 13 location maps and colour illustrations (10 paintings, 100 drums with details). Pictorial soft cover. French text. New. 29.7 x 21. 9782953350708
Kundu = Drums of Papua New Guinea.
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$100