Books - "pacific"
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Political Advancement in the South Pacific: A Comparative Study of Colonial Practice in Fiji, Tahiti and American Samoa
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 1961
KEYWORDS: politics political colonialism South Pacific Fiji Tahiti American Samoa
The Family, Law and Population in 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Insititute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific 1986
KEYWORDS: family Oceania Pacific islands population birth control
Compendium of Australasian Merchant Ships 1831-2008: A listing of non sail-powered Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific merchant ships
Oblong super octavo, illus light card wrappers, brown text to wrapper, tan text to spine, 316pp, VG (light to moderate creasing to wrapper, light soiling & fading to wrapper, light soiling 7 tanning to page edges, previous owner's label adhered to front inside cover & title page)
PUBLISHER: Nautical Association of Australia Inc 2008
KEYWORDS: merchant ships history australian new zealand shipping nautical south pacific robert bob tompkins
Samoa: A Hundred Years Ago, and Long Before. Together With Notes on the Cults and Customs of Twenty-Three Other Islands in the Pacific
FIRST EDITION, octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, black rule to spine & board edges, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 395pp + 32pp catalogue to rear, VG- (moderate cracking to rear hinge of spine, moderate soiling/tanning to spine with 1x sm label also, light bruising & scuffing to extrems, heavy soiling to rear board, minor soiling to front board, light tanning & moderate soiling to page edges, spine sl cocked, single library plate to front pastedown, heavy scuffing to front gutter, light soiling to prelims & sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to rear gutter)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1884
KEYWORDS: Pacific islands Samoa history historical travel writing literature exploration islands history culture first editions
The Spanish Lake: The Pacific Since Magellan, Volume I
SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus plate to front board, illus/maps at eps, xxiv + 372pp, illus, VG+ (sl rubbing to extrems, sl chafing to boards, light foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals) in blue buckram slipcase with blue lettering on title plate to spine, VG+ (light to moderate scuffing)
PUBLISHER: Australian National University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: history exploration Pacific Spanish explorers maritime nautical voyages
Island Exiles
SIGNED, octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, black lettering to spine, unpaginated illus prelims + 200pp, VG (light to moderate creasing & light soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in pencil to half title page)
PUBLISHER: ABC Books 1996
KEYWORDS: signed Jemima Garrett Pacific islands Nauru history
Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol III: Comprising the Eastern Groups, Including Archipel Tubai, the Cook Islands and Iles de la Societe; Archipel des Tuamotu; iles Marquises; the Line Islands and Scattered Islands Near the Equator; and the Hawaiian Islands
THIS VOL ONLY, ex-library, super 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: Hydrographic Department, Admiralty 1957
KEYWORDS: pacific islands navigation orthography geography Polynesia maritime nautical
Winding Up the British Empire in the Pacific Islands
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvi + 278pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl chafing)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 2014
KEYWORDS: Great Britain British empire history government Pacific Islands independence colonialism
Australian Imperialism in the Pacific: The Expansionist Era 1820-1920
Octavo, grey heavy boards, black lettering to spine, xii + 289pp, VG+ (sl marking to rear board, sl tanning & soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, sl soiling)
PUBLISHER: Melbourne University Press 1980
KEYWORDS: history Australia Pacific imperialism foreign relations
Researches in Polynesia and Melanesia: An Account of Investigations in Samoa, Tonga, the Ellice Group. and the New Hebrides in 1924, 1925 : Parts V-VII (Relating to Human Diseases and Welfare)
Imperial octavo, maroon buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, patterned eps, xi + 139pp, plates to rear, VG- (moderate to heavy scuffing to spine & boards/edges & extrems, minor fading to spine & board edges, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl foxing to prelims, minor soiling sporadically throughout, moderate cracking to gutters at rear)
PUBLISHER: The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 1928
KEYWORDS: old medical books elephantitis elephantiasis filariasis Polynesia Melanesia pacific islands human disease diseases welfare medicine
Stewart's Hand Book of the Pacific Islands: A Reliable Guide to All the Inhabited Islands of the Pacific Ocean for Traders, Tourists and Settlers
Octavo, illus light card wrappers, printed inside covers, unpaginated prelims + 286pp, illus, G+ (large portion of spine covering missing, heavy creasing & tanning to spine & covers/edges- bottom corner of front cover missing, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, contents quite tidy still)
PUBLISHER: McCarron, Stewart & Co 1918
KEYWORDS: pacific islands historical guides traders tourism tourists migration
Savage Civilisation
Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 461pp, illus, folding map to rear, VG (light tanning & rubbing to spine, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & light foxing/soiling to page edges, light tanning & soiling to front eps, light tanning & foxing to rear eps & terminals, occasional foxing throughout)
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1937
KEYWORDS: Pacific New Hebrides islands anthropology
John Frum He Come: A Polemical Work About a Black Tragedy
Octavo, brown buckram boards, yellow & red lettering to black buckram spine, deckled page fore-edges, red speckling to base of page block, maps to eps, xxv + 262pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, moderate soiling to spine area, other light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to spine & cover edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Doubleday 1974
KEYWORDS: anthropology New Hebrides Pacific islands John Frum cults cargo cult Tanna
Beyond the Coral Sea: Travels in the Old Empire of the South-West Pacific
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: HarperCollins 2003
KEYWORDS: exploration travel south-west pacific writing literature anthropology New Guinea
Western Pacific Islands
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: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1970
KEYWORDS: western pacific islands history Austin Coates
D-Day New Guinea
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: Allen & Unwin 2019
KEYWORDS: Pacific war military history Lae aviation naval aerial maritime warfare ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2
Solomon Time: An Unlikely Quest in the South Pacific
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: Scribner 2003
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Solomon Islands south pacific Will Randall
Nguna Voices: Text and Culture from the Central Vanuatu
SIGNED, INSCRIBED & DATED, super octavo, illus glossy light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xii + 351pp, VG+ (light creasing/curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing to covers, light fading to spine, light tanning & soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Calgary Press 1988
KEYWORDS: signed Ellen E Facey Vanuatu ethnology folklore lore Nguna culture Pacific islands
A Directory for the Navigation of the South Pacific Ocean; with Descriptions of its Coasts, Islands etc, from the Strait of Magalhaens to Panama, and Those of New Zealand, Australia etc, its Winds, Currents and Passages (Third Edition)
Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, blind stamp decoration to boards, folding map/frontispiece, viii + 966pp, illus/folding maps, VG- (moderate bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy scuffing & cracking/bruising to spine, light chafing to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor tanning & foxing/soiling to eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate foxing & soiling to prelims inc. folding map frontis, occasional moderate foxing sporadically throughout, occasional light to moderate cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: Published for Richard Holmes Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, EC 1871, With Additions to 1874
KEYWORDS: south pacific ocean directories geology landscapes islands history historical
Healing Practices in the South Pacific
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