Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1843 (second edition)/ [1842]. More about Polynesia, or, an Historical Account of the Principal Islands in the South Sea, including New...
London, Blackburn and Burt, and Adelaide, E.S. Wigg, [1855]. The author was a South Australian pioneer, and he devotes 22 of the 36 pages on the Australian colonies to his home state. With the John Goodchild-designed bookplate of the Thomas Gill bequest to the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia... More about The Australian Colonies. Together with Notes of a Voyage from Australia to Panama in the 'Golden...
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 about The Australian Colonies. Together with Notes of a Voyage from Australia to Panama in the 'Golden...
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 about The Australian Colonies. Together with Notes of a Voyage from Australia to Panama in the 'Golden...
Leipzig, Paul Frohberg, 1875 and 1876 (both first editions). More about Die Inseln des Stillen Oceans, eine Geographische Monographie. [Volume 1]: Melanesien und...
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 about Camping Among Cannibals
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 about Work and Adventure in New Guinea, 1877 to 1885
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 about French Colonies and their Resources
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 about Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Volume XVIII, 1886-1887
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 about Centenaire de la Mort de Lapérouse célébré le 20 Avril 1888 en Séance Solennelle à la Sorbonne
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 about Pictorial Records of Remarkable Events in the History of the World
London, Ibister, 1899. More about Bishop John Selwyn
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 about Neu-Guinea
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 about The History of the Melanesian Mission
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 about Ocean and Isle
London, Heinemann, 1908. More about The Fijians. A Study of the Decay of Custom
London, Macmillan, 1910. With the bookplate of Harold Sheard. More about Melanesians and Polynesians. Their Life-Histories described and compared
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London, Francis Griffiths, 1911. 'My views and opinions upon the Missionary question may not, in some quarters, be perceived with approval. They are, however, the results of years of investigation and close study of a subject which I approached with an impartial and unprejudiced mind. I have also the satisfaction... More about Through Polynesia and Papua. Wanderings with a Camera in Southern Seas
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 about The Secret of the Pacific. A Discussion of the Origin of the Early Civilisations of America, the...
London, London Missionary Society, 1913. With 63 illustrations from photographs by the author (4 in colour). More about Papuan Pictures
Adelaide, RSSA, 1915 [first edition]. This issue also contains a major ornithological contribution by S.A. WHITE: Scientific Notes on an Expedition into the north-western Regions of South Australia (135 pages plus 26 plates). More about The Natives of Mailu. Preliminary Results of the Robert Mond Research Work in British New Guinea....
London, Macmillan, 1917 (tenth printing of the fourth edition)/ 1898. Burma, where the author lived from the mid-1880s. More about The Soul of a People
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. More about White Shadows in the South Seas
London, Hodder and Stoughton, [1920s, first edition]. Dustwrapper subtitle: 'The Witchery of the Far South Sea Isles'. More about White Shadows in the South Seas
London, Thorton Butterworth, 1921 [first edition]. Fiction set in Polynesia. More about Where the Pavement Ends
Sydney, Australian Board of Missions, 1921. More about Florence Buchanan. The Little Deaconess of the South Seas
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 about In Southern Seas. Wanderings of a Naturalist
Sydney, Cornstalk, 1924. Includes 8 pages on cannibals. More about An Idler in the Islands
London, Epworth, 1925. More about Coral Reefs and Cannibals
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1925. More about Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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 about Island Films. Reminiscences of 'German New Guinea'
London, Thomas Nelson, 1926. More about South Sea Gold. A Novel
London, John Murray, 1927. A 1930 Murray catalogue is loosely inserted. More about From the Middle Temple to the South Seas
London, Harrap, 1928. More about Myths and Legends of the Polynesians
London, William Heinemann, 1930. Some Australian content. More about Pearl Diver. Adventuring Over and Under Southern Seas
Guetersloh, Bertelsmann, 1931. Part 1 of Volume 5 of a history of German missions. More about Die Evangelische Mission in Niederlandisch-Indien
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 about 'Not as Men Build'. The Story of William Aitken Heighway of Fiji
London, Routledge, 1932 (second impression)/ 1922. Rare with the dustwrapper. More about Argonauts of the Western Pacific. An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the...
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1932 [second impression of the third edition]/ 1929. Preface by Havelock Ellis. More about The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia. An Ethnographic Account of Courtship,...
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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 about The Erstwhile Savage [cover title]. An Account of the Life of Ligeremaluoga (Osea). An...
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 about Religious and Cosmic Beliefs of Central Polynesia
Berlin, Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, (1934). Solomon Islands, New Guinea and Bali; text in German. More about Sudsee
Sydney, Thwaites, (1934 and 1936). More about Pageant of the Pacific. Being the Maritime History of Australasia
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1935. Pieced together from 'the writings of naval officers, of missionaries, and of traders, the proceedings in the few cases in which massacres and other outrages by these men led to legal action against them, stray hints by travellers, stories in old newspapers or in official reports'. More about Slavers of the South Seas
Paris, Payot, 1935. Text in French. Collection D'Etudes, de Documents et de Temoignages pour sevir a L'Histoire de Notre Temps. More about Moeurs et Coutumes des Papous. 4 Ans chez les Cannibales de Nouvelle-Guinee, 1914-1918
