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$600.00
1d27/40

Ancient Warriors of the North Pacific


Their Haidas, their Laws, Customs and Legends, with some historical account of the Queen Charlotte Islands

HARRISON, CHARLES

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

$9.50
xxfaf75958

Captain Cook, The Seamen's Seaman


VILLIERS, ALAN

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

$10.00
xxfbb76050

Native Cultures of the Pacific Islands


OLIVER, DOUGLAS & JOHNSON, LOIS (Illus)

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

$165.00
1d32/14

Wild Life in Southern Seas


BECKE, LOUIS / BECKE, GEORGE LEWIS

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

$10.00
xxffb78614

An Afternoon in Summer


GIUFFRE, KATHY

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

$67.50
2g16b/44

A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas


PARKINSON ,SYDNEY

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

$14.00
xxfgl79739

Company of Heaven: Early Missionaries in the South Seas


KENT, GRAEME

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

$12.00
xxfhb79850

Oceanic Art


182 Illustrations, 26 in Colour

THOMAS, NICHOLAS

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

$19.50
xxfhc79933

Archaeological Resource Management in Australia and Oceania


SCHIFFER, M. B. (Intro) & MCKINLAY, J. R. (Ed) & J

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

$39.50
xxfhg80145

Proceedings of the Indigenous Knowledges Conference : Reconciling Academic Priorities with Indigenous Realities


KIDMAN, JOANNA & TE RITO, DR. JOSEPH (Eds) & PENET

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

$22.50
xxfhj80294

Plant Life of the Pacific World


MERRILL. ELMER D.

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

$50.00
2b29a/16a

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

KAEPPLER, ADRIENNE L.

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

$55.00
2b28a/16

Comparatively Speaking: Studies in Pacific Material Culture 1921-1972


SKINNER, HENRY DEVENISH

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

$27.50
2b28a/26

The Changing Pacific: Essays in Honour of HE Maude


GUNSON, NIEL

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

$12.50
xxfjg81388

The Flight of the Amokura: Oceanic Langues and Formal Education in the South Pacific


BENTON, RICHARD A.

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

$19.50
xxfjk81542

Visions & Realities: France in the Pacific 1695 - 1995


DUNMORE, JOHN

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

$57.50
2b31a/3

Kiwis in the Pacific


COOZE, FRANK

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

$30.00
xxsag85624

Rust in Peace: South Pacific Battlegrounds Revisited


ADAMS, BRUCE

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

$60.00
1t18b/25

The Fortunate Soldier: With the New Zealand Army on Tongatabu 1943


FORD, MALCOLM

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

$30.00
xxsap86140

Bandits and the Southern Pacific


GLASSCOCK, C. B.

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

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