Fiji

London: Charles H Kelly. Circa 1890s[1859]. 12mo [approx 12x18cm]. Good+ Condition. Green cloth books - gilt to face & spine. Front fly-leaf pasted to front pastedown. Some minor nicks to page edges. Black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 278 pages. . Reprint. Hardback.

Auckland, NZ: Published by Author. 1964. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Some mild tape stains to endpapers. Inscribed by the author and includes card "With Compliments of Hubert W. Simmonds". Illustrated with Colour and Black and White Plates. 164 pages. The autobiography of a Government entomologist engaged in investigations aimed at using biological methods to control tropical... Read more about this item

London: John Mason, 1857. First Edition 36,[1] pp. Demy 18mo. Original blue patterned cloth. Gilt title on front board. Original endpapers. All edges gilt. A touch of spotting otherwise in fantastic condition. The little book details a missionary trip to the Feejee Mission in the late 1840's. This appears to be the second item published by the mission and part of a series. Seems vary scarce as you would expect with only 3 copies located on World Cat. This copy from the library of Andrew... Read more about this item

Mixed; well read. Twenty (20) different titles from the estate of Clellan S. Ford, an American anthropologist, best known as Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. Ford spent a year in the Fiji Islands conducting ethnographic field research. He then joined the Institute of Human Relations at Yale, where he co-founded the cross-cultural Survey. The titles include Flight of the Chiefs, Epic Poetry of Fiji, 1942; A History of Fiji, Volume One, 1957; A Vagabond in Fiji, 1927; Fijian Grammar, 1946;... Read more about this item

Philadelphia, 1840. unbound. very good(-). Sherman & Smith. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 23 5/8" x 33 7/8".<br/> <br/> Beautifully detailed map of the islands of Fiji showing major towns, waterways and other geographical features. This chart was published in Wilkes' "Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842", which describes his explorations and cultural encounters in mapping the South... Read more about this item

Annandale, NSW: Pluto Press Australia. 2001. Very Good condition. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. xix, 169 pages. . 1st Edition (Australia). Trade Paperback.

Suva, Fiji: Museum of Fiji. 1965. Small Quarto Size [approx 19x25cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. B/w map to rear. Scarce. 24 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Staple Bound.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. XVI, 236 pages, + 4 pages blank; index, double page map, glossary. Colour illustrated dustwrapper. Minimal signs of wear, although there is some browning of the paper edges. This is the story of how and why Fiji had to military coups in 1987, and what has occurred since then. "Treason at 10 reveals the tensions between the indigenous Fijians and the Fiji born Indians, largely the descendants of imported indentured... Read more about this item

Sydney: The Cyclopedia Company of Fiji, 1907. First edition, 4to, pp.8, 332, [46], many illustrations. With, bound in, a typescript index of persons appearing, and a specimen part of the Cyclopedia for presentation to subscribers. A very good copy in modern buckram. Original wrappers of specimen part preserved within. This Cyclopedia was created by the publishers to serve as "a standard work of reference on Fiji" to "focus attention on the magnificent resources of the group and its... Read more about this item