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Archaeology of Tonga. Printed wrappers. BP Bishop 60, 1929
(3)
$150 – $250
31. Choules John Overton. The Cruise of the Steam
Yacht North Star. A Narrative of the Excursion of Mr
Vanderbilt’s Party. Octavo, frontispiece portrait, plates, original
pictorial gilt cloth, lacking front fly leaf, otherwise crisp condition.
Boston 1854
$100 – $200
32. Codrington RH. The Melanesians, Studies in their
Anthropology and Folk-Lore. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece,
folding map, illustrations, covers lightly marked, cracking along
top left joint of spine cover. The Clarendon Press, Oxford 1891;
Hadfield E. Among the Natives of the Loyalty Group. Octavo,
original gilt cloth, dust jacket, illustrations, spotting on flyleaf.
London 1929 (2)
$100 – $200
33. Collingwood Cuthbert. Rambles of a Naturalist on
the Shores and Waters of the China Sea, observations
during a Voyage to China, Formosa, Borneo, Singapore etc
made in Her Majesty’s Vessels in 1866 and 1867. Octavo,
illustrations, gilt purple cloth, shelf wear on lower edge of spine cove.
London, John Murray 1868.
$120 – $240
34. Dillon Peter, Captain. Narrative and successful
result of voyage to the South Seas … to ascertain the actual
fate of La Perouse’s expedition. Two volumes, octavo, folding
lithograph frontispieces (one coloured), folding map and one other
plate, half titles spotted, rebound in smart modern gilt half calf,
marbled boards. London 1829 B. 1616
$1000 – $3000
35. Edwards Captain Edward and Hamilton george.
Voyage of the H.M.S Pandora despatched to arrest the
mutineers of the ‘Bounty’ in the South Seas, 1790-9. Octavo,
folding map, red gilt cloth. London, Francis Edwards 1915.
$100 – $300
36. Ellis William. Polynesian Researches during a
residence of nearly six years in the South Sea Islands. Two
volumes, octavo, 2 engraved maps (one folding), 8 engraved plates
and fifteen wood engravings in text, bound in contemporary boards
as issued, covers loose, spines worn, some light spotting on frontispiece
plates and titles otherwise, clean. London 1830
$150 – $250
37. Erskine John E. Journal of a Cruise among
the Islands of the Western Pacific, in Her Majesty’s Ship
Havannah. Octavo, original gilt purple cloth, coloured plates
complete, lacking map, rebacked with original spine cove. John
Murray London 1853
$80 – $150
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38. Fawcett William. Economic Plants. An Index to
Economic Products of the Vegetable Kingdom in Jamaica.
Octavo, printed title wrapper, title, preface 5- 78 p, bound in
quarter calf, covers worn, signatures of Julie Adele Livingston, July
2 nd 1904 Kingston, Jamaica on title and top margin of page 5, some
browning confined to text, lacking back wrapper. Kingston, Jamaica
1891. Extra illustrated with 74 original watercolours of
locally grown Jamaican flora, fruit and vegetables mainly
edible varieties, all named and some annotated, neatly tipped
in. Impressed monogram of Duncan Harris on title page and
margins of some watercolours.
$300 – $600
39. Firth Raymond. Art and Life in New Guinea. Large
octavo, cloth, dust wrapper, mounted plates and illustrations. The
Studio Ltd, 1936; Buck Peter H. Samoan Material Culture.
Large octavo, cloth, flyleaf inscribed in Maori by the author. Bishop
Museum 75, 1930 & three Polynesian Society publications
relating to Pacific Island culture (5)
$100 – $300
40. Fornander Abraham. An Account of the Polynesian
Race and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People to the
times of Kamehameha 1. Three volumes, octavo, original decorated
blue cloth boards, folding genealogical table, signed typed letter from
Sir Peter Buck to A.T Pycroft neatly mounted on sub title page,
some spotting on one sub title, spine covers faded and some rubbing
along edges, a part tear along joint of one vol. London, Trubner &
Co 1878-85 and index compiled by J Stokes. Bound in boards,
Bishop Museum Press, 1909 (4)
$130 – $260