Oceania

New York: Abrams, 1969. This is a fine hardcover copy in a fine dust jacket. Completely clean inside and out. No wear at all. One tiny black star (remainder mark) to the bottom page-edge. Carl A.Schmitz was one of the great scholars in this field, and this was his last work completed just before he died in 1966. It unites all of his interests:culture, history, religion and art, and focusses on the area he knew best. With sections on Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia (where Schmitz made his greatest contribution) this is undoubtedly still the best 1 volume survey of the art and culture of this varied region. Bibliography. Stout oblong folio, 11" high X 12" wide, 405 pages. With 337 illustrations including 50 tipped-in color plates. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London, 1801. Hardcover. Very Good. John Stockdale, 1801, v-xix, 443pp. 6 plates (3 other illustrations, map of Tobago, and large folding map of St. Domingo). Contemporary gray-green boards. Clean, unmarked pages. No foxing present. Spine lettering damaged. Book plate inside cover. Vol III of Edward's History of the West Indies. Sabin [21895] and 2190 (Yes, we have 2 copies in stock. This is the better one)

1789 George Keate Account of Pelew Islands Philippines War Palau South Pacific

George Keate's "Account of the Pelew Islands" is a rare 18th-century description of the Pelew people and Oceania regions of the South Pacific including the Philippines and other Pacific islands. Keate wrote this work was based on the account of Henry Wilson, an English sailor in the East India Company. His ship, the Antelope, was shipwrecked off the Palau islands. Following the premier in 1788, this book became immensely popular to readers in England, a book in which Keate described the local Pelew people as savages and drew in audiences with descriptions of unknown and unfamiliar lands.

Keate's 'Account' gives descriptions of coral Reefs, manners and customs of the natives, details of battles and local wars, weapons and military tactics, canoe making, and more.

This 1789 edition includes a section on the vocabulary of the Pelew language.

Item number: #9541
Price: $1250
KEATE, George
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1856 BEAUTIFUL BINDING Voyages in Oceania Pacific New Zealand Fiji Vancouver
A rare historical book in an exquisite, decorative binding!
'Voyages in Oceania', by Mikolaj Kubalski, is a fascinating historical account of the various voyages in the South Pacific Ocean. It includes descriptions of the voyages of Captain George Vancouver, Antoine d'Entrecasteaux, and Peter Dillon following their journeys to New Zealand, Tasmania, Tonga, Fiji, and New Caledonia.
Item number: #14590
Price: $350
KUBALSKI, Mikolaj Ambrozy
Voyages et découvertes en Océanie, depuis 1791 jusqu'à nos jours, recueillis
Tours : A. Mame, 1856.

Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
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· Language: French
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
· Size: ~7.25in X 4.5in (18cm x 12cm)
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Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea: Printed for Private Circulation, 1896. With signed presentation inscription to J. Hollingsworth (head gardener at Tredegar Park followed by Margam Park]. Illustrated with a large folding map frontispiece (with, as usual, tears and creases at the upper join, now neatly repaired), nine large full-page plates on heavy card. many small text images from photographs, quarto, pp 219, slight age-toning and marking, some inner joints rather cracked and weak, the last third of the book has rather damp-wrinkled pages, with light staining on the last few pages, original decorated cloth with paper inlay, bevelled edges, a bit rubbed and marked, the spine dull and age-toned andpulled at the head and tail, the upper cover slightly unevenly age-toned. [In October 1891 Veitch embarked on a tour of inspection of the great Botanic and Public Gardens maintained by governments in various countries as well as visiting many private horticultural establishments, to decide whether the Veitch… Read More

Royal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea: Printed for Private Circulation, 1896. Illustrated with a large folding map frontispiece (with, as usual, a slight tear at the upper join), nine large full-page plates on heavy card. many small text images from photographs, quarto, pp 219, slight age-toning and marking, a little foxing on the last few pages, slight marking along the top of the title page, original decorated cloth with paper inlay, bevelled edges, a bit rubbed and marked, the spine dull and age-toned, the upper cover unevenly age-toned, recently re-cased with new endpapers. [In October 1891 Veitch embarked on a tour of inspection of the great Botanic and Public Gardens maintained by governments in various countries as well as visiting many private horticultural establishments, to endeavour whether the Veitch gardens and nurseries might be enriched by further additions. He set off by way of Rome and Naples to Ceylon, thence overland from Tuticorin to Lahore. He continued to Calcutta and on to the Straits… Read More

London: Robert Hardwicke for The Ray Society [1866 - 1868]. Three volumes. Volume I - octavo, pp viii, 612, top edge gilt, a little age-toned throughout, later green cloth in good condition, a duplicate from King's College Library with discard stamp on the title page and two earlier stamps of the London Institute, ( devoted to Geographico-Botanical and Structural & Physiological Memoirs]. Volume II - Octavo, pp viii, 786, a little used and marked internally, the first few pages slightly foxed, otherwise sound and tight, original cloth rubbed, faded and slightly worn [Systematic Memoirs and Contributions to Systematic Works]. Volume III - Atlas of Plates, folio, pp 15 + 38 fine litho plates (some folding), many by Ferdinand Bauer, slight foxing, some hinges cracked and weak, and one plate nearly detached, original cloth-backed boards, a little worn and marked. A heavy set - extra postage may be needed. RARE. [Robert Brown, 1773 -1858, was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made… Read More

Honolulu, HI: Topgallant Publishing Company, Ltd., 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. 8-1/2 x 11 Softcover; 170pp; Covers slightly edgeworn, pages slightly age-toned, one corner slightly bumped, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author (Rubellite Kawena Johnson as "Ruby"). Relevant articles laid in. Scarce, vintage catalogue of Hawaiian and Pacific star names, "an effort to collect into once source, the fragmented record of Oceanic star knowledge in order to diminish the problem of comparative study by scholars who are trying to piece together the history of primitive navigation."

Rizzoli, October 2013. Hardcover. Used - Very Good. Pictures are from the actual copy that is offered for sale.

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co.,1953, hardcover, 510 pp, First Edition stated, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, top edge dusted, fading to board edges, small spot of soiling to rear board. Dustjacket price-clipped, rubs, small edge chips, short closed edge tears, fade to spine, displays nicely in new Brodart sleeve. The first detailed history of American whaling for the period 1635-1835 including, a full account of the whaling industry from the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812, the first detailed study of the migrations of the whalemen after the Revolution to ports not closed to them by the British, the story of the beginnings of Cape Horn whaling, and the first recognition-with authentication-of the actual discoverer of Antarctica, Christopher Burdick. Illustrated with 8 black-&-white plates. Appended: Notes, Index.

Ruggell/Lichtenstein: A.R. Gantner, 2004. Second edution. Illustrated with just seven plates, thick octavo, pp 759, very clean internally, yelow cloth in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. An excellent copy. . Second edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Summary of contemporary high-performance surfing circa 1982, with chapters on Hawaii, California, Australia and Bali and profiles of leading surfers of the day like Shaun Tomson and George Greenough.Author Grissim is a veteran of the surfing genre, having edited the Australian magazine Tracks and written for many American publications including Surfing and Surfer Magazines.

1917, First edition, first state with 2 typographical errors in the text as noted by Sisson & Martens: on page 45, line 4 "jnmping" for "jumping" and page 323, line 7 "Vila" for "Villa"; April 1917 (same year on the title page and copyright page). Bound in reddish brown cloth with black dog decorations and bright gilt titles. Illustrated frontis, ix. 337 + [6] ad pp.
About this book
Jerry of the Islands was initially published in 1917 and is one of the last works by Jack London. The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a part of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 became a British protectorate. The hero of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a brother of dog named Michael, about whom London wrote another novel—Michael, Brother of Jerry. (Wikipedia)
John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney(January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American… Read More

Henri Charriere. Papillon. 1970 William Morrow First U.S. Edition. USED. VG/G Unclipped $8.95 Dust jacket. "An international sensation – the #1 bestseller in France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain and other countries" 434 pages 6 ½ X 9 3/8. Former owner signature on title page.