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American Activities in the Central Pacific, 1790-1870. Volume 8.

by Ward, R. Gerard, editor.

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Gregg Press, Ridgewood, N.J. [1967]. Hard Cover. vii, 295 p.; 26.5 cm. [Appendix I, Atlantic Ocean Reports; Appendix II, Indian Ocean Reports; Index of Vessels, Persons, Ports; Subject and Island Index]. A history, geography & ethnography pertaining to American involvement & Americans in the Pacific, taken from contemporary newspapers, etc. Introduction by Ernest S. Dodge. The Central Pacific Islands Projects 1790-1870, directed by Rear Admiral John W. McElroy & S. W. Boggs for the W.P.A. Early & extensive American activity in the Pacific Ocean (whaling & sealing, missionaries, trading, exploration) meant that there might be valid U.S. claim to many smaller, less apparently significant islands. Information was gathered from Massachusetts depositories (ships' logs, private logs & journals, contemporary printed records). Notices are in chronological order under each island name. Stock# 39,208x. Vg, bound in cream pictorial linen, a bit foxed;
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American Activities in the Central Pacific, 1790-1870. Volume 7 [Tahiti-Zephyr Shoal]...

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Gregg Press, Ridgewood, N.J. [1967].. Hard Cover. xiii, 545 p., index, plates incl. portraits of men, ships, islanders;7 folding maps, charts, 26.5 cm. A history, geography and ethnography pertaining to American involvement and Americans in the Pacific taken from contemporary newspapers, etc. Introduction by Ernest S. Dodge. The Central Pacific Islands Projects 1790-1870, directed by Rear Admiral John W. McElroy & S. W. Boggs for the W.P.A. Early and extensive American activity in the Pacific Ocean (whaling & sealing, missionaries, trading, exploration) meant that there might be valid U.S. claim to many smaller, less apparently significant islands. Information was gathered from Massachusetts depositories (ships' logs, private logs & journals, contemporary printed records). Notices are in chronological order under each island name. Stock# 39,207. Vg, bound in cream pictorial linen, spine just beginning to darken; Mapping; exploration; anthropology & sociology.
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American Activities in the Central Pacific, 1790-1870. Volume 5 [Namoluk-Pingelap]...

by Ward, R. Gerard, editor. Dodge, Ernest S.

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Gregg Press, Ridgewood, N.J. [1967]. Hard Cover. xiii, 578 p., index, plates incl. portraits of men, ships, islanders;6 folding maps, charts; 26.5 cm. A history, geography and ethnography pertaining to American involvement and Americans in the Pacific, taken from contemporary newspapers, etc. Introduction by Ernest S. Dodge. The Central Pacific Islands Projects 1790-1870, directed by Rear Admiral John W. McElroy & S. W. Boggs for the W.P.A. Early and extensive American activity in the Pacific Ocean (whaling & sealing, missionaries, trading, exploration) meant that there might be valid U.S. claim to many smaller, less apparently significant islands. Information was gathered from Massachusetts depositories (ships' logs, private logs & journals, contemporary printed records). Notices are in chronological order under each island name. Stock# 39,205. Vg, bound in cream pictorial linen, spine just beginning to darken;
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American Activities in the Central Pacific, 1790-1870. Volume 4 [Ladd's Island-Motu Iti (Hergest) Rock]...

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Gregg Press, Ridgewood, N.J. [1967. Hard Cover. xiii, 695 p., illus., 7 fold. maps, index, 26.5 cm. A history, geography and ethnography pertaining to American involvement and Americans in the Pacific taken from contemporary newspapers, etc. Introduction by Ernest S. Dodge. Gregg Press, Ridgewood, N.J. [1967]. xiii, 695 p., index, plates incl. portraits of men, ships, islanders; folding maps, charts; bound in cream pictorial linen, a bit foxed; VG+. The Central Pacific Islands Projects 1790-1870, directed by Rear Admiral John W. McElroy & S. W. Boggs for the W.P.A. Early and extensive American activity in the Pacific Ocean (whaling & sealing, missionaries, trading, exploration) meant that there might be valid U.S. claim to many smaller, less apparently significant islands. Information was gathered from Massachusetts depositories (ships' logs, private logs & journals, contemporary printed records). Notices are in chronological order under each island name. Stock# 39,204. Vg/ no… Read More
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The Blue Mountains and Jenolan Caves. A Camera Study.

by Hurley, Frank.

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Angus & Robertson, Sydney [1952]. . Hard Cover. 116 p. including 71 full-page photos (7 color incl. front.), text & endpaper maps; paper-covered boards, navy cloth spine stamped in gold; covers spotted, stained, corners bumped; withal VG. First edition. A photographic exploration of limestone caves in the Great Dividing Range of New South Wales. Contents include Andrew Mayne, The Old Shale and Coal Mines; Paddy Pallin, Walking in the Blue Mountains; Muir Holburn, Jenolan Revisited. stock#101375
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Catalogue 1017. Australia, New Zealand, The Pacific.

Catalogue 1017. Australia, New Zealand, The Pacific.: Africa, Asia, Australia, South America & West Indies. Catalogue 51.

by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (firm). D&E Lake Ltd. (firm).

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Two bookseller catalogues. Quaritch 1017, 385 items, illus.; Lake 51, 158 items. Both in paper covers; both Good or better. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0318.
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Displaying Australia And New Guinea Memorabilia for U. S. Forces in Australia

by Tennent, George J., and Hay, William O.,comps.

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, The Australia Story Trust [1945]. Hard Cover. 254, [2] p. incl. front., illus. (incl. ports.). 34 cm. "Printed in Chicago" "Compiled by George J. Tennent and William O. Hay." p. [256]. Detailed pictorial record of Australian life and institutions prepared for United States military forces stationed there during World War II. Stock# 39,343. Good+, worn at corners/ no dj.
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The Fatal Shore.

by Hughes, Robert.

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Knopf, NY, 1987. ‘Sixth Printing, March 1987'. Hard Cover. xvi p., [10] p. of maps, 688 p., index, plates; 24 cm. ‘The missing element in most accounts of the System has been the voices of the convicts themselves. The System left a mountain of official paper behind it. We hear a great deal from the administrators, the witnesses in the select committees, the parsons, the jailers, the masters; from the convicts themselves, very little. Accordingly I have tried, as far as possible, to see the System from below, through convicts' testimony-- in letters, depositions, petitions and memoirs-- about their own experiences. Much of this material is hitherto unpublished, and much more awaits study. It turns out that one common assumption is quite wrong: far from being a mute mass, the convicts did have a voice, or rather many voices. This book is largely about what they tell us of their suffering and survival,… Read More
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The Fatal Shore

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Knopf, NY, 1987.. Hard Cover. Book club edition. xvi p., [10] p. of maps, 688 p., index, plates; 24 cm. 'The epic of Australia's founding.' Stock# 34,491. Vg, owner's blindstamp/ dj good+. English judicial history; Australian history, society, culture; penal colonies; exiles.
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The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 / Robert Hughes

by Hughes, Robert, 1938-

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London : Collins Harvill, 1987, c1986. Hard Cover. 680, [32] p of plates : ill, facsims, ports ; 25 cm. Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1986. Bibliography: p656-670. - Includes index. Stock# 35,167. Good+, ex-lib. stamps, but not circulated/ dj vg.
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Flinders Chase, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Place of Enchantment for Nature-lovers

by Masterman, Mervinia

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Georgian House, Melbourne [1950]. Hard Cover. 62 p., monochrome marginal vignettes throughout, 2 color botanical plates, 22.5 cm. Written and Illustrated by Mervinia Masterman. Endpaper map. With two handmade bookmarks by the author, each with a small botanical color sketch. A profile of the Sanctuary for Fauna and Flora off the South Coast of Australia near Adelaide. Contents include The Apiary and Bees, Spiny Anteaters, Wallabies, Koala Bears, The Sooty Kangaroo, 'Possums, Goannas, Birds of the Chase, Wild Flowers and Trees, Cape du Couedic and the Remarkable Rocks. Stock# 39,333. Vg, pictorial paper-covered boards lightly soiled, spine edges chipped. Natural science, zoology, botany.
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Forgotten Islands of the South Seas. Translated by F. H. Lyon.

by Danielsson, Bengt, b. 1921.

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London, Allen & Unwin [1957].. Hard Cover. 204 p., index, plates (photos), maps; 22 cm. Translated from the Swedish 'Söderhavets Glömda Öar'. 'Bengt Danielsson, since his arrival in the South Seas on the Kon-Tiki raft, has spent a great deal of time on the island groups. This is the story of his travels with his wife to the Marquesas after ill-health and the inadequate diet had forced them to leave Raroia. With the trained eye of the anthropologist and the sympathetic attitude of a tolerant and friendly man, he describes the people and the [Marquesas] islands and records their many contradictions of character. …They are made real and understandable by Danielsson's accurate and vivid descriptions.' Stock# 39,328. Vg/ dj fair, worn, chipped at top of spine. South Pacific, Polynesia; travel, adventure; anthropology, ethnology, society, culture.
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A Letter from the South Seas by a Voyager on the Daedalus, 1792.

by Earnshaw, John, editor. [House, William, d. 1807?]

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Talkarra Press, Cremorne, N. S. W., 1957. Hard Cover. Signed. [18], [21] p.; title-page vignette stamped in blue; 21 cm. Introduced and Annotated by John Earnshaw. The manuscript letter is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. 'Unsigned and incomplete, half in verse and half in prose, covering four closely written pages…', it is a nice thumbnail sketch of early British trading presence in the South Pacific. Signed and numbered by the printer, Walter W. Stone, in the colophon; one of 250 copies. Vg, blue cloth; spine faded, ex-University of Melbourne Library with bookplate & modest stamp. Stock#39292.
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Malaya.

by Ginsburg, Norton, Chester F. Roberts, Jr. et al.

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1958, University of Washington Press, Seattle. The American Ethnological Society. Hard Cover. 'Singapore and the Federation have been considered together as an entity, and the two are discussed under the regional name, Malaya.' With the collaboration of Leonard Comber, Burton Stein, C. Lester Stermer, John E. Trotter. Includes Demographic Patterns; Patterns of Settlements; Systems of Transportation and Telecommunications; Communication in a Plural Society; The Malays in Malaya; The Chinese in Malaya; The Indians in Malaya; The Economic System; Political Organization and Development. A close environmental, social, economic, and political overview following independence on 31 August 1957. Lithographed typescript; xii, 533 p., index, tables, maps; green paper-covered boards, tan spine, stamped in white; bottom of front hinge torn, front cover stained, else good+. 100803
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Mystic Isles of the South Seas, by Frederick O'Brien ... with many illustrations from photographs.

by O'Brien, Frederick.

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New York, The Century Co., 1921.. Hard Cover. xv, 534 p. front., plates, ports., fold. map. 23 cm. (Plates printed on both sides.) Tahiti described in the second book on the pacific islands by O'Brien. Stock# 39,319. Vg/ dj good, top of spine torn.
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New England and the South Seas

New England and the South Seas

by Dodge, Ernest S. (Stanley), 1913-1980

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Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press, 1965.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. xv, 216 p., illus., ports.; 23.5 cm. "In substance a series of eight lectures given before the Lowell Institute in Boston during February 1962." The second chapter, "Hunting the cachalot": p. 27-56, is on whaling. Bibliography: p. 199-204. Inscribed by Dodge to his friend Stuart Sherman. Stock#45218. Vg / dj good+.
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The Pacific Dependencies of the United States.

by Coulter, John Wesley, 1893-1967.

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New York, Macmillan, 1957.. Hard Cover. xv, 388 p. illus. 21.5 cm. Detailed studies of Hawaii, Truk, Dsmos, Guam, the Marianas, Ponape, the Marshalls, and other United States Insular possessions in Micronesia. Stock# 39,945. Vg/ dg good+
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The Pacific Islands. Revised Edition. Illustrations by Sheila Mitchell Oliver.

by Oliver, Douglas L. Oliver, Sheila Mitchell, illustrator.

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Cambridge, MA, Harvard UP, 1962. Hard Cover. xix, 456 p., index; 20.5 cm. Includes The Islands (Oceanic Eden; Coming of the Islanders; Australian Aborigines; Melanesians; Polynesians; Micronesians); Aliens (Explorers, 1520-1780; Whalers, Traders & Missionaries, 1780-1850; Planters, Blackbirders & Merchants, 1850-1914; Miners & Administrators, 1914-1939); Metamorphosis (Scope of Change; Dispossessed; Salvation; Coconut Civilization; Sugar Revolution; Sea Harvest; Bases; Profit & Loss); Cataclysm & Aftermath (World War II; After the Battles; Midcentury: Events & Prospects). Stock# 39,329. Vg/ dj clipped; near fine.
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Pitcairn: Children of Mutiny.

by Ball, Ian M.

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Little, Brown [1973]. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. xvi, 380 p., index, photos, maps; 21.5 cm. 'A study of an extraordinary society with a new look at the Bounty mutiny and the roles of William Bligh and Fletcher Christian.' Stock# 38,522. Good+/ pictorial dj chipped, worn, bottom of spine torn, remains of owner's label on flyleaf;
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Profile of Australia.

by McGregor, Craig.

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Penguin Books [1968].. Soft Cover. ‘Cover design by Barry Tutt.’ 416 p., index, drawings by Bruce Petty; paper covers a bit worn; VG. Contents include The Great Australian Myths; The People; Morals and Manners; Class; Life in the City; Popular Culture; Life in the Country; Politics; The Arts; Ideas, Opinions, Intellectuals; The Beach Generation; Black and White Australia; The Economics of Affluence; Patterns of Power; The Future. Stock# 39,291. Good+, paper covers a bit worn. Australian society, history, culture.
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