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LETTERS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF ALEXANDER AGASSIZ WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND WORK

By: Agassiz, G. R. (editor)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1913

Seller ID: 2192

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Brown buckram boards with gilt lettering and minor rubbing to extremities. Numerous b&w illustrations from photographs and a photographure frontispiece. Large map in front pocket; 8vo; 454 pages
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THE ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC From the Old to the New

By: Alexander, James M.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, American Tract Society: 1895

Seller ID: 18856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Slight tanning/soiling to yellow boards. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 515 pages
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THE HAPPY LAGOONS Adventures of a South Sea Wanderer

By: Andersen-Rosendal, Jorgen

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1961

Seller ID: 7119

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Light wear to DJ. ; Author Andersen-Rosendal journeys to the island of Tonga to see if the stories of jolly natives are true; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 272 pages
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POLYNESIAN VENTURE

By: Bailey, Truman

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc.: 1939

Seller ID: 18421

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Light wear to boards. Front hinge weakening. Endpapers a bit yellowed; Profusely illustrated with beautiful b&w photographs ; 8vo; 233 pages
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CHARLES DARWIN AND THE VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE

By: Barlow, Nora (editor)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Philosophical Library: 1946

Seller ID: 1795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Very light spots to front board ; Fold out map at rear; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 279 pages
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CORAL ISLAND Portrait of an Atoll

By: Bates, Marston & Abbott, Donald

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1958

Seller ID: 7418

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Light shelf wear to DJ. Price clipped ; The co-authors studied the relationship between the environment and its inhabitants in a place where "civilization" has only lightly brushed the atoll.; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 254 pages
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GUAM PAST AND PRESENT

By: Beardsley, Charles

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rutland, Charles E. Tuttle Company: 1986

Seller ID: 10972

ISBN: 0804802238

Binding: Hardcover; Eighth Printing

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Price sticker to DJ. Former property of US navy with markings to all edges and endpapers ; Maps in endpapers and one fold-out map of the island, which is the largest land mass between the Hawaiian Islands and the Phillippines. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 262 pages
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SOUTH SEA ISLANDS

By: Borden, Charles A.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, MacRae Smith Company: 1961

Seller ID: 13675

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

A complete history of the 'world's last paradise.' ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 256 pages
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A BOOK OF ISLANDS

By: Bowman, John S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1971

Seller ID: 7354

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ with light wear to extremities; An anthology of writings on the appeal of islands by noted authors such as Jules Verne, Washington Irving, A. C. Doyle, among others. ; 8vo; 345 pages
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PACIFIC TREASURE ISLAND NEW CALEDONIA Voyage through its Land and Wealth the Story of its People and Past

By: Burchett, Wilfred G.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd.: 1941

Seller ID: 7441

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Boards with light rubbing and minor soiling to extremities. Former owner's neat notes on half title page. Front hinge weakening ; An island off the coast of Australia, New Caledonia is an area rarely written about. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 230 pages
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PACIFIC TREASURE ISLAND NEW CALEDONIA Voyage through its Land and Wealth the Story of its People and Past

By: Burchett, Wilfred G.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Melbourne, F. W. Cheshire Pty. Ltd.: 1941

Seller ID: 7442

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Slight fraying to bottom spine. Boards with light rubbing and bumping to extremities; An island off the coast of Australia, New Caledonia is an area rarely written about. Dust jacket, in two pieces, laid in. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 230 pages
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EASTER ISLAND

By: Casey, Robert J.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books: 1931

Seller ID: 1703

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Some fraying to DJ. Minor discoloration to boards; The Story of a lost race on the most mysterious island in the Pacific; 8vo; 333 pages
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SIX-LEGGED SNAKES IN NEW GUINEA A Collecting Expedition to Two Unexplored Islands

By: Cheesman, Evelyn

Price: $85.00

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Company: 1949

Seller ID: 1732

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Bookplate. Former owner's stamp on first blank page and title page. Correction on copyright page ; With 31 plates in half-tone and 11 line illustrations in the text; 12mo; 281 pages
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TAHITI

By: Conrad, Barnaby

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1962

Seller ID: 18412

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

DJ a bit browned and chipped. ; Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. ; B&W & Color Photographs; 8vo; 164 pages
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TAHITI

By: Conrad, Barnaby

Price: $20.17

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1962

Seller ID: 10975

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

DJ, with open tears, taped to boards; All about Tahiti, a small excerpt of which once appeared in Playboy ; B&W & Color Photographs; 8vo; 164 pages
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PACIFIC ODYSSEY

By: Cornell, Gwenda

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Adlard Coles Limited: 1985

Seller ID: 7148

ISBN: 0229117589

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

The islands of the South Pacific conjure images of idyllic escapes from the fast paced routine of the West. But is that the reality? Author Cornell journeys thence to find out ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 218 pages
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THE PACIFIC DEPENDENCIES OF THE UNITED STATES

By: Coulter, John Wesley

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The MacMillan Company: 1957

Seller ID: 15111

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

DJ priceclipped and with small chips. A few very small open tear. Rear endpaper a bit browned. Neat notes to copyright page ; Including Hawaii, Guam, and American Samoa, among others; 8vo; 388 pages
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SUBTIDAL GALAPAGOS Exploring the Waters of Darwin's Islands

By: Cribb, James

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Camden East, Camden House Publishing Ltd.: 1986

Seller ID: 7118

ISBN: 0920656471

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

The very first time that author Cribb made a dive into the waters off Galapagos, he came face-to-teeth with a 16 foot shark. Most people would say "Bye!" but Cribb began research and exploration of one of the world's richest and most diverse underwater environments. ; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 155 pages
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RAROIA Happy Island of the South Seas

By: Danielsson, Bengt

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, Rand McNally & Company: 1953

Seller ID: 18410

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ tanned and with light chipping. ; Written by the Swedish adventurer who lived in the South Pacific ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 304 pages
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VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE

By: Darwin, Charles

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Danbury, Grolier Enterprises Corp.: 1980

Seller ID: 16737

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

All edges gilt and all hands on deck! Darwin and Captain Fitz Roy journey to the South Seas, intending to complete the journey to Patagonia and Tierra Del Fuego undertaken by Captain King 1826-1830; 8vo; 524 pages
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A DREAM OF ISLANDS John Williams, Herman Melville, Walter Murray Gibson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Paul Gauguin

By: Daws, Gavan

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 1980

Seller ID: 19083

ISBN: 039301293X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo; 289 pages
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JACK LONDON IN THE SOUTH SEAS

By: Day, A. Grove

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Four Winds Press: 1971

Seller ID: 7368

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Of course Jack London is best known for his writings but he also was a sailor of note. This volume examines his journey to the South Seas, a trip of two years undertaken with his wife and a skeleton crew. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 167 pages
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REPORT OF AN EXPEDITION TO LAYSAN ISLAND IN 1911 Under the Joint Auspices of the United States Department of Agriculture and the University of Iowa

By: Dill, Homer R; Bryan, Alanson

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1912

Seller ID: 18423

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good+

Boards browned; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 30 pages
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IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

By: Dodwell, Christina

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Somerset, Oxford Illustrated Press: 1983

Seller ID: 1714

ISBN: 0902280988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo; 256 pages
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FESTIVE PAPUA

By: Dupeyrat, Andre

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Staples Press Limited: 1955

Seller ID: 18418

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Spine lettering a bit faded; Rituals and festivals in Papua New Guinea. US distribution paper label on title page, as issued; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 162 pages
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SAVAGE PAPUA A Missionary Among Cannibals

By: Dupeyrat, Andre

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Company: 1954

Seller ID: 13991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

DJ with light wear. Light foxing to edges; Twenty-one years as a missionary in New Guinea amongst natives who live in much the same way as they did in the stone age, some of whom practice cannibalism; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages
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SAVAGE PAPUA A Missionary Among Cannibals

By: Dupeyrat, Andre

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Company: 1954

Seller ID: 10714

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Stamped to endpapers and front free endpaper. DJ with light edgewear; Account of the author's twenty-one years among the Papuans; B&W Photographs; 12mo; 256 pages
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SAVAGE PAPUA A Missionary Among Cannibals

By: Dupeyrat, Andre

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Company: 1954

Seller ID: 10720

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Price clipped DJ shows light wear; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages
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TAHITI Voyage through Paradise

By: Eggleston, George T.

Price: $23.77

Publisher: New York, Devin-Adair Company: 1953

Seller ID: 10977

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Small open tears to DJ. Wear to extremities and corners bumped; There are several Tahitian islands which take months to visit. Or you could read this book ; B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 252 pages
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A VAGABOND IN FIJI

By: Foster, Harry L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co: 1927

Seller ID: 3033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Back hinge started. Spine a bit slanted. Gilt lettering and gilt spine lettering a bit faded ; Ex-Lib; 8vo; 309 pages
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