Search Results: Papua & New Guinea from Lawrence Jones

Canberra: Department of External Territories, 1947. 42pp. Later red cloth. Bound without original wraps/cover. Small bookseller label inside front cover, light foxing to endpapers. Stencilled on one side of each page. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/None, as Issued.. Folio.

Port Moresby: Geological Survey of Papua New Guinea, 1982. HEAVY. 2 volumes (text/maps). Volume 1-xvi, 244pp, appendices, references, tables, graphs, bw ills, folding maps, col frontis. Volume 2 is 42 folding maps in case. Or blue cloth in jacket. As new. Provides acomprehensive record of the discovery, exploitation, geology and economic potential of the Morobe Goldfield and establishes its relative importance as a gold producer.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Sydney: Australian Military History Publications., 2001. xvi, 288pp, index, appendices, nominal roll, glossary, maps, bw ills. Pictorial glossy boards. As new. The 61st Australian Infntry Battalion was sent to Milne Bay in mid-1942 and within weeks found itself in the front line against the Japanese. The inexperiencedmilitia battalion soon learned on the job, as they slowed and stopped the first attacks. They played a key role in the defeat of the Japanese and later saw further action on Bougainville. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/None, as Issued.. Small 4to.

Sydney: The Australian Museum, 1982. 74pp, further reading, num bw & col ills. Or pictorial card. Very light edge war to covers. Based on the gallery of the same name at The Australian Museum, Sydney.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Square 8vo.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington., 1888. viii, 238pp + 32pp publisher catalogue at rear, map, 4 bw photographs. Or pictorial cloth (wonderful image in gilt of crocodile and giant snake battling, spine image in gilt of man being consricted by snake). Prize label on front pastedown, some minor toning, frontis tissue guard foxedhinge/joint cracking at title page. Minor rubbing to edges of cloth. Scarce and attractive vlume detailing a French sailor's captivity with a New Guinea tribe.. New and Cheaper Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1886. 192pp, 6 bw engravings. Or decorative brown cloth. Lacks (blank) front free endpaper, front hinge cracking, Sunday School prize label dated 1887 on front pastedown, rear board alittle spotted, spine a little sunned. Hole in p57/58 causing loss of 3 words. Scarce little volume on New Guinea by probably the best known of the Paific missionaries.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good. 12mo.

Bathurst: The National Cultural Council of Papua New Guinea in association with Robert Brown and Associates., 1981. HEAVY. 408pp, index, bibliography, glossary, hundreds of bw & col ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Light foxing to prelims otherwise near new. Full photographic account of a single cultural group in PNG- the Gogodala. They number about 10000 and live as lagoon dwellers along the floodplain of the aramia River north of the Fly River Delta. The first part of the book is a richly illustrated account of Life and ceremony. Part 2 is a catalogue of objects covering over 700 items incorporating a list of all Gogodala artifacts known to exist. A magnificent volume.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 2009. x, 234pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills, map. Or cream boards in jacket. Bump with small asscoiated tear to front of jacket not affecting boards-otherwise near new. Anthropology and ethnography in German New Guinea.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Very Good. 8vo.

Adelaide: Crawford House Publishing, 2001. HEAVY. x, 307pp, index, notes, 200+ bw ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Near new. Photographs from FE Williams time as Government Anthropologist in the Australian Territory of Papua. Present approx 235 images of which about 200 have never before appeared in print.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Madang: Kristen Pres, 1996. 67pp, 25 bw ills, 4 maps, bibliography, chronology. Pictorial card. Near new. Otto Finsch was a famous ethnographer who recorded the traditional life of the people. He praised them for their resilience and high moral sense, but found them ready to settle disputes with weapons. He challenged the term contented people used by the Russian, Miklouho Maclay, to describe them. This work taken from his diary. He visited Madang and raised the German flag there in 1884.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 1999. viii, 318pp, references, num bw ills, maps. Or green cloth in jacket. Approx 1cm tear at top of front flap fold-generally excellent. Papers from the 5th Internation Symposium of the Pacific Arts. Presented in 4 parts: Part 1 Art as Performance in Micronesia and Polynesia (includes Yap, Tahiti, New Zealand, Samoa); Part 2 Bringing people back into the collections-Indigenous Australians and the presentation of culture; Part 3 From performance to Museum in Melanesia (mostly PNG) and Part 4 Pan-Pacific Developments.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Place Not Stated: Handcraft Industry f Papua New Guinea., 1990. 43pp, 260+ col ills. Or pictorial card. Stamp of Melanesian Arts Centre, Lae on last page.. Apparent First. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4to.

London: Christophers, 1948. xviii, 288pp, index, appendix, bw ills, endpaper map. Or red cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped, spine faded and stain to rear panel/lower spine. Stamps of Melbourne Technical College on front free endpaper, small bookseller label on front pastedown. Covers all aspects of administration, social conditions, medical services and economic developemnt of Australia's Mandated Territory in New Guinea.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1970. ix, 214pp, index, bibliography, appendices. Black cloth in jacket. Slight fading to spine, gift note on front free endpaper.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Melbourne: Macmillan & Co. In association with Melbourne University Press., 1928. 149pp, index, tables, map. Or brown cloth, no jacket. Small bookseller label on front pastedown, light foxing to prelims.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo.

Adelaide: Rigby, 1979. 159pp, bw ills. Or boards in jackets. Short tear at top left of front jacket panel. Jerry Pentland served in WWI with the Royal Flying Corps after service with the Light Horse at Gallipoli becoming one of Australia's first Aces. Afetr the war he joined the newly formed RAAF, then flew as a private charter pilot on the goldfields of New Guinea. In WWII he served as an instructor, then with his New Guinea experience invaluable, commanded No. 1 Communications Flight, organising airstrips for emergency landings and rescue missions, followed by work on New Guinea's first radar grid. He stayed in New Guinea after the war, becoming a trader and later establishing a pioneering coffee plantation.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Suffolk: Fontana Collins, 1973. 187pp, index, bibliography, tables, graphs. Or card. Minor wear to covers, bump to top of spine, even toning to page edges. A look at how trade can work between developing countries such as pre-independence PNG and high-income countries such as Australia and the minimizing of problems that such a relationship may incur.. First Paperback. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915. 294pp, col plates. Or green cloth with title and jangaroo in gilt. Front hinge cracked, spine sunned, top edge of fron cover darkened. Travels in Western Australia, Queensland and Papua.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Burns, Philp & Co, 1928. 72pp, bw & col ills, ads. Or wraps featuring image of Witu, New Guinea by Charles Bryant ROI. A couple of tiny (1-4mm) tears to edge of front cover. A beautiful copy of the first issue of Burns, Philp's promotional magazine. Includes material on the New Zealand glaciers, South Sea Islands, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, yachting on Sydney Harbour the Melbourne Cup, bush honey, movies, poster development and more. Full page colour plate of Colleen Moore and Gary Cooper in Love Never Dies plus several other colour movie star plates. Also some great ads. Very scarce and rare in this condition.. Periodical. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4to. Magazine.

Port Moresby: Lalong Enterprises, 2020. 112pp, bibliography, glossary, num bw & col ills, map. Pictorial card. Near new. Rabaul is the centre of the Tolai people. This volume describes the large fish-traps made of bamboo strips used by the Tolai. Studies the changes over the years and the political events that influenced these changes from bush materials to modern materials.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.