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Pacific Ocean Travel:

Theroux, Paul. HAPPY ISLES OF OCEANIA PADDLING THE PACIFIC (signed)
NY 1992-1st Putnam. 528pp. ****Signed by Theroux. Fine in Fine DJ. (a11344)
$26.00 Jenkins, John S. . VOYAGE OF THE U.S. EXPLORING SQUADRON...IN 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, AND 1842 TOGETHER WITH EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES MADE BY ADMIRAL D'URVILLE, CAPTAIN ROSS, AND OTHERS ...AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION TO THE DEAD SEA UNDER LIEUTENANT LYNCH
Detroit 1853 Kerr, Doughty and Lapham. Travel throught the Pacific and all over the world. Hardcover. Octavo, 517pp., plates, full leather. Fair, quite worn; light foxing throughout, cracked on outer hinges, spine ends worn down. Binding secure. Useful research copy. (a33717)
$49.00 Stubbs, Laura . STEVENSON'S SHRINE THE RECORD OF A PILGRIMAGE (original book not reprint)
Boston 1903 1st Page. Author travels to Samoa, Friendly Islands, Tongo and Fiji. Octavo, 58pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Some pencil notes on free blanks. Good, light cover wear, occasional light foxing in text. (a45153)
$25.00 Spry, W. J. J. R.N. . THE CRUISE OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP 'CHALLENGER' VOYAGES OVER MANY SEAS, SCENES IN MANY LANDS
London 1876 first edition Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington. Hardcover Octavo, 388pp., 24pp., large foldout map, text illustrations, green cloth with fine gilt ship pictured on front and gilt lettering with publisher's logo on spine. VG plus, some slight spotting on fore-edges, slight wear on lower spine end and corners. No ownership marks. All hinges secure and unbroken. The Very hard-to-find first edition. Lovely copy. (a51920)
$340.00Lysnar, Fraces Brewer 'Gipsy'. NEW ZEALAND THE DEAR OLD MAORI LAND
Auckland 1928 3rd Brett. Sm.8vo., 268pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. yellow-orange cloth. VG plus, no DJ. no owner marks. (a57755)
$35.00 Carpenter, Frank G . JAVA AND THE EAST INDIES
NY 1925 (1923 1st) Doubleday. Carpenter's World Travels series. Covers Java, Sumatra, Celebes, Moluccas, New Guinea, Borneo and Malay Peninsula. Hardcover. Large octavo, 272pp., photo illustrations, hardcover. Dark blue cloth with circular gilt picture on front board. Good plus, small tear at heel of spine, no DJ. (a58162)
$26.00 Griffith, George . IN AN UNKNOWN PRISON LAND AN ACCOUNT OF CONVICTS AND COLONISTS IN NEW CALEDONIA WITH JOTTINGS OUT AND HOME
London 1901 1st Hutchinson. Hardcover. Octavo, 324pp., photo illustrations, original gilt stamped cloth. Top edge gilt. Small institution stamp on title page, a few small numbers on verso. Good, inner hinges cracking, shadow of removed label at heel of spine, slightly toned on fore-edges, cover worn and soiled. Binding secure and text clean. Scarce. (a58629)
$199.00Gerould, Katharine Fullerton. HAWAII SCENES AND IMPRESSIONS
NY 1916 1st Scribners. Octavo, 181pp., photo illustrations, map, original printed green cloth spine with gilt lettering. Owner bookplate. Good plus, small chip in cloth on rear cover panel. no dj. (a60995)
$23.00 Raabe, Captain H. E. . CANNIBAL NIGHTS THE REMINISCENCES OF A FREE-LANCE TRADER
New York 1927 2nd Payson. Australia and South Pacific. Octavo, 324pp., illustrations, end paper maps, orange cloth hardcover with black diagonal stripe design. VG plus, wrinkling on spine cloth, no DJ. (a67215)
$39.00 Wilkinson, Hugh . SUNNY LANDS AND SEAS A VOYAGE IN THE SS. 'CEYLON' NOTES MADE DURING A FIVE MONTHS' TOUR IN INDIA, THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MANILA, CHINA, JAPAN, THE SANDWICH ISLANDS AND CALIFORNIA
London 1883 1st John Murray. Hardcover. Octavo, 324pp., frontis folding map, illustrations, attratcive blue cloth cover with gilt and black decoration and lettering. Near Good, inner hinges cracked, cover a bit worn. Good solid copy of Scarce book. (a71131)
$290.00 Murray, Rev. Thos. Boyles; revised by Rev. C. C. Elcum . PITCAIRN OR THE MUTINY OF THE BOUNTY. PITCAIRN: THE ISLAND, THE PEOPLE AND THE PASTOR TO WHICH IS ADDED A SHORT NOTICE OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT AND PRESENT CONDITION OF NORFOLK ISLAND
London 1909 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Revised and brought up to date by Rev C. C. Elcum. Hardcover. Small octavo, 368pp., frontis of John Adams, pictorial front board with John Adams, the ship Bounty, ocean, rope, rocks, and so on. VG light wear. (a71953)
$120.00 Rolley, Jack F. . PACIFIC HITCH-HIKE TO JAMBOLANA
NY 1989 1st Vantage. ISBN 0-533-07852-0. Adventures of British traveller to New Zealand, Tahiti and elsewhere in South Pacific. Hardcover. Octavo, 373pp., cloth. Fine in VG plus DJ, slight wear. (a80672)
$35.00Foley, Antoine-Edouard. QUATRE ANNEES EN OCEANIE - HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE L'HOMME ET DES SOCIETES QU'IL ORGANISE
Paris 1866 1st Bailliere. In French. Octavo, 300pp., original printed wraps with later paper spine. Good , cover faded , cover a bit and edges lightly frayed. Owner signed across titlepage . Old French library stamp and numbers on titlepage. Binding secure and text clean. (a81348)
$190.00 Ullman, James Ramsey . WHERE THE BONG TREE GROWS
Cleveland 1963 2nd World. The log of one man's journey in the South Pacific. 8vo., 318pp., maps, hardcover. Fine in VG Plus DJ. (a8924)
$24.00By the Earl and the Doctor (Herbert, George and George Kingsley). SOUTH SEA BUBBLES
London 1872 Richard Bentley. Hardcover. Travel from Tahiti to Samoa complete with shipwreck. 8vo., 312pp., 3/4 leather. Museum bookplate and blind stamp, no other wnership marks. Text clean and binding secure. cover rubbed and worn. Good. (lat52)
$39.00