Pp. xviii+268(last blank), 12 plates, full page maps and plans, appendices, index; dust wrapper; date stamp (25 Mar 1988) on upper free endpaper; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988. First edition. *The 39th Australian Infantry Battalion was formed in late 1941, and existed as a unit for less than two years..... More
Pp. xviii+246(last blank, text illustrations (several full page), 8 maps, tables, abbreviations, appendices, bibliography, index; narrow post 4to; tan boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Army History Unit, Department of Defence, Canberra, 2002. First edition. *'Of the Australian Army's citizen soldier formations, the longest serving was the 3rd Division..... More
Pp. x+140, text maps (one double page), tables, bibliography, index; top fore-corner of boards a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, slightly scuffed, edges rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, small stain to top edge of a few leaves; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1967. First edition. More
Volume 4: Supplement to Volumes 1, 2 and 3. With an Introduction by General Douglas MacArthur, United States Army. Part I: The Netherlands and British East Indies and the Philippine Islands. Part II: The Mandated Territory of New Guinea, Papua, the British Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides and Micronesia. Part..... More
Pp. [12](last 2 blank), stapled; med. 8vo; first page stamped 'duplicate' with official markings, edges of leaves lightly browned; Government Printer, London, 1923. More
A broken run of 478 issues, including the first and last (Volume 1, No. 1, November 19, 1942 and Volume 4, No. 230, June 30, 1946), most of the issues bound (not always in numerical order) in three volumes, plus over 50 loose issues (mostly from Volume 3, 1945). Regular..... More
Broadside calendar, headed 'With the Compliments of Guinea Gold' above a photographic view of 'Moresby Harbour in Peace Time'; demy 4to; lightly creased, inscribed in ink above title 'Good Luck Mum & Dad - Love Gordon; mounted, glazed and framed; [Port Moresby], 1944. *Guinea Gold was the official newspaper of..... More
Pp. [viii]+264, 16 plates, 6 full page maps, notes and references, bibliography, chronological tables, index; med. 8vo; navy boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges slightly rubbed and split; Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1978. First edition. *Examines the peoples of the island groups of the Pacific: their origins and..... More
A journey through the Fiji islands. Pp. [vi]+114(last blank), numerous text illustrations (several full page), full page map, pictorial endpapers; cr. 4to; pictorial papered boards, edges slightly rubbed; dust wrapper, edges rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, name in ink at head of half-title page; Lansdowne..... More
Volume 2 of Russia and the South Pacific, 1696-1840. Pp. xx+302, 16 plates, text maps, notes, bibliography, index; dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 1988. First edition. Pacific Maritime Studies Series, No. 7. *The second volume in a projected quartet on..... More
Ocean of Islands. Pp. [x]+176, hand-tipped coloured frontispiece, 40 black & white plates, text illustrations and maps, title page printed in red & black; cr. 4to; maroon cloth over bevelled boards, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind; Seward, Melbourne, n.d. [c.l950]. First edition. *Chapters on art, literature, missionaries..... More
Forty-niners from Australia and New Zealand. Pp. 172, 16 plates, folding pictorial endpapers, references, appendices, index; med. 8vo; pictorial papered boards, edges slightly discoloured and foxed, bottom fore-corners faintly bruised; fore-edges uncut; gilt dust wrapper, slightly marked; small name stamp on verso of upper free endpaper, a little light foxing;..... More
The colonial and post-colonial experience of eastern Fiji. With contributions from Muriel Brookfield. Pp. xviii+324(last blank), text illustrations and graphs, endpaper map, tables, appendix, references, index; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; inked initials on blank preliminary leaf; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988. Cambridge Human Geography series. More
Village in Tonga. Pp. [iv]+146(last colophon), 2 text figures, tables, index; med. 8vo; red cloth, lettered in black, slightly soiled, the corners bruised, top edge of upper board slightly bumped; bookplate on upper pastedown, the pages slightly browned; The Polynesian Society, Wellington, 1941. First edition. Memoirs of the Polynesian Society..... More
Pp. [vi]+292; narrow cr. 8vo; green ribbed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards slightly flecked and marked, edges lightly rubbed; top edges uncut; hinge tender near centre, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1895. First Colonial edition. More
Social Economics of Culture Contact. Pp. x+198(last blank), 3 full page maps, appendix (including bibliography), index; lower edges of boards lightly bumped; dust wrapper, browned and brittle, with piece torn from head and tail of backstrip, edges lightly chipped and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown; Oxford University..... More
Pp. viii+158, 4 maps (1 full page, 3 folding); appendices, index; boards a trifle marked; dust wrapper, slightly creased and soiled, edges chipped and split, with a couple of small tears; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, minor production fault (trimming) to bottom edge pp. 15/16, page 16 also..... More
Edited by Michael Roe. Pp. lvi+342, frontispiece, 5 maps (2 folding), bibliography, index; demy 8vo; gilt lettered & decorated blue cloth; price-clipped dust wrapper, backstrip a trifle faded; Cambridge University Press for The Hakluyt Society, Cambridge, 1967. Second Series, No. CXXXI. *In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master..... More
14 June 1789. With a draft list of the Bounty mutineers. Transcription and Facsimile Edited by John Bach. Pp. xiv+ 336, coloured frontispiece portrait, numerous text illustrations (most black & white, some full or double page, a couple folding, including a large folding map), bibliography; med. 8vo; maroon cloth, spine..... More
and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the crew in the Ship's Boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Written by William Bligh. Illustrated with Charts. (1790). [with] MINUTES OF THE COURT-MARTIAL held at Portsmouth August 12, 1792, on Ten..... More
and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. Written by Lieutenant William Bligh. Illustrated with Charts. Pp. iv+88, 4 charts (3 folding, including the frontispiece); med. 4to; contemporary half..... More
undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's ship The Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in..... More
Pp. 320, 15 plates (one double page), title page vignette, text illustrations (some full page), decorative headpieces, text maps, endpaper chart, chronology, notes on sources, index; med. 8vo; blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed; name stamp on upper endpapers and at head..... More
Pp. 160, coloured frontispiece and 5 plates, numerous black & white text illustrations, 4 folding charts at end plus endpaper chart, appendices, index; cr. 4to; blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards slightly marked; top edges blue; price-clipped dust wrapper; a little light foxing, heavier on outer leaves; B...... More
The Australians in New Guinea in World War II. Pp. xxii+506, 16 coloured and black & white plates, full page text maps, appendix (casualty list), notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; green boards, spine lettered in gilt, bottom edges a little shelf worn; dust wrapper; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2012. First..... More
