ALPERS Anthony  Legends of the South Seas the world of the Polynesians seen through their myths and legends, poetry and art
VG VG small peice cut from fep, DW under plastic sleeve $30 C/C W&T 1970 first edition cloth, 416pp, illustrated. Includes Maori. [# 1306 pacific and oceania]

ANGAS George French

Polynesia, a popular description of the physical features, inhabitants, natural history, and productions of the islands of the Pacific. With an account of their discovery and of the progress of civilization and christianity amongst them.

VG VG

$40 C/C [AUS 25]

Capper Press 1973 facsimile reprint of 1866 oririginal, hardcover, xii 436pp + 4pp adverts, folding map at rear. Engraved illustrations within text. Covers most of the Pacific Islands including New Zealand.

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BEAGLEHOLE Ernest  Islands of Danger VG- lacks fep, name to half title, small pen inscription to intro. $20 C/C Progressive Publishing Society 1944 first edition cloth with paper title label to spine, 212pp + plates, memoir of time on a South Pacific atoll, Pukapuka [# 651 pacific]

BENTON Richard A.  The Flight of the Amokura Oceanic Languages and Formal Education in the South Pacific
VG- top edges carelessly opened with short tears to head of a few pages $10 C/C New Zealand Council for Educational Research 1981 first edition hard cover, xiv 236pp map endpapers. Cultural and language aspects of Maori, Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian peoples ISBN 0908567200 ISSN 01109294 [# 1266 pacific and oceania]

BROWN B M editor  New Zealand in the Pacific Studies in Public Administration No 16
VG VG light edge wear to DW $10 C/B New Zealand Institute of Public Administration 1970 first edition hard cover,125pp. Essays on Pacific geopolitics etc. [# 1318 pacific and oceania]

DOAK Wade

Islands of Survival, Pacific wanderings of the El Torito Family.

VG VG gift inscription to half title, small chip head of DW spine.

$20 C/C [AUS 38]

Hodder 1976 first edition hardcover, 200pp + colour plates.Wade and his families boat travels about the Pacific, includes Solomon Islands,New Hebrides, diving expeditions etc. ISBN 0340214511

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LAMBERT S M

A Doctor in Paradise

VG gift inscr to half title

$15 C/C [AUS 3]

Jaboor 1943 textured cloth, 421pp+ plates, a doctor in the Pacific islands between the Wars,New Guinea, Fiji, Solomons, Gilbert and Ellice Islands.

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SHARP Andrew

Adventurous Armada, the story of Legazpi's Expedition

FN FN minimal wear to tips of DW

$25 C/B [AUS 28]

Whitcombe & Tombs 1961 first edition hardcover, 214pp + frontis. Miguel Lopez de Legazpi's 16th century expedition to the Phillipines.

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SHARP Andrew

Ancient Voyagers in Polynesia

G+ G+ ex library with stamps, DW with some edge wear rubbinf and chipping, surface lifted at spine where label removed.

$12 C/B [AUS 51]

Paul's Book Arcade 1963 first edition hardcover, 159pp + plates, map endpapers. Polynesian navigation.

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SHUTLER Richard & Mary Elizabeth

Oceanic Prehistory

VG-

$10 B/B [AUS 49]

Cummings 1975 first edition wrappers, 125pp Text book for Oceanic studies, Covers Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and South East Asia. Illustrated with examples of stone tools etc. ISBN 0846519380

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SIEBEN Hubert (photographer)

Tahiti

G+ silverfish surface damage to spine.

$10 B/C [AUS 35]

Seven Seas 1965 first edition cloth, approx 120pp np, mainly full page full colour photographs with an emphasis on young Tahitian maidens unclothed, the text sections are in Francais, English, Deutsch and Espanol. Probably intended as a souvenir for tourists.

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SIMPSON Colin  Plumes and Arrows Inside New Guinea
VG light wear to cloth $10 C/C A&R 1962 first thus combined edition, cloth, viii 407pp + plates in B&W including 35 in colour. Combined in one volume; 'Adam with Arrows' and 'Adam in Plumes' and the New Guinea chapters of Islands of Men. [# 797 pacific]

SPARRMAN Anders (translated BEAMISH & MACKENZIE-GRIEVE)

A Voyage Round the World with Captain James Cook in H.M.S. Resolution

G ex-library, cloth sunned and faded, shelf mark to spine in marker, stamps to endpapers, title page and some page margins, covers and stamps only faults.

$35 C/B [AUS 40]

Robert Hale 1953 first thus after Golden Cockerel limited edition, cloth, xx 214pp + folding map at rear. Illustrated with woodcuts by C W Bacon. Encompasses Cook's explorations to Antarctica, New Zealand, Fiji, Easter Island etc.

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STEVENSON Robert Louis

Vailima Papers (Tusitala edition)

VG school arms embossed to cover, spine lightly sunned

$8 C/B [AUS 10]

Heinemann 1924 first edition thus as vol xxi in Tusitala edition of the works of RLS, 16mo 341pp blue leather TEG and gilt to spine and cover and with the arms of Otago Girls High School in gilt to upper board, includes Tutuila, Prayers for daily use at Vailima, Father Damien, A footnote to history, Letters from the South Seas. From RLS time in Samoa and the Pacific. Samoa Lazaretto

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TOWNSEND G W L

District Officer, from untamed New Guinea to Lake Success 1921-46

VG VG ex library but tidy

$20 C/C [AUS 7]

Pacific Publications 1968 first edition cloth, 271pp + plates, map endpapers, minor stamps,autobiography of a patrol officer in New Guinea, includes Sepik river head-hunters, and Second World War service.

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VOYCE A H

Peacemakers; The Story of David Pausu and the United Church of South Bougainville.

VG

$10 B/$5 international [AUS 39]

Coroprint 1979 second edition stapled softcover in DW, 95pp. Includes some local legends as well as an account of the area during the Second World War. Photo offset with poor quality photos in the text. ISBN 0473001691

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