Polynesia, or, an Historical Account of the Principal Islands in the South Sea, including New Zealand .
Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1843 (second edition)/ [1842]. More
Pacific
Dawn Island. A Tale
Manchester, J. Gadsby, Newall's-Building [Printer and Publisher], 1845. Dawn Island is 'one of the small tropical islands of the Pacific' (page 7). 'This Tale, written for the purpose, is my offering to the Bazaar of the National Anti-Corn-Law League. However small its value, this contribution is made by me without..... More
The Australian Colonies. Together with Notes of a Voyage from Australia to Panama in the 'Golden Age', Descriptions of Tahiti and other Islands in the Pacific, and a Tour through some of the States of America, in 1854
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. Henry Hussey (1825-1903), evangelist, millenarian, printer and historian, emigrated to South Australia in 1839; he devotes 22 of the 36 pages on the Australian colonies to his home state. Provenance: Thomas Gill (1849-1923), South Australian public servant, bibliographer and book collector..... More
The Australian Colonies. Together with Notes of a Voyage from Australia to Panama in the 'Golden Age', Descriptions of Tahiti and other Islands in the Pacific, and a Tour through some of the States of America, in 1854
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. The contemporary ownership details of E. Barlow, Adelaide are written in ink on the front pastedown. Henry Hussey (1825-1903) arrived in South Australia in 1839, so he was barely 30 when this book was published. The 22 (of 36) pages on..... More
The Australian Colonies. Together with Notes of a Voyage from Australia to Panama in the 'Golden Age', Descriptions of Tahiti and other Islands in the Pacific, and a Tour through some of the States of America, in 1854
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. Henry Hussey (1825-1903) arrived in South Australia in 1839, so he was barely 30 when this book was published. The 22 (of 36) pages on the Australian colonies devoted to his home state are based on personal experience. Ferguson 10702: 'The..... More
A Year in the New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, and New Caledonia.. With an Account of the Early History of the New Hebrides Missions, by A.J. Campbell, Geelong; A Narrative of the Voyages of the 'Dayspring', by D. McDonald DD; and an Appendix, containing a Contribution to the Phytography of the New Hebrides, by Baron von Mueller CMG MD PhD FRS
Geelong, George Mercer, Malop Street, and Melbourne, George Robertson, [1873]. The separately paginated section at the rear has its own title page: 'Contributions to the Phytography of the New Hebrides and Loyalty Islands, from Mr F.A. Campbell's Collections. By Baron Ferd. von Mueller'. The half-title is inscribed and signed 'To..... More
Die Inseln des Stillen Oceans, eine Geographische Monographie. [Volume 1]: Melanesien und Neuseeland. [Volume 2]: Polynesien und Mikronesien
Leipzig, Paul Frohberg, 1875 and 1876 (both first editions). More
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Philips' Series of Travelling Maps. New Zealand, by W. Hughes, F.R.G.S. [cover title]
London, George Philip and Son, [circa 1877?]. The overall heading on the map is 'Polynesia', and there are in fact 10 individual maps (three of them inset on the map of New Zealand). Other areas featured include the Galapagos, Sandwich, Mariana, New Hebrides, Friendly and Society Islands. The National Library..... More
Camping Among Cannibals
London, Macmillan and Co., 1883. Newspaper clipping of the author's obituary pasted on the verso of the front free endpaper. Inscribed, dated (9 November 1886) to one Frederick Williams and signed by James Johnston (the author's father). Tipped-in to page 206 is a small newspaper clipping regarding King Ihakombay, as..... More
Work and Adventure in New Guinea, 1877 to 1885
London, Religious Tract Society, [c.1885]. A presentation plate from the Snow Hill Congregational Sunday Schools, presented to Amy Shufflebotham on the front flyleaf is dated Febuary 14, 1886. More
French Colonies and their Resources
London, Street, 1886. The verso of the flyleaf carries a warm presentation inscription from the author to E. Paris Nesbit QC. The recipient was Edward Paris[s] Nesbit (1852-1927), 'lawyer, libertine, lunatic' - read the Australian Dictionary of Biography and be suitably amazed. More
Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Volume XVIII, 1886-1887
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1887. Not least, India (pp 44-87), Papua New Guinea (pp88-122), Fruit as a Factor in Colonial Commerce (pp123-160) and The Mineral Wealth of South Africa (pp216-251). More
Centenaire de la Mort de Lapérouse célébré le 20 Avril 1888 en Séance Solennelle à la Sorbonne
Paris, Société de Géographie, 1888. The second quarterly Bulletin de la Société de Géographie for 1888, devoted entirely to Lapérouse's expedition. Contents include an extensive bibliography (386 titles) and a detailed catalogue of the accompanying exhibition (173 items with 2 illustrations). We have handled a separately paginated variant edition of..... More
Pictorial Records of Remarkable Events in the History of the World .
London, Frederick Warne, [1892?]. Prince Alfred College prize binding with the 1899 prize plate signed by the Honorable President John D. Langsford and the Headmaster [Frederic] Chapple (1876-1914), and presented to one H.L. Bowen. More
Bishop John Selwyn
London, Ibister, 1899. More
Neu-Guinea
Berlin, Alfred Schall, [1899]. The rest of the title in full: 'mit Beiträgen von Professor Dr. A. Freiherrn von Danckelman, Professor Dr. F. von Luschan, Kustos Paul Matschie und Professor Dr. Otto Warburg mit Unterstützung der Kolonial-Abteilung des Auswärtigen Amtes, der Neu-Guinea-Kompagnie und der Deutschen Kolonial-Gesellschaft'. Text in German. More
The History of the Melanesian Mission
London, Isbister, 1900. With the ownership signature of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide; loosely inserted is a four-page leaflet (dated May 1900) appealing for funds for a new mission ship, and a Melanesian Mission stamp (depicting 'Reef Islanders'). The latter is unpriced, so presumably it is not..... More
Ocean and Isle
Melbourne, Pater, 1902. An independent account by the American evangelist of the whole missionary field "of Heathendom... in its actual condition, operations, modes of organization, instruction, and efforts, its different peculiarities, its needs, its difficulties..." Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Thursday and Friday Islands, New Guinea, the Phillipines and (naturally) Australia..... More
Lomai of Lenakel. A Hero of the New Hebrides. A Fresh Chapter in the Triumph of the Gospel
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1903. More
The Fijians. A Study of the Decay of Custom
London, Heinemann, 1908. More
Melanesians and Polynesians. Their Life-Histories described and compared
London, Macmillan, 1910. With the bookplate of Harold Sheard. More
Coral and Atolls. Their History, Description, Theories of their Origin both before and since that of Darwin, the Influence of Winds, Tides and Ocean Currents on their Formation and Transformations, their Present Condition, Products, Fauna and Flora
London, Lovell Reeve & Co., Ltd, 1910. With the ownership signature of Edith Ulrica 'Rica' Hubbe (1885-1967), dated 1927. Rica maintained a correspondence with an array of Adelaide notables; 'including letters from 'Ray' and Phyllis Cilento and Doris Simpson' The State Library of South Australia holds 'papers relating to her..... More
The Secret of the Pacific. A Discussion of the Origin of the Early Civilisations of America, the Toltecs, Aztecs, Mayas, Incas, and their Predecessors; and of the Possibilities of Asiatic influence thereon
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913 (second impression)/ 1912. With the pencilled ownership signature of J.M. Napier (possibly Sir Thomas John Mellis Napier [1882-1976], Chief Justice of South Australia). More
Papuan Pictures
London, London Missionary Society, 1913. With 63 illustrations from photographs by the author (4 in colour). More
The Natives of Mailu. Preliminary Results of the Robert Mond Research Work in British New Guinea. [Contained in] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Volume 39, 1915
Adelaide, RSSA, 1915. This issue also contains a major paper by Captain Samuel Albert WHITE (and others): Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the North-Western Regions of South Australia (135 pages plus 2 maps and 25 pages of plates). White supplied the lengthy introductory narrative and section on birds, and..... More
The Soul of a People
London, Macmillan, 1917 (tenth printing of the fourth edition)/ 1898. Burma, where the author lived from the mid-1880s. More
White Shadows in the South Seas
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. More
Where the Pavement Ends
London, Thorton Butterworth, 1921 [first edition]. Fiction set in Polynesia. More
Florence Buchanan. The Little Deaconess of the South Seas
Sydney, Australian Board of Missions, 1921. More
In Southern Seas. Wanderings of a Naturalist
London, John Murray, 1924. With much on Australian Aborigines. The last 18 pages, 'How the Pictures were made', give an interesting account of the author's photographic apprenticeship and experiences in the field. Two contemporary John Murray brochures are loosely inserted. More
Edward Barry (South Sea Pearler)
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1924 (second impression, reset)/ 1900. More
Rodman the Boat-Steerer and Other Stories
London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1924 (second impression)/ 1898. More
An Idler in the Islands
Sydney, Cornstalk, 1924. Includes 8 pages on cannibals. More
Coral Reefs and Cannibals
London, Epworth, 1925. More
Tidemarks. Some Records of a Journey to the Beaches of the Moluccas and the Forest of Malaya in 1923
London, Cassell, 1925 (second printing)/ 1924. More
Island Films. Reminiscences of 'German New Guinea'
Sydney, Cornstalk, 1925 [first edition]. Not least, life in New Guinea after ANMEF (the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force) had removed the Germans in 1914, and some of the problems facing Australian colonisation in NG (Australia received a mandate from the League of Nations to govern PNG in 1921)..... More
South Sea Gold. A Novel
London, Thomas Nelson, 1926. More
From the Middle Temple to the South Seas
London, John Murray, 1927. A 1930 Murray catalogue is loosely inserted. More
Myths and Legends of the Polynesians
London, Harrap, 1928. More
Pearl Diver. Adventuring Over and Under Southern Seas
London, William Heinemann, 1930. Some Australian content. More
Die Evangelische Mission in Niederlandisch-Indien
Guetersloh, Bertelsmann, 1931. Part 1 of Volume 5 of a history of German missions. More
'Not as Men Build'. The Story of William Aitken Heighway of Fiji
Sydney, (The Heighway Family), 1932. The life of a pioneer missionary, by his family; this copy has the family inscription; 'From Sophie with Xmas greetings 1940'. More
Argonauts of the Western Pacific. An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea
London, Routledge, 1932 (second impression)/ 1922. Rare with the dustwrapper. More
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The Erstwhile Savage [cover title]. An Account of the Life of Ligeremaluoga (Osea). An Autobiography translated by Ella Collins
Melbourne, F.W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd., 1932. Inscribed and signed by the translator, an Australian missionary. According to the foreword, this book is 'unique in being the first autobiography of a New Britain native, and possibly of any native of the Pacific'. The author was an early convert to Christianity, and..... More
Durchs bunte Reich von Insulinde. Ruchbliche und Einbliche in Lander und Menschenwelt Niederlandisch-Indiens
Hamburg, Advent-Verlag, [1933?]. More
Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1933. 'This book gives a short account of the cosmic beliefs of the natives of Central Polynesia, and discusses in detail their ideas as to the nature of the soul and its various fates and destinations after death' (from the dustwrapper blurb). More
Pageant of the Pacific. Being the Maritime History of Australasia
Sydney, Thwaites, (1934 and 1936). More
Whalemen Adventurers. The Story of Whaling in Australian Waters and Other Southern Seas ..
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1934. With the ownership signature of Baron Sandford, and the loosely inserted original publisher's prospectus (folded once, and slightly torn at one corner). More