Books - "pacific"
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Mighty Missionary of the Pacific: The Building Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Its History, scope and Significance
Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Bookcraft 1961
KEYWORDS: religion religious organizations Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints pacific islands missionaries
War in the Pacific: Volume IV
Super octavo softcover (Near 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Hawaii Pacific University 2007
KEYWORDS: military history Pacific southwest ww2 second 2nd world war two 2 ii
The Journal of the Cultural Association of the Solomon Islands
Octavo, illus blue stapled light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 117pp, illus/photos, folding maps, VG (light scuffing & chafing to covers with some moderate soiling also, light tanning & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: The Cultural Association of the Solomon Islands 1976
KEYWORDS: Solomon Islands culture cultural association pacific
George Vancouver: A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World 1791-1795 (4 Vol Set)
4 VOL SET, super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind rule to front boards, frontis to vol 1, pagination continued over 4 vols- 1752pp total, occasional illus/folding maps, folding map to rear pocket of vol 1, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG (varying degrees of scuffing, chafing & creasing to spine & edges but mostly tidy)
PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1984
KEYWORDS: hakluyt exploration history voyages George Vancouver north Pacific ocean maritime nautical travel
Pacific Identities and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white & yellow lettering to spine, 330pp, illus/photos, VG+ (occasional underlining & markings in pencil, sl creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, prev. bookseller's sm label to rear cover, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: Pacific culture identity pasifika mental health counselling psychology
The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain During the Years 1772-1776, Told in Despatches and Other Contemporary Documents
3 VOL SET, FIRST EDITIONS, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled page edges- some still uncut, frontispieces with tissue guards, mixed pagination, folding maps to rear pockets of vols 1 + 2, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light to moderate soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning to page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to some gutters)
PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1913-19
KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society history geography exploration travel Tahiti pacific 18th eighteenth century documents
The All-Red Route 1893-1953: A History of the Trans-Pacific Mail Service Between British Columbia, Australia, and New Zealand
SCARCE, imperial octavo, beige light card covers, black lettering to front cover, 129pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate creasing to spine & cover edges, light to moderate soiling & chafing to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Don McDiarmid (Printer) 1959
KEYWORDS: all red route mail service history trans-pacific British Columbia Australia New Zealand post postal
A New Voyage & Description of the Isthmus of America
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt ship motif & blind stamp decoration to boards, deckled page edges, folded frontispiece, lxxi + 221pp, folding maps throughout, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, sl soiling to edges of front board, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss, heavy tanning & staining to spine & front cover, light foxing)
PUBLISHER: Hakluyt Society 1934
KEYWORDS: first editions hakluyt society history geography exploration travel expeditions Lionel Wafer secret report Davis's expedition gold mines Darien West Indies Pacific late 17th seventeenth century Isthmus
Nafanua: Saving the Samoan Rain Forest
Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: W. H. Freeman and Company 1999
KEYWORDS: Pacific isalnds Samoa rain forest forests Samoan botany ethnobotany preservation conservation
Of Islands and Men: Studies in Pacific History
FIRST EDITION, OWNERSHIP OF PACIFIC HISTORIAN K R HOWE, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1968
KEYWORDS: pacific history anthropology south seas maritime nautical first editions
Objectif Mururoa Avec Bollardiere
TEXT IN FRENCH, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Editions Robert Laffont 1974
KEYWORDS: text in French nuclear testing New Zealand pacific
La Bombe ou la Vie
TEXT IN FRENCH, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Fayard 1969
KEYWORDS: text in French nuclear testing bombs pacific
An Introduction to the Peoples and Cultures of Melanesia (Second Edition)
OWNERSHIP OF PACIFIC HISTORIAN K R HOWE, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Cummings Publishing Company 1977
KEYWORDS: anthropology cutlure Melanesia pacific history
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific: An Environmental History
INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE - ASSOCIATION COPY! Imperial octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, white lettering to spine, xvii + 398pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, moderate fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: ABC-CLIO 2005
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian New Zealand Pacific environmental history anthropology geography human ecology oceania nature environment signed association copy
The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania
ASSOCIATION COPY - WARM & LENGTHY INSCRIPTION & SIGNATURE BY AUTHOR TO PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE, super octavo, blue heavy boards, blue gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 292pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edgeslight fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: University of Hawai'i Press 2006
KEYWORDS: association copy Oceania Pacific history social life customs culture navigation maritime anthropology environmental conditions environment nautical
French Explorers in the Pacific: the Eighteenth & Nineteenth Century (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, first editions, OWNERSHIP OF PACIFIC HISTORIAN K. R. HOWE, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, vol 1- vi + 356pp, vol 2- 428pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards of vol 2, light tanning & foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG/VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading & scuffing/surface loss to spine & edges, vol 2 price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1965-69
KEYWORDS: exploration Pacific ocean islands French explorers history anthropology 18th 19th eighteenth nineteenth century
Messengers of Grace: Evangelical Missionaries in the South Seas 1797-1860
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 437pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name (K R Howe) in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges with some scuffing also, light fading to spine, light chafing to covers with minor surface loss)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: first editions pacific islands religion religious evangelism Christianity oceania
The March Out: The End of the Chindit Adventure
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Rupert Hart-Davis 1953
KEYWORDS: second world war two ww2 wwi pacific theater theatre military britain british burma memoir
Peter McIntyre's Pacific
SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED 'PRESENTATION' EDITION, lg quarto, half leather bound maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps & prelims, 23pp + colour plates, illus, VG+ (sl staining to front board, minor scuffing to lower extrem of front board, sl tanning & foxing to lower page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, light foxing to the rear of some plates- plates themselves are unfoxed, prev owner's details in pen) in slipcase, VG (moderate chafing & scuffing to edges, light tanning)
PUBLISHER: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1966
KEYWORDS: New Zealand artists art collections Peter McIntyre Pacific signed limited numbered edition
Drovers, Diggers and Draglines: A History of Blair Athol and Clermont
Super 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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: BAC / Pacific Coal Pty 1984
KEYWORDS: coal mines mining Blair Athol history Pacific Coal Australia Australian