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large 8vo [24 x 16 cm], xiv, 239 pp, frontis, well illustrated from photos, pictorial endpapers, index. original cloth, silver title lettering on spine and front cover, minimal rubbing to edge, else fine clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. By the well-known American plant and seed collector; he had a tropical garden in Florida named after him. This book includes numerous fascinating photos, mainly of plant life but also of the native peoples, throughout the Malaya archipelago and related islands. Fairchild and his party were the last Americans to visit the Celebes and the Moluccas before the Japanese invaded in 1940.
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Personal account of the Pacific war from 1943 to 1945 by a British naval officer attached to the US Pacific Fleet. Enser, p.459; Law 0608.
8vo., First Edition, with 26 plates on 16, 4 full-page maps in the text and a double-page plan; original blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly chafed (without material loss) at head and tail of backstrip and a little age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. The sequel to the author's classic 'Unbroken' (1953). Now in command of HMS Thule, Mars is sent to join the Eastern Fleet in Ceylon. Enser, p.418; Law, 1129.
367p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition tattered d.j. fair
8vo [23 x 16 cm]; xviii, 108 pp, bibliography. original pictorial cloth with gilt title lettering on front cover and spine, a clean and fine copy, unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A good reference that gives a chronological list of vessels, an index of vessel and persons, a list of important expeditions to Hawaii, plus a bibliography of about 250 books, which indicate the number of illustrations of Hawaii, etc. The first edition of 1929 became a standard reference and this edition was enlarged and corrected by Lind.
8vo [22 x 15 cm]; x, [ii], 337 pp, frontis (port), 37 illustrations from photos, foldout map, index. original cloth, gilt lettering on spine, very good+ clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author, a colonial officer for many years in New Guinea, writes from his experiences of the people and places, with much on the native peoples. Presented from the Bull Family on the endpaper.
Light wear to DJ. ; Author Andersen-Rosendal journeys to the island of Tonga to see if the stories of jolly natives are true; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 272 pages
Light wear to boards. Front hinge weakening. Endpapers a bit yellowed; Profusely illustrated with beautiful b&w photographs ; 8vo; 233 pages
A complete history of the 'world's last paradise.' ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 256 pages
Of course Jack London is best known for his writings but he also was a sailor of note. This volume examines his journey to the South Seas, a trip of two years undertaken with his wife and a skeleton crew. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 167 pages
Boards browned; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 30 pages
Spine lettering a bit faded; Rituals and festivals in Papua New Guinea. US distribution paper label on title page, as issued; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 162 pages
Boards with light wear to extremities; In the immediate postwar era, Hawaii and the South Sea Islands were an uneasy combination of the traditional and the encroachment of the modern world, as author Furnas relates. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 542 pages
DJ browned and with light chipping along edges. Price clipped. Boards browned along edges and with one corner lightly bumped; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 188 pages
8vo [22 x 15 cm]; x, [ii], 337 pp, frontis (port), 37 illustrations from photos, foldout map, index. original cloth, gilt lettering on spine a little faded, few margins with leaves opened carelessly, very good clean copy. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author, a colonial officer for many years in New Guinea, writes from his experiences of the people and places, with much on the native peoples.
Boards sunned, especially spine and with rubbing to extremities. Edges browned. Hinges started; Grass green boards with pictorial design of palm trees and orange lettering ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 508 pages
Decoration to spine and boards a bit faded; Author O'Brien travels to the South Seas and describes visits to Tahiti and Papeete, among others. Color fold-out map outlines the journey. Tissue protected frontispiece. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 534 pages
Boards with light wear to extremities. Spine a bit slanted. ; The burgeoning Japanese empire of the late 1930s, and their sweeping reach, is the subject herein.; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 323 pages
DJ a bit browned and with light chipping. Price clipped. Endpapers a bit yellowed. Otherwise a very handsome and tight copy ; A fifteen year sojourn in the South Seas, after a career on the stage and screen is herein described.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 372 pages
Light foxing to frontispiece and title page not affecting text/image; Red boards with gilt lettering; 8vo; 214 pages
18 pages, including 2 in-text sketch maps. Plus spectacular photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. A fascinating study of the modern Stone Age people known as the Kukukuku, similar both culturally and physically to certain groups on the Papuan side of the boundary, and living in the Morobe district of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea; a remarkable people whose most valuable assett is the bamboo, and whose skill and patience is displayed as they make clubheads and other simple tools by selecting round water-warn stones from the stream and shaping them by rubbing them on a stone. A truly captivating report illustrated with many incredible photographic images of the natives.
10 pages, plus 2 full-page colour maps and several photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is an illuminating paper by Professor Bouwer who took with him a group of students to study the most interesting islands in the East Indies, the archipelago located at the intersection of two great zones of crustal weakness of the earth. Some of the islands studied included the Wetar, Lirang, Alor, and Lomblen and also the volcanic islands of Adonara, Solor, and the eastern part of Flores. In the eastern part the mountain-building processes are still active, while the portion to the west of Makassar Strait has long been more or less stable, except where it borders upon the Indian Ocean. Among subjects discussed include morphological features of the islands, geological composition and structure, the rate and direction of movement of the earth's crust, geographic distribution of volcanoes and evolution of volcanic activity, Accompanied by 2 full-page colour maps, one of which shows active and extinct volcanoes, also included are amazing photographic images depicting native house at Kaslio and market at Kefamenanoe in Timor.
20 pages with several in-text sketch maps and diagrams, plus a fold-out sketch map and a few photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The author provides a detailed geological profile of the Solomons, from the Santa Cruz Group, Rennell, Bellona, the Shortlands, the Central islands, Western San Cristoval, and including also outlying coral islands. Featuring also Gaudalcanal and the Savo Volcano. Scientific observations were gained during his six years of prolific work. He remarks that Choiseul and the New Georgia Group were still 'largely unexplored', and expected to remain as such for another two years. John Grover was born in Sydney, Australia in 1920. He served in the Middle East and New Guinea during World War II with the Royal Australian Engineers of the AIF. He then followed a distinguished career in the earth sciences and mining industry in the South West Pacific, Australia and Africa. He received a Royal Society and Nuffield Grant in 1967 and managed the major U.N. Development Project in Ethiopia in 1975-77. His two books "The Struggle For Power" and "The Struggle For Cargo" are widely regarded as classics in the anti-uranium/nuclear and anti-mining movements. An Ambitious Undertaking for a Thorough Scientific Survey of the Solomon Islands.
18 pages, including an in-text sketch map. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. This is a most captivating travel account featuring remote villages and the indigenous people and of New Guinea, describing the devastation and damage caused by an earthquake in the Torricelli Mountains, and revealing European influence. Marshall imparts his observations on the Wapei people, whom he greatly enjoyed spending time with, on their customs, ceremonies, sparse dress, superstition, hunting, agriculture, trade , and their villages which were usually built along a ridge and sometimes by excavating holes in the sandstone. While recounting various routes of exploration, he also shares knowledge gained of the Bogasip people who were yet uninfluenced by the European, and of the people of the Vanimo district in Dutch New Guinea.
22 pages, including 2 sketch maps and photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The author’s first-hand account of New Guinea’s terrain and Campaign in 1942, depicting the battles between Japanese, Australian and American. Accompanied by 2 sketch maps, showing the battle area and the Buna-Kokoda road, and many amazing photographic plates showing View of Wewak harbor, mandated territory, at the time a Japanese naval base; Owen Stanley Mountains; Isurava, 300 feet; Camp on terrace near Orori, 400 feet; Kokoda Government Station, Boroka; Government rubber plantation in Kokoda; Buna plain an inhabited area, fortified with gun emplacements by Japanese; and Kumusi river.
