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Tales of The South Pacific
by Michener, James A.
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- Used - Good + overall
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- Stated first issue
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- 1947
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$375.00
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New York: MacMillan Company, 1947. Stated first issue. Hardcover. Good + overall. [A] collection of tales...told by a young naval officer whose duties... take him up and down the islands." Michener's first novel, based on his experiences in the US Navy in the Pacific theater during W.W.II. After winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1948, it was… Read more about this item Item Price
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Portraits of Joseph Banks, Botanist, Explorer - collection of 9 engravings
by Banks, Joseph
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1840
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$250.00
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1840. Print. Very good condition. Joseph Banks [1743 - 1820] was an English naturalist, botanist and explorer who sailed with Captain Cook on the Endeavor as a natural historian and was later president of the Royal Society for over 41 years.
Collection of 9 copper engravings, sizes range 3.5 x 5.25" to 7.25 x 10.75", printed from… Read more about this item Item Price
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Girl's School, Tonga, photograph
by Kerry & Co. [Photograph; Tonga]
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1890
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$175.00
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Sydney: Kerry & Co., 1890. Very good condition. Black and white albumen photograph of a group of girls seated in front of a thatched hut with palm trees behind. Written on verso in pencil, "Girl's school Tonga". Blind stamped with photographer name and address, Kerry & Co., 308 Geo St. Sydney.
7 7/8 x 5 7/8",… Read more about this item Item Price
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Noumea, New Caledonia. Set of 23 linen color postcards
by Librairie Pentscost
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1939
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$125.00
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New Caledonia: Librairie Pentscost, 1939. Ephemera. Very good condition. A sequentially numbered set of color views from in and around Noumea including views of the "Indigene". The linen card was developed in the early 1930's and was popular through the 1950's. The bright colors were created by the cards' texture. Unusual to find a sequential run. Item Price
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The Art of Paul Gaugin
by Brettell, Richard; Francoise Cachine; Claire Freches-Thory; Charles F. Stuckey
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- Used - Fine
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- Second Printing
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- 1988
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- Paperback
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$25.00
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Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1988. Second Printing. Paperback. Fine. 4to, 519pp, color paper covers. Housed in a slipcase. Item Price
$25.00
Breadfruit Engraving from Cook's first voyage
by Cook, James
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- 1773
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$275.00
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London: Strahan & Cadell, 1773. Copper engraving , folded, printed on watermarked paper . Impression size 12 ins x 14 ins. The work of John Frederick Miller (fl.1759-1794), the artist was employed by Joseph Banks to make drawings of some of the specimens collected on Cook's first voyage to the Pacific in the Endeavour. This image appeared as plate… Read more about this item Item Price
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1943 Calendar with real photo of Fijian woman "Loloma mai Viti - Greetings from Fiji"
by [Fiji; Photography]
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- Used - Otherwise very good condition
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- 1942
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$75.00
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1942. Otherwise very good condition. A 1943 calendar mounted below a silver tone photograph of a young Fijian woman, bare breasted wearing a necklace in a grass skirt with spear. Photograph laid in on card mount, complete with tie to hang on wall. Hand writing on upper right corner: '1942 USS Colorado'. Card 5 7/8 x 9", photo… Read more about this item Item Price
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New Caledonia" & "Fiji". Albumen photographs
by [Photography]
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- Used - Good + condition
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- 1880
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$125.00
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1880. Good + condition. Two large impressive photographs laid down on a thick album page, and captioned in a period hand, in ink below the image.
The first, titled "New Caladonia" (sic) shows a panoramic view of a port settlement on a peninsula, possibly Noumea or a nearby mining town. The French established a settlement in New… Read more about this item Item Price
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Journal intime de Pierre Loti à Tahiti
by Loti, Pierre; Samuel Viaud ed
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1934
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- Wraps
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$275.00
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Papeete, Tahiti: Andre Ropiteau, 1934. Wraps. Very good condition. The notes from the diary of Pierre Loti, which would become the first draft for a novel describing Loti's romantic liaison with an exotic Tahitian girl named Rarahu during 1872.
Loti (Julien Viaud) (1850 - 1923) was a French naval officer and novelist, who was stationed in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Edward Barry. [South Sea Pearler]
by Becke, Louis
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- Used - Good + overall
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- First edition
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- 1900
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$45.00
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. 8vo, viii + 246pp. Dark green cloth w/ gold stamping on spine. Slightly bumped and rubbed. Bookplate on front endpaper; spine slightly sunned. Item Price
$45.00
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5 Papeete (Tahiti) Albumen photographs, including Brig 'Galilee'
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- Used - Very good overall
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- 1896
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$475.00
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Tahiti, 1896. Very good overall. Five lovely albumen snap shots of Tahiti by an unidentified photographer, captioned in a period hand, with one showing the Brig 'Galilee' in the harbor of Papeete, under the command of Capt. Dinsmore.
The brig was a very fast ship, built by the Matthew Turner shipyard in Benicia California in 1891,… Read more about this item Item Price
$475.00
Papuan Pictures
by Dauncey, H. M.
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1913
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$20.00
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London: London Missionary Society, 1913. Hardcover. Very good condition. New Guinea native life, from games to school, feasting, etc. Meggitt copy; Meggitt was a noted Australian anthropologist, recognized for his research on Papua New Guinea and Aboriginal Australia.
8vo, viii, 184pp, color frontispiece, 3 color plates, b&w plates in text. Green pictorial stamped cloth; boards slightly sunned.… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
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Prospectus for The Universal Atlas of Geography: physical, political, statistical and mineralogical..
by Vandermaelen, Philippe
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- Used - Good + overall
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- 1829
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- Paperback
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$225.00
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Brussels: Ode and Wodon, 1829. Paperback. Good + overall. A 20 page prospectus for the Universal Atlas described as: '40 livraisons (parts), each composed of 10 coloured maps', with the names of geographers, travellers and other learned men whose works were consulted, and a list of subscribers in French. The final atlas included maps of every country in… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00
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The New York Missionary Magazine and Repository of Religious Intelligence; for the Year 1800
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- Used - Good condition
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- First edition
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- 1800
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$200.00
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New York: Printed by T & J Swords, for Cornelius Davis,, 1800. First edition. Hardcover. Good condition. First edition of this important missionary journal that includes a series of 4 articles on the Captain Wilson and the Duff expedition to the South Pacific, There is also an article sent from Sidney (sic) Sept 1st 1798 entitled "Further Intelligence… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wonderful escapes! Containing the interesting narrative of the shipwreck of the Antelope packet. The loss of the Lady Hobart packet, on an island of ice. The narrative of the shipwreck of the Hercules, on the coast of Africa. An account of an extraordinary escape from the effects of a storm in a journey over the frozen sea in North America
by [Shipwreck; Pelew Islands; Prince Lee Boo]
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- Used - Good + overall
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- 1819
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$450.00
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Dublin: W. Espy, 1819. Hardcover. Good + overall. Tales of shipwrecks, with the majority of this work devoted to the wreck of the Antelope Packet under Captain Wilson (77pp). The Antelope was built for the British East India Company in 1781 and was wrecked in 1783 near the Pelew Islands (now Palau). With the help of the islanders… Read more about this item Item Price
$450.00
Ozeanische Kunst
by Schmitz, Carl A; F. L. Kenett
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- Used - Very good overall
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- First German edition
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- 1962
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$40.00
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Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1962. First German edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Folio, (xv), 32 plts. Pictorial hard board covers, lower corners bumped, o/w g+ cond. Item Price
$40.00
The Night Of Toil; or, A Familiar Account of the Labors of the First Missionaries in the South Sea Islands
by (Mortimer Mrs F.L.)
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- Early American edition
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- 1850
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$20.00
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New York: American Tract Society, 1850. Early American edition. Hardcover. History of the first 50 years of British missions in Tahiti.
16mo, 236pp, 2 pages (advertisements). Abridged from the 1838 London Ed. Beautiful aqua colored covers, gold gilt title and decoration on spine and blind decorations on front and back boards. Past owner has made a number… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Origin and History of Missions containing faithful accounts of the Voyage, Travels, Labours and Successes of the various Missionaries who have been sent forth to evangelize the Heathen. Compiled from authentic Documents forming a complete missionary repository
by Smith, Rev. T. and Choules, Rev. J.
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- Used - Good + overall
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- 1832
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- Hardcover
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$250.00
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Boston: S. Walker & Lincoln & Edmonds, 1832. Hardcover. Good + overall. Presentation copy from Choules to Rev. Dr. Welch with his book plate. A handsome work done to a very high standard - the steel engravings are by various New York craftsmen. The book describes the work of four different missionary societies: the Moravians' mission to Greenland,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Omai. A native of the island of Utietea Brought to England by Cap. Cook. In the Collection of the Earl of Carlisle
by Reynolds, Joshua Sir; after
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- Used - Very good overall
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- 1834
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$350.00
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London: Hodgson, Boys & Graves, 1834. Very good overall. A mezzotint full length portrait of the first Polynesian Ambassador to England, after a painting ca. 1776, by Reynolds. Omai 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. Omai… Read more about this item Item Price
$350.00
Breadfruit Engraving from Cook's first voyage. (A branch of the bread-fruit tree with the fruit)
by [Breadfruit] [Cook, James]
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- 1773
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Garrison, New York, USA
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London: Strahan & Cadell, 1773. Copper engraving of a branch of the bread fruit tree, with three fruit. The work of John Frederick Miller (fl.1759-1794), the artist was employed by Joseph Banks to make drawings of some of the specimens collected on Cook's first voyage to the Pacific in the Endeavour. This image appeared as plate 11 in the… Read more about this item Item Price
$350.00
