Catalogue
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'Island Populations of the Pacific', by Norma McArthur, Canberra, 1967, 391 pp.; 'Social Anthropology in Polynesia', by Felix M.Keesing, London, 1953, 126 pp.; 'The New South Pacific', by R.G.Crocombe, Canberra, 1973, 130 pp.; 'Pleasure Islands of the South Pacific', by Colin Simpson, Sydney, 1979, 239 pp., and more. Fine. (15)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'Piracy in the Pacific', by Henri Jacquier, New York, 1976, 198 pp.; 'Last Days in Paradise', by George Farwell, Adelaide, 1964, 222 pp.; 'Tahiti: Island of Love', by Robert Langdon, London, 1959, 284 pp.; 'Easter Island', by Alfred Metraux, London, 1974, 252 pp., and more. Fine. (15)
Estimate $50
SOLD $10
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'A Pacific Adventure', by James Siers, Wellington, 1977, 306 pp.; 'South Pacific Commission', by T.R.Smith, Wellington, 1972, 248 pp.; 'Pacific Marketplaces', by H.C.Brookfield, Canberra, 1969, 158 pp.; 'Across the South Pacific', by Iain Finlay and Trish Sheppard, Sydney, 1981, 245 pp., and more. Fine. (15)
Estimate $60
SOLD $30
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'Man in the Pacific Islands: Essays on Geographical Change in the Pacific Islands', by R.Gerard Ward, Oxford, 1972, 339 pp.; 'Western Pacific Islands', by Austin Coates, London, 1970, 349 pp.; 'More Pacific Islands Portraits', by Deryck Scarr, Canberra, 1978, 297 pp.; 'Life in the Pacific Fifty Years Ago', by Alfred P.Maudslay, London, 1930, 261 pp., and more. Fine. (16)
Estimate $60
SOLD $60
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne', by Dorothy Shineberg, Wellington, 1971, 351 pp.; 'Peter Dillon of Vanikoro', by J.W.Davidson, Melbourne, 1975, 351 pp.; 'Where the Bong Tree Grows', by James Ramsey Ullman, London, 1964, 316 pp.; 'The Tropical Pacific', by N.V.Harris, London, 1966, 176 pp., and more. Fine. (16)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'Britain in the Pacific Islands', by W.P.Morrell, Oxford, 1960, 454 pp.; 'They Came for Sandalwood: A Study of the Sandalwood Trade in the South-West Pacific 1830-1865', by Dorothy Shineberg, Melbourne, 1967, 299 pp.; 'Colonialism Development and Independence: The Case of the Melanesian Islands in the South Pacific', by H.C.Brookfield, Cambridge, 1972, 226 pp., and more. Fine. (17)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'Britain in Fiji 1858-1880', by J.D.Legge, London, 1958, 307 pp.; 'Pacific Islands Year Book 1950', by R.W.Robson, Sydney, 1950, 478 pp.; 'Cannibals and Converts', by Maretu, Rarotonga, 1983, 223 pp.; 'Vanuatu: A Guide', by Norman and Ngaire Douglas, Alstonville, 1990, 168 pp., and many more. Fine. (17)
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'The Pacific Islands', by Douglas L.Oliver, New York, 1961, 456 pp.; 'The United States and the Southwest Pacific', by C.Hartley Grattan, Melbourne, 1961, 273 pp.; 'Pacific Odyssey', by Gwenda Cornell, London, 1985, 218 pp.; 'Return to the Islands', by Arthur Grimble, London, 1957, 215 pp., and more. Fine. (17)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'The Forgotten People of the Pacific', by Philippe Diole, London, 1976, 301 pp.; 'Islands of the South Pacific', by Frances Coleberd, Menlo Park, 1972, 160 pp.; 'Island Administration in the South West Pacific', by Cyril S.Belshaw, London, 1950, 158 pp., and more. Fine. (17)
Estimate $60
SOLD $30
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'Drifting Around the South Seas', by Guy Batham, London, 1959, 191 pp.; 'The Black Knight of the Pacific', by C.Brunsdon Fletcher, Sydney, 1944, 179 pp.; 'Pacific Islands Year Book', various editions, including the fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth, by R.W.Robson, Judy Tudor and Stuart Inder, years, 1944, 1950, 1956, 1963, 1968, 1972, 1977 (7), and more. Fine. (19)
Estimate $50
SOLD $10
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'The Friendly Islanders', by Kenneth Bain, Suva, 1967, 207 pp.; 'Tuvalu a History', by Simati Faaniu, Suva, 1983, 208 pp.; 'Kiribati: Aspects of History', by Sister Alaima Talu, Tarawa, 1979, 212 pp.; 'Harpoon in my Hand', by Olaf Ruhen, Sydney, 1966, 183 pp., and more. Fine. (20)
Estimate $50
SOLD $10
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'Adventures in the Coral Seas', by Albert Ellis, Sydney, 1937, 264 pp.; 'White Shadows in the South Seas', by Frederick O'Brien, London, 1951, 317 pp.; 'Company of Heaven: Early Missionaries in the South Seas', by Graeme Kent, Wellington, 1972, 230 pp., and more. Fine. (22)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature pertaining to the Pacific Islands including 'The Golden Cowrie: New Caledonia, Its People and Places', by May and Henry Larsen, London, 1961, 187 pp.; 'Headhunting in the Solomon Islands', by Caroline Mytinger, London, 1943, 335 pp.; 'South From Guadalcanal', by Northcote Deck, Toronto, 1945, 124 pp., and many more. Fine. (28)
Estimate $50
SOLD $40
Pacific Islands, a collection of issues of 'The Journal of Pacific History', published by the Oxford University Press, various volumes from 1966-1984, containing important scholarly articles concerning all aspects of the Pacific. Fine. (29)
Estimate $60
SOLD $30
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature concerning the many islands of the Pacific Ocean, including 'The Pacific', by Simon Winchester, London, 1991, 501 pp.; 'New Hebrides: Islands of Ashes and Coral', by Coral Tours Melanesie, 127 pp.; 'South Pacific Enterprise: The Colonial Sugar Refining Company Limited', by A.G.Lowndes, Sydney, 1956, 500 pp., and many more. Fine. (34)
Estimate $50
SOLD $10
Pacific Islands, an assortment of literature, including 'Tin Can Island', by Charles Stuart Ramsay and Charles Plumb, London, 1940, 320 pp.; 'A Pattern of Islands', by Arthur Grimble, London, 1955, 250 pp.; 'Atoll Holiday', by Nancy Phelan, Sydney, 1958, 212 pp.; 'Cinderellas of the Empire', by Barrie Macdonald, Canberra, 1982, 335 pp., and more. Fine. (40)
Estimate $60
SOLD $50
Pakistan, an assortment of literature, including 'Pakistan: Yesterday and Today', by Donald N.Wilber, New York, 1964, 266 pp.; 'Pakistan', by Ian Stephens, London, 1963, 288 pp.; 'The Land and People of Pakistan', by Robert Lang, New York, 1968, 159 pp., and more. Fine. (13)
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
Papua New Guinea, an assortment of literature, including 'Readings in New Guinea History', by B.Jinks, P.Biskup, and H.Nelson, Sydney, 1973, 454 pp.; 'Up From South: A Prospector in New Guinea 1931-1937', by Jack O'Neil, Melbourne, 1979, 199 pp.; 'New Guinea on the Threshold: Aspects of Social, Political, and Economic Development', by E.K.Fisk, Canberra, 1966, 290 pp., and more. Fine. (11)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
Papua New Guinea, an assortment of literature, including 'Papua New Guinea Portraits', by James Griffin, Canberra, 1978, 251 pp.; 'The Happy Isles', by Major R.Ravenhart, Melbourne, 1949, 186 pp.; 'Quest in Paradise', by David Attenborough, London, 1960, 224 pp.; 'Islands of Men', by Colin Simpson, Sydney, 1955, 248 pp., and more. Fine. (16)
Estimate $50
SOLD $70
Samoa, an assortment of literature, including 'Samoa Under the Sailing Gods', by N.A.Rowe, London, 1930, 339 pp.; 'Samoa: 1830-1900 the Politics of a Multi-Cultural Community', by R.P.Gilson, London, 1970, 457 pp.; 'Samoa Mo Samoa: The Emergence of the Independant State of Western Samoa', by J.W.Davidson, London, 1967, 467 pp.; 'The Samoan Tangle: A Study in Anglo-German-American Relations 1878-1900', by Paul M.Kennedy, Saint Lucia, 1974, 325 pp., and more. Fine. (19)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Singapore, an assortment of literature concerning Singapore, its history and culture, including 'One Hundred Years of Singapore', in two volumes, by Walter Makepeace, Gilbert Brooke, and Roland Bradell, London, 1921, 1260 pp.; 'History of the Straits Settlements Foreign Trade 1870-1915', by Chiang Hai Ding, Singapore, 1978, 250 pp.; 'The Lights on Singapore', by Roland Bradell, London, 1947, 205 pp., and more. Fine. (13)
Estimate $50
SOLD $90
Singapore, an assortment of literature, including 'All Aboard for Singapore', by Frank Clune, Sydney, 1941, 241 pp.; 'As Far as Singapore', by Pamela Brown, Leicester, 1959, 184 pp.; 'Pastel Portraits: Singapore's Architectural Heritage', by M.Gretchen, Singapore, 1984, 156 pp., and more. Fine. (13)
Estimate $40
SOLD $30
Singapore, an assortment of literature, including 'Passing Through Singapore 1900-1930', by Jean-Pierre Mialaret, Singapore, 1986, 117 pp.; 'Singapore Lifeline: The River and its People', by Tan Beng Guan and Chua Chee Huan, Singapore, 1986, 116 pp.; 'Geylang Serai: Down Memory Lane', by Kenangan Abadi, Singapore, 1986, 92 pp.; 'Emerald Hill: The Story of a Street in Words and Pictures', by Lee Kip Lin, Singapore, 1984, 88 pp., and more. Fine. (19)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
An assortment of South African history books, including 'South Africa and the Transvaal War', in seven volumes, by L.Creswicke, Edinburgh, 1900; 'The Story of South Africa', by J.C.Ridpath and E.S.Ellis, Sydney, 1899, 688 pp. Fine. (8)
Estimate $60
SOLD $50
Mockford, Julian, 'Overseas Reference Book of the Union of South Africa Including South-West Africa, Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland', hardcover, published by Todd Publishing Co.Ltd., London, 1945, 567 pp. Fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $10
South America, an assortment of literature, including 'Panama', by Albert Edwards, New York, 1912, 585 pp.; 'The Green Horizons: Travels in Brazil', by Gilbert Phelps, New York, 1964, 255 pp.; 'Venezuela Through its History', by William and Amy Marsland, New York, 1954, 277 pp.; 'Government of the Argentine Republic', by Austin F.Macdonald, New York, 1942, 476 pp., and more. Fine. (11)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
South America, an assortment of literature, including 'The Amazon', by Robin Furneaux, London, 1971, 258 pp.; 'South America Overland', by Iain Finlay and Trish Sheppard, London, 1980, 383 pp.; 'The Golden Isthmus', by David Howarth, London, 1967, 285 pp.; 'Uruguay', by George Pendle, London, 1963, 127 pp., and more. Fine. (17)
Estimate $60
SOLD $10
Southeast Asia, an assortment of literature, including 'The Lawless and the Lotus', by Peter Pinney, Sydney, 1963, 266 pp.; 'In the Shadow of the Dragon: A Journey through South East Asia', by Peter Schmid, London, 1957, 287 pp.; 'An Eye for the Dragon: Southeast Asia Observed 1954-1970', by Dennis Bloodworth, New York, 1970, 414 pp.; 'Journey out of Asia', by Katharine Sim, London, 1963, 192 pp., and more. Fine. (13)
Estimate $50
SOLD $10
Southeast Asia, an assortment of literature, including 'To the East a Phoenix', by Nigel Cameron, London, 1960, 207 pp.; 'Malayan Landscape', by Katharine Sim, London, 1957, 248 pp.; 'Filipinescas: Travels in the Philippines Today', by James Kirkup, London, 1968, 176 pp.; 'Manila By Night', by Derek Maitland, Hong Kong, 1981, 59 pp., and more. Fine. (14)
Estimate $50
SOLD $10
Southeast Asia, an assortment of literature, including 'The Reckoning Land', by Rowena Farre, London, 1969, 285 pp.; 'Men Against the Jungle', by Ritchie Calder, London, 1954, 231 pp.; 'Gates to Asia: A Diary from a Long Journey', by Jan Myrdal and Gun Kessle, London, 1972, 246 pp.; 'Indonesian Journey', by Ivan Southall, Melbourne, 1965, 101 pp., and more. Fine. (15)
Estimate $50
SOLD $10