ALEXANDER, W.D.,   A brief history of the Hawaiian people. (2nd ed.). N.Y., American Book Cy., 1899. 357 pp. With 7 col.maps (incl. 5 double-page) & 33 b/w ills. Index. Hardcover. Or.green cloth with black decor. & gilt lettering, marbled edges. Good/--. (Binding sl.rubbed, spine ends & corners sl.bumped/dam.; light foxing to endp.).     €(euro)  69.00 Book number: 42054     Keywords: Topography description of country people Culture, cultural history. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands Pacific, U.S.A. -9999 - 1890     Click here to order or inquire.

ANON.,   The tourist in New South Wales. Sydney, Gullick, (1913). 32 pp. With fold. map (loosely inserted) & 12 b/w photogr. plts. Softcover. Or. col. lithogr. wrp. VG. (Staples a bit rusty, but holding; some foxing to lower margin of frontcover & to map).     €(euro)  75.00 Book number: 57802     Keywords: Travel guides Australia. 1913 - 1913     Click here to order or inquire.

ANON.,   Voyage de Robertson, aux Terres Australes, traduit sur le manuscrit Anglois. Amsterdam, 1767. 12mo. (II)+474 pp. Hardcover. Contemp. mottled calf with raised bands, gilt decor. & title label on spine. VG. (Light superficial dam. to rear cover; light foxing/browning throughout; inscription dated 1776 on rear endp.; pp. 145-152 bound in wrong order due to wrong signature on page147). * Original French account of an imaginary utopian voyage to Australia, sometimes attributed to Louis Sébastien Mercier. - Barbier, IV, col. 1078; Mansell 498:33; Gove, The imaginary voyage, pp. 355-356; Negley, Utopian literature, 979; Hartig 59; Trousson pp. 161-162; INED 3858.     €(euro)  650.00 Book number: 58126     Keywords: Imaginary travel accounts Australia. 1766 - 1767     Click here to order or inquire.

AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR MARITIME HISTORY,   The Great Circle. Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History. Vols. 1-18 (36 issues), 1979-1996. Nedlands/Armidale, 1979-1996. 18 vols. bound in 5 bindings. C. 2600 pp. Incl. index vols. 1-12. Hardcover. Blue cloth.     €(euro)  175.00 Book number: 46963     Keywords: Voyages, exploration. Colonial, exploration, expansion. oceans seas maritime Australia. 1650 - 1996     Click here to order or inquire.

BAAL, J. VAN,   Godsdienst en samenleving in Nederlandsch-Zuid-Nieuw-Guinea. Asd., Noord-Hollandsche Uitg., 1934. L.8vo. XI+266 pp. With fold.map. Bibliogr., index. Later cloth binding. Thesis Leiden University.     €(euro)  57.00 Book number: 30913     Keywords: Religions Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1934 - 1934     Click here to order or inquire.

BARKER, LADY,   Station life in New Zealand. New ed. Ldn., Macmillan, 1883. Small 8vo. XI+238+32 pp. Hardcover. Or. pict. cloth. VG/--. (Spine sl. faded).     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 17933     Keywords: Travel travelling New Zealand. 1883 - 1883     Click here to order or inquire.

BERG, J.C. VAN DEN,   De werelddeelen. Bewerkt naar Friedrich von Hellwald's Die Erde und ihre Völker. III: Amerika en Australië. Haarlem, Schalekamp & Van den Berg, 1884. Groot 4to. 531 pp. Met 15 litho's. Gebonden. Verguld linnen stempelband. Redelijk/goed ex. (Rugeinden & hoeken wat gestoten; enkele bibliotheekstempels).     €(euro)  48.00 Book number: 56248     Keywords: Travel travelling Topography description of country people Americas, American continent. Australia. 1884 - 1884     Click here to order or inquire.

BIJLMER, H.J.T.,   Anthropological results of the Dutch scientific Central New Guinea expedition Aº 1920, followed by an assay on the anthropology of the Papuans. Leiden, Brill, 1923. Large 4to. With 2 col.fold.maps, 1 sketch map, 1 col.diagr., 4 plts., 22 ills., fold. table. Bibliogr., index. Softcover. Or. wrp. Good. (Lacks rear cover, spine taped with transparent plastic). Nova Guinea, Vol. VII, Ethnogarphie, livr. IV (pp. 355-448).     €(euro)  50.00 Book number: 24058     Keywords: Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1920 - 1922     Click here to order or inquire.

BLINK, H.,   De bewoners der vreemde werelddeelen: Afrika - Azië - Amerika - Australië, in hun leven, zeden en gewoonten, naar hun staatkundige, economische en sociale ontwikkeling, en tevens in hun verhouding tot Europeesche volken beschreven. (Compleet in 4 delen). Asd., Elsevier, (1898). 4 dln. Groot 8vo. Totaal ca. 1700 pp. Met 4 chromolitho's (volkstypen) & talr. houtgravures en kaarten. Gebonden. Later groen half linnen, zonder rugtitels; papier op enkele plaatsen wat verbruind; de litho's zijn in fraaie staat). Goed ex.     €(euro)  125.00 Book number: 53878     Keywords: Topography description of country people Travel travelling Africa Asia Americas, American continent. Australia. geen 1890 - 1900     Click here to order or inquire.

CATALOGUE   Bilder des Menschen in fremden Kulturen. Beispiele aus Afrika und der Südsee. Eine Ausstellung des Linden-Museums Stuttgart. Stgt., 1973. 4to. 167 pp. With maps & 62 plts. Softcover. Or. pict. wrp. VG.     €(euro)  35.00 Book number: 10133     Keywords: Art museum catalog Tribal, ethnographic arts catalog. Africa Pacific islands. 1973 - 1973     Click here to order or inquire.

COENEN, J.A.W.,   Rapport betreffende Britsch Nieuw-Guinee (Papua) van den tijdelijk gezaghebber, fd.controleur bij het Binnenlandsch Bestuur -. Weltevreden, Kolff, 1918. L.8vo. (VIII)+77 pp. With fold.map & 29 plts. Later cl. (ex-libr.copy: stamp on title, lower corner of title & 2nd lf.torn; or.printed front cover laid down). Mededeelingen Bureau Bestuurszaken Buitenbezittingen, XVI.     €(euro)  69.00 Book number: 10135     Keywords: Topography description of country people Dutch colonial, East Indies. British, English colonies, colonial. Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1918 - 1918     Click here to order or inquire.

COOK'S,   Cook's Australasian sailing list Jan. & Feb., 1907. For homeward-bound passengers. Melbourne, Thos.Cook & Son, 1906. 28 pp. With fold. col. world map, time tables incl. names of steamers, ads. Softcover. Or. pict. wrp., stapled. VG.     €(euro)  45.00 Book number: 57850     Keywords: British, English maritime, overseas. Maritime, shipping companies steamships. Australia. Great Britain 1906 - 1906     Click here to order or inquire.

DAMON, SAMUEL C. (publ./ed.),   The Friend: a monthly journal, devoted to temperance, seamen, marine and general intelligence. Vols. XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, and months Jan.-Nov. of vol. XVII (uninterrupted run Jan. 1856 - Nov. 1860, incl. supplement to June 1860). Published and edited by Samuel C. Damon, seamen's chaplain. Honolulu, Polynesian Office/Henry M. Whitney, 1856-1860. 5 vols. bound in 1. 4to. (III)+96;(III)+96;(III)+96;(III)+96;88+8 pp. With some woodcut ills. Hardcover. Recent black paper over boards, gilt lettered spine. Good. (Some foxing/browning, occas.sl. waterst.; title & index to vol. XIII backed; vol. XVII lacks general title & index).     €(euro)  1250.00 Book number: 58246     Keywords: United States, maritime. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands Pacific, U.S.A. 1856 - 1860     Click here to order or inquire.

DAMON, SAMUEL C. (publ./ed.),   The Friend: a monthly journal, devoted to temperance, seamen, marine and general intelligence. Vol. XVIII, 1861. Published and edited by Samuel C. Damon, seamen's chaplain. Honolulu, Henry M. Whitney, 1861. 4to. (III)+96 pp. With some woodcut ills. Softcover. Later wrp. Good. (Occas. light foxing/browning).     €(euro)  250.00 Book number: 58247     Keywords: United States, maritime. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands Pacific, U.S.A. 1861 - 1861     Click here to order or inquire.

DAMPIER, WILLIAM,   Dampier's Voyages. Vol. II (of 2): A supplement to the voyage round the world, the Campeachy voyages, a discourse of winds, a voyage to New Holland, and a vindication. Edited by John Masefield. Ldn., E. Grant Richards, 1906. VII+624 pp. With 6 fold. maps & 8 b/w plts. Index. Hardcover. Or. green cloth. Good/--. (Ex-lib. copy: small label on pastedown, stamps (incl. cancel) on endp. & title; spine sl. stained, spine ends bumped).     €(euro)  75.00 Book number: 57810     Keywords: British, English maritime, overseas. Voyages, exploration. Australia, Pacific area. Australia. 1699 - 1699     Click here to order or inquire.

DARWIN, CHARLES,   Les récifs de corail, leur structure et leur distribution. Traduit de l'anglais d'après la seconde édition par M. L. Cosserat. Paris, Germer Baillière, 1878. XX+347 pp. + publisher's cat. (48 pp.). With 3 fold. maps. Hardcover. Later cloth-backed boards. Good/--. (Lib. label & cancel stamp on pastedown; occas. light foxing).     €(euro)  75.00 Book number: 58652     Keywords: Natural, nature. Pacific islands. oceans seas maritime 1842 - 1878     Click here to order or inquire.

DEANE, W.,   Fijian Society, or the sociology and psychology of the Fijians. (1st ed.). Ldn., MacMillan, 1921. XV+255 pp. With fold.map & 10 plts. Bibliogr., index. Hardcover. Later green cloth. Good/--.     €(euro)  69.00 Book number: 42024     Keywords: Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Fiji Islands, Melanesia. 1921 - 1921     Click here to order or inquire.

DELESSERT, EUGENE,   Voyages dans les deux Océans Atlantique et Pacifique, 1844 à 1847: Brésil, Etats-Unis, Cap de Bonne-Espérance, Nouvelle-Hollande, Nouvelle-Zélande, Taiti, Philippines, Chine, Java, Indes Orientales, Egypte. Paris, A. Franck, 1848. Large 8vo. (VII)+326+(1) pp. Complete with 4 maps (incl. 2 fold.), num. wood-engr. plts. & ills. Hardcover. Contemp. blind cloth-backed marbled boards. VG/--. (Spine a bit sunned, edges of binding rubbed; occas. sl. foxing, incl. to fold. maps and part of plates).     €(euro)  650.00 Book number: 44872     Keywords: Voyages. Topography description of country people Travel travelling Australia. New Zealand. Tahiti island, Polynesia. Philippines Brazil United States of America USA Atlantic Ocean. Pacific Ocean. South Africa Cape of Good Hope Colony 1844 - 1847     Click here to order or inquire.

EILERS, ANNELIESE,   Westkarolinen: Songosor, Pur, Merir; Tobi und Ngulu. (Full set of 2 vols.). Hamb., Friederichsen De Gruyter, 1935-1936. 2 vols. Large 4to. XVIII+404;XV+351 pp. With 29 plts. & 428 ills. Bibliogr., vocab., noted music. Softcover. Or.stiff wrp. VG. (Frontcover of 1st vol. sl. chipped). Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910, Hrsg. G. Thilenius, II. Ethnogaphie, B, 9.     €(euro)  495.00 Book number: 4693     Keywords: Culture, cultural history. Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Travel exploration journals accounts Caroline Islands, Micronesia. 1908 - 1910     Click here to order or inquire.

ELKIN, A.P.,   Aboriginal men of high degree. The John Murtagh Macrossan Memorial Lectures for 1944. Sydney, Australian Publishing Co., (1945). 148 pp. With map on endp. Index. Hardcover. Or. cloth. Good/--. (Binding sl. stained. spine ends sl. bumped).     €(euro)  45.00 Book number: 47609     Keywords: Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Australia. 1944 - 1944     Click here to order or inquire.

ELKIN, A.P., BERNDT, CATHERINE & BERNDT, RONALD,   Art in Arnhem Land. 1st ed. Melbourne, F.W.Cheshire, 1950. Large 8vo. XII+123 pp. With fold. map & 22 plts. (incl. few in col.). Hardcover. Or. red cloth. VG/no dustjacket. (Spine ends sl. bumped; bookplate on pastedown, gift dedication on endp.).     €(euro)  75.00 Book number: 47142     Keywords: Tribal, ethnographic arts. Australia. 1950 - 1950     Click here to order or inquire.

FIRTH, RAYMOND,   We, the Tikopia. A social study of kinship in primitive Polynesia. 1st ed. N.Y., American Book Cy., 1936. Large 8vo. XXV+605 pp. With 2 maps, 5 plans, 25 plts. Geneal., tables, index. Hardcover. Or.blue cloth. Good/--. (Spine faded/discol., spine ends sl.dam.; new endp.).     €(euro)  57.00 Book number: 41987     Keywords: Topography description of country people Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Polynesia, Pacific. 1936 - 1936     Click here to order or inquire.

FOKKENS, F. & OTTERLOO, A. VAN,   Algemeene beschrijving van vreemde havens en zeeplaatsen buiten Europa. Ten dienste van kooplieden, zeevarenden, cargadoors, assuradeuren (...). Tweede deel: Amerika, benevens de omliggende eilanden. Asd., Kraay, 1862. VIII+336 pp. (interleaved). Index. Hardcover. Later black cloth. Good. * Rare Dutch sailing directory with detailed information on ports in the American continent and islands in the Eastern part of the Pacific Ocean and in the Caribbean. (No maps or views were included).     €(euro)  125.00 Book number: 47246     Keywords: Ports, harbours. Seamanship navigation pilotage. Americas, American continent. Pacific islands. 1862 - 1862     Click here to order or inquire.

FRANCE-HARRAR, A,   Südsee: Korallen, Urwald, Menschenfresser. Bln., Oestergaard, 1928. 241 pp. With col.map & 26 ills.(4 col.). Or.hmor.gilt (spine ends sl.dam.).     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 5177     Keywords: Topography description of country people Natural, nature. Travel travelling Pacific islands. 1920 - 1928     Click here to order or inquire.

HAENEN, PAUL & TROUWBORST, ALBERT (eds.),   Vrienden en verwanten. Liber amicorem Alex van der Leeden. Leiden/Jakarta, Dsalcul/Iris, 1993. Large 8vo. 244 pp. With col. portr., few sketch maps. Bibliogr. of Van der Leeden (mostly on New Guinea and adjacent islands). Hardcover. Or. boards. VG/--.     €(euro)  38.00 Book number: 49165     Keywords: Libri amicorum, Festschriften Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. New Guinea. 1993 - 1993     Click here to order or inquire.

HELD, G.J.,   Papoea's van Waropen. Leiden, Brill, 1947. XV+372 pp. With 2 maps, 77 photogrs.on 33 plts., text-ills. Gloss., index. Hardcover. Or.blue cloth. VG/--. (Occas.sl.foxing).     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 29600     Keywords: Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1942 - 1947     Click here to order or inquire.

HORST, D.W.,   De Rum-Serams op Nieuw-Guinea, of het Hinduïsme in het Oosten van onzen Archipel. Leiden, Brill, 1893. XI+200 pp. With 4 tinted lithogr.plts. Softcover. Or.wrp. VG. (Occas. sl. foxing, mainly to edges. Unopened copy).     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 22388     Keywords: Dutch colonial, East Indies. Hinduism Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1893 - 1893     Click here to order or inquire.

HUNTER, PERCY (director),   Tours in New South Wales, Australia. Sydney, Immigration & Tourist Bureau, 1913. Oblong 8vo. (IV)+52 pp. With 46 b/w photogr. plts. Softcover. Or. col. lithogr. wrp. VG. (Staples a bit rusty, but holding).     €(euro)  60.00 Book number: 57800     Keywords: Travel travelling Photos photographs photography books Australia. 1913 - 1913     Click here to order or inquire.

JAGT, M.B. VAN DER,   Molukkenreis, 10 September - 3 November1923. N.p., publ.by the author, n.d. (c. 1924). Large 8vo. 86 pp. (printed from typescript). With fold. map & num.photogr.ills. Hardcover. Or.pict.rexine. VG/--. (Lib. stamp on front endp. & titel). * Buur Persoonlijke ducumenten 1252.     €(euro)  175.00 Book number: 35218     Keywords: Travel travelling Moluccas Maluku Ambon Indonesia Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1923 - 1923     Click here to order or inquire.

KOEBEL, W.H.,   In the Maoriland bush. Ldn., Stanley Paul, (1911). 316+(48 advrts.) pp. With 36 plts. Or.cl. (Some foxing).     €(euro)  44.00 Book number: 27389     Keywords: Travel travelling New Zealand. 1911 - 1911     Click here to order or inquire.

LAMB, W. KAYE,   Empress Odyssey: A history of the Canadian Pacific service to the Orient, 1913-45. Reprinted from the British Columbia Historical Quarterly, January, 1948. Victoria (BC), 1948. 78 pp. With 7 b/w photogr. plts. Softcover. Or. wrp. VG. (Spine ends sl. dam., owner's stamp on inside frontcover).     €(euro)  38.00 Book number: 55467     Keywords: Maritime, overseas. Maritime, passenger liners, merchant. Canada Pacific Ocean. 1913 - 1945     Click here to order or inquire.

LANG, J.D.,   John Dunmore Lang: Chiefly autobiographical 1799-1878. Cleric, writer, traveller, statesman. Pioneer of democracy in Australia. An assembling of contemporary documents. Compiled & ed.by A.Gilchrist. Melbourne, Jedgarm Publ., 1951. 2 vols. 4to. XVIII+768 pp.(cyclost.). With 2 frontisp. Bibliogr.,indexes. Or.cl.(sl.stained). * 300 numbered copies printed, signed by the editor.     €(euro)  137.00 Book number: 10095     Keywords: Autobiography Politics, political history. Australia. 1799 - 1878     Click here to order or inquire.

LEHMANN, F.R.,   Die polynesischen Tabusitten. Eine ethno-soziologische und religionswissenschaftliche Untersuchung. Lpz., Voigtlaender, 1930. 4to. VII+344 pp. Bibliogr.,index. Later.cl.(or.frontcvr.pasted on; libr.stamp on title).     €(euro)  114.00 Book number: 9005     Keywords: Social history Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Polynesia, Pacific. 1930 - 1930     Click here to order or inquire.

LEICHHARDT, F.W.LUDWIG (AUROUSSEAU, M., ed.),   The letters of F.W.Ludwig Leichhardt. (Full set of 3 vols.). Collected and newly transl.by M.Aurousseau. Cambridge, CUP, 1968. 3 vols. XVI;V;V+1175 pp. With portr.& 11 maps. Geneal.,bibliogr.,tables of events 1770-1964. Hardcover. Or. cloth. VG/no dustjacket. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 133, 134, 135. - Leichhardt led several scientific expeditions in Australia in the 1840s.     €(euro)  50.00 Book number: 11073     Keywords: Letters Travel exploration journals accounts Australia. Germany 1840 - 1850     Click here to order or inquire.

LINSCHOTEN-VEREENIGING 49: ENGELBRECHT, W.A. & HERWERDEN, P.J. VAN (eds.),   De ontdekkingsreis van Jacob le Maire en Willem Cornelisz.Schouten in de jaren 1615-1617. Journalen, documenten en andere bescheiden. (2 vol. set). 's-Grv., Nijhoff, 1945. 2 vols. Large 8vo. XXIV+229;XV+265 pp. With 13 plts.& 17 maps.(2 loose in rear pocket). Bibliogr., index. Hardcover. Or. blue cloth. VG/--. Linschoten Vereeniging, 49 (2 vols.).     €(euro)  60.00 Book number: 112     Keywords: Dutch colonial, colonies. Dutch voyages exploration journals logs Dutch East India Company, VOC, colonial oceans seas maritime Australia, Pacific area. 1615 - 1617     Click here to order or inquire.

LINSCHOTEN-VEREENIGING 56: VERSEPUT, J. (ed.),   De reis van Mathijs Hendriksz. Quast en Abel Jansz. Tasman ter ontdekking van de Goud- en Zilvereilanden (1639). 's-Grv., Nijhoff, 1954. Large 8vo. LXXX+130 pp. With facs., 4 plts. & 2 maps. Bibliogr., index. Hardcover. Or.blue cloth, uncut. VG/--. Linschoten Vereeniging, 56.     €(euro)  45.00 Book number: 352     Keywords: Voyages. Dutch colonies Eastern hemisphere Dutch voyages exploration journals logs Dutch East India Company, VOC, colonial Bonin Islands, Japan Pacific Ocean. 1639 - 1639     Click here to order or inquire.

LINSCHOTEN-VEREENIGING 78, 79: SCHILDER, G.G. (ed.),   De ontdekkingsreis van Willem Hesselsz de Vlamingh in de jaren 1696-1697. Met inleiding, journaal en bijlagen. (2 vol. set). 's-Grv., Nijhoff, 1976. 2 vols. Large 8vo. VIII,198;VI,134 pp. With 4 maps, 12 plts.(4 col.). Bibliogr.,index. Hardcover. Or.blue cloth. VG/--. Linschoten Vereeniging, 78, 79.     €(euro)  48.00 Book number: 3590     Keywords: Voyages. Dutch colonial, overseas, Asia. Dutch voyages exploration journals logs Dutch East India Company, VOC, colonial Indian Ocean. Australia, West Coast. 1696 - 1697     Click here to order or inquire.

LOVATELLI, ALESSANDRO (et al, eds.),   The future of mariculture: a regional approach for responsible development in the Asia-Pacific region. FAO/NACA regional workshop, 7-11 March 2006, Guangzhou, China. Rome, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008. 4to. XI+325 pp. With col. ills. & graphs. Softcover. Or. stiff wrp. Fine. FAO Fisheries Proceedings, 11.     €(euro)  45.00 Book number: 58249     Keywords: Fishing, fishery. Economics economic history Pacific Ocean. 2008 - 2008     Click here to order or inquire.

MAHLER, R.,   Siedelungsgebiet und Siedelungslage in Oceanien, unter Beruecksichtigung der Siedelungen in Indonesien. Leiden, Brill, 1898. Folio. (VIII)+72 pp. Bibliogr. Or.wrp. Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, Suppl.zu Band XI.     €(euro)  35.00 Book number: 10097     Keywords: Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Pacific islands. 1898 - 1898     Click here to order or inquire.

MALINOWSKI, B.,   Das Geschlechtsleben der Wilden in Nordwest-Melanesien. Liebe, Ehe und Familienleben der Trobriand-Inseln, Britisch-Neu-Guinea. Eine ethnographische Darstellung. Vorwort H.Ellis. Deutsch von E.Schumann. Lpz./Zrch., Grethlein, (1929). L8vo. XIX+425 pp. With 5 maps & 91 photogr. Index. Or.gilt cl. (Top of spine sl.dam.; occas.sl.foxing).     €(euro)  46.00 Book number: 10160     Keywords: Social history Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. 1929 - 1929     Click here to order or inquire.

MCCOY, KENT,   Landscape planning for a new Australian town. Reprinted from Urban Ecology, vol. 1, No. 2/3 pp. 129-270. Asd., Elsevier, 1976. XV+149 pp. With 89 b/w ills. Refs., index. Hardcover. Or.cloth/dustj. Fine/fine. Developments in Landscape Management and Urban Planning, 3.     €(euro)  75.00 Book number: 44559     Keywords: Architecture, town-planning. Australia. 1976 - 1976     Click here to order or inquire.

MOLLISON, BILL & EVERITT, CORAL,   The Tasmanian Aborigines and their descendants (chronology, genealogies and social data). Edited as a combined edition by Phil Hackett. Tasmania, University of Tasmania, 1978. 2 vols. A4. Unpaged (c. 500 pp.). With photos (mainly portraits). Bibliogr., indexes. Softcover. Or. spiral bound. Good. (Ex-lib. copy Tropical Institute Amsterdam, with taped label on spines, stamp & 2 small labels on title).     €(euro)  175.00 Book number: 58605     Keywords: Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Tasmania, Van Diemen's Land. 1770 - 1978     Click here to order or inquire.

MONTGOMERY, JAMES (ed.),   Voyages and travels round the world, by the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet, Esq., deputed from the London Missionary Society to visit their various stations in the South Sea islands, Australia, China, India, Madagascar, and South Africa, 1821-1829. 2nd ed., corrected. Ldn., John Snow, 1841. `XVII+288 pp. With 2 portraits, 12 steel-engr. views, 12 wood-engr. ills. Hardcover. Recent half leather with marbled paper over boards. VG. (Light foxing to few plates). * Bound up with: ROBERT MOFFAT, Missionary labours and scenes in Southern Africa. 20th thousand; n.d. [1846]. 164 pp., with portr. (with "Yours very truly, Robert Moffat" in lower margin, which looks to be an autograph inscription), title vignette, fold. map (taped), 20 ills. & EBENEZER PROUT, Memoirs of the life of the Rev. John Williams, missionary to Polynesia. 6th thousand, 1846. 171 pp., with portrait & title vignette.     €(euro)  395.00 Book number: 57955     Keywords: Travel travelling Mission, christian missionaries. Pacific islands. South Africa. Australia. 1821 - 1840     Click here to order or inquire.

MORRELL, W.P.,   British colonial policy in the mid-Victorian age: South Africa, New Zealand, the West Indies. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1969. XII+507 pp. With 5 maps. Bibliogr., index. Hardcover. Or. cloth, in (price-clipped, sunned) dustj. VG/good. (Top edge sl. dustst.).     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 52532     Keywords: British, English colonies, colonial. New Zealand. South Africa. British Antilles Caribbean 1853 - 1872     Click here to order or inquire.

N/A,   Australia for the tourist. Melbourne, McCarron Bird, 1914. 174 pp. With 2 col. maps, 8 col. plts. (birds & flowers), num. b/w photogr. plts./ills. (views, cars), ads. Softcover. Or. pict. col. wrp. VG.     €(euro)  95.00 Book number: 57849     Keywords: Travel guides Australia. 1914 - 1914     Click here to order or inquire.

NIEUWENHUIS, A.W.,   Die psychologische Bedeutung der Inzest-Erscheinungen in Australien. [Leiden, Brill, 1929]. 4to. 52 pp. Softcover. Later stiff wrp. Good. (Lib. stamp on 1st textpage). * Off-print I.A.f.E., Bd. XXX.     €(euro)  45.00 Book number: 51802     Keywords: Culture, cultural history. Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Australia. 1929 - 1929     Click here to order or inquire.

PAULAY, GUSTAV (ed.),   The marine biodiversity of Guam and the Marianas. Guam, University of Guam Press, 2003. Large 8vo. 682 pp. With map & figs. Softcover. Or. stiff wrp. Fine. Micronesica. A journal of the University of Guam, vols. 35-36, June 2003.     €(euro)  65.00 Book number: 51480     Keywords: Natural, seas oceans. Marianas Islands, Micronesia. 2003 - 2003     Click here to order or inquire.

PAUWELS, P.C.,   The Japanese mandate islands. Batavia, 1936. 157 pp. Softcover. Or.wrp. VG. (Ex-lib.copy: stamps (incl.cancel) on title). * Carolines, Marianas and Marshall Islands. Thesis Rechtshoogeschool, Batavia. English text.     €(euro)  57.00 Book number: 13165     Keywords: Politics, political history. Japanese colonies, expansion. Islands insular archipelago. Caroline Islands, Micronesia. Marianas Islands, Micronesia. Marshall Islands, Micronesia. 1919 - 1936     Click here to order or inquire.

POUWER, J.,   Enkele aspecten van de Mimika-cultuur (Ned.Zuidwest Nieuw Guinea). 's-Grv., Staatsdrukkerij, 1955. XII+323 pp. With 11 fold.sketch maps & tables, 9 ills. Gloss., bibliogr., index. Or.wrp. (Thesis).     €(euro)  57.00 Book number: 30938     Keywords: Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1951 - 1955     Click here to order or inquire.

PRATT, A. (ed.),   The national handbook of Australia's industries. Melbourne, Specialty Press, 1934. L.4to. 671 pp. With 6 col.maps, num.ills., adverts. Index. Or.cl. (Stamp on title).     €(euro)  44.00 Book number: 36896     Keywords: Companies commerce business Australia. 1934 - 1934     Click here to order or inquire.

PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS (BOIS, J.P.J. DU, ed.),   Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre... Tome quinzième: Voyages aux Indes Orientales par le sud-ouest (suite). Nouvelle édition. La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1757. 4to. XVI+402+(4) pp. Complete with 18 maps/plans (incl. 14 fold.) & 25 plts. (incl. 18 fold., all engr.). Hardcover. Late 19th-century half calf with 2 gilt-lettered title labels on spine, marbled boards & endpapers. VG. (Paper sl. browned). * Incl. descriptions of the Mariana Islands, Philippine Islands, Celebes (Macassar), Dutch expeditions to Macassar, description of Borneo; voyages of Drake, Pedro de Sarmiento, Thomas Candish, Olivier van Noort, Sibald de Weert, Van Spilbergen, Jacques l'Hermite, John Narborough, Captain Wood, Captain Cowley, Froger, Woodes Rogers, Frezier, George Anson; history of the Spanish squadron with commander Pizarro. - Maps/plans and views of the Philippines, Caroline Islands, Celebes, Dutch Fort Rotterdam, Samboupu; Cayenne Island & town, Straits of Magellan & Le Maire, Patagonia & Tierra de Fuego, Juan Fernandez Island, Chequetan, Acapulco, Tinian & Lema Islands. - Sabin 65404, Landwehr VOC, 265. - The Hague quarto ed., mainly a reprint of the Paris edition, but with many corrections and additions.     €(euro)  750.00 Book number: 58667     Keywords: Topography description of country people Voyages, exploration. French maritime, overseas. Dutch maritime voyages exploration British, English maritime, overseas. Dutch East India Company, VOC, colonial Tierra del Fuego Chile Argentina Philippines Pacific islands. Latin America Pacific Ocean. Patagonia Argentina Celebes Borneo Kalimantan Indonesia 1500 - 1740     Click here to order or inquire.

PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS (BOIS, J.P.J. DU, ed.),   Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre... Tome seizième: Voyages aux terres Australes ou Antarctiques & Voyages errans ou sans terme five. Nouvelle édition. La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1758. 4to. (VIII)+486+(2) pp. Complete with 10 maps/plans (incl. 6 fold.) & 20 plts. (incl. 4 fold., all engr.). Hardcover. Late 19th-century half calf with 2 gilt-lettered title labels on spine, marbled boards & endpapers. VG. (Occas. light foxing/browning; few worm holes in inner margins near spine). * Incl. I: voyages of Alvarez de Savreda, Gaëtan & De la Torre, Alvarez de Mendoça, Alvarez de Mindana, Ferdinand de Quiros, Garcia de Nadal; François Pelsaert, Abel Tasman, Vink, Keyts, De Vlamingh, Dampier; descirptions of Timor, Solor, Banda, New Guinea; voyage of Roggeveen. II: Voyages of Wouter Schouten, Dampier, Careri (China, Mexico), La Barbinais de Gentil (South America, China, Bourbon Island). - Maps/plans and views of New Holland, Van Diemens Land, Amsterdam & Rotterdam (Anamocka) Islands and their inhabitants, Moa, Takel, Jamna & Modemo Islands; Mexico, Honduras, Yucatan, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela. - Sabin 65404, Landwehr VOC, 265. - The Hague quarto ed., mainly a reprint of the Paris edition, but with many corrections and additions.     €(euro)  750.00 Book number: 58668     Keywords: Topography description of country people Voyages, exploration. Dutch maritime voyages exploration Portuguese maritime, overseas. French maritime, overseas. Australia, Pacific area. Central America Saint Paul & Amsterdam islands Indonesia. China 1500 - 1750     Click here to order or inquire.

RADCLIFFE-BROWN, A.R.,   The social organization of Australian tribes. Sydney, Australian National Research Council, n.d. [1931]. Large 8vo. With 2 maps (incl. 1 fold.), fold.chart. Softcover. Or.blue wrp. (Ex-lib.copy: spine and part of cover pasted over with adhesive plastic tape, later with blue cloth strip, stamps (incl. cancel) on title & inside frontcover; covers sl.creased, fore-edge of frontcover frayed, corners dog-eared, part of margin of 1st leaf torn out, without loss of text. Few penmarks. Overall: covers poor, contents good). * Title on frontcover only. On 1st page is stated: "As this Monograph went out of print, the four articles in Oceania, Vol. I, of which it was a reprint, have been bound together. The pagination in now that of these articles (...). The pages are: No.I, 34-63; No.2, 206-246; No.3, 322-341; No.4, 426-456".     €(euro)  91.00 Book number: 42100     Keywords: Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Australia. 1931 - 1931     Click here to order or inquire.

ROBERT, W.C.H.,   Contributions to a bibliography of Australia and the South Sea islands. Vol.III: Printed material about Australia and the South Pacific issued in Europe: 1477-1785. 's-Grv., privately printed, 1967. A4. VII+96 lvs. (stencilled). Softcover. Blind wrp., spine taped. Good. (Covers sl. browned/stained, tear in front cover closed inside). * 1457 titles listed (numbered in handwriting), with descriptions of contents. - 100 copies printed (according to inscr. on title). Seemingly compiler's private copy with his stamp on title, some additions/corrections/alterations in pen, and some pencil remarks in margin and on loosely inserted slips.     €(euro)  95.00 Book number: 45395     Keywords: Bibliography Voyages, exploration. Australia, Pacific area. 1477 - 1785     Click here to order or inquire.

ROBERT, W.C.H.,   Contributions to a bibliography of Australia and the South Sea islands. Vol. III: Printed material relating to discovery, exploration and travel, published in tEurope, except the Netherlands, to 1853. Asd., Philo Press, 1970. X+401 pp., printed on rectos. Hardcover. Or. cloth. VG/--. (Lib. stamps, incl. cancel, on verso of title).     €(euro)  38.00 Book number: 52092     Keywords: Bibliography Voyages, exploration. Australia, Pacific area. 1600 - 1853     Click here to order or inquire.

ROUX, C.C.F.M. LE,   De Bergpapoea's van Nieuw-Guinea en hun woongebied. (Vols. I & II). Leiden, Brill, 1948-1950. 2 text vols. Large 8vo. XXV+X+1029 pp. With 142 ills.& 12 figs./maps. Bibliogr.,indices. Hardcover. Or.black cloth with gilt decor. & lettering. VG/--. (Some foxing to paper edges). * Copy without the atlas vol.     €(euro)  150.00 Book number: 58294     Keywords: Topography description of country people Culture, cultural history. New Guinea. Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1948 - 1950     Click here to order or inquire.

RYAN, JUDITH (ed.),   Shell presents Van Gogh: His sources, genius and influence. With essays by Wilfred Niels Arnold & Christopher Allen. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, 1993. 4to. (X)+136 pp. With map & ca. 60 col. plts. Bibliogr., index. Hardcover. Or. pict. blue leather, all edges gilt, in or. blue leather presentation box. Fine/fine.     €(euro)  65.00 Book number: 49996     Keywords: Schilderkunst monografie, Dutch painting Art of painting catalog. Nederland Netherlands Holland Dutch Australia. 1993 - 1993     Click here to order or inquire.

SCHOONHEYT, L.J.A.,   Boven-Digoel. (1st ed.). Batavia, Kolff, (1936). Large 8vo. 280 pp. With maps & num.photogr. ills. Hardcover. Or.pict.cloth. VG/--. (Spine, paper edges & endp. sl. browned).     €(euro)  38.00 Book number: 6458     Keywords: Topography description of country people Politics, political history. Dutch colonial, East Indies. Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1905 - 1936     Click here to order or inquire.

SCHOORL, J.W.,   Kultuur en kultuurveranderingen in het Moejoe-gebied [Ned.Nieuw-Guinea]. s-Grv., Voorhoeve, (1957). Large 8vo. 298 pp. With sketch maps & 24 ills. Gloss.,bibliogr. Softcover. Or.wrp. VG. (Thesis).     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 9948     Keywords: Culture, cultural history. Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1957 - 1957     Click here to order or inquire.

SECRETARIAT OF THE NETHERLANDS-INDONESIAN UNION,   Report of the Committee New Guinea (Irian) 1950. I: Preface; II: Text and appendixes of the Netherlands main constituent; III: idem of the Indonesian; IV: Appendixes. The Hague, Secretariat of the Netherlands-Indonesian Union, 1950. 4 vols. 7;103;173;147 pp. With large loose fold.map; 10 maps & 4 ills. Softcover. Or.wrp., in slip case . VG.     €(euro)  50.00 Book number: 57275     Keywords: Dutch colonial, East Indies. Politics, political history. Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1950 - 1950     Click here to order or inquire.

SEEMANN, BERTHOLD,   Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Herald during the years 1845-51, under the command of captain Henry Kellett. Being a circumnavigation of the globe, and three cruizes to the Arctic regions in search of Sir John Franklin. (2 vol. set). (1st ed.). London, Reeve & Co., 1853. 2 vols. XVI+322;VII+302 pp. With 2 col. lithogr. frontisp. (with clean original tissue guards) & 1 fold. col. lithogr. map. Index. Hardcover. Contemp. 3/4 morocco with marbled boards, spine richly gilt, with red & green title labels; marbled endpapers & paper edges). VG. (Corners sl. dam., covers of vol. II sl. rubbed; contents fine). * Sabin 78867.     €(euro)  2100.00 Book number: 58562     Keywords: Voyages, logs, journals. British, English maritime, overseas. North Polar expeditions oceans seas maritime Pacific Ocean. Arctic, North Polar regions. 1845 - 1851     Click here to order or inquire.

SEILER, OTTO J.,   Einhundert Jahre Ostasienfahrt: der Hapag-Lloyd AG, 1886-1986. & Einhundert Jahre Australienfahrt, 1886-1986. (Hamburg, 1986). 2 vols. 4to. 144;110 pp. With num.plts./ills. (partly in col.). Softcover. Or.pict.wrp., in or.slipcase. VG. * Inserted: Seepost im geschichtlichen Rückblick: Kleine Geschichte der Seepost von den Anfängen bis 1914 (incl. fold.map) & Karte der grossen Postdampfschifflinien im Weltpostverkehr (facs. of the ed. Berlin 1899).     €(euro)  40.00 Book number: 41477     Keywords: Gedenkboeken, commemoration books Companies commerce business German maritime, overseas. Maritime merchant ships shipping oceans seas maritime Australia. East Asia Hamburg Northern Germany 1886 - 1986     Click here to order or inquire.

SIMPSON, GEORGE,   Narrative of a journey round the world, during the years 1841 and 1842. Ldn., Henry Colburn, 1847. 2 vols. 438+(24);VII+469 pp. With engr.portrait, fold.map. Hardcover. Contemp.half morocco. Good. (Mark of lib.sticker on spines; lib.label on paste-downs, lib.stamp on titles, strip of 2 cms removed from bottom of title page of vol.I (not affecting text), pp. III-X (= most of table of contents) of vol.I missing, some foxing to portrait. In spite of these defects still an attractive, clean copy). * Author was Governor-in-chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's territories in North America.     €(euro)  450.00 Book number: 34945     Keywords: Travel world tours Voyages, logs, journals. Canada Siberia Pacific Ocean. North America 1841 - 1842     Click here to order or inquire.

SINCLAIR, KEITH,   William Pember Reeves: New Zealand Fabian. Oxford, Clarendon Pr., 1965. X+356 pp. With 6 plts. Index. Hardcover. Or.cloth/dustj. VG/VG.     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 43143     Keywords: Biography Politics, political history. New Zealand. 1857 - 1932     Click here to order or inquire.

SPENCER, BALDWIN & GILLEN, F.J.,   The Arunta: A study of a Stone Age people. (2 vol. set). (1st ed.). Ldn., MacMillan, 1927. 2 vols. XXVIII+390;XVI+391-646 pp. With 4 col. plts. & 244 (of 247) photogr. & figs. Gloss., index. Hardcover. Or. green cloth. Fair/no dustjacket. (Ex-lib. copy: stamps (incl. cancel) on endp. & titles; spines sl. stained, spine ends sl. frayed; few scattered pencil & ink underl.). * Lacks fold. map & figs. nos. 52, 53, 54 (photographs).     €(euro)  250.00 Book number: 57771     Keywords: Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Australia. 1927 - 1927     Click here to order or inquire.

STANEK, M.,   Sozialordnung und Mythik in Palimbei. Bausteine zur ganzheitlichen Beschreibung einer Dorfgemeinschaft der Iatmul, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Basel, 1983. Large 8vo. X+472 pp. With 6 maps, 60 figs.& 22 tables. Bibliogr. Softcover. VG. Basler Beiträge z.Ethnologie, 23. Thesis.     €(euro)  39.00 Book number: 10186     Keywords: Social history Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Sepik, Papua New Guinea. 1983 - 1983     Click here to order or inquire.

STÖHR, W.,   Kunst und Kultur aus der Südsee: Sammlung Clausmeyer Melanesien. Köln, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, 1987. 4to. 389 pp. With map on endp., 32 col.plts. & hundreds of ills. Cat., bibliogr. Hardcover. Or.pict.boards. Fine/-- Ethonologica, Neue Folge, 6.     €(euro)  57.00 Book number: 32638     Keywords: Tribal, ethnographic arts catalog. Museums art exhibition catalog. Melanesia, Pacific. 1987 - 1987     Click here to order or inquire.

TAYLOR, C.R.H.,   A Pacific bibliography. Printed matter relating to the native peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia. 2nd ed. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965. XXX+692 pp. With fold. map. Index. Hardcover. Or. cloth. VG/--. (Lib. stamp on title, cancelation stamp on verso of title).     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 58315     Keywords: Book history, libraries, archives. Bibliography Pacific islands. 1965 - 1965     Click here to order or inquire.

THOMES, WM.H.,   The whaleman's adventures in the Sandwich Islands and California. Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1872. 444 pp. With wood engr. plts. Hardcover. Later green buckram with original gilt spine laid down, Good/--. (New endpapers; occas. light browning).     €(euro)  60.00 Book number: 58359     Keywords: Whales, whaling. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands Pacific, U.S.A. California U.S.A. Pacific Ocean. 1840 - 1849     Click here to order or inquire.

TROUTMAN, O.F.,   The cotton and silk textile industry of Australia. Issued under the auspices of The Australian Institute of International Affairs, New South Wales Branch. A report in the International Research Series of the Institute of Pacific Relations. N.p., 1939. Large 4to. (II)+IV+113 pp. (stencilled). Hardcover. (Later) cloth-backed boards, lib. binding. Good. (Ex-lib. copy Pacific Institute Amsterdam, with taped labels on foot of spine, stamp on title; title page browning).     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 45753     Keywords: Companies commerce business Australia. 1939 - 1939     Click here to order or inquire.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.   Pocket year book of Western Australia 1920 (2nd issue) - 1979 (No.61). From 1966: Western Australian pocket year book. (Lacks year 1937). Issued by S. Bennett, F.W. Sayer, W.M. Bartlett, a.o. Perth, 1920-1979. 59 vols. 16mo. Or.wrp. (Ex-lib.copy: each issue has one or two stamps & from 1966 also a label on front cover. Else VG).     €(euro)  159.00 Book number: 40382     Keywords: Economics economic history Australia, West Coast. 1920 - 1979     Click here to order or inquire.

WILLARD, MYRA,   History of the White Australia policy. (1st ed.). Melbourne, Melbourne U.P., 1923. XII+217 pp. Bibliogr. Softcover. Good. (Top of spine sl. dam.; lib. stamp on title). University of Melbourne Publications No. 1.     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 51104     Keywords: Politics, political history. Australia. 1825 - 1923     Click here to order or inquire.

WINSER, KEITH,   The Holden: report, road test and tune-up manual. By the editors of Motor Manual. Melbourne, Australian Motor Manual, 1951. Oblong 8vo. 104 pp. With num. b/w ills. Hardcover. Or.col.pict.boards. Good/--. (Covers sl.dam., waterstain in inner rear cover).     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 41637     Keywords: Technics, technology, engineering. Transport, cars, automobiles. Australia. 1951 - 1951     Click here to order or inquire.

WIRZ, P.,   Untersuchungen an Schädeln und Skeletteilen aus dem Gebiet der Humboldt-Bai und dem südlichen Küstengebiet von Holländisch Neu-Guinea. Leiden, Brill, 1926. Large 4to. With 49 figs. & 93 b/w ills. Hardcover. Later cloth. Good. (Lib. stamp on endp. & title). Nova Guinea, Vol. XVI, Ethnogarphie, livr. II (pp. 149-250 + append.).     €(euro)  95.00 Book number: 56999     Keywords: Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. Irian Jaya, Dutch New Guinea. 1920 - 1922     Click here to order or inquire.

WISSE, J.,   Selbstmord und Todesfurcht bei den Naturvölkern. Zutphen, Thieme, 1933. VII+548 pp. Bibliogr. Hardcover. Or.cloth. VG/--. Thesis Universiteit van Amsterdam.     €(euro)  55.00 Book number: 38203     Keywords: Ethnography, ethnology, anthropology. General, world, global Australia, Pacific area. Americas, American continent. Africa Asia 1933 - 1933     Click here to order or inquire.

WOLFSKEHL, KARL,   Zehn Jahre Exil: Briefe aus Neuseeland 1938-1948. Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Margot Ruben, mit einem Nachwort von Fritz Usinger. Heidelberg, Lambert Schneider, 1959. 429 pp. With portr. Index. Hardcover. Or.halfcloth, in (sl.stained) dustj. VG/good. (Occas.sl.foxing).     €(euro)  30.00 Book number: 42119     Keywords: Letters Germany New Zealand. 1938 - 1948     Click here to order or inquire.

WURM, STEFAN,   Studies in the Kiwai languages, Fly Delta, Papua, New Guinea. Wien, Herold, (for) Institut für Völkerkunde der Universität Wien, 1951. 4to. VI+126 pp. (stencilled from typescript). With 2 maps. Bibliogr. Softcover. Or. stiff wrp. VG. (Rear cover sl. stained). Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica, 2.     €(euro)  85.00 Book number: 44078     Keywords: Linguistics dictionaries philology. Papua New Guinea. 1951 - 1951     Click here to order or inquire.

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