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$75.00
3j5/32

Healing Practices in the South Pacific


PARSONS, CLAIRE D (Ed)

Super octavo, red heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, illus/maps at eps, xii + 250pp, illus, VG (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, sl soiling to front board, light tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. ownership inscriptions in ink with some correction fluid to ffep & half title page) in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing to spine, moderate to heavy creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, other minor chafing also)

PUBLISHER: The Institute for Polynesian Studies 1985

KEYWORDS: oceania medicine Polynesia south pacific alternative healing folk medicines

$245.00
3j4/2

A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; with Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origins, Languages, Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants (Sixth Thousand)


WILLIAMS, JOHN & BAXTER, G (Wood Engravings)

SIXTH THOUSAND, octavo, half leatherbound brown heavy boards, gilt lettering & tooling/decoration to spine with rsaised bands also, aeg, frontispiece, illus title page, xviii + 590pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork, minor fading & rubbing to boards, moderate soiling to gilt page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, moderate foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: J Snow 1837

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature historical history natural history missions missionaries south sea islands pacific anthropology

$15.00
xxdcf223960

A Doctor in Paradise


LAMBERT, S M

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: J M Dent & Sons Ltd 1942

KEYWORDS: medical history medicine pacific islands S M Lambert

$50.00
xxsae224232

We, The Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific


LEWIS, DAVID

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G); 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: The University Press of Hawaii 1972

KEYWORDS: pacific orientation wayfinding landfinding navigators

$35.00
xxpjb224438

The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931 - April 1942: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: Volume III


MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT

THIS VOL ONLY 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: Castle Books 2001

KEYWORDS: history United States naval operations second 2nd world war two 2 ww2 wwii educational navy military history Pacific conflict

$14.00
xxcaf224473

Tales of the Tikongs


HAU'OFA, EPELI

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: University of Hawai'i Press 1994

KEYWORDS: fiction Polynesian Pacific Hawai'i Hawaiian author

$35.00
xxsap224563

The Church in Post-Sixties New Zealand; Decline, Growth and Change


WARD, KEVIN

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: Archer Press 2013

KEYWORDS: church sixties New Zealand Kevin Ward pacific christianity

$22.50
xxsjj224792

A History of the Pacific Islands


FISCHER, STEVEN ROGER

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: Palgrave 2002

KEYWORDS: Steven Roger Fischer Pacific history geneology science polynesia

$40.00
3j2/13

Tears in Paradise: A Personal and Historical Journey 1879-2004


PRASAD, RAJENDRA

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO DAVID LANGE, super octavo, illus light card wrappers, black & white text to spine & wrapper, 293pp, illus VG+ (v slight chafing to wrapper, slight tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Glade Publishers 2004

KEYWORDS: indian diaspora fiji fijian india history girmit period indo-fijian rajendra prasad pacific histories

$40.00
3j1/14

Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West


THOMAS, NICHOLAS (ed) & COLE, ANNA (ed) & DOUGLAS, BRONWEN (ed)

Imperial octavo, illus light card wrappers with french flaps,pale yellow text to wrapper & spine, 252pp, VG+ (v slight fading to spine & wrapper, v slight soiling to wrapper, previous bookseller's label to inside wrapper, v slight tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Reaktion Books 2005

KEYWORDS: tattoo body modification art culture pacific western pasifika west

$120.00
3k2/25

Fred Gratten, Talatonu: Islands and Atolls: A Biography


GRATTEN, MIKE and HELEN & GLUYAS, JEANNIE and RICHARD

SIGNED BY SEVERAL FAMILY MEMBERS, quarto, illus glossy light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, [4] + xii + 164pp, illus/photos, folding family tree to rear, VG+ (light creasing/curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light foxing & soiling to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Michael and Helen Gratten & Jeannie and Richard Gluyas 2009

KEYWORDS: pacific islands Samoa Fred Gratten biography memoir biographies family history research genealogy

$40.00
3k2/26

Pacific Tales


BECKE, LOUIS

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt & black lettering to spine & front board, black illus to front board, unpaginated prelims + 323pp, VG (light to moderate scuffing to spine extrems, sl bruising & rubbing to board extrems, minor discolouration/soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & moderate foxing/soiling to page edges, sl tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout)

PUBLISHER: T Fisher Unwin 1924

KEYWORDS: travel exploration history Pacific islands Louis Becke

$10.00
xxrgc225375

New Zealand's Coasts


MONTEATH, COLIN

Super octavo softcover (VG), inscriptions in pen to tp; 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: David Ling 2009

KEYWORDS: New Zealand landscape photography coast coastline ocean sea Pacific

$40.00
3L2/31

Men from Under the Sky: The Arrival of Westeners


BROWN, STANLEY; BURR, RAYMOND (forew.)

FIRST EDITION. Sm octavo, orange cl boards, spine lettered in white & blue; illus. eps, frontis., illus., plates; 327 pp.; VG (moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; sl soiling, tanning & foxing to pg edges); in d/w VG (light soiling & rubbing; moderate bruising to edges & extrems; price clipped).

PUBLISHER: Charles R. Tuttle Company 1973

KEYWORDS: Westeners social history colonial Fiji Fijians European American pacific islands

$15.00
xxral226017

A Pacific Parliament: A Pacific Idea - An Economic and Political Community for the South Pacific


MOORE, MIKE

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: Asia Pacific Books 1982

KEYWORDS: Asia Pacific politics political economics Oceania

$145.00
3n2/2gc

Vaka Moana: Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific


HOWE, K R (Ed)

Lg quarto, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 360pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light rubbing to board edges/extrems, sl soiling to page edges, eps & prelims) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: David Bateman 2006

KEYWORDS: Pacific history exploration discoveries voyages maritime nautical migration anthropology

$40.00
3s9/13

South Sea Yarns


THOMSON, BASIL

Octavo, black card boards, spine lettered in gilt; plates; xii + 326 pp.; VG+ (light to moderate soiling & scuffing to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges); in d/w VG- (moderate soiling & scuffing, moderate bruising to edges & extrems w heavy chipping & some loss to spine at head & tail).

PUBLISHER: R. McMillan 1984

KEYWORDS: Pacific Islands Fiji Tonga New Guinea stories life lives memoir

$50.00
3n1/3

The 4300 4-8-2's: Southern Pacific's Mt-Class Locomotives (Revised Edition)


CHURCH, ROBERT J

Quarto, black cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, illus eps, frontispiece, unpaginated prelims + 172pp, folding diagrams to rear, Near FINE (sl tanning to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light fading to spine, light creasing to edges, light chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Signature Press 1996

KEYWORDS: transport rail trains locomotives steam 4300 4-8-2 southern Pacific mt-classs engineering design history

$47.50
3n1/48

King-Doctor of Ulithi: The True Story of the Wartime Experiences of Marshall Paul Wees


WEES, MARSHALL PAUL & THORNTON, FRANCIS BEAUCHESNE (Related to)

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + [4] + 128pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate staining to boards, sl scuffing & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG- (moderate fading to spine & edges, minro creasing & heavy chipping/tearing to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling, price clipped)

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1950

KEYWORDS: military history ww2 wwii second 2nd world war two ii 2 Dr Marshall P Wees Pacific Ulithi autobiography biography memoir

$35.00
xx35pol226178

The Pacific Way: A Memoir


MARA, RATU SIR KAMISESE MARA

SIGNED. 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 1997

KEYWORDS: Fiji Pacific islands politics history culture memoir

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