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19941770150105001Arc Music 1994-04-07. Audio CD. Like New. CD plays perfectly & the case looks good. Arc Music unknown
2012Biblio3100Very good overall condition. Text is clean & tight & unmarked; text block is mildly bent at top. Several corners lower of text are slightly creased/curled. Moderate cover wear with several shallow indentations to upper left corner of front cover; mild discoloration to bottom of back cover. No spine creasing.<br /> Pensoft Pub paperback
3659073555.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1786H14134London: Alex. Hogg 1786. Very Good. Print from James Cook's voyages as published by Alex. Hogg in 1784-86. Visible area measures 13.75 x 9.5 inches double matted framed and glazed to high archival standards; frame measures 20 x 15 inches. Light soil and two small holes along bottom edge of visible area. Alex. Hogg unknown
228062 August 1842. 5 x 5 inches in good condition. George Pritchard 17961883 missionary and diplomatist. In 1824 Pritchard left on a cargo ship bound for Tahiti in the Society Islands of the Pacific Ocean to undertake missionary work for the London Missionary Society. In 1837 Pritchard was appointed as British consul for the Georgian Society Navigator's and Friendly islands and advised Queen Pomare throughout the critical period leading to the temporary annexation by France of the islands in 1843. He returned to England in 1856 and in 1878 published an account Queen Pomare and her Country. unknown
1784294481784. Print. Very good condition. Omai was the first Polynesian Ambassador to England. He traveled with Captain Cook as an interpreter on his 2nd & 3rd voyages and was the physical embodiment of the "noble savage" in London Society for a time. This copper engtraving is Plate XXIX published in a Dutch edition of Cook's voyages. 4 1/4 x 6 3/8" nice impression. unknown
187828139London:: Elliot Stock 1878. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Very Good copy of this slim volume in red cloth binding with gilt coverlettering on. Queen Pomare IV written by British Consul and a Missionary of the London Missionary Society Mr George Pritchard who resided in Tahiti during the greater part of the Queen's life. Pritchard concentrates on the time when French war ships invaded Tahiti. The Queen was intimidated and robbed of her possessions only because "France was one great nation and that France had 60 frigates". Elliot Stock, hardcover
177329442London: Sydney Parkinson 1773. First printing. Print. Very good condition. This print was drawn by Sydney Parkinson on Captain Cook's first voyage where the 'Endeavour' expedition astronomers observed the Transit of Venus on June 3rd 1769. This image of ethnographical art shows basketry feather work a hatchet a wooden pillow fish hooks etc. This is a copper engraving Plate XIII from ' A journal of a voyage to the South Seas in His Majesty's ship The Endeavour' by Sydney Parkinson. S. H. Grimm del;; W. Darling Sculp. 8 x 10" on 10 x 121/4" watermarked sheet. Sydney Parkinson unknown
192910862Pacific Ocean: RMS Tahiti. Fair with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Tears and chips to margins of wrappers and first leaf.; Memorabilia from one year before the loss of the vessel. 36 pages. Page dimensions: 286 x 214mm. Also included is a "Souvenir Programme" for a "Combined Conert Dance Prize-Giving and Farewell Evening" on the Second Saloon Deck July 31st 1929. The programme has the signatures and addresses of 17 passengers including passengers from England San Francisco Los Angeles and Bermuda. Also included is a ephemera for the Tahiti Cup Meeting of the RMS Tahiti Jockey Club 25 July 1929. The RMS Tahiti was a New Zealand passenger steam ship. It sailed between San Francisco and Sydney stopping at New Zealand and Tahiti. In August 1930 the ship sank 400 miles from Rarotonga after a propeller shaft broke and created a hole in the stern of the ship. All passengers were saved. Internet Reference: wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx32137. "As our 7330 mile journey draws to a close and San Francisco metaphorically speaking is within walking distance we take this opportunity of presenting a resume of the good ship's progress on this memorable trip which commenced on the afternoon of July 12th at Sydney." - page 7. ; 8vo . RMS Tahiti paperback
177319897London: Stansfield Parkinson 1773. First printing. Print. Very good condition. A copper engraving of a Tahitian mother and child from Captain Cook's first voyage where the 'Endeavour' expedition astronomers observed the Transit of Venus on June 3rd 1769. This is from ' A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas in His Majesty's ship The Endeavour' by Sydney Parkinson. Thomas Chambers was the engraver after Sydney Parkinson. Full margin and platemarks faint crescent watermark in top right corner. Engraving tipped onto thin blue paper with slight show through at the top corners. The backing blue paper is from a period scrap album. 9 1/2 x 12 Stansfield Parkinson unknown
182237418Boston: Samue T. Armstrong and Crocker & Brewster New York: John P. Haven 1822. First American edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Later burgundy cloth browning and spotting some short tears and creases. From the library of John Mason Warinner with bookplate. First American edition. 1 vols. 12mo. With much on voyage in the Duff and on Tahiti. Ferguson 870 locating only one copy; O'Reilly & Reitman 683; S & S Samue T. Armstrong, and Crocker & Brewster, New York: John P. Haven unknown
1869245034Paris: Librairie Internationale Boulevard Montmartre 15. A. Lacroix Verboeckoven et Cie. Éditeurs à Bruxelles à Leipzig à Livourne 1869. First edition. 56 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green printed wrappers part of back wrapper mising front covers chipped at top and loose else internally fine. First edition. 56 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Jacolliot was a barrister and author who lived on Tahiti India and other parts of Asia He collected and transcribed Sanskrit myths. Madame Blavatsky and Nietzsche were influenced by him.<br /> <br /> This pamphlet is a defense of the actions taken by the French Commissioner Émile de la Roncière who wanted to set up a financial system of local taxation reducing Tahiti's dependence on France.<br /> <br /> Roncière was the famous victim of a French miscarriage of justi having been convicted in 1835 on unbelievavble eveidence of assaulting Marie de Morell the 16 year old daughter of a Cavalry General. Many prominent peoplke rallied to his defense but he served 8 years in prison and was not completely exonerated until 1849. This was known as "L'Affaire de la Ronci``ere." O'Reilly # 6903 Librairie Internationale, Boulevard Montmartre, 15. A. Lacroix, Verboeckoven et Cie. Éditeurs à Bruxelles, à Leipzig, à Livo unknown
1851459155London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans. 1851. Hardcover. Acceptable condition. First edition. No dust jacket. Several marks and stains on boards. Light bump on lower edge of front board. Spine is cocked. Spine ends and edges are worn bumped and nicked. Leading corners are worn bumped and split. Hinges are cracked. Minor ink marking on FEP and rear pastedown. Minor foxing at a few points. Contents are clear. AF. Hardcover. Acceptable/No Dust Jacket. Used. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Hardcover
182914664London: Fisher Son & Jackson 1829. First Edition. Eight engraved plates two maps one folding and other woodcut illustrations in text. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards brown calf spine and tips boards abraded and spines worn some internal staining but a tight crisp copy. First Edition. Eight engraved plates two maps one folding and other woodcut illustrations in text. 2 vols. 8vo. The first edition of an epochal work by a scholar and missionary who lived in and wrote extensively of Hawaii and Polynesia and later Madagascar. After an adventurous life in foreign and frequently insalubrious climes he died of a chill caught in an English railway carriage. Robert Southey in a review of Polynesian Researches stated "A more interesting book we have never pursued" and it has become one of the classic accounts of South Sea Island culture and life. O'Reilly & Reitman Bibliographie de Tahiti 7556; Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages p. 96 citing edition of 1830; Day Books About Hawaii 24; Hawaiian National Bibliography 719 Fisher, Son, & Jackson unknown
178529428London 1785. Copper engraved images of Tonga Tahiti & the Society Islands from the folio atlas of Cook's 3rd voyage Pacific Ocean exploration. The images illustrate the native islanders rowing out to receive Cook; a reception with warriors demonstrating their strength; a human sacrifice; famous image of Tahitian women dancing and the harbour at Huaheine with Cook's ships Resolution and Discovery in the harbor. Plate numbers included are #1314 25 28 & 31. All with very wide margin. Paper sizes 21 5/8 x 16". Some light marginal dusting overall very good condition. unknown
17706000062A Londra 1770. Octavo xvi 104 pp.; completely uncut in original soft boards very worn but in original unsophisicated condition. <p><p>Extremely rare Italian translation of Bricaire de la Dixmerie's fictional letter purporting to be written by the Tahitian Aoutourou to his friends in France. Aoutourou had sailed to France in 1769 with Bougainville where he became a sensation in much the same way that Omai would become a lion of British society a few years later: not only was Bricaire de la Dixmerie's book the first full publication on Tahiti ever published but its subject and supposed author Aoutourou was still living in Paris as it came off the presses. </p> <p>Bricaire de la Dixmerie 1731-1791 published on everything from his friend Voltaire to life in Spain but took a particular interest in fantastic travel. Well-connected and well-regarded he was also a member of the famous Les Neufs Sœurs the Masonic Lodge where he would have met everyone from Benjamin Franklin to John Paul Jones. His description of Tahiti is known to have been based on the Lettre de M. Commerson an almost hallucinogenic account of the South Seas written by Bougainville's botanist Philibert Commerson which had been published in the journal La Mercure in February 1769 more than two years before the official account finally appeared. However the most important aspect of the present work was that Bricaire de la Dixmerie was one of the real Aoutourou's friends in Paris so there is a core of realism no matter the elaborate fiction of the letter format and it is hard not to wonder whether any of the numerous asides are based on personal observation. </p> <p>The original French edition is known to be very rare this translation of the same year even more so. Rolf Du Rietz in the Kroepelien catalogue noted he had been able to locate only two copies of the work and no reference to it in any other bibliography or catalogue.</p> </p> . Provenance: early owner's inscription "Girolamo Gherardini" on title. unknown
17794011311Avignon and Paris: Froulle 1779. Spine label chipped but in fine condition otherwise. Octavo with an engraved frontispiece view of Tahiti; a fine copy in original speckled half calf. <p><p>First edition: the very scarce and earliest separate serious work on Tahiti predated only by the Omai-based fictions and the poetical satires on Joseph Banks; it is based for its facts on the reports of Wallis Bougainville and Cook and for its philosophy on Montesquieu and Rousseau. "Taitbout's pamphlet is of interest not for the originality of its ideas but because it reveals how notions of geographical control deriving from Montesquieu and applied by the Forsters to the islanders of the Pacific could provide a rational explanation for the soft primitivism with which Bougainville Hawkesworth Banks Diderot and others had endowed the peoples of the Society Islands and add point and fire to a revolutionary pamphlet." Bernard Smith European vision and the South Pacific 1985 p. 87.</p> <p>Tahiti was much discussed in Europe from the early 1770s and various voyage accounts were in print during that decade. The Tahitian Aotourou had travelled back to Paris with Bougainville in 1769 while Omai had reached London with Cook in 1774. "After its successive discoveries by Wallis Bougainville and Cook Tahiti came to symbolize a living social and political experiment in the minds of many European philosophers: a primitive paradise that became spoiled and tainted by Western decadence. In this little work often attributed to Bougainville - perhaps because it borrows extensively from his narrative and the earlier accounts of Cook and his accompanying naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander - Taitbout speculates on the fundamental differences between the 'homme sauvage' and the 'homme civilizé' drawing from the example of Tahiti. He suggests that societies like Tahiti that evolved in isolation could offer political lessons to European nations but acknowledges that the arrival of Europeans on their shores will deal them a death blow. Taitbout's purpose in his own words translated is revolutionary: 'to assist in bringing about the much-desired general revolution to which the human spirit will one day owe the free complete and perfect union of all men'." online resource at princeton.edu.</p> <p>Barbier notes that the book - published anonymously but now attributed to Taitbout - was in the past sometimes attributed to Bougainville. A German translation appeared in 1783.</p> <p>This copy has an additional work bound at the end P.A. Caron de Beaumarchais Le voeu de toutes les nations.dans l'abaissement et l'humiliation de la Grande-Bretagne 1778 Sabin 4178.</p> </p> . Froulle unknown
