Books - "pacific"
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Ancient Warriors of the North Pacific
Their Haidas, their Laws, Customs and Legends, with some historical account of the Queen Charlotte Islands
First edition, super octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering & gilt mask motif to spine and blind rule to front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, 222pp, illus + folding map, VG (lower rear board corner cut off, heavy fading to spine, lighter fading to boards, slight bruising to spine extrems, ding to front board upper corner, owner's name & date in ink to front pastedown, moderate foxing & tanning to page edges, some foxing)
PUBLISHER: HF & G Witherby 1925
KEYWORDS: Charles Harrison Pacific history Queen Charlotte Islands anthropology customs first edition
Captain Cook, The Seamen's Seaman
paperback (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Penguin 1969
KEYWORDS: specials Alan Villiers biography travel Captain Cook pacific maritime
Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands
Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 1989
KEYWORDS: specials Douglas L Oliver Lois Johnson Pacific Islands Islanders archaeology geography antropology Oceania
Wild Life in Southern Seas
First edition (colonial edition), ownership signature & date of historian AA Grace, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, viii + 369pp + 6pp book adverts, VG- (some rubbing to spine & boards, some bruising to spine extrems, light bruising & fraying to board edges & corners, front gutter cracked & binding sloppy, moderate browning to eps & page edges, annotation in pencil to rear ep)
PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1897
KEYWORDS: first colonial edition Louis Becke Pacific Australia Polynesia travel wildlife natural history literature
An Afternoon in Summer
Softcover octavo (nr fine); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Awa Press 2010
KEYWORDS: specials Kathy Giuffre New Zealand Pacific Islands travel literature memoir
A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas
Octavo, brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxiii + 214pp, illus, VG+ (sl wear to board extrems, v sl soiling to upper page edges) in d/w, VG (light rubbing and soiling to covers, small 1cm open tear to upper spine, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Caliban Books 1984
KEYWORDS: Sydney Parkinson journal Captain Cook Endeavour Pacific exploration travel history
Company of Heaven: Early Missionaries in the South Seas
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1972
KEYWORDS: specials Graeme Kent Oceania Pacific Islands missionaries religion history
Oceanic Art
182 Illustrations, 26 in Colour
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Thames and Hudson 1995
KEYWORDS: specials Nicholas Thomas Oceania Pacific Island art history
Archaeological Resource Management in Australia and Oceania
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete10 and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Historic Places Trust 1979
KEYWORDS: specials M B Schiffer J R Mckinlay K L Jones archaeology Australia Oceania Pacific Islands resource management
Proceedings of the Indigenous Knowledges Conference : Reconciling Academic Priorities with Indigenous Realities
Quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Knowledge Exchange Programme of Nga Pae o te Maramatanga 2007
KEYWORDS: specials Joanna Kidman Dr Joseph Te Rito Dr Wally Penetito New Zealand Maori Pacific Island indigenous knowledge education sociology ethics
Plant Life of the Pacific World
Susan & Ralph Bulmer's copy, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Macmillan Company 1954
KEYWORDS: specials Elmer D Merrill Pacific Islands plants vegetation botany
Artificial Curiosities: An Exposition of Native Manufactures collected on the Three Pacific Voyages of Captain James Cook, RN
at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Jan 18 1978-Aug31 1978
Large quarto, black illus light card covers, illus eps, frontispiece, xvi + 293pp, illus, VG+ (2cm closed tear to one side of upper spine, some chaffing to spine & cover edges, ding to lower spine)
PUBLISHER: Bishop Museum Press 1978
KEYWORDS: Adrienne L Kaeppler Bernice Bishop Museum exhibition exposition Pacific artefacts crafts textiles tools weapons ornaments Captain Cook history anthropology
Comparatively Speaking: Studies in Pacific Material Culture 1921-1972
Small quarto, blue heavy card boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 197pp, illus, VG+ (slight fading to board edges, owner's name in ink to front pastedown, v slight foxing to page upper edges) in d/w, VG+
PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 1974
KEYWORDS: Henry Devenish Skinner Pacific Oceanic material culture history anthropology New Zealand Maori essays
The Changing Pacific: Essays in Honour of HE Maude
First edition, octavo, yellow cloth boards with black lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, xiv + 351pp, VG+ (v slight tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light soiling, tiny closed tear to front upper edge)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: first edition Niel Gunson HE Maude Pacific biography bibliography essays articles history legend myths anthropology colonisation
The Flight of the Amokura: Oceanic Langues and Formal Education in the South Pacific
First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: New Zealand Council for Educational Research 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Richard A Benton South Pacific Island Oceania Polynesian Maori language languages education policies first edition
Visions & Realities: France in the Pacific 1695 - 1995
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Heritage Press Ltd 1997
KEYWORDS: specials John Dunmore Pacific New Zealand France French colonisation colonialism history
Kiwis in the Pacific
Oblong octavo, illus light card stapled wrappers, 46pp, illus, VG (some tanning & froxing to covers & page edges, rusting to staples, sporadic light foxing)
PUBLISHER: AH & AW Reed 1944
KEYWORDS: Frank Cooze New Zealand forces World War Two WWII Pacific memoir
Rust in Peace: South Pacific Battlegrounds Revisited
Quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
PUBLISHER: Antipodean Publishers 1976
KEYWORDS: specials Bruce Adams South Pacific battlegrounds second world war two II ww2 wwII pictorial military history
The Fortunate Soldier: With the New Zealand Army on Tongatabu 1943
Ex library, octavo, spiral bound with clear plastic front & rear covers over illus light card front, vi + 123pp, illus, VG (some library markings, slight tanning to page edges, upper & lower plastic spiral ring broken)
PUBLISHER: Malcolm FOrd 1996
KEYWORDS: MalcolmFord military history New Zealand army 66th Battalion Canterbury Regiment Tonga World War Two Pacific
Bandits and the Southern Pacific
Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1929
KEYWORDS: specials CB Glasscock South Southern Pacific Islands bandits history