Pp. xviii+246(last blank), text illustrations (several full page), 8 maps, tables, appendices, bibliography, index; narrow cr. 4to; tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Army History Unit, Department of Defence, Canberra, 2002. First edition. fs22 *Signed by the author on the title page. fs24 'Of the Australian Army's citizen..... More
Studies on Fiji Indians. Pp. [viii]+224(last blank); pictorial printed paper wrappers; University of the South Pacific, Suva, 1991. Reprinted. *A collection of historical papers on Indian life in Fiji, including 'The 1920 Strike', 'Conflict in the Canefields: Fiji in 1921', and 'The Emergence of Muslim Separatism in Fiji'; first printed..... 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
Pp. 8(last blank), stapled; med. 8vo; first page stamped 'duplicate' with official markings, edges of leaves lightly browned and creased; Government Printer, London, 1923. More
Pp. 8, stapled; med. 8vo; first page stamped 'duplicate' with official markings, edges of leaves lightly browned and creased; Government Printer, London, 1923. More
Pp. xxviii+372, frontispiece portrait plus 7 plates, folding map, index; med. 8vo; gilt lettered navy cloth, lightly worn; fore and bottom edges uncut; later (but not recent) endpapers?; hinges starting, small inked annotation and bookseller's sticker on verso of upper free endpaper, inked signature on recto of frontispiece, scattered light..... More
![WAR IN NEW GUINEA: official war photographs of the battle for Australia [cover title]. Australian...](/pictures/thumb/153333.jpg?v=1640045222)
Pp. [48], illustrated with photographs by George Silk, with brief text; small demy 4to; pictorial paper wrappers, stapled (staples rusted), name stamp on upper wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and creased, loose at lower staple, backstrip fold worn and slightly chipped; F. H. Johnston Publishing Company, Sydney, n.d.[c. 1943]. *From the..... 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
The Story of the 39th Battalion 1941-1943. 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..... More
Pp. 248, 12 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations and maps (some full page), endpaper maps printed in blue, appendices, notes, bibliography, index; small cr. 4to; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; dust wrapper, backstrip faintly faded; Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1988. First edition. More
Travels with Glenn A. Baker. Foreword by Barry Humphries, Pp. xii+220, 8 coloured plates, text photographs; pictorial printed paper wrappers; Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1993. More
Pp. vi+738, frontispiece map with tissue guard, index; dark green pictorial ribbed cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, lightly rubbed and worn, the spine quite faded and scuffed, with a couple of tiny splits at extremities; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; hinges starting at a few points, small surface..... 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, boards a trifle marked; a little light foxing; Seward, Melbourne, n.d.[c..... More
H. M. S. Rattlesnake's Australia-New Guinea cruise, l846 to l850. Pp. xii+112, long multi-folding coloured plate at end, black & white frontispiece and 20 plates, 2 text maps (one full page), plus upper endpaper map, bibliography, index; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges lightly..... 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
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
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. [with] MINUTES OF THE COURT-MARTIAL held at Portsmouth August 12, 1792, on Ten Persons..... More