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An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Pérouse, Undertaken by Order of the Constituent Assembly...

An Account of a Voyage in Search of La Pérouse, Undertaken by Order of the Constituent Assembly of France, and Performed in the Years 1791, 1792, and 1793, in the Recherche and Espérance, Ships of War, Under the Command of Rear-Admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux

Labillardière, Jacques Julien Houton de

London: Printed for J. Debrett, Picadilly, 1800. First English language edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes, lacking quarto atlas. Octavo. lxii, [1], 464pp. vii, [1], 423pp. Contemporary gold-ruled three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gold decorated spine. Ribbon markers. Captivating account by French naturalist, Jacques Julien Houton de Labillardiere. Illustrated with 9..... More

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Captain Cook's Journal During his First Voyage Round the World Made in H. M. Bark "Endeavour"...

Captain Cook's Journal During his First Voyage Round the World Made in H. M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71. A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS

Cook, James; W. J. L. Wharton (ed.)

London: Elliot Stock, 1893. Hardcover. Quarto. lvi, 400pp. Original green cloth with gold border and signature of James Cook stamped in gold on front cover. Beveled edges, deckled page edges. Frontispiece of Cook in collotype protected by tissue guard. Ex-libris of Vice Admiral Sir Bouverie Francis Clark on inside of..... More

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Polynesian Researches During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich...

Polynesian Researches During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the Society and Sandwich Islands. 4-vol. set (Complete)

Ellis, William

London: Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1831-1834. Second edition completely revised and greatly expanded. Hardcover. 12mo. XVI, 414, 438, 407, 471pp. 3/4 crushed morocco over decorative cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Pomare. Engraved half-title page in each volume. Fascinating narrative of the author's journey in Polynesia where he spent a number of..... More

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Wreck of the Glide, with Recollections of the Fijiis, and of Wallis Island. James Oliver, William...

Wreck of the Glide, with Recollections of the Fijiis, and of Wallis Island

Oliver, James; William G. Dix

New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. octavo. 203pp. Original blind-embossed brown cloth with title in gold on spine. Frontispiece of a b/w reproduction of a drawing showing Wallis Island. "The Glide, owned by the late Joseph Peabody, Esq., and commanded by Captain Henry Archer, sailed from..... More

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An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands (2 vols.)

Martin, John

Edinburgh: Constable, 1827. Third edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. xxxiv, 340, 234pp., cviii. Original 3/4 morocco over green cloth with gilt lettering and tooling on spine, raised bands, and top edge gilt. Decorative marbled end papers. Frontispiece fold-out map. Engraving with tissue gard on half-title. Partition musical score with tissue gard in..... More

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Further Correspondence Relative to the Colony of Fiji [In continuation of C. 1404 of February 1876]

Colonial Office

London: Harrison and Sons, 1876. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 152pp. Original printed wrappers. Collection of 57 correspondence relating to the Affairs of the Colony, Laws, Ordinances, Meteorological observations, etc.. from September 9, 1875 to July 22, 1876. This work is complete with its six color maps (including 5 folding), and..... More

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Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. John Williams, Missionary to Polynesia. Ebenezer Prout

Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. John Williams, Missionary to Polynesia

Prout, Ebenezer

London: John Snow, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 10, [2]pp (publisher's advertisement), VIII, 618pp. Modern black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Rev. John Williams. Captivating biography of the celebrated missionary John Williams, posthumously published in 1843, four years after his murder by native tribesmen on..... More

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South Africa: A Voyage of Re-Discovery

South Africa: A Voyage of Re-Discovery

New York: American South African Line, Inc., 1929. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 48pp., 3 leaf leporello. Original color-illustrated stapled peach wraps, protected by modern mylar. Laid in a b/w photo-illustrated advertisement (4 x 8 1/2") on stiff white paper. Color-illustrated title page announcing the Maiden Cruise of the M. V...... More

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A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; with Remarks Upon the Natural...

A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; with Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origin, Languages, Traditions, and Usages of the Inhabitants

Williams, John

London: Published for the Author by J. Snow, 1838. Seventh Thousand. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii,[4],590pp. Rebound in three-quarter calf over marbled boards. Maroon title-label and gold decorated spine. Modern endpapers. Color frontispiece. Title-page engraving. Detailed account by English Missionary John Williams (1796-1839) of his experiences in the South Pacific in the..... More

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The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia [COMPLETE IN 3 VOLUMES]. Robert W. Williamson

The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia [COMPLETE IN 3 VOLUMES]

Williamson, Robert W.

Cambridge: University Press, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Vol. I: xxviii,[1],438pp. Vol. II: 496pp. Vol. III: 487pp. Original green cloth with gold-stamped publisher's logo and gold lettering on spine. Deckled bottom-page edges. Compelling account on the history and ethnology of Central Polynesia of countries such as Samoa, Tonga, Marquesas, Paumotu..... More

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Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia. Robert W. Williamson

Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia

Williamson, Robert W.

Cambridge: University Press, 1933. Hardcover. Quarto. 2 volumes. xx,[2],399pp. 398pp. Mottled green cloth with gold decorated spine. Deckled bottom page edge. Authoritative work by R. W. Williamson on religious and cosmic beliefs of the inhabitants in Central Polynesia. Illustrated with some fold-out tables and a fold-out map. Some age wear..... More

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Tonga and the Friendly Islands; with a Sketch of Their Mission History - Written for Young People

Farmer. Sarah S.

London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1855. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vi,427pp. Original gold- and blind-embossed brown cloth with gold decoration and lettering on spine. Frontispiece engraving. Contents: Discovery of the South Seas, Islands of the Pacific, Coral Workers and Their Doings, The Friendly Islanders, Captain Cook's Visits, First Christian Mission..... More

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Missionary Life in Samoa, as Exhibited in the Journals of the Late George Archibald Lundie, During the Revival in Tutuila in 1840-41

Lundie, George Archibald

Edinburgh: William Oliphant and Sons, 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Sm. octavo. v,294,8pp. Original blind-stamped cloth with gold lettering on spine. Captivating account of G. A. Lundie's attempt to bring Christianity to Samoa. 8 page publisher's advertisement section in rear, as issued. Edited by the author's mother. Age wear, scuffing and..... More

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Latest Information from the Settlement of New Plymouth, on the Coast of Taranake, New Zealand....

Latest Information from the Settlement of New Plymouth, on the Coast of Taranake, New Zealand

West England Board of the New Zealand Company

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1842. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 57pp. (1). + 2 pages of publisher's ads. Printed tan wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. Woodcut frontispiece. The publication is a report by the New Zealand Company on the conditions and the progress in the settlement of..... More

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Eastern Pacific Lands. Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. F. W. Christian

Eastern Pacific Lands. Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands

Christian, F. W.

London: Robert Scott, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 269pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine. Frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. Captivating narrative of the author's journey in the Pacific Islands of Tahiti and the Marquesas profusely illustrated with 64 illustrations, including 2 folding maps and numerous..... More

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Malekula, A Vanishing People in the New Hebrides

Deacon, A. Bernard

London: George Routledge & Sons, LTD, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XL, 789pp. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece portrait of the author. A valuable record of anthropological field work undertaken by the late author under very trying circumstances and edited from his field notes by Camilla..... More

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Abrégé de L'Histoire Générale Des Voyages. Tome Vingt-Deuxieme (Summary of the General Travel History. Volume Twenty-Two)

La Harpe, Jean-Francois de

Paris: Chez Laporte, 1786. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 leaves, 56pp., 1 folding map, 558pp., 2 plates. Original full calf with gilt lettering, tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Red edges. Decorative endpapers. Title page with publisher's device. Decorative, historiated headpieces. This travelog of Captain Cook's third voyage contains..... More

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The Ainu Group. At the saint Louis Exposition.

Starr, Frederick

Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 118 (6)pp. Original umber paper-covered boards with b/w photograph mounted onto embossed black frame and black lettering on spine. Frontispiece photograph. "This books does not pretend to be a study of the Ainu. It is a simple narrative of my..... More

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Melanesians and Polynesians, Their Life-Histories Described and Compared. George Brown

Melanesians and Polynesians, Their Life-Histories Described and Compared

Brown, George

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XV, [1], 451pp. Uncut. Original green cloth with gold-stamped illustration on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. Fascinating work in which the author describes the manners and customs of the people of New Britain..... More

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Essays in Polynesian Ethnology. Robert W. Williamson, Ralph Piddington

Essays in Polynesian Ethnology

Williamson, Robert W.; Ralph Piddington (Editor)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XLIII, 373pp. Uncut. Original green cloth with gold lettering and printer's device on spine. Valuable account, based on all available sources, of warfare, the place of kava, the Arioi society of Tahity, and the sexual life of the natives. This study..... More

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Wrecked Among Cannibals in the Fijis: A Narrative of Shipwreck & Adventure in the South Seas

Endicott, William; Lawrence Waters Jenkins

Salem, Massachusetts: Marine Research Society, 1923. Hardcover. Quarto. 76pp. Black and blue paper-covered boards with gold lettering on spine in original photographic dust jacket. Deckled fore-page edge. Frontispiece. Captivating account by William Endicott of his experiences during the 1829-31 voyage on the Glide. The ship struck a reef on March..... More

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Voyage of the U. S. Exploring Squadron, Commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States...

Voyage of the U. S. Exploring Squadron, Commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Navy, in 1838, 1839, 1940, 1841, and 1842 together with Explorations and Discoveries Made by Admiral D'Urville, Captain Ross, and other Navigators and Travellers; and an Account of the Expedition to the Dead Sea, under Lieutenant Lynch

Jenkins, John S.

Auburn: Alden, Beardsley & Co., 1852. Later edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxii,517,[10]pp. (Pages 6-22 numbered in Roman numerals). Blind-stamped brown cloth with gold lettering and gold decorated spine. Illustrated half-title page. The United States Exploring Expedition was a surveying and exploring expedition of the Pacific Ocean (the Southern Seas) conducted..... More

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Fiji and the Fijians. Thomas Williams, James Calvert, George Stringer Rowe, Text

Fiji and the Fijians

Williams, Thomas; James Calvert (Text); George Stringer Rowe (Editor)

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. X, [2], 551pp. Half leather over cloth with gold lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers and paper edges. Color frontispiece. The information contained in this volume is the result of the patient and intelligent research of the Rev. Thomas Williams..... More

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Ten Months in the Fiji Islands. Sarah Maria Smythe, Mrs. Smythe

Ten Months in the Fiji Islands

Sarah Maria Smythe (Mrs. Smythe)

Oxford: John Henry and James Parker, 1864. First edition. Hardcover. Lg. octavo. x,xviii,281pp. Bound in modern brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Deckled page edges. Modern endpapers. Color frontispiece. Collection of captivating letters to friends at home by S. M. Smythe telling of her experiences in Fiji in 1860..... More

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The Spell of the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands

Anderson, Isabel

Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. vii, 373pp., 54 plates, 1 color folding map. Original illustrated green cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece color photograph, with tissue guards. Title page printed in green and brown with decorative framing..... More

Price: $50.00

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