The Discovery Of the Pacific Islands

European Discovery of the Pacific Islands by Andrew Sharp accompanied by b+w illustrations.

Oxford, University (Clarendon) Press, 1969 Corrected Ed.. Hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Halfbound leather fine binding, with marbled paper boards. Raised and gilt banding to spine with red and black leather spine labels. In very good condition. Later fine binding. Pages and maps all very clean and tight throughout. No previous owners inscriptions or marks. Else a very good… Read more about this item

Oxford at the Clarendon Press.. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1969. Reprint. Hard Cover. With 6 maps, 4 plates, usual library markings, reprinted from the corrected sheets of the first edition. ; Ex-Library; 225 x 145mm; xiii, 259 pages .

Oxford; At The Clarendon Press; 1960.. First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xvi, 260; six full page maps, 4 b/w plates, bibliography, index, original blue cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket price clipped, very good copy. The purpose of the book is to establish the true title to the discovery of the various islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Dust wrapper in plastic jacket taped to the boards. The front flap of the dust wrapper is missing, but the blurb from the front flap has been cut out and pasted to the front fly leaf. Unrelated marginalia on page… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press (Clarendon). Used - Very Good. 1960. First Edition Cloth, dj., 259 pp., illus. Dj. is price clipped, has some light wear. Ink markings on fpep. Otherwise, fine.. (Subject: Exploration.)

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1960. 1st edition. Near Fine. octavo.. hardback with dust jacket 259pp., b/w pls., maps, index,

Oxford: at The Clarendon Press, 1960 8vo. xiv,259pp. 4 plates, 6 maps, biblio., index. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully… Read more about this item

Hardback. New. In this book his purpose is to establish the true title to the discovery of the various islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia by abstracting from the original records the relevant topographical, nautical, and other clues and comparing them with the modern data.

Oxford, Clarendon Press 1960. (XIII, 1) 259 p. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth with dustjacket (Exteriors of the dustjacket rubbed at places, otherwise in good condition.)

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