Pacific Islands Miscellany #f26

72509
ALLEN, Kenneth S.
THAT BOUNTY BASTARD - The true story of Captain William Bligh
$10.00 AUD

Robert Hale. London. 1976. 1st Ed. 224 PP with 1 drawing & 2 maps, plus 12 pages with 18 b/w illustrations. Hard cover is lightly soiled, o/wise contents are near fine. 22.3 x 14.2. 0709153465

Mutinies on board Bounty and when Governor of New South Wales....

75578
ALVES, Dora
THE MAORI AND THE CROWN - An Indigenous People's Struggle for Self-Determination
$35.00 AUD

Greenwood Press. Westport, Connecticut. 1999. 1st edition. No. 68 in the "Contribution to the Study of World History" series. Foreword by Paul Cleveland. XX, 179, (5) PP, plus 12 pages with b/w illustrations: 2 maps and 10 photos. Cloth covers, title on front cover and spine. Fine. 21.6 x 14.5. 0313310580

72425
AMBESI, Alberto Cesare
OCEANIC ART
$25.00 AUD

Hamlyn. London. 1970. 1st English edition in the Cameo series. Translated by Rachel Montgomery from the 1966 Italian original "Arte dell'Oceania". 160 PP with 1 map and 71 colour plates. Hard covers a little soiled, gilt title on a lightly sunned spine. Faint foxing. Contents near fine. 19.4 x 13.7. 600367029

The 71 colour plates depicting the drama and mystery which is the essence of Oceanic art.

77102
ANATI, Emmanuel
L'ART DU TAPA: étoffe pour les Dieux, étoffe pour les Hommes
$80.00 AUD

L'Insolite. Paris. 2005. 1st French edition, translated from the Italian original by Thierry Loisel. 192 PP with 8 headpieces (in colour), over 47 b/w or colour illustrations. Catalogue section with 5 location maps and over 88 colour plates. Pictorial soft cover. French text. Fine. 27 x 24.2. 2916054022

46855
AUBOYER, Jeannine, BARROIS, A. et al..
HISTOIRE GENERALE DES RELIGIONS. Israel - Les Indo-Européens - l'Antiquité Classique
$25.00 AUD

Librairie Aristide Quillet. Paris. 1960. 1st Ed. One of 4 volumes in this series. (4), 337-668, XLV PP with b/w illustrations, plus 4 b/w plates (1 on double page) and 3 colour plates. Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. French text. 31 x 24.5.

Israel, Celtic, Greek...

46857
AUBOYER, Jeannine, BERGE, François, et al..
HISTOIRE GENERALE DES RELIGIONS. Extrême-Orient - Folklore et Religion - Tableaux chronologiques
$25.00 AUD

Librairie Aristide Quillet. Paris. 1960. 1st Ed. One of 4 volumes in this serries. (4), 279-578, XXVI PP with b/w illustrations, plus 2 plates with 4 maps, 1 b/w plate and 2 colour plates (1 on double page). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. Near fine. French text. 31 x 24.5.

Indo China. Indonesia. China. Japan. Folklore...

72944
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific (Volume XVI, No. 1, 1945)
$30.00 AUD

Australia National Research Council / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1945. Sept.1945. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 86 PP, plus 1 plate with 1 b/w photo. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Covers browned around edges with foxing spots on outside edges. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

Social change in a Fijian Community, by W.R. Geddes. Cultural change in Kiriwina (Trobriand Islands), by Leo Austen.

75549
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific (Volume XIV, No. 4, 1944)
$40.00 AUD

Australia National Research Council / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1944. June 1944. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 257-358 PP with 1 folded table, 1 map of Timor and 6 figures. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Covers browned around edges with foxing spots on outside edges. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

Native Councils and Courts in the Solomon Islands, by H. Ian Hogbin. Aboriginal Place Names in the Kimbrerley, by Ernest Worms. Peoples and Languages of Timor, by A. Capell. Field work in the Ooldea region , western South Australia, by Ronald & Catherine Berndt.

75550
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific (Volume XV, No. 1, 1944)
$40.00 AUD

Australia National Research Council / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1944. Sept. 1944. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 84 PP with tables and 2 maps. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Covers browned around edges with foxing spots on outside edges. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

No. 1: Natives of the Bismarck mountains , New Guinea, by J. Nilles. Peoples and Languages of Timor, by A. Capell. Field work in the Ooldea region, Western South Australia, by Ronald and Catherine Berndt.

75551
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific (Volume XV, No. 2, 1944)
$30.00 AUD

Australia National Research Council / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1944. Dec. 1944. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 85-170 PP with 1 map and 10 tables, plus 3 plates with 10 b/w photos. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Covers browned around edges with foxing spots on outside edges. Lower corner of back cover torn. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

No. 2: ... Mission influence amongst the Keveri of South East Papua, by F.E. Williams. Some aspects of culture contact in Eastern Australia, by Caroline Kelly. Field work in the Ooldea region, western South Australia, by Ronald and Caroline Berndt. ..

75552
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific (Volume XV, No.3, 1945)
$40.00 AUD

Australia National Research Council / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1945. March 1945. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 171-270 PP with 1 map, plus 2 plates with 8 b/w photos. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Covers browned around edges with foxing spots on outside edges. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

No. 3: ... Kinship in Fiji, by A. Capell and R.H. Lester. Usituma ! Song of Heaven (Trobriand Islands), by B. Baldwin. Field work in the Ooldea region, western South Australia, by Ronald and Catherine Berndt.

76845
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
THE JOURNAL OF PACIFIC HISTORY - Index to Volumes 1-35
$10.00 AUD

Australian National University. Canberra. 2001. 1st edition, compiled by Jennifer Terrell, edited by Chris BALLARD and Hank NELSON. 72 PP. Soft cover. Faint foxing. Near fine. 24 x 17.

77741
BAERT, Annie
LES CONDITIONS PRATIQUES DES VOYAGES DE MENDAÑA ET QUIROS EN OCEANIE
$300.00 AUD

Université Française du Pacifique. Papeete. 1994. Thesis under the guidance of Professeur Paul de Deckker and Eric Conte. 187 PP (typescript recto only) with XV b/w illustrations (2 portraits, 2 signatures of Mendaña and Quiros, 3 charts on full page, 1 folded sketch chart by Prado y Tovar, 3 folded maps of the 2 voyages of Mendaña and the voyage of Quiros and Vaez de Torres). Soft covers with light foxing, illustrated front page, spiral bound. French text. Near fine. 29.7 x 21.

Mémoire de D. E. A. "Espaces, Temps et Sociétés dans le Pacifique Insulaire".

51656
BARROW, T.
ART AND LIFE IN POLYNESIA
$50.00 AUD

A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1972. 1st Ed. Foreword by H. D. Skinner. 191 PP with 1 map, 46 colour and 278 b/w illustrations. Fp (in colour): Tongan goddesses. Illustrated endpapers: rongo rongo. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket with repaired tears in a protective sleeve. Slight ageing / foxing of paper on outside edges. Near fine. 29.5 x 23. 0589006495

76379
BARROW, T.
MAORI WOOD SCULPTURE OF NEW ZEALAND
$35.00 AUD

A. H. & A. W. Reed. Wellington. 1974. Reprint of the 1969 original. 162, (1 index) PP with 233 illustrations: 40 in colour and 193 in b/w. Fp (in colour): Interior house panel from Te Hau-ki-Turanga. Eps: 2 Manaia from carvings in the same house. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket slightly soiled in a protective sleeve. Occasional foxing. Near fine. 29.4 x 23..

76356
BARROW, Terence
AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO MAORI ART
$25.00 AUD

Reed Books. Auckland. 1993 Reprint of the 1984 original. 104 PP with over 150 b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches and photos), plus 8 pages with 37 colour illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 25 x 18.2. 9780790000282

56203
BEDFORD, Stuart, SAND, Christophe & CONNAUGHTON, Sean P. (editors)
OCEANIC EXPLORATIONS: Lapita and Western Pacific Settlement
$60.00 AUD

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

77670
BENITEZ-JOHANNOT, P. & BARBIER, Jean Paul
SHIELDS - Africa, Southeast Asia and Oceania, from the Collections of the Barbier-Mueller Museum
$40.00 AUD

Musée Barbier-Mueller & Prestel Verlag. Geneva / Munich. 2000. 1st Ed. Foreword by Alain-Michel Boyer. 255 PP with b/w illustrations (23 maps including 21 location maps, drawings and over 130 figures), and 100 colour plates. Fp: Engraving of Massai Warrior. Cloth cover, dj. A fine copy. 31 x 23.5. 9788881182077

Art of New Ireland.

55369
BEST, Elsdon
SOME ASPECTS OF MAORI MYTH AND RELIGION
$10.00 AUD

Dominium Museum / Government Printer. Wellington. 1978. Reprint of the 1954 edition. Dominion Museum Monograph No.1. 43 PP with 2 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Back cover with creases. Name and stamp of previous owner at top of title page. Very good. 24 x 15.

53075
BLACKBURN, Julia
THE WHITE MEN - The First Response of Aboriginal Peoples to the White Man
$10.00 AUD

Times Books. London. 1979. 1st Ed. Foreword by Dr. Edmund Carpenter. 192 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Title spread: White European Officer carried by Congolese soldiers. Illustrated endpapers. Hard cover, dj. Near fine. 25 x 19. 0812908260

A tribute to the will to survive the impact of European arrivals, a reflection of our civilization seen through indigenous people's eyes (reproduced on engraved bamboos, wall paintings, carvings, ...).

77536
BLANCHOD, Dr. Fred.
ESCALES CHEZ LES PECHEURS DE PERLES: Arabie - Zanzibar - Maldives - Ceylan
$45.00 AUD

Librairie Payot. Lausanne. 1946. Edition definitive, of the 1942 "Paris" original. 253, (3) PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 32 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Foot of spine reinforced with sellotape. Very good. French text. 23 x 14.5.

Travel in the 1930s to the pearling grounds of the Red Sea, Oman, Bahrain, Zanzibar, the Maldives and Ceylon.

77809
BOULAY, Roger, MARCHAL, Henri & KASARHEROU, Emmanuel (editors)
DE JADE ET DE NACRE, Patrimoine Artistique Kanak
$75.00 AUD

Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Paris. 1990. 1st Ed. 252 PP with 8 head pieces (engraved bamboos), 3 colour photos, 3 b/w illustrations and over 107 figures (b/w or colour). FEP: Maps of New Caledonia & Loyalty Islands. REP: Map S.W. Pacific. Pictorial stiff covers with a few light creases, otherwise fine. French text. 24.6 x 22. 9782711823376

Relates the Kanak heritage at the time of an exhibition held first in Nouméa, then in Paris. Beautiful art book on art paper.

21743
BOYER, Philippe (editor)
LA MER: Espace, Perception et Imaginaire dans le Pacifique Sud
$20.00 AUD

Université Française du Pacifique & C.O.R.A.I.L / l'Harmattan. Paris. 1997. 1st Ed. 443 PP with 16 bw illust. Pictorial card cover. French text (with English summary). Fine. 21.5 x 13.5. 2738459579

16 papers presented at the 9th yearly seminar held by Université Française du Pacifique & CORAIL, and covering various subjects relating to the Pacific Ocean. The Sea in the tradition of Futuna, Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga by Muni Keletaona. The Pacific Ocean: last refuge of Utopias by John Dunmore. French Oceanographic Researches in the South Pacific by Christian Henin...

11845
BRAKE, Brian, McNEISH, James & SIMMONS, David
ART OF THE PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD

O.U.P. / Arts Councils of New Zealand. Wellington. 1979. 1st Ed. Preface by Hamish Keith. 240 PP with over 180 b/w & colour illust. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 31 x 24. 0195580435

Based on items from the most comprehensive collection of Pacific art found in New Zealand. Social significance and use of the items as well as the materials employed in their manufacture (wood, bone, shell, stone).

76577
BROOKFIELD, H. C. (editor)
POPULATION-environment relations in tropical islands: the case of Eastern Fiji
$45.00 AUD

UNESCO / MAN (Man and "Ankh" the Biosphere). Paris. 1980. 1st edItion in MAB Technical Notes 13. 227, (1 publication) PP with 21 tables and 32 figures (including c. 10 charts or maps. Stiff covers. Fine. 27 x 21 9231018213

12 papers, including 2 of them translated from the French original.

11809
BROOKFIELD, H.C. (Edit.)
PACIFIC MARKET-PLACES, A Collection of Essays
$10.00 AUD

Australian National University Press. Canberra. 1969. 1st Ed. XVII, 161, (3) PP with 9 maps & 45 tables. Hard cover, dj (price clipped). Very good. 24.5 x 15.

Chapters by different authors on: The Small Market at Popondetta, Northern Papua. Supplies and Prices in the Market at Kerema. Honiara Market. Produce Marketing in a Polynesian Society: Apia. Melanesian Mélange: The Market at Vila...

12952
BROOKFIELD, Harold (editor)
THE PACIFIC IN TRANSITION, Geographical Perspectives on Adaptation and Change
$10.00 AUD

St. Martin's Press. New York. 1973. 1st Ed. XVIII, (2), 332 PP with maps, graphs & tables, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.3 x 15.2.

Islanders at sea: change and the maritime economies of the Pacific. Stone-age trade in the New Guinea inland.

76355
BROWNE, Christopher & SCOTT, Douglas A.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN SEVEN PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES
$25.00 AUD

International Monetary Fund. Washington, D.C.. 1989. 1st Ed. Foreword by Michel Camdessus. Preface by P.R. Narvekar. VIII, 220 PP with 7 maps in colour and 94 tables, plus 1 folded map in colour "The Pacific Islands", Hawai'i Geographical Society, 11th edition of 1987. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 23 x 15.3. 1557750351

7 countries: Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands,Tonga, Vanuatu, Western Samoa.

76349
BURLAND, Cottie
GODS AND DEMONS IN PRIMITIVE ART
$30.00 AUD

Hamlyn Publishing Group. London. 1973. 1st Ed. 194 PP with 86 b/w and 62 colour photos by Werner Forman. Fp (in colour): Mask from New Ireland. Eps: Piece of Tapa, Lake Sentani, New Guinea. Cloth covers, decorated front board, dj. Dust jacket has light edge wear, otherwise a fine copy.. 29.8 x 24.5. 0600338967

76827
BURTON, John Wear
THE CALL OF THE PACIFIC
$15.00 AUD

Charles H. Kelly. London. c. 1910. 1st Ed., in "Every Age Library" series. (6), 319 PP with 47 b/w photos. Outside edges tinted. Illustrated endpapers, cloth covers worn around edges, decorated front cover and spine. Gutter of rear endpapers split. Ageing of paper. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. A good reading copy. 18 x 12.

73548
CARLIER, Jean-Edouard
MICRONESIE ET PARA-MICRONESIE
$125.00 AUD

Galerie Voyageurs & Curieux: Arts Primitifs - Curiosités - Livres Anciens / Jean-Edouard Carlier. Paris. 2007. 1st edition in the "Voyageurs & Curieux" series. 136 PP with 8 figures (2 in colour & 6 in b/w) and 95 colour photos by Hughes Dubois describing 121 artefacts. Laminated pictorial boards. Invitation card to the official opening of the exhibition, loosely inserted. French text. Fine. 28.7 x 20.

Catalogue of an exhibition (objects from Micronesia) held at the Galerie of Jean-Edouard Carlier, Rue Visconti, Paris, between the 1st of June and 14th of July 2007.

77077
CARLIER, Jean-Edouard
ART DE PAPOUASIE NOUVELLE-GUINEE
$125.00 AUD

Galerie Voyageurs & Curieux: Arts Primitifs - Curiosités - Livres Anciens / Jean-Edouard Carlier. Paris. 2010. 1st edition in the "Voyageurs & Curieux" series. 160 PP with 8 b/w photos and 127 colour photos by Hughes Dubois describing 125 artefacts, plus "Erratum" page for artefact 112 on page 130, loosely inserted. French text. Fine. 28.7 x 20.

Catalogue of an exhibition (artefacts from Papua New Guinea) held at the Galerie of Jean-Edouard Carlier, Rue Visconti, Paris in June / July 2010.

77078
CARLIER, Jean-Edouard
ARCHIPEL BISMARCK
$125.00 AUD

Galerie Voyageurs & Curieux / Jean-Edouard Carlier. Paris. 2012. 1st edition in the "Voyageurs & Curieux" series. 176 PP with 4 sketch maps and 11 figures (2 in colour and 9 in b/w) and 131 colour photos by Hughes Dubois describing 116 artefacts. French text. Fine. 28.7 x 20.

Catalogue of an exhibition (artefacts from the Bismarck Archipelago) held at the Galerie of Jean-Edouard Carlier, Rue Visconti, Paris, in June / July 2012.

77082
CARLIER, Jean-Edouard
ART D'OCEANIE - Exposition à l'occasion des 10 ans de la Galerie Voyageurs & Curieux
$125.00 AUD

Galerie Voyageurs & Curieux / Jean-Edouard Carlier. Paris. 2011. 1st edition in the "Voyageurs & Curieux" series. 80 PP with frontispiece and 35 plates in colour (photos by Hughes Dubois. Fp: Sculpture of an "Ancestor", Bartie Bay, PNG. French text. Fine. 28.7 x 20.

Catalogue of an exhibition (artefacts from Oceania) held at the Galerie of Jean-Edouard Carlier, Rue Visconti, Paris, between 10 June and 9 July 2011.

77083
CARLIER, Jean-Edouard
SCULPTURES DE MELANESIE - Exposition à l'occasion des 20 ans de la Galerie Voyageurs & Curieux
$125.00 AUD

Galerie Voyageurs & Curieux / Jean-Edouard Carlier. Paris. 2021. 1st edition in the "Voyageurs & Curieux" series. 100 PP with 1 map on double page and 70 plates in colour (photos by Hughes Dubois). Fp: Sculpture of an "Ancestor / Female", lower Sepik delta, PNG. Hard covers, colour vignette on front cover. French text. Fine. 28.7 x 20. 9782956398318

Catalogue of an exhibition (artefacts from Melanesia) held at the Galerie of Jean-Edouard Carlier (Art d'Océanie / Oceanic Art), Rue Visconti, Paris, in June and July 2021.

77544
CHAPIN, Helen G. (editor)
THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY: Volume 23 - 1989
$25.00 AUD

Hawaiian Historical Society. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 1989 Volume 23. (4), 284, (6 publications) PP, plus 32 pages with b/w illustrations: 2 graphs, 3 newspaper clippings and 23 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front (titla page of Buke Mele Lahui, 1895). Light foxing. Near fine. 23 x 15.2.

Journal devoted to the History of Hawai'i, Polynesia, and the Pacific Area. 10 Articles. Vancouver in Hawai'i, by Cummins E. Speakman & Rhoda E. A. Hackler. A Tahitian in the History of Hawai'i: the Journal of Kahikona, by Dorothy Barrère. The Kalaupapa Lighthouse, by Love Dean. The Chinese in Hawai'i: a Historical and Demographic Perspective, by Eleanor C. Nordyke & Richard K. C. Lee. ...

77545
CHAPIN, Helen G. (editor)
THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY: Volume 24 - 1990
$25.00 AUD

Hawaiian Historical Society. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 1990. Volume 24. (4), 230, (4 publications) PP with 27 b/w illustrations: 3 newspaper clippings and 24 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front (Honolulu scene, circa 1915). Light foxing. Spine with a small crack at top, otherwise near fine. 23 x 15.2.

Journal devoted to the History of Hawai'i, Polynesia, and the Pacific Area. 8 Articles. Sending the Children Home: a Dilemma for Early Missionaries, by Mary Zwiep. Great Britain and the Hawaiian Revolution and Republic, 1893-1898, by Ernest Andrade, Jr. The Tuttle Brothers; Hawai'i's Aviation Pioneers and first Glider Pilots, by Kin & Mary Hylton. Jack Burns: a Daughter's Portrait, by Sheenagh M. Burns. ...

77546
CHAPIN, Helen G. (editor)
THE HAWAIIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY: Volume 26 - 1992
$25.00 AUD

Hawaiian Historical Society. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 1992. Volume 26. (6), 308, (4 publications) PP with 24 b/w illustrations: 5 pages of manuscript and 19 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front (Portrait of Prince Albert Edward Kauikeaouki Leiopapa Kamehameha, circa 1862). Light foxing. Near fine. 23 x 15.2.

Journal devoted to the History of Hawai'i, Polynesia, and the Pacific Area. 13 Articles. The "Duke of Portland", the "Traveller", and the "Prince Regent", 3 little-known vessels from Australia, by Frances Jackson. Waimea, Kaua'i in 1839: an account by Louis Thiercelin; Whaling Doctor, by Christiane Mortelier. ...

11958
CHAPMAN, Murray & MORRISON, Philip (editors)
MOBILITY AND IDENTITY IN THE ISLAND PACIFIC [in Pacific Viewpoint - Volume 26, No.1, April 1985]
$5.00 AUD

Victoria University Press. Wellington. 1985. Special issue of Pacific Viewpoint. (2), VI, 371 PP with b/w illustrations. Pictorial soft cover, dj. Very good. 24.5 x 15.5.

Series of articles by various authors covering themes, experiences & perspectives. The Tree and the Canoe: Roots and Mobility in Vanuatu Societies (Bonnemaison), Identity and Relocation: The Bikini Case (Kiste), Walkabout and Urban Movement: A Melanesian Case Study (Frazer), Farmer, Fishermen, Gypsies, Guests: Who Identifies? (Buttimer)...

75580
CHAPPELL, David A.
DOUBLE GHOSTS: Oceanian Voyagers on Euroamerican Ships
$50.00 AUD

M. E. Sharpe Inc. New York. 1997. 1st edition in the "Sources and Studies in World Histories" series. Foreword by Kevin Reilly (series editor). XX, 231 PP with 1 map "Culture Areas of the Pacific" (on double page), plus 8 pages with 18 b/w illustrations. Soft covers, pictorial front. Near fine. 22.7 x 15.2. 9781563249990

11648
CHESNEAUX, Jean & MACLELLAN, Nic.
LA FRANCE DANS LE PACIFIQUE, de Bougainville à Moruroa
$30.00 AUD

La Découverte/Essais. Paris. 1992. 1st Ed. 240 PP with 3 maps. Pictoral soft cover. Near fine. French text. 22 x 13.5. 2707120944

The Pacific occupies a choice place in the culture and ambitions of France. (Nic Maclellan participates in Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific).

41378
CLARK, G. R., ANDERSON, A. J. & VUNIDILO, T. (editors)
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LAPITA DISPERSAL IN OCEANIA - Papers from the Fourth Lapita Conference, June 2000, Canberra, Australia
$90.00 AUD

Pandanus Books / RSPAS ANU. Canberra. 2001. 1st Ed. , Volume 17 in the Terra Australis series. VIII, 223 PP with maps, tables and figures. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new). 29.8 x 21. 9781740760102

19 papers .

76372
COLCHESTER, Chloë (Editor)
CLOTHING THE PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD

Berg. Oxford. 2003. 1st paperback edition. Preface by Susanne Küchler. XVI, , 215 PP with 62 b/w illustrations: 1 map of the South West Pacific, cartoon, diagrams prints and photos. Fp: A Rarotongan canoe dance, circa 1900. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 23.3 x 15.6. 9781859736715

Part I: Clothing the Body. Part II: Clothing and the Appropriation of Christianity. Part III: Clothing and Agency. Part IV: Clothing in the Diaspora.

41077
COLLINS, R. D. J., GOLDBERG Eddy, et al..
A FRENCH VISIT TO PORT NICHOLSON IN 1843 - SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES IN FRANCE AND NEW ZEALAND, 1985-1995 (in Antipodes 4)
$20.00 AUD

New Zealand Cultural Studies Research Centre, University of Otago. Dunedin. 1998. Issue No. 4, 1998. 52 PP with graphs and tables. Soft cover (staples removed). Fine. English and French text. 25 x 17.5.

Antipodes is a bilingual, multidisciplinary journal devoted to the documentation and study of contacts between New Zealand and the French speaking world.

41075
COLLINS, R. D. J., HOLLYMAN, J., et al.
TESTING TIMES - BIRDS AND PLANTS AS SEEDS OF EXPANSION: GOVERNOR GREY (AND OTHERS) AND NEW CALEDONIA - PETER ALL BLAKE, PORTRAIT D'UN PIRATE NEO-ZELANDAIS (in Antipodes - No.2)
$20.00 AUD

New Zealand Cultural Studies Research Centre, University of Otago. Dunedin. 1996. Issue No. 2, 1996. 64 PP with 1 cartoon. Soft cover (staples removed). Fine. English and French text. 25 x 17.5.

Antipodes is a bilingual, multidisciplinary journal devoted to the documentation and study of contacts between New Zealand and the French speaking world. Testing Times: Resuming nuclear testing at Mururoa, in 1995.

76354
CONNOLLY, Bob & ANDERSON, Robin
FIRST CONTACT
$30.00 AUD

Viking Penguin Inc. New York. 1987 1st edition. XIV,3), 316, (1) PP with 2 maps and 126 b/w photos. Hard covers, cloth spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 18. 9780670801671

New Guinea Highlanders encounter the outside world.

78006
COOKE, Edward
A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEA AND ROUND THE WORLD IN THE YEARS 1708 TO 1711 (2 Volumes)
$100.00 AUD

N. Israel. Amsterdam. 1969. 1st edition in the Bibliotheca Australiana series, Nos. 51 & 52. Facsimile of the 1712 original. Volume I: (XXIV), 432 PP 10 index plus 4 folded maps and 17 plates on coastal views or natural history. Volume II: (10), XIV, 328 PP, 8 index with hundreds of coastal views or plans in text plus 3 folded tables, 2 folded maps and 4 plates. Hard covers, simile vellum, gilt title on blue vignette (front cover & spine), glassine protection. Fine. 22 x 14.5.

Voyage of the ships "Duke" and "Dutchess", on a buccaneering expedition around the world. Bristol, Cape Verde islands, Brazil, Juan Fernandes, Mollucas, Indonesia, Cape of Good Hope, return to the Thames. The 2nd part of Volume II deals with coastal views and sailing directions for the West American coasts.

40150
CROCOMBE, Ron
THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$200.00 AUD

University of the South Pacific. Suva. 2001. 1st Ed. 790 PP with b/w illustrations (maps, graphs and photos). Eps: Map of the South Pacific region. Pictorial laminated boards. Fine. Scarce. 26 x 16.5. 9820201543

Place, people and health. Language, society and culture... Government, Independence, Identity... Regionalism, globalism...

77800
CUZIN, Jean-Marie & ESPINOZA, Michel
AU BOUT DU MONDE - L'Aventure Mariste
$15.00 AUD

Editions du Signe. Strasbourg, France. 2020. 1st Ed. 52 PP with colour illustrations (including 4 maps). Illustrated covers. French text. Fine. 32 x 23. 9782746839045

Illustrated saga on the Arrival of the Catholic Faith in the South Pacific Islands and the Marists Order.

35461
D'AUNET, Biard
L'AURORE AUSTRALE - La Société Australienne - Le Socialisme en Australie - La Constitution Australienne et son fonctionnement - La valeur et la situation, matérielle de l'Australie - L'Australie vue du dehors
$55.00 AUD

Librairie Plon. Paris. 1907. 1st Ed. (8), 403 PP. Soft covers a little fragile with one small closed tear. Pages uncut. Occasional foxing. French text. Near fine. Scarce. 18.8 x 12.

Australia: Society, Socialism, Constitution... How others perceived Australia.

76350
DAALDER, Truus
ETHNIC JEWELLERY AND ADORNMENT: Australia - Oceania - Asia - Africa
$800.00 AUD

Ethnic Art Press / Macmillan. Adelaide. 2009. 1st edition. Prefaces by Dr. Barry Craig & Dr Philip Jones. 420 PP with over 701 colour photographs by Jeremy Daalder. Half title page and frontispiece: Enamelled talismanic from Morocco, worn on the chest. Cloth cover, title on front board and spine, dj. Dedicatory note dated and signed by the author, in a protective sleeve loosely inserted. Fine (as new condition). Scarce. 32.8 x 28. 9781921394287

76587
DAMM, Dr. Hans
POLYNESIEN
$20.00 AUD

Im Prisma - Verlag. Leipzig. 1959. 1st edition in the "Die Schatzkammer" series, No. 1. 44 pages with 32 b/w plates by Walter Danz, and their captions by Dr. Hans Damm between pages 41 and 44. Hard covers, illustrated front and back, cloth spine, dj. Illustrated dust jacket with Map of the Polynesian travels on the rear flap, and with list of b/w photographs in German on the front flap and in Russian on the rear flap. German text. A near fine copy with the scarce dust jacket. 20.3 x 14.5.

72114
DE BISSCHOP, Eric
CAP A L'EST - Première Expédition du TAHITI-NUI: Tahiti - Santiago du Chili (6 novembre 1956 - 28 Mai 1957)
$20.00 AUD

Librairie Plon. Paris. 1958. 1st edition. (4), 280, (2) PP with 1 map, plus 16 pages with 28 b/w photos. Soft covers, pictorial front. Covers rubbed and worn. Ageing of paper and foxing spots. Internally very good. French text. 20.2 x 14.

Voyage of a French navigator to refute the theory of Thor Heyerdahl on the discovery and settlement of Polynesia.

47607
DE COPPET, Daniel & ITEANU, André (editors)
COSMOS AND SOCIETY IN OCEANIA
$10.00 AUD

Berg Publishers. Oxford. 1995. 1st edition in the Explorations in Anthropology series. VI, 338 PP with 17 b/w illustrations. Pictorial card covers. Fine. 21.6 x 14. 9781859730423

10 papers. No. 1: Closure and Multiplication: An Essay on Polynesian Cosmology and Ritual, by Alfred Gell ... No. 9: Are'are Society: A Melanesian Socio Cosmic point of view, by Daniel de Coppet. .

76975
de La POPELINIERE
LES TROIS MONDES de La POPELINIERE
$150.00 AUD

Librairie Droz. Geneva. 1997 1st edition, in "Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance" No. CCCX, presented and annotated by Anne-Marie Beaulieu. 530, (2) PP with 2 b/w illustrations (title page of the 1582 original & Chart "Les Trois Mondes"). Cloth cover, gilt title on spine. French text. Fine. 25.4 x 18. 2600002014

76973
DE SAULCES DE FREYCINET, Rose
ROSE DES VENTS - Journal de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet: Voyage de l'Uranie autour du monde (1817-1820)
$100.00 AUD

ARS Terres Créoles / Editions de l'Océan Indien. Réunion / Maurice. 1996. 1st edition in "Collection Mascarin", introduced, presented and annotated by Marc Serge Rivière. IV, 222 PP with b/w illustrations (1 photo, 1 sketch map and copy of the first page of her manuscript), plus 12 pages with 13 b/w plates. Soft covers, pictorial front. Top corner of front cover clipped. Contents are near fine. Scarce. French text. 21 x 15.

76901
DE SIMENCOURT
ENVIRONS DE PARIS DANS UN RAYON DE 15 LIEUES, par De Simencourt
$500.00 AUD

Auguste Logerot / Atelier de Collage de Cartes. Paris. c. July 1837. Folded map (55cm x 36cm) in colour in 8 folds. Vignette with title and editor on front cover. Covers with light wear and reinforced spine. Very good and quite scarce. Folded size: 12.5 x 6.5.

Published before the metric system in France and which came into law as of the 1st January 1840.

77151
DE SMET, A.
LA CARTOGRAPHIE HOLLANDAISE
$15.00 AUD

Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er. Bruxelles. 1971. 1st Ed. Foreword by Herman Libraers. XIV, 84, (2) PP with 4 b/w illustrations, plus 8 b/w plates. Soft covers, pictotial front. Faint foxing spots on outside edges. French text. Near fine. 22.5 x 14.5.

Exhibition of 55 items (atlas, charts, maps), held at Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er: 18 September to 16 October 1971.

78005
DENING, Greg (Editor)
THE MARQUESAN JOURNAL OF EDWARD ROBARTS 1797-1824
$50.00 AUD

ANU Press. Canberra. 1974. 1st Ed., No. 6 in the "Pacific History" Series. Edited with an introduction by Greg Dening. XVI, 361 PP with 3 maps & 2 genealogical tables. Cloth cover, dust jacket with a few small chips. Name of previous owner at top of FFEP, otherwise a near fine copy. 21.5 x 13.5. 0708106358

The life of Robarts in the Marquesas Islands where he stayed at the beginning of the 19th Century.

75287
DITTMAR, Gérald
ANTHOLOGIE DE LA COMMUNE DE PARIS DE 1871
$50.00 AUD

Editions Dittmar. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed. 471, (3) PP with 30 portraits. Pictorial stiff covers. French text. Fine. 24 x 15. 9782951919280

By 35 Communards.

77075
DODD, Edward
POLYNESIAN ART - The Ring of Fire - Volume 1
$100.00 AUD

Robert Hale. London. 1969 1st UK Ed., of the 1967 US original. 368 PP with b/w illustrations (drawings & sketches, engravings, and photos). Fp: Detail of Mangareva figure. illustrated endpapers. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Bookplate of previous owner on front endpaper. Small rubbed patch on half title page (hardly noticeable). Foxing spots on outside edges and top margin of first and last pages. Near fine. 31 x 23. 0709108532

73242
DOMENY DE RIENZI, M.G.L.
OCEANIE OU CINQUIEME PARTIE DU MONDE - Revue Géographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie et de la Mélanésie - (Tome Premier / Volume 1)
$200.00 AUD

Firmin Didot Frères, Editeurs. Paris. 1836. 1st edition in "L'Univers - Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples" series. Vol. 1: (4), 399, (4 errata and notes to the binder on position of plates) PP (on 2 columns), plus 100 b/w plates on full-page and 2 folded maps "Océanie" & "Malaisie". Half bound copy (c. 1980s) retaining original soft covers, marbled boards & endpapers, leather spine with raised bands, gilt devices and title. Ageing of paper an d foxing, mostly around page edges. Very good. Image shows the title-page. French text. 22 x 14.5.

Vol.1: General description plus Malaisia (Indonesia, Malaya, Philippines) & Micronesia.

76044
DOMENY DE RIENZI, M.G.L.
OCEANIE OU CINQUIEME PARTIE DU MONDE - Revue Géographique et Ethnographique de la Malaisie, de la Micronésie, de la Polynésie et de la Mélanésie (Tome Troisième - Volume 3)
$100.00 AUD

Firmin Didot Frères, Editeurs. Paris. 1863. Reprint of the 1838 original in "L' Univers - Histoire et Description de tous les Peuples" series. Vol. 3: (4), 635, (4 position of plates) PP on 2 columns. Plus 35 of the called out plates 173 to 208 (New Zealand and Tonga) and the folded map "Mélanésie". Modern binding retaining original front cover. Dark blue cloth covers, title on on a light blue label pasted down on spine, marbled endpapers. Copy with misbound copies (196 to 208), and missing plates (168 to 172, 210 to 284 then 297 to 304), called for. French text. Very good reading copy. 22.5 x 14.

Vol.3: text complete: Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand, Melanesia (PNG, Fiji, Solomons, New Hebrides, New Caledonia), Australia, Kerguelen or Desolation Island. As for the plates: on 124 called for, 89 of them are missing, and the bound plates are from an edition published with captions in French and Spanish.

76098
DOUGLAS, Ngaire
THEY CAME FOR SAVAGES: 100 Years of Tourism in Melanesia
$45.00 AUD

Southern Cross University Press. Alstoneville, NSW. 1996. 1st Ed. (12), 300 PP with 3 maps, 6 figures, 9 tables and 47 b/w illustrations (prints, photos). Soft covers, pictorial front. Fine. 21.8 x 15 1875855149

Papua New Guinea / Solomon Islands / Vanuatu.

45831
DOUSSET, Roselène & TAILLEMITE, Etienne
THE GREAT BOOK OF THE PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD

Books for Pleasure. Sydney. c. 1979. 1st Australian edition translated by Andrew Mouravieff-Apostol. 279, (12 index & appendices) PP with 330 b/w illustrations and 47 colour plates. Hard cover, gilt device on front, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 31.5 x 26.

Reveals the truth behind the legends and the myths emanating from the great exploratory movement from the 15th to 19th centuries.

77950
DOWNING, Jane, SPENNEMANN, Dirk H.R. et al.
BWEBWENATOON ETTO, A Collection of Marshallese Legends and Traditions
$10.00 AUD

Marshall Islands Museum and National Archives. Majuro. 1992. 1st Ed. 172 PP with b/w illustrations followed by 22 PP for Notes and Index. Illustrated soft covers with a crease at bottom corner and on first few pages. Very good. 21.5 x 13.5.

77765
DU RIETZ, Rolf
BIBLIOTHECA POLYNESIANA. A catalogue of some of the books in the Polynesiana collection formed by the late BJARNE KROEPELIEN and now in the Oslo University Library
$255.00 AUD

Heirs of Bjarne Kroepelien / Almqvist & Wiksell Boktryckeri AB. Oslo, Norway. 1969. 1st edition limited to 800 copies. Preface by Dagny Kroepelien schou Trygve Kroepelin. LXVIII, (4), 456 PP. Fp: Portrait of Bjarne Kroepelien. Cloth cover, red vignette with gilt lettering "Kroepelien Collection" on front cover, gilt title "Bioblitheca Polynesiana" on spine. Name of previous owner at top of FFEP. Compliment Card by Trygve Gran Kroepelien tipped in on front endpaper. A near fine copy. Scarce. 30.2 x 22.

Over 1368 entries, from: Finn Aasen and Aberdeen (No. 1) to Heinrich Zimmermann (No. 1368). Addenda and Corrigenda between pages LX and LXIV (concerning 64 of these entries).

76045
DUBOIS, Louis- Marie Abbé
ROCHEFORT ET LES PONTONS DE L'ILE D'AIX - Première Persécution contre le Clergé pendant la Terreur
$150.00 AUD

Librairie Catholique Libaros. Nantes, France. 1890. 1st Ed. Foreword by F. Fabien. (2), XIV, 15-326 PP with coat of Arm "Aux Catholiques de l'Ouest. Soft covers in a clear plastic protective sleeve. Slight ageing of paper. Very good copy. Scarce. French text. 19 x 12.5.

During the Terror period of the French Revolution, thousands of members of the Catholic Clergy were detained on pontoons anchored in Rochefort or Rade d'Aix. An Appeal for the building of the Church "Cathedrale de Notre-Dame-des-Martyrs" on the island of Aix, Vendée, France.

76358
DUMAS, Alexandre
CAPTAIN MARION
$100.00 AUD

The Caxton Press. Christchurch. 1949. 1st edition limited to 150 copies. Translated by F.W. Reed. 54 PP, pages on hand made paper. Original cover in full buckram, title on white label pasted down on front cover and spine, top outside edge tinted, dj. Front endpaper with signature of D.R. Gregg, Director of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. Light offsetting on endpapers. Newspaper "Christchurch" clipping dated 3rd May 1952 "Massacre of 1772 recalled - More about Marion Dufresne", loosely inserted. A fine copy. Scarce. 22.5 x 14.5.

Account of the massacre of Capt. Marion du Fresne by the Maoris in 1772 written by Alexandre Dumas. One of the four pieces under the title of "Drames de la Mer", largely based on Crozet's log.

49013
DUNMORE, John, TREMEWAN, Peter et al.
60 YEARS AGO... Celebrating the anniversary of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and France
$35.00 AUD

Alliance Française. Wellington. 2005. 1st Ed. with forewords (English and French) by the New Zealand and French Minsters of Foreign Affairs. 120 PP with 82 b/w illustrations (engravings, facsimiles, newspaper cuttings, photos), plus 16 pages with b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff cover. Fine. 29.5 x 21.

First relations by John Dunmore. The French Government and Akaroa, by Peter Tremewan. Francophobia in New Zealand, by Garry Clayton.

77095
EDMUNDSON, Anna & BOYLAN, Chris
ADORNED - Traditional Jewellery and Body Decoration from Australia and the Pacific
$75.00 AUD

Macleay Museum / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1999. 1st Ed. 112 PP with 32 colour and 71 b/w photos. Eps: Map of the Western Pacific Ocean. Pictorial card cover, dust jacket with light edge wear, otherwise fine. A scarce item. 29.8 x 20.8. 0909635366

A very attractive invitation from "The Macleay Museum " for the launching of the book "Adorned" on 3rd November 1999, loosely inserted.

76828
ELLIS, James J.
JOHN WILLIAMS, The Martyr Missionary of Polynesia
$25.00 AUD

John Ritchie. Kilmarnock, Scotland. 1889. 1st Ed. Note dated 31st October 1889, by Rev. S. Tamatoa Williams. XII, 13-160, (16 publications) PP with b/w illustrations: 8 tailpieces, 10 headpieces, 1 map and 12 prints. Fp: His death, Dillon's Bay, Erromanga, New Hebrides. Cloth cover, title and decoration on front cover and spine. Presentation note on front endpaper dated 13th Dec. 1921. Few and faint foxing spots on top outside edge, otherwise contents are near fine. 18.6 x 13.

75385
ELLIS, Juniper
TATTOOING THE WORLD: Pacific Designs in Print & Skin
$45.00 AUD

Columbia University Press. New York. 2008. 1st Ed. XI, 275 PP with 42 b/w illustrations (vignette on title page, 16 headpieces and 25 figures). Pictorial soft covers, pictorial font. Fine (as new condition). 23 x 15.3. 9780231143691

76566
ERRINGTON, Shelly
THE DEATH OF AUTHENTIC PRIMITIVE ART and other Tales of Progress
$25.00 AUD

University of California Press. Berkeley, Ca. 1998. 1st paperback edition. XXVIII, 310 PP with 82 figures (cartoons, drawings, sketches, plans, photos). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 9780520212114

76563
EWINS, Rod
STAYING FIJIAN: Vatulele Island Barkcloth and Social Identity
$60.00 AUD

Crawford House Publishing. Adelaide. 2009. 1st Ed. XXVI, 402 PP with 4 tables, 14 headpieces, 2 graphs, 4 maps, 10 figures, and 64 b/w photos, plus 8 colour plates with 28 photos. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new). 24.7 x 18. 9781863333023

76565
FAIRBAIRN, T'eo I. J. (editor)
ISLAND ENTREPRENEURS: Problems and Performances in the Pacific
$20.00 AUD

East-West Center / Pacific Islands Development Program. Honolulu. 1993. 1st Ed. XIV, 288 PP with 7 maps, 10 tables, 5 figures, and 15 b/w photos. Soft covers. Foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.1. 0866381074

18203
FANNING, Edmund
VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS, INDIAN & PACIFIC OCEANS, CHINA SEA NORTHWEST COAST, FEEJEE ISLANDS, SOUTH SHETLANDS, ...
$45.00 AUD

Ye Galleon Press. Fairfield, Washington. 1970. Limited edition of 600 copies This copy is un-numbered. (34), XII, 13-324, (8 Index) PP with few b/w illustrations (portrait, house of Captain Fanning, Coat of Arms, frontispiece of original copy), plus 6 folded plates (crew list, chart of British Columbia & 4 registries of US ships) in pocket pasted down on rear endpaper. Cloth covers, gilt engraved front cover and spine. Fine. 24.3 x 15.8.

Voyages and new discoveries made in the Southern Hemisphere between the years 1830 and 1837.

66080
FERVACQUES, VATTIER D'AMBROYSE, V. & BERTAUX, Fernand
NICE ET SES ENVIRONS
$10.00 AUD

Les Editions de la Grande Fontaine. Nice. 1993. Facsimile reprint. 108, (3) PP with 44 b/w illustrations (14 of them on full page). Soft cover, illustrated front, dj. French text. Occasional foxing (faint), o/wise fine. 29 x 20.

76550
FLITSCH, Mareile (editor)
DRINKING SKILLS - Milk . Cassava Beer . Kava . Palm Wine . Tea . Rice Beer
$50.00 AUD

Benteli Verlag / Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich. Zurich. 2014. 1st edition. 287 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard covers, illustrated front board. Fine (new condition). 28 x 22. 9783716517901

Alpine Milk Culture in Switzerland: Herding, Milking, Yodeling. Milk in Africa: Gourd and Terar Pak ... Kava in Western Polynesia ... Tea in the Himalayas and in Japan. Rice Beer of the Naga, in Northeast India.

77072
FORCE Roland W. & FORCE, Maryanne
THE FULLER COLLECTION OF PACIFIC ARTIFACTS
$125.00 AUD

Praeger Publishers. New York. 1971. 1st Ed. XVI, 360 PP with 1 colour photo (portrait of Captain A.W.F. Fuller tipped in on page VIII and b/w photos of hundreds of artefacts. Fp: Solomon Island Shield detail. Eps: Map of the "Culture Areas of the Pacific". Cloth cover with gilt decoration (Breast Ornament from the Santa Cruz Islands) on front cover and gilt title on spine, dj. Gutters of endpapers split. Dust jacket with a few chips and sunned spine is in a protective sleeve. Foxing spots on outside edges and the top margin of first and last leaves. Bookplate of previous owner on FFEP. A very good clean copy. 31 x 23.5.

76564
FOSTER, Robert J. (editor)
NATION MAKING: Emergent Identities in Postcolonial Melanesia
$30.00 AUD

The University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. 1997. 1st paperback edition. VIII, 280 PP with 11 figures in the chapter: "'Print Advertisements and Nation Making in Metropolitan Papua New Guinea". Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 23 x 15 9780472084272

Stepping-stones to National Consciousness: The Solomon Islands case. ... Kastom and Nation Making: the Politicization of Tradition on Nguna, Vanuatu.

75599
FRASER, Alan (editor)
SABRETACHE - The Journal and Proceedings of the Military Historical Society of Australia (Volume XXVIII, No. 2 to Volume XXIX, No. 4)
$35.00 AUD

Federal Council of the Military Historical Society of Australia. Canbera. 1987 / 1988. 1st Ed. 7 issues (Vol. XXVIII, No, 2 to Vol. XXIX, No. 4), for a total of 300 PP with b/w illustrations. Bound copies of 7 issues with their original soft covers. Cloth covers, gilt title "Sabretache Volume 28-29" on spine. Fine. 25 x 18.

7 issues: Vol/ XXVII, No. 2, April / June 1987 to Volume XXIX, No. 4 , October-December 1988.

54772
FREEMAN, Colin & HOLDSWORTH, David
ARTS & CRAFTS OF PAPUA & NEW GUINEA
$10.00 AUD

Rigby. Adelaide. 1971. 1st Ed. No pagination, 32 PP with 64 colour photos. Eps: Map of Papua New Guinea. Hard cover, pictorial front and back boards, dj. Near fine. 26.2 x 19.8. 0851792820

Houses: 6 pages with 10 photos. Canoes: 3 pages with 6 photos...

76399
FREEMAN, Dr. E. A. (Ted)
DOCTOR IN VANUATU - A Memoir
$35.00 AUD

Institute of Pacific Studies / University of the South Pacific. Suva, Fiji. 2006. 1st Ed. Forewords by Propfessor R. Moulds, and Dr. John Yu. (16), 187 PP with 1 b/w photo and a map of Vanuatu, plus 16 pages with 6 b/w and 18 colour photos. Pictorial stff covers. Dedicatory note to previous owner signed by the author. Near fine. 21 x 14.7. 9789820203808

76374
GARDI, René
TAMBARAN - An Encounter with Cultures in Decline in New Guinea
$25.00 AUD

Constable Publshers. London. 1960. 1st English edition translated from the French by Eric Northcott. 201 PP with 1 location map, 2 maps, and 25 text drawings, plus 40 pages with 55 b/w plates. Cloth covers, top outside edge tinted, dj (price clipped). Ex Library copy lacking the front endpaper and with stamps on title page and rear endpaper. Dust jacket with number at foot of spine, and in a protective sleeve. Occasional foxing. Very good reading copy. 24 x 16.

Part of the former German colony under United Nations control and administrated by Australia.

76341
GARDNER, Robert & HEIDER, Karl G.
GARDENS OF WAR: Life and Death in the New Guinea Stone Age
$20.00 AUD

Random House. New York. 1968. 1st Ed. Introduction by Margaret Mead. XVI, (4), 184, (2) PP with 1 location map and 1 sketch map of the Dugun Neighborhood, 6 colour and 331 b/w photos. Cloth cover, device on front cover, dj. Fine. 28.7 x 21.5.

73185
GATHERCOLE, Peter, KAEPPLER, Adrienne L.& NEWTON, Douglas
THE ART OF THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$50.00 AUD

National Gallery of Art. Washington. 1979. 1st Ed. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. 366 PP with 4 maps, 14 plates in colour, 30 b/w photos and 352 photos of artifacts. Title spread (in colour): Canoe Prow Ornament, Marquesas. Eps: Bark Cloth (tapa). Stiff covers, illustrated front. Covers with light wear. A near fine copy. Scarce. 28 x 21.5.

Catalogue of an exhibition held in Washington: 1st July to 14 October 1979.

73711
GIBNEY, Frank
THE PACIFIC CENTURY - America and Asia in a Changing World
$20.00 AUD

Charles Scribner's Sons / Macmillan Publishing Co. New York. 1992. 1st Ed. XII, 596 PP with 8 maps and 210 b/w illustrations, plus 16 pages with 34 colour illustrations. Eps: map "Pacific Rim". Hard covers, gilt title on cloth spine. Fine. 23.8 x 19.5. 9780684193496

76559
GITTINGER, Mattiebelle (editor)
TO SPEAK WITH CLOTH: Studies in Indonesian Textiles
$40.00 AUD

Museum of Cultural History / UCLA. Los Angeles. 1989. 1st Ed. Foreword by Christopher B. Donnan & Doran H. Ross. 256 PP with 34 colour plates and b/w illustrations: 1 general map of Indonesia, 28 maps and location maps, 2 diagrams, 5 tables and 252 figures (very few sketches, essentially photos). Fp: a Tampan, from the Talang Padang of South Sumatra, 1971. Stiff covers, pictorial front cover (three-panels bridewealth cloth from Atadéi, Lembata). Fine. 28 x 21.5. 093074117X

63635
GODARD, Philippe
SOFRANA, des Navires et des Hommes
$250.00 AUD

Editions "Grand Large". Papeete. 2014. 1st Ed. 521 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, title on front board and spine, dj. French text. Fine. A rare item. 28.5 x 22.2.

SOciété FRAnçaise de NAvigation. French shipping line plying the South West Pacific. Vessels flying the French flag, and registered in Mata Utu, capital of the French Overseas Territory of "Wallis & Futuna".

77713
GOETZFRIDT, Nicholas J. (compiler)
INDIGENOUS NAVIGATION AND VOYAGING IN THE PACIFIC: A Reference Guide
$110.00 AUD

Greenwood Press. Westport, Ct. 1992. 1st Ed. No. 6 in the Bibliographies and Indexes in Anthropology series. XVII, (5), 294, (1) PP with 1 map on double page. Cloth covers, gilt title on black vignette on front cover and spine. Fine. 24 x 16. 0313277397

694 books studied (bibliographic data and short summaries). Pacific - General (1 to 114), Polynesia (115 to 512), Micronesia (513 to 673) and Melanesia (674 to 694) .

77547
GREER, Richard G.
HAWAII HISTORICAL REVIEW - Selected Readings
$25.00 AUD

Hawaiian Historical Society. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 1969. Volume 26. 318 PP with b/w illustrations, plus 10 pages with b/w photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front (Haleoka, sketched by Mary Leineweber). Light foxing. Near fine. 23 x 15.2.

21 articles: 5 on Health and Hazards. 6 on Sites and Sounds. 10 on Spotlights on the Past.

76562
GREUB, Suzanne (editor)
EXPRESSIONS OF BELIEF: Masterpieces of African, Oceanic, and Indonesian Art from the Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam
$45.00 AUD

Rizzoli International Publications. New York. 1988. 1st Ed. Foreword by Suzanne Greub. 248 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Fp (in colour): Nkisi figure, Congo. Cloth covers, dj. Fine. 31 x 23.5. 0847809595

Catalogue of a travelling exhibition: in the United States of America (Houston / Salt Lake City / Toledo / Portland / Miami) : 1 October 1988 to 30 November 1989.

77383
GROVE DAY, A. & LOOMIS, Albertine
KA PA'I PALAPALA / EARLY PRINTING IN HAWAII
$25.00 AUD

Printing Industries of Hawaii. Honolulu. 1973. 1st Ed. 36 PP with ochre decorations at top margin of pages, and 5 b/w illustrations including photo of the first press used in Honolulu. Stiff covers, illustrated front cover. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.2.

Sesquicentennial of the First printing in Hawaii.

77667
GUNN, Michael
RITUAL ARTS OF OCEANIA - "NEW-IRELAND"
$40.00 AUD

Musée Barbier-Mueller & Skira Editore. Geneva/Milan. 1997. 1st Ed. Foreword by Jean-Paul Barbier. 161 PP with 1 b/w portrait of Richard Heinrich Robert Parkinson, 132 figures: 9 in colour (4 maps and 5 photos) and 123 in b/w (1 map, paintings and photos), and 43 colour plates (1 on double page and 42 on full page), all photos by Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini. Fp: 12 men wearing "Malangan" masks. Cloth cover, dj. A fine copy. 31 x 23.5. 9788881182077

Art of New Ireland.

76388
HAILEY, John M.
ENTREPRENEURS AND INDIGENOUS BUSINESS IN THE PACIFIC
$20.00 AUD

East-West Center / Pacific Islands Development Program. Honolulu. 1987. No. 9, Research Report series of the Pacific Islands Development Program. VI, 94 PP with 4 full-page maps in text. Card cover Near fine. 22.8 x 15.2. 0866381015

76353
HALLINAN, Peter
THE PETER HALLINAN COLLECTION OF MELANESIAN ART
$40.00 AUD

Sotheby's. London. 1992. 1st Ed. Foreword by Ava Pigge. 109, (15 abbreviations, notes, conditions) PP with 2 maps and 166 colour phoptos. Hard covers, decorated boards, dj. Fine. 27.5 x 21.5. 0646123823

Catalogue of auction sale: 7th December 1992, listing 166 items with colour photo and description.

77294
HAMILTON, Clive
SILENT INVASION - China's Influence in Australia
$15.00 AUD

Hardie Grant Books. Melbourne. 2018. 1st Ed. XII, 356 PP plus 8 pages with 3 b/w illustrations (photo of Bob Hawke, 1 sea chart of the South China Sea & 1 document) and 9 colour photos. Stiff covers, illustrated front. Few foxing spots on outside edges. Near fine. 23.3 x 15.3. 9781743794807

76362
HANSON, Allan & HANSON, Louise (editors)
ART AND IDENTITY IN OCEANIA
$50.00 AUD

University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 1990. 1st Ed. Foreword by Douglas Newton, Metropolitan Museum of Art. VIII, (2), 315 PP with 289 b/w illustrations (drawings, sketches, photos), plus 8 pages with 20 colour plates. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Faint foxing spots on top outside edge, otherwise a fine copy. 24 x 20.8. 0824813049

77381
HAWAIIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
EARLY VOYAGERS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN: in Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society, No. 4
$75.00 AUD

Hawaiian Historical Society. Honolulu, Hawai'i. c. 1894. 1st Ed. 16 PP. Stapled soft wrappers, title on front. Covers split at hinge and fragile. Sight ageing of paper. A very good complete copy of a rare item. 23.4 x 14.

Pages 15 & 16: List of the 20 voyages which yielded geographical results, however meagre: Magelhanes 1519-1522. ... Commodore Byron 1764-66.

76866
HEINE, Florian
THE FIRST TIME - Innovations in Art
$30.00 AUD

Bucher Publishing.. Munich. 2007. 1st English edition, translated from the German original, by Janet Mayer. 168 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Hard covers, dj. Fine. 26.7 x 22.5. 97833765815973

76547
HERLE, Anita, STANLEY, Nick, STEVENSON, Karen & WELSCH, Robert L. (editors)
PACIFIC ART: Persistence, Change and Meaning
$125.00 AUD

University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2002. 1st Ed. Testimonial by Hirini (Sidney) Moko Mead. X, 455 PP with 24 colour photos and 380 b/w illustrations (sketch maps, plans and photos), plus 8 pages with 21 colour photos. Hard covers, gilt title on spine, dj. A fine copy. 24.2 x 20.4. 9780824825560

33479
HERR, R. A. & ROOD, E. A. (editors)
A SOLOMONS SOJOURN: J. E. Philp's Log of the Makira 1912-1913
$10.00 AUD

Tasmanian Historical Research Association. Hobart. 1978. Limited edition of 550 copies. 208 PP with 3 maps, plus 8 b/w plates. Fp: John Ernest Philp, Boroni Plantation, 1913. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj (small repair and crease). Faint foxing, o/wise fine. 22.5 x 14.2. 0909479011

Trading for copra, goods, as well as recruiting labour for coconut plantations, on board the huon pine ketch Makira. Establishment of a plantation on San Cristobal, B.S.I.P.

76576
HERR, Richard & BERGIN, Anthony
OUR NEAR ABROAD: Australia and Pacific Islands Regionalism (in Strategy)
$15.00 AUD

ASPI / Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Canberra. 2011. STRATEGY, issue November 2011. IV, 84 PP with 7 tables and b/w or colour illustrations (2 graphs and 3 maps). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 29.6 x 17. 9781921302695

75577
HIATT, L. R. & JAYAWARDENA, C. (editors)
ANTHROPOLOGY IN OCEANIA: Essays Presented to Ian Hogbin
$15.00 AUD

Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1971. 1st Ed. Foreword by Raymond Firth. XII, 290 PP with 2 maps,13 figures and over 10 tabes. Fp: 4 studies of Ian Hogbin - Ontong Java, Wogeo, Busama & Sydney. Hard cover, dj. Ex Library copy with stamps on title page. FEP: plate of the W.J. Rooney Library pasted down. REP: "Withdrawn" stamp and envelope. Occasional foxing. Very good. 24 x 16. 0207122385

12 papers presented to Ian Hogbin by: Michael Allen / Jeremy Beckett / Raymond Firth ... Roger Keesing / Harold Scheffler / M. G. Swift.

76856
HIQUILY, Tara (curator)
VA'A, vaka, waka, wa'a... THE POLYNESIAN CANOE / LA PIROGUE POLYNESIENNE
$10.00 AUD

Te Fare Iamanaha / Musée de Tahiti et des îles. Papeete. 2004. 1st Ed. No pagination, 16 PP with 7 location sketches and b/w or colour illustrations. Inside front cover: folded guide map of the Exhibition. Illustrated stiff covers. English text. An illustrated flyer (French / English) loosely inserted. 35 x 14.8.

Exhibition held 23rd July to 31st December 2004.

76807
HIQUILY, Tara, TAMARA, Maric, VALLEE, Marine et al
FAUFA 'A TUPUNA - Te Fare Iamanaha / Musée de Tahiti et des îles - ENTREVUE DES COLLECTIONS
$60.00 AUD

Te Fare Iamanaha / Musée de Tahiti et des Îles. Papeete. 2023. 1st edition of this "Entrevue des Collections". 157 PP with colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. French text. New. 29 x 21.8. 9782955351543

Catalogue of the Collections of Artefacts (Tupuna = Ancestors) permanently exhibited in tha Musée de Tahiti et des Îles, since its re-opening in 2023. Artefacts from the 5 archipelagoes of French Polynesia: Tuamotu / Marquesas / Society / Australes / Gambier, and the arts evolving after the "Contacts" with: Explorers / Teachers / Traders ...

75584
HIRST, Jane, OVERTON, John, ALLEN, Bryant & BYRON Yvonne (editors)
SMALL-SCALE AGRICULTURE
$30.00 AUD

Commonwealth Geographical Bureau & Department of Human Geography. Canberra. 1988 1st Ed. XII, 210 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (graphs & maps). Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (mint condition). 26 x 17.5. 0731636090

14 papers.

77296
HOLT, John Dominis
MONARCHY IN HAWAII
$15.00 AUD

Hogarth Press. Honolulu, Hawaii. 1971. 2nd and revised edition. Book 1 of the Hogarth series on Hawaiiana. IX, 68 PP with 22 b/w portraits. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Covers with light wear, slight ageing of paper. Dedicatory note (in Hawaiian) on half-title page. Very good. 23 x 15.

42274
HOOPER, Anthony (editor)
CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE PACIFIC
$30.00 AUD

Asia Pacific Press. Canberra. 2000. 1st Ed. No. 33 in "Pacific Policy Papers" series. XV, 227 PP. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 21.4 x 14. 0731536274

76381
HOWARTH, Crispin & WAITE, Deborah
VARILAKU - Pacific Arts from the Solomon Islands
$35.00 AUD

National Gallery of Australia. Canberra. 2011. 1st Ed. Forewords by Sir David Attenborough and by Ron Radford. 128 PP with 1 location map and map of the Solomon Archipelago in colour, and over 60 b/w or colour illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 27 x 21.5. 9780642334206

Exhibition held in Canberra at the NGA: 26th February to 29th May 2011.

76872
HUBBARD, Charles M. & DAVIS, Jr., COLLIS H.
CORREGIDOR IN PEACE AND WAR
$45.00 AUD

University of Missouri Press. Columbia. 2006. 1st Ed. XII, (2), 198 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (charts, maps & plans, paintings, posters and photos). Fine. Oblong: 26 x 18.5. 9780826217127

Corregidor: Early history, Battle 9th April to 6 May 1942, Return to the Rock 16th to 27th February 1945. Shrine of Peace.

76346
HUNT, Charles
SHARK TOOTH & STONE BLADE
$150.00 AUD

University of Aberdeen. Aberdeen, Scotland. c.1981. 1st edition in the "Pacific Island Art from the University of Aberdeen series. (2), 38 PP with 4 b/w illustrations: 1 map of the South West Pacific, 1 sketch and 2 portraits, and 92 photos of artifacts on glossy paper (pages 15 to 37). Soft covers, pictorial front, spiral bound. Near fine. Scarce. 29.7 x 21.

42879
JAARSMA, Sjoerd R. & ROHATYNSKYJ, Marta A. (editors)
ETHNOGRAPHIC ARTIFACTS: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology
$50.00 AUD

University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2000. 1st Ed. VIII, 255 PP. Cloth covers. Fine. 23.2 x 15.6. 0824822250

76342
JEWELL, Rebecca & LLOYD, Jude
PACIFIC DESIGNS
$15.00 AUD

British Museum Press. London. 1998. 1st edition in the British Museum Pattern Books series. 28 PP, plus 100 pages with a map of the central Pacific Ocean on double page and over 300 line drawings of patterns and designs. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 27.5 x 21.7. 9780714180762

77297
JOESTING, Edward
HAWAII - An Uncommon History
$15.00 AUD

W. W. Norton. New York. 1972. 1st paperback edition. XIV, 353 PP with 1 sketch map, plus 16 pages with 21 b/w illustrations. Soft covers, pictorial front. Light foxing, mostly on outside edges. Very good. 24.3 x 16.5. 0393009076

76338
JOWITT, Glenn & SHAW, Peter
PACIFIC ISLAND STYLE
$30.00 AUD

Thames & Hudson. London. 1999. 1st UK edition. 192 PP with 1 map on double page, and hundreds of colour photos. Eps: Woven patterns made from cane. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 26.2 x 25.6. 9780500237724

The style and unique beauty and atmosphere of the Pacific Islands. Traditional architecture and designs of the Pacific: the pole houses of the Solomons, the 'tivaevae' of the Cook Islands and the houses or 'case' of New Caledonia.

76546
KIRCH, Patrick Vinton & GREEN, Roger C.
HAWAIKI, ANCESTRAL POLYNESIA - An Essay in Historical Anthropology
$55.00 AUD

Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 2001. 1st Ed. XVII, 375 PP with 40 tables and 36 figures (diagrams, maps, sketches). Fp: Mata o Tangaloa. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine. 24.5 x 18.8. 9780521788793

76337
KJELLGREN, Eric, VAN TILLBURG, Anne & KAEPPLER, Adrienne L.
SPLENDID ISOLATION - Art of Easter Island
$40.00 AUD

Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. 2001. 1st Ed. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello. 80 PP with 61 b/w illustrations and 16 colour photos. Fp: Rapa Nui works from the collectio of Bishop Tepano Jaussen. Pictorial card covers. Dedicatory note to previous owner dated and signed on title page by Eric Kjellgren. Tiny crease on lower corner of front cover, o/wise fine. 28 x 20.5. 9780300090789

48097
KNOX, Margaret
PACIFIC ISLAND NEIGHBOURS
$10.00 AUD

Longman Paul. Auckland. 1972. Reprint of the 1971 original. VIII, 128 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Top corner of title page clipped. Covers with creases and light soiling, o/wise a very good copy. 24 x 18.4. 0582 664403

76371
KÜCHLER, Susanne & MILLER, Daniel (editors)
CLOTHING AS MATERIAL CULTURE
$30.00 AUD

Berg. Oxford. 2006. Reprint of the 2005 paperback edition. X, 195 PP with 30 b/w illustrations: 1 diagram, 3 tivaivai (or quilt), and 26 photos. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 23.3 x 15.6. 9781845200671

Chapter 7: Nga Aho Tipuna (Ancestral Threads): Maori Cloaks from New Zealand. Chapter 10: Why are there Quilts in Polynesia?

76343
KÜCHLER, Susanne & WERE, Graeme
PACIFIC PATTERN
$30.00 AUD

Thames & Hudson. London. 2005. 1st Ed. 208 PP with c. 35 b/w photos, 1 map of the South West Pacific (in colour) and 327 colour illustrations by Glenn Jowitt. Hard covers, device in blind on front cover, dj. Fine (as new condition). 29 x 24.8. 9780500512371

76380
KÜCHLER, Susanne & WERE, Graeme (editors)
THE ART OF CLOTHING - A Pacific Experience
$70.00 AUD

UCL Press / Cavendish Publishing. London. 2005. 1st edition with a preface by Nicholas Thomas. XXX, 171 PP with b/w illustrations (3 head pieces and 36 figures , plus 16 pages for 19 of these illustrations (9 of them in colour). Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 23.5 x 15.5. 9781844720156

52993
LACROIX, Louis
LES ECRASEURS DE CRABES SUR LES DERNIERS VOILIERS CABOTEURS
$50.00 AUD

Aux Portes du Large. Nantes. 1947. 1st Ed. Preface by Captain A. Marchandeau. 348, XXXVI (annex & contents) PP with 2 maps in text, plus 1 folded plan (line drawings of a brick nantais) , 2 folded maps (Ras de Sein & Chenal du Four) and 82 Pages with 166 b/w illustrations (plans, charts, drawings, photos). Soft cover, pictorial front. Pages mostly uncut and unopened. French text. Ageing of paper. Very good. 25.2 x 16.

Comprehensive history of the fishing industry and the last trading coastal sailing ships: France and Europe (UK, Finland...), Mediterranean Sea (Gibraltar to Near East). South west Indian Ocean (Madagascar, Mauritius, Bourbon (La Réunion).

76537
LAL, Brij V. & HENDRIE, Peter
PACIFIC JOURNEYS
$30.00 AUD

Peter Hendrie. Albert Park, Vic. 2003. 1st Ed. Introduction by Professor Brij V. Lal. 224 PP with colour photograps by Peter Hendrie. Eps: Map of the Central Pacific. Cloth covers, title on front board and spine, dj. Fine. Oblong: 23.3 x 33. 9780957740204

41979
LAL, Brij V. & FORTUNE, Kate (editors)
THE PACIFIC ISLANDS - An Encyclopedia
$125.00 AUD

University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2000. 1st Ed. XXXVI, 664 PP with b/w illustrations and colour illustrations (8 headpieces, 13 tables, 24 figures, 28 maps and photos). Includes the CD-ROM version of the encyclopedia in rear pocket. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Fine. This is a heavy item and postage may be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 26.7 x 19. 082482265X

76862
LAMONT, Tom & CALVER, Charlie
Let the Luxury Games Begin: "PARIS", LVMH & the ARNAULT Family / A New Wave of (Australian) Surfing Superstars bound for Tahiti's Teahupo'o: JACK ROBINSON and ETHAN EWING
$10.00 AUD

GK Magazine / The Australian. June 2024. 2 articles from "GK Magazine":. Pages 72 to 77, and P. 78 to 88 with b/w and colour illustrations. Fine. 32.5 x 27.

76556
LEADBEATER, Maire
SEE NO EVIL - New Zealand's Betrayal of the People of West Papua
$40.00 AUD

Otago University Press. Dunedin, NZ. 2018. 1st Ed. Foreword by Catherine Delahunty. 310 PP with 40 b/w illustrations (cartoons, photos), and 47 colour illustrations (5 maps and 42 photos). Pictorial stiff covers. "Otago University Press" flyer for publication loosely inserted. Fine (as new). 24 x 17. 9781988531212

75568
LEDYARD, Patricia
'UTULEI' MY TONGAN HOME
$20.00 AUD

Robert Hale. London. 1974. 1st UK edition. 192 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map with location map) and 2 plans, plus 8 pages with 17 photos. Hard covers, dj. Ex library copy with stamps on front endpaper, half title page, and title page (recto/verso). Spine of dust jacket slightly sunned and with rubbed patch at foot. Occasional foxing. Very good. 22.2 x 14. 0709144822

The Tongan Archipelago.

46856
LEVITTE, Georges, LIBER, M...et al.
HISTOIRE GENERALE DES RELIGIONS. Indo-Iraniens - Judaïsme - Christianisme - Islam
$25.00 AUD

Librairie Aristide Quillet. Paris. 1960. 1st Ed. One of 4 volumes in this series. (4), 278, XXXVIII PP with b/w illustrations, plus 4 b/w plates and 7 colour plates (1 on double page). Hard cover, simile leather, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing, o/wise near fine. French text. 31 x 24.5.

Judaism. Christianism. Islam.

76363
LINDSTROM, Lamont
KNOWLEDGE AND POWER in a South Pacific Society
$25.00 AUD

Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC. 1990. 1st paperback edition in the "Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry". XVI, 224 PP. Fp: Map of Tanna. Stiff covers illustrated front. Fine. 23 x 15. 9780874743579

Study of the traditional society on the island of Tanna where kava is still widely used. The Melanesian fascination with knowledge and its artful manipulation to acquire and keep power.

39117
LINDSTROM, Lamont & WHITE, Geoffrey M.
ISLAND ENCOUNTERS - Black and White Memories of the Pacific War
$20.00 AUD

Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington. 1990. 1st Ed. XII, 194 PP with 2 maps and over 175 b/w photos. Fp: A Woleaian Islander, U.S. Marine Corps Major and a Japanese officer. Cloth cover, dj. Light foxing o/wise fine. 28.4 x 22. 0874744571

76334
LITTLE, Stephen and RUTHENBERG, Peter (Editors)
LIFE IN THE PACIFIC OF THE 1700'S, The Cook/Forster Collection of the Georg August University of Göttingen (in 3 VOLUMES)
$300.00 AUD

Honolulu Academy of Arts. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 2006. 1st Ed. Volume I: XXXII, 383 PP with 3 b/w illustrations (1 painting and 2 photos) and colour illustrations (1 map of the Pacific with 7 inserts, 5 paintings, 5 drawings and 353 photos). Volume II: 144 PP with 7 b/w illustrations and 34 pages with copies of pages of 3 manuscripts. Volume III: 128 PP with b/w illustrations (22 drawings and paintings) and 23 pages of facsimiles of .an 1881 document). Hard covers, quarter bound with decorated boards and cloth spine with gilt title. 3 volumes set contained in a decorated "Tapa" slipcase with logo of the "Honolulu Academy of Art", on spine. Mint condition. This is a heavy item and postage may be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. Volumes: 29.7 x 24.5. / Slipcase: 31 x 25.5. 0937426717

Vol.1: Artifacts from the life in the Pacific of the 1700s. Vol.2: European research, traditions, and perspectives. Vol.3: Pacific knowledge, traditions, and perspectives.

32294
LOWNDES, A. G. (editor)
SOUTH PACIFIC ENTERPRISE - The Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited
$25.00 AUD

Angus and Robertson. Sydney. 1956. 1st edition with a preface by E. R. Knox. XVIII, 500 PP with 11 b/w photos, 12 head pieces, diagrams, graphs, maps, and tables, plus 24 plates with 3 maps and 30 colour photos and 132 plates with 282 b/w photos. Fp: Sir Edward Knox. Eps: Map of Australia and surrounding seas showing the world of CSR. Cloth cover, gilt title on front board and spine, dj. Dust jacket with chips, repaired tears and in a protective sleeve. Contents are near fine. 24 x 16.

Historical background, by Alan Birch and J.F. Blaxland. The sugar industry of Fiji, by A.G. Lowndes. The Australian Sugar Industry by H.W. Herbert. Sugar in New Zealand, by A.C. Isaacs...

77068
LUQUET, G.-H.
L'ART NEO-CALEDONIEN, Documents Recueillis par Marius Archambault, Directeur du Service des Postes et Télégraphes en Nouvelle-Calédonie
$225.00 AUD

Institut d'Ethnologie. Paris. 1926. 1st edition in Travaux et Mémoires de l'Institut d'Ethnologie, No. II. Preface by L. Lévy-Bruhl. (6), 160 PP with 241 figures, plus 20 plates with 77 b/w illustrations. Green cloth cover, gilt device and title on spine (lettering faded). Slight ageing of paper and foxing spots around edges. Name of previous owner at top of front endpaper. French text. Near fine. Scarce. 27.2 x 18.

The art of the Kanaks of New Caledonia: body paint, sculpture, engraved bamboo, petroglyphs, etc... A title not often seen.

76523
MACKENZIE, Maureen A.
ANDROGYNOUS OBJECTS: String bags and gender in central New Guinea
$75.00 AUD

Harwood Academic Publishers. Chur, CH. 1991. 1st Ed. XVI, 256, VIII (colour plates) PP with 4 tables, b/w illustrations over 27 sets of figures and 117 photos and 8 colour plates with 13 photos. Fp: The Bilum is our mother. Illustrated endpapers. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine (as new condition). 25.5 x 17.5. 3718651556

42876
MAGEO, Jeannette Marie (editor)
CULTURAL MEMORY: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific
$70.00 AUD

University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2001. 1st Ed. VI, 222 PP. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 23.3 x 15.5. 9780824823863

77715
MAGGS, B. D. & E. U. (editors)
AUSTRALIA AND THE SOUTH SEAS - Catalogue No. 491.
$75.00 AUD

Maggs Bros. London. 1927. 1st Ed. (2), 281, (11 Indices: 8 for Authors & Titles / 3 for Subjects) PP, plus frontispiece and 28 b/w plates. Fp: Captain Cook landing at Hawai. Bound copy retaining original soft covers, black cloth covers, title on a red cloth label pasred down on spine. Original spine, retained and used as a book mark. Foxing on the original soft covers. Near fine. 24/6 x 19.

76373
MANLEY, Seon & Robert
ISLANDS - Their Lives, Legends, and Lore
$15.00 AUD

Chilton Book Company. Philadelphia. 1970. 1st Ed. (8), 383 PP with b/w illustrations: drawings & sketches, charts, maps & plans, paintings, prints & photos. Cloth covers, dj. Ex library copy with stamps on title page and rubbed patches on front endpaper. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Occasional foxing. Very good. 24 x 16.

Holy Islands, Pirate Islands, Islands of Exile, Islands of Lost Civilizations, Desert Islands, Ice Islands, ...

72608
MARKHAM, Albert Hastings
THE CRUISE OF THE "ROSARIO" AMONGST THE NEW HEBRIDES AND SANTA CRUZ ISLANDS, Exposing the Recent Atrocities Connected with the Kidnapping of Natives in the South Seas
$70.00 AUD

Dawson of Pall Mall. Folkestone. 1970. Reprint of the 1873 original, in "The Colonial History" series. XVI, 304 PP with headpieces, tailpieces and 9 text illustrations, plus 8 plates with b/w illustrations, and 1 large folded map at end of book. Fp: HMS Rosario overhauling slaver "Carl". Cloth covers, gilt title on a black label on spine. Covers lightly speckled on front board and spine. Slight ageing of paper on outside edges. Bookplate of Professor Adrian Horridge on front endpaper. Contents are near fine. Scarce. 22 x 15.

The history of the New Hebrides and Santa Cruz islands and the cruise of a Royal Navy sloop to police and combat blackbirding.

33509
MASON, Leonard (editor)
KIRIBATI - A Changing Atoll Culture
$25.00 AUD

Institute of Pacific Studies / USP. Suva. 1985. 1st Ed. Foreword by Teatao Teannaki. XXII, 205 PP with 3 figures, 4 maps (2 on double page) and 31 b/w photos. FEP: Kiribati in the Pacific. REP: 18 sketch maps of 18 islands of Kiribati. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 21 x 14.8.

Being I-Kiribati by Sister M. Alaima Talu. Spiritual beliefs by Baranite Kirata...

58978
McARTHUR, Norma
ISLAND POPULATIONS OF THE PACIFIC
$10.00 AUD

Australian National University Press. Canberra. 1967. 1st Ed. XVI, 381 PP with 66 tables, 6 maps & 3 figures. Cloth cover, dj. Dust jacket is rubbed and repaired and in a protective sleeve. An otherwise near fine copy. 24.2 x 15.8.

Studies based on a census of the populations living on 5 island groups: Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Cook Islands and French Polynesia.

75600
McCALL, Grant
RAPANUI, Tradition and Survival on Easter Island
$30.00 AUD

Allen & Unwin. Sydney. 1994. 2nd edition of the 1981 original, 1st paperback printing. 205, (2) PP with b/w illustrations: 2 maps "Peopling of the Pacific" & "Physical and Cultural map of Rapa Nui", and 19 photos. Fp: An Easter Islander, 1853. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 21.5 x 14. 9781863736688

Ancient days - trade, slavery and colonialism ...

76570
McCARTHY, J. K.
NEW GUINEA - Our Nearest Neighbour
$15.00 AUD

F. W. Cheshire. Melbourne. 1968. 1st Ed. (6), 162 PP with 8 tables and 38 b/w photos. Hard cover, library binding, jacket pasted down on covers and laminated. Ex library copy with stamps on half title page and title page, and shelf no. at foot of spine. A very good working copy. 24.5 x 17.7.

76555
McLEOD, Malcolm & MACK, John
ETHNIC SCULPTURE
$20.00 AUD

British Museum Publications. London. 1985. 1st Ed. 72 PP with 1 locations map , 36 colour and 50 b/w illustrations. Title page: Mythological Beast, Gamelan orchestra. Pictorial stiff covers. As new. 21.5 x 21.5. 9780714120287

77553
MERLE, Isabelle & MUCKLE, Adrian
L'INDIGENAT - Genèses dans l'Empire Français. Pratiques en Nouvelle-Caledonie
$45.00 AUD

CNRS Editions. Paris. 2019. 1st Ed.. 528 PP with c. 20 b/w photos, 5 maps with inserts and 9 graphs and tables. Stiff covers, pictorial front. About 20 annotations and pertinent notes at top or bottom of pages or in the margins. Stiff covers, pictorial front. French text. Near fine. 23 x 15. 9782271125620

77084
MESENHÖLLER, Peter & LUEB, Oliver (editors)
MADE IN OCEANIA: TAPA - Kunst und Lebenswelten / Art and Social Landscapes
$50.00 AUD

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Kulturen der Welt. Köln. 2013. 1st bilingual (German & English) edition, in the "Ethnological Neue Folge, band 29. Foreword by Prof. Dr. Klaus Scheinder. Prefaces by the "German Federal Cultural Foundation" and the "Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia". Introduction by Nicholas Thomas, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. 205 PP with 1 map of the Pacific on page 4/5, and 72 b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Ausstellungsverzeichnis / Catalogue Raisonné on a CD- Rom in enveloppe tipped in on inside back cover. German and English text. Fine copy. 27 x 21. 9783923158478

76521
MEYER, Anthony J.P.
OCEANIC ART - OZEANISCHE KUNST - ART OCEANIEN (in Two Volumes)
$75.00 AUD

Könemann. Köln / Cologne. 1995. 1st Ed. Volume I: 320 PP with 357 illustrations (mostly colour photos by Olaf Wipperfürth), figures 208 to 218 on 2 double pages (201 to 208). Fp: Stone Mortar. FEP: Map of the Pacific Ocean. REP: Map of New Guinea. Volume II: P.321 to 640 with b/w & colour illustrations from P.358 to 731. Fp: A Barava from Choiseul Island. FEP: Map of Micronesia. REP: Map of Polynesia. Orig. cloth cover, gilt title on front cover & spine, dj. Contained in a pictorial slipcase. Text in English, French & German. As new condition. This is a heavy item and postage will be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote. 32.4 x 27.5. 9783895080807

A magnificent work.

44841
MICHAELS, Peter
AUSTRALIE
$5.00 AUD

Editions du Seuil. Paris. 1981. New edition (April 1981), in Collection Petite Planète. 190, (2 publications) PP with b/w illustrations. Inside front cover: A gumtree. Inside rear cover: Sketch map of Australia. Pictorial soft cover. Very good. French text. 17.8 x 11.8. 2020001306

77423
MILLARD, Rosie
BONNES VACANCES ! - A Crazy Family Adventure in the French Territories
$15.00 AUD

Summersdale Publishers Ltd. Chichester, UK. 2011. 1st Ed. 313, (7 publications) PP with b/w illustrations (18 headpieces, 9 sketch maps and photos). Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 19.8 x 12.8. 9781849531498

A 14 week family escapade through: St Pierre et Miquelon / Martinique / French Guiana / Tahiti / Hiva Oa (Marquesas Islands) / Bora Bora / New Caledonia / Mare (Loyalty Islands) / La Réunion.

77459
MOORE, Clive (editor)
THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE, A History of the Australian South Sea Island community
$40.00 AUD

A.B.C. Sydney. 1979. 1st Ed. 95 PP plus 4 pages with 8 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. Near fine. 19.5 x 12.8. 0642972605

The European view of blackbirding and stories told by the islanders and their descendants.

77154
MOORE, Ross
SAM BYRNE, Folk Painter of the Silver City
$40.00 AUD

Viking / Penguin Books. Ringwood, Vic. 1985. 1st Ed. 203 PP with b/w and colour illustrations (paintings and photos). Hard covers, dj. Foxing spots on top outside edges. Near fine. 25.2 x 22.3. 0670803103

Chronicle in a naive form of art (a la "Douanier Rousseau") of the folk history of Broken Hill.

77384
MRANTZ, Maxine
WOMEN OF OLD HAWAII
$10.00 AUD

Aloha Graphics. Honolulu. 1982. 3rd printing of the 1975 original. 40 PP with 36 b/w or duo-tone illustrations. Pictorial soft cover. Near fine. 23 x 15.

Queen Kaahumanu ... Queen Liliuokalani.

33489
MYTINGER, Caroline
HEADHUNTING IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS: Around the Coral Sea
$15.00 AUD

Macmillan & Co. Ltd. London. 1943. 1st UK edition. VI, 335 PP with 1 musical scores and 38 text illustrations, plus 5 b/w plates (2 on full page and 3 on double page). All illustrations by the author. Cloth cover, gilt title on a faded spine, gutters reinforced. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Ageing and foxing of paper. Still a very good clean copy. 22.2 x 14.5.

Expedition set out to paint the portrait of primitive Melanesians of the South-west Pacific. Voyage from Sydney to Tulagi on the Mataram. Paintings in Malaita... Ontong Java... Rabaul.

69641
N/A
AUSTRALIE - Histoire et Profil
$5.00 AUD

Ministere de l'Interieur, Canberra. Canberra. 1969. April 1969 edition. 24 PP with 2 b/w illustrations. Soft cover, staples. French text. Very good. 20.3 x 13.6.

76336
NEICH, Roger & PEREIRA, Fuli
PACIFIC JEWELLERY AND ADORNMENT
$30.00 AUD

University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2004. 1st US edition. 190 PP with 12 colour illustrations (2 maps and 10 photos), 31 b/w photos and over 250 art photos in colour by Krzysztof Pfeiffer. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 29.2 x 23.5. 9780824828820

76378
NEWTON, Gael
PICTURE PARADISE: Asia - Pacific Photography 1840s - 1940s
$20.00 AUD

National Gallery of Australia. Canberra. 2008. 1st Ed. Foreword by Ron Radford. 88 PP with 1 map "Asia-Pacific Region" (on double page), and 73 b/w & 7 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Fine. 27 x 22. 9780642541758

... from the collections (albums & photographs) of the National Gallery of Australia.

77535
NORIN, G.
BOURJADE LE PAPOU
$45.00 AUD

Editions Dillen. Issoudun, France. 1944. 2nd edition. Preface by Roland Dorgelès, (Academie Goncourt). 150, (2) PP with I map (Papouasie, district of Roro) and location map (Nouvelle Guinée / Papua). Plus 16 pages with 33 b/w photos. Pictorial soft covers, with clear plastic protection. Slight ageing of paper, otherwise near fine. French text. 18.5 x 12.5.

Fighter pilot during WWI. Catholic Missionary, based on Yule Island, Papua New Guinea until his death in 1924.

76097
NOVOTNY, Vojtech
NOTEBOOKS FROM NEW GUINEA: Reflections on Life, Nature, and Science from the Depths of the Rainforest
$20.00 AUD

Oxford University Press. Oxford. 2011. 1st paperback edition of the 2009 UK original. Translated from the Czch by David short. XIV, 256 PP with b/w illustrations by Benson Avea Bego. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new). 19.5 x 13. 9780199609642

76579
NUNN, Patrick D.
FUTURE SEA-LEVEL RISE IN THE PACIFIC
$25.00 AUD

School of Social and Economic Development / University of the South Pacific. Suva, Fiji. 1988. SSED Working Paper No. 12, October 1988. (14), 46 PP (recto only), with 14 tables and 14 figures. Soft covers, title on front cover. Covers with lightr wear, otherwise fine. 28.8 x 21. 0982020092X

77807
O'BRIEN, Frederick
ATOLLS OF THE SUN
$65.00 AUD

The Century Co. New York. 1923. Third printing of 1922 first edition. (16), 508 PP, plus 56 pages with 1 map of the "Tuamotu Archipelago" and 59 b/w illust. Fp: Nature's mirror showed him why he could not leave. Illustrated cloth covers, title on front board and spine, dj. Faint foxing. Signature of previous owner on front endpaper. Near fine. 22.8 x 15.5.

Experiences, impressions & dreams in the strange & lonely islands: Moorea, Tuamotus, Marquesas. Chapter VIII: Seventh--Day Adventist on mutineers of the Bounty and Pitcairn Island ...

51040
OUENNOUGHI, Mélica
LES DEPORTES MAGHREBINS EN NOUVELLE-CALEDONIE ET LA CULTURE DU PALMIER DATTIER (1864 à nos jours)
$50.00 AUD

L'Harmattan. Paris. 2005. 1st Ed., in Histoire et Perspectives Méditerranéennes. Preface by Pierre-Philippe Rey. 374, (6) PP with maps & plans, and b/w illustrations (facsimiles of documents, photos). Pictorial soft cover. Fine. French text. 24 x 15.2. 274759601X

Arabs and Berber convicts from North Africa in New Caledonia and the Mediterranean date palm.

77073
PARKINSON, Richard
THIRTY YEARS IN THE SOUTH SEAS - Land and People, Customs and Traditions in the Bismarck Archipelago and on German Solomon Islands
$120.00 AUD

Crawford House Publishing / Oceania Publications, University of Sydney. Sydney. 1999. 1st Australian edition, translated from the 1907 German original by K. J. Dennisson. XXXVIII, 378 PP with 4 maps on double page, 56 b/w plates and 141 figures. Fp: Facsimile of title page of the German edition. Half title page: Portrait of the German Professor Richard Parkinson. Hard cover, gilt title on front cover and spine, dj. Near fine. 29.5 x 22. 1863331670

76560
PELRINE, Diane M.
AFFINITIES OF FORM: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, from the Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection
$50.00 AUD

Prestel / Indiana University Art Museum. Munich / Bloomington, Indiana. 1996. 1st Ed. Foreword by Adelheid M. Gealt. Preface by Serena Rattazzi. Introduction by Roy Sieber. 231 PP with colour illustrations (5 maps of Africa, Oceania, New Guinea, Sepik River, and The Americas (with 2 inserts) and Fp (in colour): Kambot Mask. Pictorial stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 29 x 23. 3791316699

61077
PELTA, Kathy
REDISCOVERING EASTER ISLAND, How History is Invented
$10.00 AUD

Lerner Publications Company. Minneapolis. 2001. 1st Ed. 112 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards (reinforced binding), dj. Fine. 26 x 18.5. 9780822548904

58958
PERRON D'ARC, H.
AVENTURES D'UN VOYAGEUR EN AUSTRALIE - Neuf Mois de Séjour chez les Nagarnooks
$55.00 AUD

Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie. Paris. 1869. New edition of the 1869 original. (4), 351 PP, published without the 24 vignettes. Marbled endpapers. Quarter bound, marbled boards, gilt title on spine. 5 library stamps. Some offsetting and foxing. French text. Very good. 18.3 x 12

Ferguson: No. 14035.

76105
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 61, No.2 - February, 1991
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 54 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Articles include: Freedom at Last (Pacific Trust Territories) by Ian Williams, Inside Bougainville by Alfred Sasako, Tax and Tourism on top by David North, Where a Secret Slumbers by Helen Averley. Includes sections on business, travel, sport, focus and books.

76106
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 61, No.3 - March, 1991
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 54 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Articles include: Fiji '91 by Jale Moala, Where the phosphate and time are running out by Ian Williams, Turning the tide for clams by Richard H. Chesher.

76107
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 61, No.4 - April, 1991
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 54 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Articles include: Calendar of Fear, Namaliu cracks down on terrorists and the Rascals are on the run by Frank Senge; Samoa intrigue, betrayal and surprises by Ulafala Aiavao; In searh of Amelia Earhart by David Nortth, ...

76108
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 61, No.5 - May, 1991
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 54 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Includes articles as per front cover plus The Friendly Island (Molokai) that wants to be left alone by Ngaire Douglas and other regular articles on the region.

76109
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 61, No.6 - June, 1991
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 54 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Includes articles as per front cover plus regular sections on business, shipping, sport, ..

76110
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 61, No.7 - July, 1991
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Includes articles as per front cover with emphasis on Vanuatu plus regular sections on business, shipping, sport, ..

76111
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 61, No.8 - August, 1991
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Includes articles as per front cover, plus "Wrestling with White Spirit" Aboriginal art reflects the search for a new identity by Liz Thompson.

76112
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume 61, No.9 - September, 1991
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1991. Edited by Jale Moala. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Includes articles as per front cover, plus articles on the Cook Islands, Western Samoa, and the regular sections on business, sport and the South Pacific Games..

76114
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume , No.62, No.2 - February, 1992
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Jale Moala. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Includes articles as per front cover, plus articles on the Cook Islands, Western Samoa, and the regular sections on business, sport, etc.

76115
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume , No.62, No.3 - March, 1992
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Beryl Cook. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Two pages a little loose and reinforced, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Includes articles as per front cover plus the regular sections on business, sport, etc.

76116
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume , No.62, No.7 - July, 1992
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 62 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

A special environment report: The Pacific experience and, can we undo the damage already done? Includes articles on politics, the region, health, sports, yachting, ...

76117
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume , No.62, No.9 - September, 1992
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 62 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Politics: France and Tahiti clash over budgetary control, Melanesian Spearhead scores the right goals. Plus the regular sections on finance, arts, sports and yachting, science, shipping, ..

76118
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume , No.62, No.8 - August, 1992
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Special Report: The Art of Survival by Liz Thompson; Culture and Commerce by Karen Mangnall; Chamorro rights groups seek sovereignty by David North; The Lost world of Irian Jaya, ...Also, the regular articles on politics, business, women, The Forum, etc, ...

76119
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume , No.62, No.5 - May, 1992
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Main article: The FNLKS and the Matignon Accords (New Caledonia). Fiji elections, and regular sections on the environment, aviation, shipping, motoring, sports, business, ...

76120
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume , No.62, No.6 - June, 1992
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1992. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Special Report: Tourism in the Region. Politics (PNG elections), Fire in Rarotonga, plus the environment, business, arts, science, diving, shipping, ...

76164
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume , No.64, No.10 - October, 1994
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1994. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...

76165
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.64, No.11 - November, 1994
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1994. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with light wear otherwise fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...

76166
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.64, No.12 - December, 1994
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1994. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Contents include items listed on front cover image plus regular features on business, yachting, shipping, ...

76167
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.65, No.1 - January, 1995
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Plus: Killing shocks Vanuatu, The Cook Islands Saga, Apia's political crunch, plus regular features: The Forum, The Region, business, sports, yachting, ...

76168
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.65, No.2 - February, 1995
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Plus: Saving the Dolphins, Maori cross swords with TVNZ, The Forum comes of age, American Samoa's fish canneries, Phasing out the pineapple (Hawaii), The Johnston Atoll revisited, plus regular features: business, sports, yachting, ...

76169
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.65, No.3 - March, 1995
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Plus: The Papal visit; Tragedy strikes home (PNG), plus regular features: business, sports, yachting, ...

76170
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.65, No.4 - April, 1995
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Focus on Vanuatu's health system. Other articles: Vanuatu's boiling lake, Tahiti: strikes, riots and flag burning plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...

76171
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.65, No.5 - May, 1995
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Immigration versus Aid. New Zealand: The Kiwi dilemma, Tourism: But where are the investors, plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...

76172
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.65, No.7 - July, 1995
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Law: The question of dual citizenship (Fij), The state of the Hawaiian movement; Changing course: PNG attemps a new approach in fixing its internal problems. Has the World Bank gone soft and green?; plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...

76173
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.65, No.8 - August, 1995
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

France defies world condemnation; Decolonise French Polynesia and New Caledonia; Widow extradited for trial in Vanuatu; plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...

76174
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.65, No.12 - December, 1995
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Yunus Rashid. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Kina stabilises and points to recovery; Chirac rewards Carlot; Greenpeace blasts US over nuclear testing; Vanuatu's malaria epidemic; Aviation supplement; plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...

76175
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.65, No.6 - June, 1995
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Mala Jagmohan. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover stories: Commercial sense or sheer madness; No nukes is good nukes; Uncovered at the crossroads. Un chief visits Fiji; plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...

76176
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.65, No.11 - November, 1995
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1995. Edited by Yunus Rashid. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Nauru has lost millions of dollars to swindlers; The Chinese tug of war; Fiji's 25th anniversary celebration; Telecommunications feature: the needs of the Pacific and services available; plus regular features on politics, business, sports, yachting, shipping ...

76184
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.66, No.1 - January, 1996
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Yumus Rashid. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Special Report: A look at reefs around the region and how they can be saved. Plus: Misleading AIDS data, PNG's budget; Return of the Nauruans; Changing hands at SPC: Niuatoputapu - where time stands still.

76185
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.66, No.2 - February, 1996
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Debbie Singh. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

PNG's national government is pouring money into fighting the country's worsening crime situation. Plus: The Maisin's logging alternative; The way Fiji could be; French testing affects regional tourism; The smoked bodies of Bulolo...

76187
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.66, No.4 - April, 1996
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Debbie Singh. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Diabetes climbs high around the region,.... Will Indonesia listen?; Rethinking sustainable development; A home for Pacific treasures; Micronesia's prospering trust funds, ...

76188
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.66, No.5 - May, 1996
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Debbie Singh. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Special Report: The island silence - HIV and AIDS in the region. Plus: The Rarotonga Treaty; Beti's trail of uncertainty; May Day for the Cooks money crisis; The ups and downs of the cruise business, ...

76189
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.66, No.8 - August, 1996
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Special report: Vanuatu's multi-million-dollar bank "scam". Plus: Freedom of expression under threat; A lesson for the Pacific; Cooks Transition hits home; Leaders tackle employment issues, ...

76190
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.66, No.11 - November, 1996
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1996. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Special Report: Sign of the times? Tonga's imprisonment of journalists and MP, ... Vanuatu's Coup... Plus: France ratifies SPNFZ Treaty protocols; PNG's guns-for-drugs trade on rise; Foreign ownership in the Cook Islands; New Caledonia's nickel rush; Festival of Arts unveils its treasures, ...

76191
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.67, No.1 - January, 1997
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Health study on those who worked on the French nuclear test site, ... Nauru's new-new president; Samoa elects Tauese and Eni; Coconut oil up, copper, coffee down; Celebrating the Pacific, ...

76192
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.67, No.2 - February, 1997
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Special Report: A region in mourning - Amata Kabua president of the Marshall Islands. PH211 - a tragedy: Polynesian Airline's fateful flight. Plus: Pauline Hanson's controversial and untempered remarks on racial issues,...

76193
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.67, No.3 - March, 1997
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Special Report: Crime and punishment - PNG's crime situation. Plus: Redfern - its other face; Bourainville; SPC's golden year, but challenges lie ahead; The Dalai Lama in Australia, ...

76196
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.67, No.7 - July, 1997
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: The passport business - Western Samoa's passport scandal. Special Report: MSG leaders seek solidarity for success. Plus: Solomon Islands: Looking back after 19 years of independence...

76197
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.67, No.8 - August, 1997
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover stories: The Pacific is perhaps the largest Christian region outside Europe, ...State versus religion .. Mormons in Samoa, ... Special Report: The Forum. Conservation consensus: Fisheries conference surprises with agreement from all parties, ...

76198
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.67, No.9 - September, 1997
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover stories: A Time of Change - Fiji and its constitution, .. Special Report: Mining giant spreads benefits - OK Tedi gold and copper mine and BHP. Solomons's worsening crisis, ..

76199
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.67, No.10 - October, 1997
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Bernadette Hussein. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Reality of paedophilia shocks island nation: Fiji. Plus: PNG looks north; Nauruans agree to be part of genome studies; Navigator Islands or Titanic Bay, ...

76200
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.67, No.11 - November, 1997
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Manivannan Naidu. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Climate change in the Pacific. Special report: Nuclear reactions; Marshall Islands nuclear waste plan. Plus: Dredging profits, ..The passport saga continues, ..The drought (PNG), ...

76201
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.67, No.12 - December, 1997
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1997. Edited by Bernadette Hussein. 56 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Massacre! Cyclone Martin's reign of death - Manihiki in the Cooks. Special Report: SPC becomes Pacific Community and hopes for a new start. Plus: Protest march earns a fat zero (Western Samoa); Chinese influx fuels Marshalls' debate, ...

76226
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.68, No.2 - February, 1998
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Bernadette Hussain. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Drought in PNG Worsens. Other articles: Fiji dollar drops 20 per cent, US adoptions a major industry, Skate on thin ice (PNG), Leadership struggle on Tuvalu, Preserving sacred burial caves (Cook Islands), ... plus the regular features on Sports, Shipping, Finance, Yachting, Culture and Art.

76227
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.68, No.4 - April, 1998
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Bernadette Hussain. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Tourism. Special Report: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (Apia), Samoa's changing finances. Other articles include: Bleak economic outlook continues for the Marshall Islands, Whatever happened to PH211? (Polynesian Airlines) plus the regular features on Sports, Shipping, Finance, Yachting, Culture and Art.

76228
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.68, No.5 - May, 1998
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Professionalism: the future for Pacific Rugby. Special Report: Paradise in disarray, Inquiry slams Rarotongan Hotel deal. Other articles: Fine-tuning Samoa's fishing industry, Weather: Relief efforts continue in PNG, The Marshalls' drought of the century, Ups and downs of the Vatu, plus the regular monthly features.

76229
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PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.68, No.6 - June, 1998
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Gambling: The new Pacific drug. Special Report: Bougainville Peace Treaty. Other articles: Pacific aviation vulnerable to attack, Continental cutbacks worry Marshalls, Sea Launch, we have lift off, .. plus the regular monthly features.

76230
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.68, No.7 - July, 1998
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Pacific Meltdown, Log Industry in crisis, Marshalls Economy continues to slow, ... Special Report: Nuclear test atolls declared safe! Other articles: Black gold from Gobe, From China, with love, turns into Cooks nightmare, plus the regular monthly features.

76231
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.68, No.8 - August, 1998
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Buniness survival skills, Will your business survive the 21st century bug? Thousands die in tidal wave terror (PNG), Kanaks will accept nothing less than Independence, A Cultural Revolution? (Melanesian Arts and Cultural Festival held in Honiara), plus many other articles.

76232
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.68, No.9 - September, 1998
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: The South Pacific Killing Fields The Altape Tidal Wave - a first hand account. Other articles: War of words over PNG's economic bail-out, Community television to debut in Fiji, The 8th Va'a World Outrigger Championships, Vanuatu Independence, Focus on New Caledonia plus the regular monthly features.

76233
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.68, No.10 - October, 1998
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: A Tight Ship: The challenges of regional shipping. Special Report: Sex, Lies and Videotape: The PNG dilemma. Other articles: Black days for pearl farming, tribal unrest predicted over Porgera gold mine, Cooks economy idle: another "unsustainable" budget, Guam marks US Centennial with new push for Chamorro self determination, home rule, ...plus the regular monthly features.

76234
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.68, No.11 - November, 1998
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small chip at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Crisis contagion - IMF and World Bank annual meeting, PNG's debts still accumulating, the Cooks and economic reform. Special Report: Minister's sex scandal rocks Rarotonga. Other articles: Searching for peace in troubled East Timor, Forever at sea, the challenge of setting up sea burials, Gay Pacific Island men too shy for their own good, the ILO urges governments to recognise booming sex industry, Pacific Island juveniles face their crimes, ...plus the regular monthly features.

76235
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.68, No.12 - December, 1998
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1998. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small hole at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Armed and Dangerous: Unlawful disorder, Fiji's growing security problem. Special Report: Global Warming: Changing climate and sea levels affect Pacific now. Other articles: Turning point in Australia/PNG relationship, APEC officials stumble over fisheries, Majuro's port booms tuna transhipment, Attacking fish poisoning with science, .....plus the regular monthly features.

76236
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.69, No.2 - February, 1999
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers a little rubbed, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: If you can't beat 'em... merge them; Fair Trading Act, Section 49: Mergers, .. Special Report: Modern Day Gold Rush (Irian Jaya). Other articles: Hollywood comes to Fiji, Aloha awaits Pentagon approval for Marshalls' air service, Tsunami advance warning and preparation is very necessary, Volcanoes still active in Fiji, ... plus the regular monthly feature articles.

76237
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.69, No.3 - March, 1999
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers a little rubbed, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: The fight for high seas control, Law of the Sea article, PNG gets tough on tuna. Special Report: Antarctic meltdown has Pacific implications. Business: "Wheel of Fortune" goes Hawaiian, "Get rich quick" schemes thrive in PNG. Politics: Bougainville accounts for two-thirds of Solomon Islands debt. Waitangi anniversary sees hope for racial harmony, plus the regular monthly articles.

76238
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.69, No.4 - April, 1999
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: The end of an era, a new alternative for Fiji's voters. Special Report: Region must rethink maritime safety. EPIRBs save lives but not widespread in Pacific. Business: Marshalls sees pot of gold in Taiwan, Samoa drawn into IOC corruption debate, Kiribati countdown back on track. Aviation: Air Marshalls moving to acquire new planes, Aloha set for first north Pacific flight. Industry: Privatisation electrifies PNG, Work begins on Port Moresby waterfront complex, Gorbachev spokesman goes "tropo" in Hawaii, ... plus other regular monthly articles.

76239
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.69, No.6 - June, 1999
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Crossing Fiji's racial divide: Can Chaudhry succeed where others have floundered? Special Report: Higher growth rates expected in the Pacific, Solomons restoring macro-economic stability, Economic recovery uncertain for Tonga, Concerns remain despite Vanuatu reforms. Business: FATERA will eventually replace SPARTECA, Iridium hits the PNG telecommunications market. Technology: Bridging the information gap. US accused of dragging its feet over obligations, America's Cup spin-offs for the Pacific, Fiji vessel to circumnavigate the globe, plus the regular monthly features.

76240
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.69, No.7 - July, 1999
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Ethnic tensions in the Solomons; People fear for their lives. Special Report: Tarawa's main islet in appalling state, Seaweed earns money for tiny atoll nation (Kiribati), China sets up "spy" station on Bonriki. Business: Samoan economy soars, Gold prices plunge as kina devalues. Business: Free Trade Area endorsed. Other articles: British nuclear tests in the Pacific, Cook Islands king maker crows,. Yachting: Cruising the Hawaiian Isles...

76241
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.69, No.8 - August, 1999
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Catastrophic Insurance: A World Bank proposal to take on natural disasters. Special Report: A daunting task ahead for new PNG PM; Fiji, Vanuatu could be next diplomatic battleground. Business: Niue National airline to get off the ground. Fiji sugar to spend millions on research centre; Bikini's sharks and shipwrecks hit big-time. Developments: FEMM fatale: Pacific's unhappy affair with reform, Fragmented regional shipping could hinder FTA. Politics; Fragile peace for Solomons, ... plus regular monthly features.

76242
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.69, No.9 - September, 1999
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Murder, intrigue and the death penalty, Samoan politics takes a new turn. Special Report: Living three feet above sea level, ADSIS workshop calls for adaptation, Vested interests fight change, but SPREP optimistic. Business: French Polynesia "as rich as New Zealand", Bank of Hawaii to acquire 5.8 million shares in Bank of Queensland, Marshall Islands to drop import tax? Ok Tedi damage 'greater than forecast'., Solomon Islands forest to be signed over for clear felling, US companies offer to trade cash for carbon in greenhouse gas war. Politics: Former Solomon police commander gets short end of stick. Development: Weeds threaten mighty PNG river - WWF report, Indonesian nickel company plans production in New Caledonia, plus the regular monthly articles.

76243
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.69, No.10 - October, 1999
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: The Numbers Game, Time for small islands to level the playing field. Special Report: Now East Timor, next West Papua. Business: Southern Cross Cable to increase telecommunication capacity in the region, Marshallese canoe fleet to herald millennium dawn in New Zealand, New Britain could make history with innovative shell money bank, Taiwan plays major economic role in lead-up to Marshalls' elections. Industry: Hawaii - the new Hollywood, South Pacific Tourism Conference hopes to find ways to keep tourism sustainable. Development: The fastest personal computer ever - G4, Peace brings new crisis to Bougainville island, Lord of the Rings shooting begins, Australian Museum devotes gallery to Pacific art, plus the regular monthly features.

76244
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.69, No.5 - May, 1999
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: WTO, EU and the Pacific: Why the Pacific is under pressure to set up a Free Trade Area. Special Report: Tony deBrum realigns Marshalls/ADB relations, Marshalls new-look fisheries agency. Business: Chinese vessel faces US$105,000 penalty, PNG rated world's 2nd largest producer of palm oil, Pitcairn looks forward to aviation, Sea Launch promises environmlental impact study, Johnston Atoll Chemical Disposal System to close. Developments: Fresh allegations in Rainbow Warrior saga, More work needed on Rights of the Child in PNG, .. plus the regular monthly features.

76245
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.69, No.11 - November, 1999
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: A financial ruck and maul, smaller nations penalised by rugby's commercialisation. Special Report: Forum makes minor recovery from irrelevance. Business: Whales bring good fortune to Jonah's land, French propose ambitious satellite TV, Qantas profit increases 38 per cent, NZ makes it easier to retire in the tropics, The Internet: it's all about addressing demand. Politics: Health protests shake up Marshalls. Development: A 'read' letter day for Tonga's royals, .. plus the regular monthly articles.

76246
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.69, No.12 - December, 1999
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 1999. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers with a small rub at top of front cover, otherwise near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Cover story: Lest we forget, A brutal past century for Nauruans, Banabans, Marshallese and Moriori. Special Report: Gordon had lasting effect in Fiji, Tabai still fighting for Kiribati, Tamasese made ultimate sacrifice for Samoa, DeRoburt helped change Nauru's destiny, Queen Salote pushed security at all costs. Business: Madison Nena to receive Seacology Prize, Highlands' high hopes (PNG), Pilot error suspected in Guam crash. Year 2000: Back to basics as Y2K approaches, Slow automation saves India from Y2K bug, . Politics: Pacific island countries criticise inaction over climate change, US annexation of Wake Island illegal. Development: World War II relics stolen amidst lax PNG enforcement. Economy: East Asia top growth amongst developing countries, .. plus the regular monthly articles.

76252
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.70, No.1 - January, 2000
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 2000. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Image shows contents page.

76253
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.70, No.3 - March, 2000
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 2000. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Image shows contents page.

76254
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.70, No.4 - April, 2000
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 2000. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Image shows contents page.

76255
PIM
PACIFIC ISLANDS MONTHLY, Volume, No.70, No.5 - May, 2000
$10.00 AUD

Fiji Times/Nationwide News. Sydney. 2000. Edited by Sophie Foster Hildebrand. 58 PP with b/w & colour illustrations. Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 27.3 x 20.5.

Image shows contents page.

43611
PIOLLET, Paul
EQUIPAGES ET VOILIERS DE BIRA (in two volumes)
$225.00 AUD

Paul Piollet. Orcines, France. Paris. 2000. 1st Ed., Nos. 3 and 4 in the "Images d'Indonésie" series. Vol 3: 150 PP with 1 coastal view, 4 maps, 21 facsimile of documents, 13 drawings and 9 b/w photos. Vol 4: 115 PP with 4 maps (3 in colour), 30 b/w and 82 colour photos. Pictorial stiff covers. Bookplate of Professor Adrian Horridge on inside front cover. Manuscript letter from Paul Piollet to Adrian Horridge dated 1st July 2001, loosely inseretd. Fine set. French text. 24 x 16.5. 2950977634/642

Shipping from Bira, Southern Celebes Province: the ships and their crew.

76522
PNG
A Selection of Items in the COLLECTION OF ISLAND CARVINGS Pty. Ltd.
$20.00 AUD

Island Carvings Pty Ltd. Lae, Morobe District, Papua New Guinea. c. 1970. 1st Ed. No pagination, 20 PP with b/w illustrations (1 map of Papua New Guinea, and 4 inset sketch maps inside front cover & a selection of the rare Huon Gulf fish hooks, inside of the back cover), and over 200 duotone illustrations of artifacts. Pictorial soft covers with a litte foxing, otherwise a very good copy. 27.5 x 21.

Illustrations of items: 49 Masks / 24 Hooks, Baskets, Cult / 25 Cult Figures / 25 Kundus & personal Adornments / 19 Shields & Axes - Daggers / 23 Tumbuans, Flutes, Stools ... 17 Canoes and Prows, ...

75581
POMPONIO, Alice
SEAGULLS DON'T FLY INTO THE BUSH: Cultural Identity and Development in Melanesia
$20.00 AUD

Wadsworth Publishing, Co. Belmont, Ca. 1992. 1st Ed., in the "Wadsworth Modern Anthropology Library" series. XXVI, (4), 242 PP with 9 tables and 22 b/w illustrations (including 6 maps, sketches and photos). Pictorial soft covers. Some underlining in text, and annotations in margins. Faint foxing on outside edges. Very good. 23.3 x 16.5. 0534162606

33430
PRICE, Christine
MADE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC - Arts of the Sea People
$15.00 AUD

The Bodley Head. London. 1980. 1st UK Ed. X, 134 PP with 1 map and 137 b/w illust. (drawings and photos). Half title page: Wooden stopper for gourd container, Santa Cruz Islands. Fp: Detail of carving at end of carrying pole, Hawaii. Cloth cover, dj. Front cover of dust jacket lightly rubbed, faint foxing on outside edges, o/wise fine. 24.8 x 18.8. 0370302311

Feathers, fibres and leaves. Tapa and tatu. Bone and shell... Wood.

70428
REID, Dr. Richard
YPRES: Les Australiens sur le Front Occidental - 1917
$25.00 AUD

Department of Veteran's Affairs / Ministère des Anciens Combattants. Canberra. 2012. 3rd edition in August 2012 of the 2007 original. French translation by Yveline Piller. (4), 104 PP with 1 table, 5 colour illustrations (1 photo & 4 paintings) and b/w illustrations (1 map & location map, 1 etching and 101 photos). Pictorial soft covers. Fine (mint condition). French text. 23.5 x 23.2. 9781920720896

51742
RICHARDS, Rhys, & ROGA, Kenneth
NOT QUITE EXTINCT. Melanesian barkcloth ('tapa') from western Solomon Islands
$40.00 AUD

The Paremata Press. Paremata, NZ. 2005. 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 stiff covers. Fine (as new condition). 26 x 20. 0958201323

46682
ROBILLARD, Albert B. (editor)
SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
$15.00 AUD

Kegan Paul International. London. 1992. 1st Ed. XVI, 507 PP with maps and tables. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine. 24 x 15.6. 07103 04005

New Caledonia: Social Change, Political Change and Tradition in a Settler Colony, by John Connell... French Polynesia: A nuclear Dependency, by Ben Finney...

76488
ROBSON, R. W. (editor)
PACIFIC ISLANDS YEAR BOOK 1944
$50.00 AUD

Pacific Publications. Suva. 1944. 5th (wartime) edition. 383 PP with tables and maps, plus 4 folded maps in colour (Pacific Ocean/Hawaii Islands, French Oceania, and the Bismarck Archipelago). FEP: The Wealth-Producer of the Pacific Islands: The Coconut Palm and what it gives to mankind. Hard cover, cloth spine. Spine reinforced at hinges. Ageing of paper, foxing spots on outside edges, o/wise contents near fine. 21.7 x 14.

Wartime edition.

73559
ROCHEFORT, Henri
Retour de la Nouvelle-Calédonie - DE NOUMEA EN EUROPE
$135.00 AUD

Ancienne Librairie Martinon. Paris. c. 1877. 1st Ed. (8), 363, XXIV PP with 200 b/w illustrations depicting 700 subjects. Fp: Escape by rowing boat. Marbled endpapers. Half bound, marbled boards, gilt decorations and title on spine. Covers with rubbed patches and corners slightly worn. Head of spine worn. Slight ageing of paper and occasional light foxing, o/wise contents near fine. French text. 27.2 x 19.

Leader of the "Communards" (communists) deported as a political prisoner to New Caledonia. Escape from the convict settement of Ducos, on board the "P.C.E.". Arrival in Newcastle 27th March 1874... Return to Europe via the United States.

76056
ROCHEFORT, Henri.
LA LANTERNE - Nos 1 to 4 (1868)
$40.00 AUD

Bureaux "La Lanterne". Paris 1868. 1st edition. 4 first "Weekly" issues (30th May to 20th June 1868). No. 1: 56, (7 publications) PP / No.2: 57 - 116 PP / No. 3: 117 - 178 PP / No. 4: 178 - 238, (2) PP. A total of 240 PP with small devices essentially a "Lantern" and 4 stamps "Timbre Imperial, 5 cents" on first page of each issue. Stitched soft wrappers with small tears, slight ageing of paper. Very good. French text. Small format: 16 x 10.5.

This polemic Journal starts on his first issue with "La France contient, dit l'Almanach Imperial, trente-six millions de sujets sans compter les sujets de mécontentments" (According to the Imperial Almanac, France has thirty six million citizens, not counting the discontent).

76061
ROCHEFORT, Henri.
LA LANTERNE - Nos. 6, 7 & 9 (1868)
$35.00 AUD

Bureaux "La Lanterne". Paris 1868. 1st edition. 3 "Weekly" issues. No. 6 (4 July 1868): 299-362 PP. No. 7 (11 July 1868): 363-423, (3) PP. No. 9 (25 July 1868): 58, (4) PP. A total of 188 PP with small devices essentialy a "Lantern" and 4 stamps "Timbre Imperial, 5 cents" on first page of each issue. Stitched wrappers, with small tears, slight ageing of paper. Very good. French text. Small format: 16 x 10.5.

This polemic Journal starts on his first issue with "La France contient, dit l'Almanach Imperial, trente-six millions de sujets sans compter les sujets de mécontentments" (According to the Imperial Almanac, France has thirty six million citizens, not counting the discontent).

76079
ROCHEFORT, Henri.
LA LANTERNE - Nos. 1 to 8 (1868)
$100.00 AUD

Bureaux "La Lanterne". Paris 1868. 1st edition. Bound copy of the 8 first "Weekly" issues (30th May to 18th July 1868). 8 issues with original soft covers. A total of 483, (3) PP with small devices essentially a "Lantern" and 8 stamps "Timbre Imperial, 5 cents" on first page of each issue. Quarter bound, with original covers. Ex libris, " Van der Waarden" pasted down on preliminary first leave . Copy in need of a rebacking as spine and covers are present but detached. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. French text. Small format: 13.7 x 10.5.

This polemic Journal starts on his first issue with "La France contient, dit l'Almanach Imperial, trente-six millions de sujets sans compter les sujets de mécontentments" (According to the Imperial Almanac, France has thirty six million citizens, not counting the discontent).

76510
ROCHEFORT, Henri.
LA LANTERNE - Nos. 1 to 77 (1868 & 1869)
$500.00 AUD

Bureaux "La Lanterne". Paris / Bruxelles. 1868 & 1869.. 1st edition. 10 bound volumes of the 77 first "Weekly" issues (30th May 1868 to 20th November 1869). A total of over 4 700 PP with small devices (essentially a "Lantern") and only 13 stamps "Timbre Imperial, 5 cents" on first page of the first 13th issues. Quarter bound, retaining the original wrappers at start and end of each bound volume, gilt title on spine. Slight ageing of paper. Very good. French text. Small format: 15.5 x 10.8..

This polemic Journal starts on his first issue with "La France contient, dit l'Almanach Imperial, trente-six millions de sujets sans compter les sujets de mécontentments" (According to the Imperial Almanac, France has thirty six million citizens, not counting the discontent). N.B. : After the censure of Nos. 11 and 12, this Journal was published in Bruxelles, Belgium.

76347
ROSE, Roger G.
HAWAI'I: Royal Isles
$25.00 AUD

Bishop Museum Press. Honolulu, Hawai'i. 1980. 1st edition. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication No. 67. Foreword by Edward C. Creutz. Preface by Richard J. Ferris. Introductory essay by Adrienne L. Kaeppler. XII, 223 PP with b/w illustrations (2 maps and 63 photos) and 63 colour photos. Fp (in colour): Crown of Hawaii. Pictorial stiff covers. Near fine. 28 x 21.5. 0910240272

47608
SAMSON, Jane
IMPERIAL BENEVOLENCE: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands
$25.00 AUD

University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 1998. 1st Ed. XVI, 240 PP with 8 maps, plus 12 pages with 13 b/w photos. Cloth cover, dj. Fine. 23.3 x 16. 9780824819279

56547
SAND, Christophe, BOLE, Jacques & OUETCHO, André
ARCHEOLOGIE DES ORIGINES: Le Lapita Calédonien / ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ORIGINS: New Caledonia's Lapita
$55.00 AUD

Service des Musées et du Patrimoine. Nouméa. 1999. 1st bilingual edition. Volume 10 in "Les Cahiers de l'Archéologie en Nouvelle-Calédonie". 62 PP with colour illustrations (42 drawings & 113 photos). Pictorial soft cover. French and English text. Fine. Oblong: 21 x 23.5. 2950931162

33846
SAND, Christophe, BOLE, Jacques, OUETCHO, André & COOTE, Karen
LAPITA - The pottery collection from the site at Foué, New Caledonia
$55.00 AUD

Service des Musées et du Patrimoine. Nouméa. 1999 1st English edition. Volume 7 in "Les Cahiers de l'Archéologie en Nouvelle-Calédonie". 62 PP with 3 maps, 3 plans, sketches and colour photos. Pictorial card cover. As new. Oblong: 21 x 23.5. 97882950931146

Archaeology and Lapita pottery.

76561
SELVON, Sydney
A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF MAURITIUS - From the Beginning to 2001
$40.00 AUD

Mauritius Printing Specialists. Port-Louis, Mauritius. 2002. Reprint of the 2001 original. Preface by Abhimanyu Unnuth. Prologue by Bhishmadev Seebaluck. IX, 437 PP with b/w illustrations (maps of ile Tromelin, 6 portraits, and c. 12 photos). Pictorial soft covers with light wear, otherwise fine. 21 x 15. 9990329966

76557
SENFT, Gunter (editor)
DEIXIS AND DEMONSTRATIVES IN OCEANIC LANGUAGES
$120.00 AUD

RSPAS / Australian National University. Canberra. 2004. 1st Ed. No. 562 in the Pacific Linguistics series. VII, 204 PP with graphs and tables. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine. 25 x 17.5. 0858835517

76524
SEVERSON, Don R., HORIKAWA, Michael D. & SAVILLE, Jennifer
FINDING PARADISE: Island Art in Private Collections
$150.00 AUD

Honolulu Academy of Arts / University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2002 1st Ed. Foreword by George R. Ellis. XL, 356 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Title spread: (in colour): Hanalei Valley, Kauai, by D. Howard Hitchcock. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj (Polynesian woman and Tiki, 1929). Letter dated December 8, 2002 signed by contributors, loosely inserted. Fine. 30 x 25.7. 9780937426555

76339
SHADBOLT, Maurice & RUHEN, Olaf
ISLES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$50.00 AUD

National Geographic Society. Washington. 1968. 1st Ed. Foreword by Gilbert M. Grosvenor. 212 PP with over 250 bw and colour photos. Title spread: Canoeists fish by lantern light as the sun dips behind the ragged heights of Moorea. Eps: Sketch map of the Pacific Islands. Hard cover (cloth binding reproducing a design of Tonga tapa), dj. Dedicatory note to previous owner, dated March 8, 1969 and signed by co-author Olaf Ruhen, on front endpaper. Dust jacket has light shelf wear, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. 25.5 x 18.

Polynesia: Tahiti, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga & New Zealand. Melanesia: Fiji, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Solomons & New Guinea.

47425
SIERS, James
RAROTONGA
$15.00 AUD

Millwood Press. Wellington. 1977. 1st Ed. 128 PP with 27 b/w and 125 colour photos. Hard cover (rubbed), dj (chipped). Page 93/94 with closed tear (repaired). Very good. 21 x 17.5.

Main island of the Cook Islands.

77486
SIERS, James
HAWAII & POLYNESIA
$30.00 AUD

Millwood Press. Wellington. 1973. 1st edition. 132 PP with 104 colour photos. Eps: sketch map of the Pacific Islands. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. Name of previous owner at top of FFEP. Dust jacket with repaired tears at top of front, now in a protective sleeve. Near fine. 28.5 x 22.8.

Hawai'i. Tahiti. Samoa. Fiji. New Zealand.

76548
SILLITOE, Paul
MADE IN NIUGINI: Technoloy in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
$175.00 AUD

British Museum Publications / The University of Durham Publications Board. London. 1988. 1st Ed. XVI, 636 PP with 327 tables and b/w illustrations (2 maps, 235 figures and 396 plates). Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Fine (as new condition). 28.3 x 22.5. 0714115843

77714
SILVEIRA DE BRAGANZA, Ronald Louis, & OAKES, Charlotte (editors)
THE HILL COLLECTION OF PACIFIC VOYAGES (in 3 volumes)
$500.00 AUD

University Library, University of California. San Diego. 1974, 1982 & 1983.. Vol. (I): 1st edition, with annotations by Jonathan A. Hill, and a preface by Melvin J. Voigt. XV, 333, (3) PP with 4 head pieces, and 10 b/w plates. Vignette on title page. Fp: Lopez de Gomara, Cronica de la Nueua Espana, 1554. FEP: Mappemonde by Wytfliet, Histoire Universelle des Indes, 1605. REP: Chart of the track of the Boudeuse and Etoile under the command of M. Louis de Bougainville. Vol. II: 1st edition with a preface by Milicent D. Abell and a prologue by Kenneth E. Hill. XX, 337 - 627, (2) PP with 1 vignette on title page, 7 headpieces or tailpieces and 11 plates (frontispiece in colour, and 10 in b/w). Fp: An Officer of the King of the Sandwich Islands. Eps: . Mappemonde by Wytfliet "Histoire Universelle des Indes", 1605. Errata slip loosely inserted on title page. Vol. III: "Indexes Volume". XIII, 629 - 766, (2) PP with vignette on title page, 1 headpiece and 2 tailpieces. Eps. Each volume bound with cloth cover, gilt device (compass rose) on front cover, and gilt title on spine of Volume II and Volume III. Faint ageing & foxing on outside edges of Volume (I). Bookplate of previous owner at top corner of each front endpaper. A near fine set. 26.5 x 17.5.

Bibliography relating to voyages to the Pacific Islands, especially Polynesia and Micronesia, and to Western America, from Alaska to Chile. Volume (I): edition limited to 1000 copies. Vol. II: edition limited to 800 copies. Vol. III: edition limited to 950 copies.

76402
SIMEONI, Patricia & LEBOT, Vincent
BUVEURS DE KAVA
$150.00 AUD

Editions Géo-Consulte. Port Vila, Vanuatu. 2014 1st edition. 361 PP with tables, b/w and colour illustrations. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine (mint condition). French text. 30.2 x 21.5. 9782953336238

Kava: a traditional beverage from the South West Pacific, extracted from the roots of the "Piper Methysticum" shrub.

51706
SIMMONS, D. R.
CRAFTSMANSHIP IN POLYNESIA
$10.00 AUD

Otago Museum Trust Board. Dunedin. 1963. 1st Ed. 48 PP with 1 map and 104 b/w photos by R. R. Foster. Pictorial soft cover (a Tapa cloth) . Fine. 24 x 18.

Guide to the Collections displayed in the "Skinner Hall of Polynesia", Otago Museum.

48692
SIMPSON, Colin
ISLANDS OF MEN
$5.00 AUD

Angus & Robertson. Sydney. 1955. 1st Ed. (X), 248 PP with 4 maps & many line illustrations by Claire Simpson, plus 16 pages with 26 b/w photos and 8 pages with 12 colour photos. Fp: Drum of Sepik River. Eps: Carvings from New Guinea & Torres Strait Islands. Cloth cover, gilt device on front cover, gilt title on spine. Occasional foxing. A very good clean copy. 24 x 16.

A six-part book about life in Melanesia: Papua New Guinea, New Hebrides & Fiji.

76526
SMITH, Bernard
EUROPEAN VISION AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
$50.00 AUD

Yale University Press. New Haven. 1985. 2nd US edition. XIV, 370 PP with 222 b/w & 32 colour illust. Cloth covers, gilt title on spine, dj. Dust jacket has lightly sunned spine with a repaired closed tear and now in a protective sleeve. Contents fine. 29.2 x 21.7. 0300028156

European interpretation of the Pacific in the late 18th & early 19th centuries. From the voyages of James Cook to Dumont d'Urville.

56814
SMITH, Stephen V., CHAVE, Keith E. & KAM, Dennis T. O.
ATLAS OF KANEOHE BAY: A Reef Ecosystem Under Stress
$30.00 AUD

The University of Hawaii. Honolulu. 1973. 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.

75708
SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES
JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES: Tome XV, No. 15 / Tome XVI, No. 16 / Tome XVII, No. 17
$150.00 AUD

Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1959, 1960 & 1961. 3 issues bound together. Volume 15: 470, (4) PP, plus 3 folded maps and 3 colour plates. Volume 16: 240, (2) PP, plus 1 colour and 4 b/w plates & Volume 17: 142, (4) PP. Cloth cover, seal of the "New Zealand General Assembly Library" on front cover, gilt title on label pasted down on spine. Plate of the New Zealand General Assembly Library pasted down on front endpaper. Contents are fine. 27.5 x 19.

Vol. 15: " Tahiti et la Polynésie Française". Les débuts du Papeete Français by R. Dauvergne. Items in English include : The Tahitian Pork Trade: 1800-1830, by H.E. Maude. Missionary Policy in Mangareva, by C. W. Newbury. Vol. 16: L'Ethnographie et l' Océanie dans les Pays-Bas, by S. Kooijman. Vol. 17: Premiere mission catholique aux Iles Salomon, by C. Rozier. Essai d'évangelisation des Iles Marquises, by P. O'Reilly.

75709
SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES
JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES: Tome XVIII, No. 18 / Tome XIX, No. 19 / Tome XX, No. 20
$150.00 AUD

Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1962; 1963 & 1964. 3 issues bound together. Volume 18: 210, (2) PP, plus 1 b/w plate. Volume 19: 394, (4) PP, plus 24 b/w plates. Volume 20: 186 PP, plus 11 b/w plates. Cloth cover, Seal of the "New Zealand General Assembly Library" on front cover, gilt title on label pasted down on spine. Plate of the New Zealand General Assembly Library pasted down on front endpaper. Contents are fine. 27.5 x 19.

Vol. No 18: Ethnologie Océanienne en U.R.S.S., by D. D. Tourmarkine. Essai de classification des peuplades de Papouasie, by A. Dupeyrat. Le Lieutenant Caro et séjour de Bougainville à Tahiti, by E. Taillemite. Vol. No. 19: "Wallis et Futuna". Chronologie de Wallis et Futuna / Le Maire et Schouten à Futuna en 1616... By R.P. O'Reilly. ... Vol. 20: Daingangan, artiste de la terre, by K. Kupka. Recherche océanienne dans la Pologne d'aujourdhui, by A. Godlewski, L'ancien pidgin français parlé en Nouvelle-Calédonie, by K.J.Hollyman, Importance sociale de Makatéa dans la Polynésie Française.

75721
SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES
JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES: Tome XI, No. 11 / Tome XII, No. 12
$150.00 AUD

Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1955 / 1956. 2 bound volumes. Volume 11: 222, (4) PP with b/w illustrations (1 graph, 2 maps and c. 100 drawings), plus 7 b/w plates with 12 artworks. Volume 12 ("New Hebrides"): 412, (6) PP with 1 "Geological map" of the New Hebrides, 1 map of Southern part of Pentecost Island, and 6 figures, plus 11 b/w plates with 63 photos. Cloth cover, Seal of the "New Zealand General Assembly Library on front cover, gilt title on label pasted down on spine. Plate of the New Zealand General Assembly Library pasted down on front endpaper. Contents are fine. 27.5 x 19.

Vol. 11: Gouverneur Bruat et les Chefferies Tahitiennes, by Colin Newbury. Changements des Coutumes Fidjiennes, by Raymond Jarre. Mythes de Buka, by Paul Montauban and Patrick O'Reilly. La "Société Le Nickel",/ SLN: 1880-1945. Vol. 12: 9 papers on New Hebtides, by: E. Aubert de la Rüe / Jacques Barrau / J.WX. Davidson, Jean Guiart,, Patrick O'Reilly...

75722
SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES
JOURNAL DE LA SOCIETE DES OCEANISTES: Tome XIII, No. 13 / Tome XIV, No. 14
$150.00 AUD

Musée de l'Homme / Société des Océanistes. Paris. 1957 / 1958. 2 bound volumes. Volume 13: 149, (1) PP with b/w illustrations (1 maps with location map, and 9 figures with drawings), plus 4 b/w plates with 13 photos. Volume 14: 206 PP with 1 map of the New Hebrides and 15 drawings, plus 5 b/w plates with 1 portrait and artworks. Cloth cover, Seal of the "New Zealand General Assembly Library" on front cover, gilt title on label pasted down on spine. Plate of the New Zealand General Assembly Library pasted down on front endpaper. Fine. 27.5 x 19.

Vol. 13: Peintures rupestres Buang, Nouvelle Guinee, by F. Girard. Journal d'une tournee de recrutement aux Nouvelles Hebrides (part 1), by J.B. Thurston. Vol. 14: Robert Gibbings, graveur anglais et illustrateur, by Patrick O'Reilly. Journal d'une tournée de recrutement aux Nouvelles Hebrides (partt 2)., by J. B. Thurston.

33034
SOHMER, S. H. & GUSTAFSON, R.
PLANTS AND FLOWERS OF HAWAI'I
$15.00 AUD

Honolulu. 1987. University of Hawaii Press. 1st Ed. 160 PP with 3 maps, 2 b/w and 178 colour photos. Hard cover, dj. Fine. 23.4 x 16. 0824810961

33433
SPECHT, Jim
PIECES OF PARADISE
$40.00 AUD

Australian Museum Press. Sydney. 1988. 1st Ed. Australian Natural History supplement No. 1, 1988. 48 PP with 1 map, 1 b/w "untitled drawing" and 86 colour photos. Inside front cover: Mask from area between Yuat and Keram Rivers, East Sepik. Inside back cover: Uli figure, Siar village, New Ireland. Pictorial card cover. Fine. 29 x 21.5. 0730545989

Aesthetics and meaning. Tradition and change. Explorers and missionaries...

77066
SPEISER, Felix
ETHNOLOGY OF VANUATU: An Early Twentieth Century Study
$200.00 AUD

Crawford House. Bathurst. 1991. First edition, translated by D.Q. Stephenson from the 1923 German original. VII, 644 PP with 109 b/w plates containing over 1000 illustrations, plus 32 pages with 56 colour plates. Hard cover, gilt-engraved spine, dj. Dust jacket has a few small repaired nicks or closed tears and is in a protective sleeve. A near fine copy. Scarce. 29.3 x 21.5. 1863330216

A most comprehensive study made between 1910 & 1912 in the former New Hebrides Archipelago. This is a heavy item and postage may be higher than usual. Please ask for a quote.

76344
SPENNEMANN, Dirk H. R.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK IN TONGA 1985-1986
$35.00 AUD

Department of Prehistory, RSPS / ANU. Canberra. 1986. 1st Ed. (2), 106 PP with tables and figures drawings sketches, maps, photos), plus 5 folded plates for 5 figures. Pictorial stiff covers. Light foxing on prelims and inside back cover, otherwise fine. 29.8 x 20.8.

Preliminary Report on the Archaeological activities... Tongan Dark Ages Research Programme.

76706
SUK WAI, Cheong, DURAI, Jennani & CHEW, Cassandra
LIVING THE SINGAPORE STORY: Celebrating our 50 years, 1965-2015
$40.00 AUD

National Library Board. Singapore. 2015. 1st paperback edition. President's Message, Dr. Tony Tan Keng Yam. Foreword by Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister. 200 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers with flaps. Near fine. 25 x 27. 9789814342995

77382
TAYLOR, Albert Pierce
JAMES HUNNEWELL and the opening of HAWAII
$25.00 AUD

No date / No place. Reprinted from "The Pacific Commercial Advertiser", Honolulu, March 21, 1920. No pagination, 13 PP with b/w illustrations (1 endpiece and 3 portraits). Soft covers, title and Seal of Territory of Hawaii on front cover, stapled Fine. 23 x 15.3.

First regular business house opened in Hawaii and commercial relations between the United States and Hawaii.

76558
TAYLOR, Dr. Paul Michael
BEYOND THE JAVA SEA: Art of Indonesia's Outer Islands
$20.00 AUD

Australian Museum. Sydney. c. 1993.. 1st Ed. Foreword by Des Griffin, Director, Australian Museum. No pagination, 16 PP with colour illustrations (1 sketch map inside back cover and over 40 photos). Pictorial soft covers. Near fine. 29.8 x 22. 0731001192

Catalogue accompanying a travelling exhibition - Sydney: 6th March to 30 May / Brisbane: 1 July to 30 September.

77772
THOMAS, Julian
CANNIBALS & CONVICTS: Notes of Personal Experiences in the Western Pacific
$150.00 AUD

Cassell & Co. London. 1886. 1st Ed. XVI, 407 PP, (1 appendix: "Petition by the inhabitants of Tanna to be annexed by Australia"), (14 publications), plus 1 map (in colour) and the frontispiece. Frontispiece with tissue guard has 5 portraits (Author, Maafu, Thakambau, The Rev. James Chalmers and Commandant Servan). Tinted endpapers. Cloth cover, gilt title on front cover, gilt title and decoration (Portrait of Thakambau) on dulled spine. Hinges and gutters either splitting or fragile. Occasional foxing. Name of previous owner at top of title page (crossed out). Discreet small name stamp of a previous owner on recto of frontispiece, Page V, top of Contents page and head of Chapter I. An otherwise very good clean copy. Scarce. 19.8 x 13.

The first journalist to visit New Caledonia and New Hebrides at the time of the Kanak insurrection of 1878 (while exploring the Anglo-Saxon world in the Pacific: Fiji, Tonga, New Guinea) and why the New Hebrides should become Australian. They hated the Man Wee Wee, ("oui oui"), ie.: the French. ... Life on board a "Labour Vessel". A visit to Port Moresby.

76586
TIESLER, Dr. Frank
MALEREI GRAFIK AUS OZEANIEN
$35.00 AUD

Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde. Dresden. 1992. 1st Ed. 64 PP with 6 b/w illustrations in text, and 48 plates with b/w or colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. German text. Fine. 27 x 20.5

Catalogue issued 1st July 1992

77074
TISCHNER, Herbert
OCEANIC ART
$100.00 AUD

Pantheon Books, Inc. New York. 1954. 1st Ed. 96 PP with 96 b/w plates by Friedrich Hewicker of 93 artefacts. Eps: Sketch map of Central Pacific. List of plates on a loosely inserted card. Cloth cover, device "Ceremonial Board, New Guinea" on front cover, dj (price clipped). Near fine. Scarce. 30.5 x 22.5.

75564
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXV, No.3, 1955)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1955. March 1955. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 145-232 PP with 1 portrait, 3 figures and over 10 tables, plus 2 plates with 12 b/w photos. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

In Memoriam: Richard Thurnwald, by Leonhard Adam. Kamano, Jute, Usurufa, ... Kinship of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea, by Ronald M. Berndt. Blood groups: of some Native inhabitants of the British Solomon Islands/and of Koreans, by R. J. Walsh, Olga Kooptzoff. ...

75565
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXV, No.4, 1955)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1955. June 1955. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 233 - 342, (4 index) PP. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

Morality and the Concept of the person among the Gahuku-Gama (Eastern Highlands of New Guinea), by K. E. Reed. Arnhem Land Music, by A. P. Elkin, ...

75569
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXVI, No.1, 1955)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1955. Sept. 1955. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 78 PP with 1 map and 9 tables. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

Privilege Ceremonials in Tikopia - A further note, by Raymond Firth. Fijians and Fiji-Indians: a culture-contact problem in the South Pacific,by A. C. Cato. Blood groups of New Caledonian Natives by Olga Kooptzoff and R.J. Walsh. Arnhem Land Music, by A. P. Elkin..

75570
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXVI, No.2, 1955)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1955. Dec. 1955. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 79 - 157 PP with 1 musical scores, 2 maps, 3 figures and 4 tables. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

Clan organisation in the Mendi Valley Southern Highlands of Papua-New Guinea, by D'Arcy J. Ryan, Arnhem Land Music, by A. P. Elkin.. Musical Acculturation in Tonga, by Major R. Raven-Hart, PSI Testing in Arnhem Land, by W.A. McElroy.

75571
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXVI, No.3, 1956)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1956. March 1956. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 159 - 238 PP with 6 tables, plus 1 plate with portrait of Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood. . Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

Understanding Primitive People, by S. F. Nadel. Camilla Hildegarde Wedgwood (1901-1955), by A.P. Elkin. Ecomomic Life of Mixed-Blood Aborigines: South Coast of NSW, by James H. Bell / Northern NSW, by Malcolm Calley.

75572
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXVI, No.4, 1956)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1956. June 1956. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 239 - 340, (4 Index) PP with 36 pages of musical scores. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

A. R. Radcliffe-Brown: 1880-1955, by A. P. Elkin. Arnhem Land Music - Part II: A Musical Survey, by Trevor A. Jones.

75573
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXVII, No.1, 1956)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1956. Sept.1956. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 72 PP with 1 folded plate "Kinship Grouping on the birth of a child" in Tikopia, 1 map, 5 tables, plus 2 b/w plates: Portrait of Siegfried Frederick Nadel: 1903-1956, and 2 photos "Ceremonies for children". Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

Siegfried Frederick Nadel, 1903-1956, by J. D. Freeman. Ceremonies of Children and Social Frequency in Tikopia, by Raymond Firth.

75574
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXVII, No.2, 1956)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1956. Dec.1956. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 73 - 160 PP with 9 tables, 1 graph, 2 maps, and 10 drawings. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

Lutheran Mission influence on Madang Society, by Peter Lawrence. The Valleys of the Upper Wage and Lai Rivers, Western Highlands, New Guinea, by M. J. Meggitt. Medical and Anthropological study of the Chimbu Natives, by V. Ivinskis, Olga Kooptzoff , R.J. Walsh and Diane Dunn.

75575
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXVII, No.3, 1957)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1957. March 1957. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 161 - 248 PP with 1 graph, 1 map, 23 tables, 10 diagrams, plus 6 plates with 35 b/w photos. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Signature at top of front cover, slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

House building among the Mae Enga, Western Highlands, Territory New Guinea, by M. J. Meggitt. Race relations on the North Coast of NSW, by Malcolm J. C. Calley. The Blood Groups of: Australian Aborigines / Native inhabitants of the Tongan Islands, by Olga Kooptzoff & R.J. Walsh. Metrical characters of a central Australian tribe, by A. A. Aubie.

75576
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXVII, No.4, 1957)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1957. June 1957. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 249 - 326, (4 Index) PP with tables and 1 map, plus 2 plates with 3 b/w illustrations (bark paintings). Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

Cargo Cults: The problem of explanation, by Judy Inglis. Aboriginal orderliness in Central Arnhem Land, by W. A. McElroy.

77514
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXVIII, No.1, 1957)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1957. September 1957. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 84 PP with tables and 2 sketch maps. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

Arnhem Land music: Part II: A musical Survey, by Trevor A. Jones. The IPILI of the Porgera Valley, Western Highlands, by M.J. Meggitt. The GAGAI in Tangu, by Kenelm O. L. Burridge. The Blood Groups of some Cocos Islanders, by K. Pattison & Olga Kooptzoff.

77515
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
OCEANIA - A Journal devoted to the Study of the Native Peoples of Australia, New Guinea, and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean (Volume XXVIII, No.2, 1957)
$30.00 AUD

Department of Anthropology / University of Sydney. Sydney. 1957. December 1957. Edited by A.P. Elkin & H. Ian Hogbin. 85-171PP with 7 tables, 1 graph and 1 sketch map. Soft covers, illustrated front, title on front cover and spine. Slight ageing of paper. Contents near fine. 24.3 x 18.5.

Descent in Tangu, by Kenelm O. L. Burridge. Wild and Emergency Foods of Australians and Tasmanian Aborigines, by F. R. Irvine. Blood Groups of the Native inhabitants of Bougainville, by J. Kariks, Olga Kooptzoff & R.J. Walsh. All contents are shown on the image.

75598
VALKS, Hans (editor)
PACIFIC TRAVEL - FACT FILE: April 1991 - April 1992
$20.00 AUD

Braynart Group / Universal Press. Singapore. 1991. 16th yearly edition. c. 600 PP wiith c. 2000 colour illustrations (19 interpolated pages, c. 20 maps and photos) with thumbnail index by country. Laminated pictorial boards. Fine. 24 x 18.

Most comprehensive.

76367
VAN DER GRIJP, Paul
ISLANDERS OF THE SOUTH: Production, kinship and ideology in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga
$50.00 AUD

KITLV Press. Leiden. 1993. 1st edition translated by Peter Mason. Publication No. 154. X, 264 PP with over 8 tables and b/w illustrations: 1 map of Tonga, 1 page "key to symbols", 25 diagrams, and 28 photos. Stiff covers, illustrated front cover. Fine. 24 x 16. 9067180580

76598
VIOTTE, Michel & POURTAL SOURRIEU, Marianne
JACK LONDON DANS LES MERS DU SUD - L'Odyssée du SNARK I 1907-1908
$75.00 AUD

Editions de la Martiniere / MAAOA (Musée d'Arts Africains, Océaniens, Amérindiens. Lyon. 2017. 1st Ed. Forewords by Jean-Claude Gaudin / Anne-Marie d'Estienne d'Orves / Xavier Rey. Preface by Jeanne Campbell Reesman. 192 PP with b/w and colour illustrations. Pictorial stiff covers. Loosely inserted: Flyer on the exhibition to Rod Ewins, Anthropologist from Tasmania, who lent illustrations on page 130, signed by Raymonde Armati of the MAAOA. As new condition. French text. 28.5 x 22. 9782732470870

76377
WARDWELL, Allen
ISLAND ANCESTORS, Oceanic Art from the Masco Collection
$45.00 AUD

University of Washington Press & Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit. 1994. 1st edition with foreword by Samuel Sachs II, and preface by Ellen Napiura Taubman. XIV, 282 PP with 2 maps on double page maps, 4 b/w & 144 superb colour illustrations (mostly full-page) depicting the most stunning objects from the Masco Collection. Fp: Male ancestor. Eps: Tapa cloth. Stiff covers, pictorial front. Fine (as new condition). 29.3 x 22.5. 9780295973302

The Oceanic Cultures: Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, Australia : history of the island groups, settlement, societies, artistic styles, ... The Masco Oceanic Collection is one of the great corporate collections in America. A beautiful publication.

76551
WATERHOUSE, Michael
NOT A POOR MAN'S FIELD: The New Guinea Goldfields to 1942 - An Australian Colonial History
$70.00 AUD

Halstead Press. Braddon, ACT. 2010 1st Ed. Foreword by Ross Garnaut. 272 PP with b/w illustrations (ephemera, maps, plans and photos). FEP: Map of Papua New Guinea. REP: Lae aerodrome 1931-32. Pictorial hard covers, dj. Signed by the author on title page. Fine. 28.5 x 22. 9781920831837

76368
WEINER, Annette B.
INALIENABLE POSSESSIONS: The Paradox of Keeping - While-Giving
$20.00 AUD

University of California Press. Berkeley, Ca. 1992 1st paperback edition. XIV, 232 PP with 1 map of the Pacific on double page, plus 12 pages with 24 b/w photos. Stiff covers illustrated front. Occasional foxing. A few lines with pencil underlining, otherwise near fine. 22.5 x 15. 9780520076044

Chapter 5 - Kula: the paradox of Keeping-While-Giving,...

76364
WEINER, Annette B. & SCHNEIDER, Jane
CLOTH AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE
$25.00 AUD

Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington, DC. 1991 1st paperback edition in the "Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry". XVI, 432 PP with 27 b/w illustrations. Stiff covers illustrated front. Light foxing around page edges, otherwise fine. 23 x 15. 0874749956

Chapter 2: Why Cloth? Wealth, Gender, and Power in Oceania. Chapter 3: Cloth and the Creation of Ancestors in Madagascar. ...Chapter 12: The Changing Fortunes of Three Archaic Japanese Textiles.

76375
WILSON ANASTASIOS, Meaghan
THE PACIFIC IN THE WAKE OF CAPTAIN COOK WITH SAM NEILL
$25.00 AUD

HarperCollins Publishers. Sydney. 2018. 1st edition with a foreword by Sam Neill. XIV, 448 PP with b/w illustrations: 3 maps on double page, 6 head pieces and 14 b/w illustrations, plus 32 pages with 80 colour illustrations. Hard covers, dj. Near fine. 24.4 x 16. 9781460756393

76549
WILSON, Margaret (editor)
SOUTH PACIFIC FESTIVAL OF ARTS - SOUVENIR PROGRAMME 1980 + Artforce Special Feature
$40.00 AUD

South Pacific Festival of Arts. Port Moresby. 1980. 1st Ed. 120 PP with b/w and colour illustrations, plus "Artforce Special Feature, No. 31 October/November 1980" (3 folds with 5 b/w illustrations: 1 map & 4 photos, and 16 colour photos). Pictorial card cover. Fine. 28.8 x 21.2.

Souvenir programme published for the Third Festival held in Port Moresby and regional centres of Papua New Guinea, between 29th June and 12th July 1980. Artforce: bi-monthly news digest of the "Australian Council", by Jill Sykes.

21419
WYNDETTE, Olive
ISLANDS OF DESTINY, A History of Hawaii
$15.00 AUD

Charles E. Tuttle Co. Rutland, Vt., USA. 1968. 1st printing. XIV, 296 PP, plus 36 pages with 20 bw plates. Fp: Coconut palms. Eps: Map of the Hawaiian Islands. Cloth cover, gilt title on spine, dj. (price clipped). Fine. 24 x 16.

76345
YOUNG, Michael W. & CLARK, Julia
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST IN PAPUA - The Photography of F. E. WILLIAMS, 1922-39
$100.00 AUD

University of Hawai'i Press. Honolulu. 2001. 1st US edition. Foreword by Anne-Marie Schwirtlich. X, 307 PP with b/w illustrations: 9 maps, 1 newspaper, 230 photos. Fp: Man fishing from tree stump, Biai, Western Elema. Hard covers, dj. Fine. 26.5 x 22. 9780824825287

58120
ZIMMERMANN, Heinrich
THE THIRD VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN COOK - 1776-1780
$125.00 AUD

Alexander Turnbull Library / W. A. G. Skinner, Government Printer. Wellington. 1926. 1st New Zealand edition, July 1926. Alexander Turnbull Library Bulletin No.2. Translated by Miss U. Tewsley & Johannes C. Andersen, with a few Explanatory Notes. 50 PP with facsimile of 2 title pages of German and English editions of 1781, plus 2 b/w plates and 1 large folded map, copy of the 1781 English edition "Chart Showing the tracks of the ships employed in the Captain Cook's...", tipped-in at rear. Soft covers with light foxing, title on front cover. Staples removed, repaired short tear on back cover, name of previous owner on inside front cover, otherwise contents are fine. Rare. 24.5 x 15.5.