Books - "pacific"
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Un Siecle et demi de Contacts Culturels a Tanna: Nouvelles-Hebrides
TEXT IN FRENCH, imperial octavo, grey light card wrappers, black text to spine & wrapper, x + 426pp, illus/plates/maps, VG (moderate tanning to wrapper, moderate scuffing & creasing to spine & wrapper corners, light tanning to pages)
PUBLISHER: Publications de la Societe des Oceanistes, No 5 Musee de l'Homme 1956
KEYWORDS: text in french memoir honore laval mangareva history catholic mission polynesia pacific christian new hebrides vanuatu
Twenty-five years of Mission Life on Tanna, New Hebrides
FIRST EDITION,octavo, burgundy heavy boards, gilt decoration to front board & gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 391pp, illus + plates (not counted, presumed all present), G+ (heavy soiling to boards & spine, light to moderate scuffing & chafing to boards & spine, two gouges with surface loss to spine, moderate insect damage to boards & page block, front gutter & page 48-49 gutter cracked, moderate soiling & tanning to pages, light foxing to pages, gift inscription of N[?] Watt to fep)
PUBLISHER: J and R Parlane 1896
KEYWORDS: new hebrides colonial christian mission female nineteenth century memoir presbyterian reformed missionaries polynesia pacific tanna vanuatu
Messengers of Grace: Evangelical Missionaries in the South Seas 1797-1860
Octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, frontispiece, x + 437pp, illus, VG+ (v slight scuffing to board corners & extrems, light foxing & tanning to page edges) in d/w VG+ (slight creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & fading, slight chafing to rear of jacket)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1978
KEYWORDS: protestant south seas missionaries missions evangelical colonisation christian pacific polynesia
Captain Cook and the South Pacific: The British Museum Yearbook 3
Imperial 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: Australian National University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: history exploration Captain James Cook South Pacific
Among the Islands
Ex-library, 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: Text Publishing 2011
KEYWORDS: Tim Flannery exploration science pacific zoology Melanesia biology
The People of the Sea: The Maritime Dimension of Pacific Island History
WARMLY INSCRIBED & SIGNED PHD THESIS, LATER PUBLISHED AS BOOK OF THE SAME TITLE, quarto, royal blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xiii + 335pp, illus, Nr FINE, (v sl foxing to page edges, v sl bruising to corners)
PUBLISHER: A Thesis Submitted for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University, March 2001
KEYWORDS: phd thesis paul d'arcy pacific island history polynesia maritime marine
A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean 1796-1798
FACSIMILE EDITION WITH FOLDING MAPS TO REAR, super octavo, white heavy boards, black text to spine, xix + 420pp, illus/maps (all present), VG+ (slight bruising to spine, light soiling to board edges, upper page edges moderately foxed) in d/w VG+ (slight creasing to edges, light to moderate tanning to spine, slight soiling to jacket)
PUBLISHER: Fruhe Reisen Und Seefahrten in Originalberichten Band 5, Akademische Druck Austria 1966
KEYWORDS: james wilson missionary missionaries south seas pacific polynesia christianity history colonisation
The History of the Melansian Mission
Tidy ex-library, super octavo, burgundy buckram boards, upper page edges dyed grey, lower page edges deckled, frontispiece, xxviii + 372pp, illus + maps + plates (all present) VG+ (slight brusing & scuffing to edges of spine & boards, light fading & soiling to spine, light soiling & tanning to page edges, library sticker to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: Isbister and Company Limited 1900
KEYWORDS: melaniesian mission christian colonisation george augustus selwyn polynesia pacific ocean islands missionaries anglican free church of scotland
Pacific Neighbours: New Zealand's Relations with Other Pacific Islands / Aotearoa me Nga Moutere o te Moana Nui a Kiwa
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: MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies of the University of Canterbury / Institute of Pacific Studies of the University of the South Pacific 1992
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa pacific islands foreign relations politics
Old Growth in a New World: A Pacific Northwest Icon Reexamined
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: Island Press 2008
KEYWORDS: forests nature northwest pacific region ecology conservation
Clowning as Critical Practice: Performance Humor in the South Pacific
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: University of Pittsburgh Press 1992
KEYWORDS: PNG Papua New Guinea humour humor comedy south pacific anthropology
Captain Cook in Alaska and the North Pacific
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: Todd Communications 2008
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical exploration history Captain James Cook Alaska North Pacific
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
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
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