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$50.00
2f19/12

Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages


SMITH, BERNARD

First edition, quarto, dark green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, dark green eps, illus title page, frontispiece, xiii + 262pp, illus, VG+ (slight rubbing to spine extrems, sl foxing and soiling to page edges) in VG+ d/w (rubbing to rear, slight bruising to spine extrems, sunning to spine)

PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1992

KEYWORDS: first edition Bernard Smith Pacific history artists science art

$12.50
xxeif49272

Sons & Brothers; The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy


MAHONEY, RICHARD D.

ex-library, hardcover super octavo (VG) 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: Arcade Publishing 1999

KEYWORDS: american politics history john f. kennedy robert kennedy richard d. mahoney biography specials

$13.50
xxeif49273

Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution


JARDINE, LISA

hardcover super octavo (VG) 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: Little, Brown and Company 1999

KEYWORDS: lisa jardine science history scientific revolution specials

$15.00
xxeif49311

Home and Away: Images of New Zealanders in World War II


FILER, DAVID

Oblong 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: David Bateman 1990

KEYWORDS: specials David Filer New Zealand pictorial military history world war two second world war WWII New Zealanders Kiwi soldiers airmen sailors POWs

$35.00
2f19/16

Historical Vines: Enga Networks of Exchange, Ritual, and Warfare in Papua New Guinea


WIESSNER, POLLY & TUMU, AKII

Super octavo, illus light card covers, xvii + 494pp, illus, nr fine (slight rubbing to cover edges)

PUBLISHER: Crawford House Publishing 1998

KEYWORDS: Polly Wiessner Akii Tumu Papua New Guinea Enga history anthropology rites ceremonies warfare social organization ecology political processes sweet potato

$27.50
2f19/17

Enga: Foundations for Development Volume 3 of Enga Yaaka Lasemana


CARRAD, BRUCE & LEA, DAVID A. M & TALYAGA, KUNDAPE

Super octavo, illus light card covers, xii + 380pp, illus, VG (rubbing & spotting to covers, nick to front cover lower edge, creasing to rear cover lower corner, 4cm closed tear to upper spine/rear cover edge, rust showing to staples, some pencil underlining)

PUBLISHER: Enga Provincial Government 1982

KEYWORDS: Bruce Carrad David Lea Kundapan Talyaga Enga Papua New Guinea history environment demography anthropology horticulture agriculture economy violence land communication education health infrastructure government

$30.00
2f19/18

Studies in Enga History


The Oceania Monographs No. 20

MEGGITT, M. J

Super octavo, light blue light card covers with black lettering, 95pp, VG (fading to covers, esp to spine and cover edges, 2cm stain to rear board edge)

PUBLISHER: University of Sydney 1974

KEYWORDS: MJ Meggitt Papua New Guinea Enga anthropology history te exchange

$50.00
2f19/19

A View of Enga Culture


TUMU, AKII & MUNINI, PESONE & KYANGALI, ALOME & WI

Imperial octavo, illus light card covers, 64pp, illus, VG (rubbing & fading to front, bruising to lower spine, v slight foxing to rear eps)

PUBLISHER: Dept of Enga / KPI Publishing 1989

KEYWORDS: Akii Tumu Pesone Munini Alome Kyangali Polly Wiessner Papua New Guinea Enga traditions culture history anthropology

$82.50
2f19/31

On Government of Rulers De Regimine Principum


With Portions attributed to Thomas Aquinas

PTOLEMY OF LUCCA

Super octavo, grey cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xi + 310pp, (fine) in d/w (fine)

PUBLISHER: University of Pennsylvania Press 1997

KEYWORDS: Ptolemy of Lucca Thomas Aquinas political thought Middle Ages Renaissance Aristotle history

$65.00
2f19/34

Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Australia, Canada, & New Zealand


HAVEMANN, PAUL (Ed)

Super octavo, light card coverss with white lettering, xvi + 520pp, fine

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: Paul Havemann Australia New Zealand Canada indigenous people legal law politics colonialism essays history ethnicity sociology anthropology

$22.50
2f19/45

Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939


HOURANI, ALBERT

Super octavo,illus light card covers , x + 406pp, VG+

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2002

KEYWORDS: Albert Hourani Arabic thought islam politics society European influence Egypt Lebanonn religion history

$45.00
2f20/4

Sovereign Individuals of Capitalism


ABERCROMBIE, NICHOLAS & HILL, STEPHEN & TURNER, BR

Tidy ex library, octavo, grey cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 211pp, VG+ (library label to front pastedown, usu library markings) in VG+ d/w (rubbing to rear board, usu library markings)

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1986

KEYWORDS: Nicholas Abercrombie Stephen Hill Bryan S Turner politics capitalism economics individualism Tocqueville Milton Friedman collectivism history

$100.00
2f20/11

Te Whanau o Waipareira Report / Waitangi Tribunal Report 1998


n/a

Quarto, green light card covers with black lettering, xxix + 266pp, VG+ (rubbing & creasing to lower rear cover edge, bruising & creasing to front cover corners, slight bruising to spine extrems)

PUBLISHER: GP Publications 1998

KEYWORDS: Waitangi tribunal New Zealand Maori Waipareira history law justice claims

$27.50
xxeja49376

Hokianga


LEE, JACK

softcover octavo (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: Hodder and Stoughton 1987

KEYWORDS: new zealand history geography hokianga ngapuhi jack lee specials

$24.50
2f21/2

Big Business, The State, and Free Trade: Construction Coalitions in Mexico


THACKER, STROM C.

octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, gilt lettering and rule to front board, xvi + 239pp, near fine in VG+ d/w (light rubbing and fading)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2000

KEYWORDS: strom c. thacker mexico history free trade construction coalitions business politics

$140.00
2f21/5

A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France


PITTS, JENNIFER

first edition, scarce in hardcover, octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, xiii + 382pp, near fine in VG+ d/w (v light wear and rubbing)

PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2005

KEYWORDS: jennifer pitts politics political philosophy history britain france imperial liberalism empire

$22.50
2f21/7

The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire


GOGWILT, CHRISTOPHER

octavo, illus light card covers, xii + 281pp, VG+ (v light wear)

PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press 1995

KEYWORDS: history christopher gogwilt literary criticism imaginative geography europe empire the west cartography joseph conrad

$15.00
xxejb49383

Clio In Oceania: Towards a Historical Anthropology


BIERSACK, ALETTA (ed.)

hardback octavo with 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: Smithsonian Institution, 1991

KEYWORDS: specials oceania anthropology fiji politics history culture polynesia melanesia

$22.50
xxejb49384

Samoan Village Economy


LOCKWOOD, BRIAN

ex library hardback octavo (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: Oxford University Press; 1971

KEYWORDS: specials Samoa economy history culture society anthropology brian lockwood

$18.50
xxejb49386

Readings in New Guinea History


JINKS, B., BISKUP, P. & NELSON, H. (eds.)

ex library hardback octavo w d/w, faded spine (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: Angus and Robertson 1973

KEYWORDS: specials new guinea history sociol science development economics military labour

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