Jacksonville, Florida: Norman Film Manufacturing Co., n.d. (ca. 1922 or 1923). Bifolium of four printed and illustrated pages. 30 cm. Two horizontal folds enabling this to fit in a business-sized envelope. Richard E. Norman, a white Floridian, is best known for the "race" films for African Americans which his company..... More

New York: American Tract Society, (c. 1896). Hardcover. frontis (multiple portrait), illustrations, photos, 220p. plus 4p. publisher's adverts. Original dark green cloth. 19 cm. Spotting on back cover. No Jacket. Missionaries in various Pacific Islands. More

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1900. Hardcover. illustrations (by A. S. Boyd), xiv, 392p. Original navy blue cloth. Gilt illustration and lettering on front cover and backstrip. 23 cm. Foxing. Bookplate (with a 1968 gift inscription). No Jacket. Narrative of an around-the-world tour, with an extended stay in New Zealand and visits to..... More

Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916. 1st ed. Hardcover. color frontis (folding map), maps (some folding), charts, tables, index, 181p. plus (8) leaves of plates. Original dark blue cloth. 25 cm. No Jacket. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 244. An attempt to determine migration routes based on evidence from..... More

Cambridge: Harvard, 1965. 1st ed. Hardcover. illustrations, map (on endpapers), index, xv, 216p. Original cloth. dj. 23cm. Jacket scuffed along joints & top edge. INSCRIBED by Dodge (to Chiang Yee). Dodge was director of Salem's Peabody Museum. As might be expected, there is some emphasis on Salem mariners and the..... More

New York: Doubleday, Page, 1907. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), photos, index, xii, 315p. Original green cloth. 24 cm. No jacket. Bright copy. The English edition (1907) was titled "From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands." More

Sydney: John Sands, 1926. Hardcover. photos, 66, (6)p. Original blue cloth. 18 cm. Page edges foxed. No jacket. More

Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, (c. 1976). 1st ed. Hardcover. maps, index, xxx, 265, (1)p. Original cloth. 24cm. No jacket (as published). More

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1830-1831. Hardcover. 3 volumes. vignettes on second title-pages, index, 8, xii, 398, 8 (adverts), xiii, 356, (1), 4 (adverts), xv, 384, (1)p. Rebound in early 20th century cloth. 17 cm. Uneven cover fading and some wear. Endpapers browned. Relatively minor foxing (substantial on..... More

Westminster: The Church House, May 1900. 4p. Softcover pamplet. No separate wrapper. 19 cm. "The groups comp[rised within the Mission's Field are five: New Hebrides, Banks, Torres, Santa Cruz, and the Solomons." The current vessel is said to only be able to achieve 4 1/2 knots and that only when..... More

Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1926. Zweite auflage. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), photos, maps (some double-page), facsimile, index, xii, 353p. Original cloth. dj. 24 cm. Jacket chipped and torn (backstrip panel browned and missing a big piece at bottom). German text. Ethnographic studies of various peoples of Melanesia. The First edition was..... More

New York: John P. Haven, 1833. 2nd Amer. ed. Hardcover. 2 vols. xii, 13-323, xi, [4], 16-357p. Original cloth. 20 cm. Extremities rubbed Backstrips faded; backstrip on Vol. 2 lacks top inch or so and backstrip on Vol. 1 has a small hole. Some foxing throughout. Former owner's name in..... More

Washington: GPO, 1913. Hardcover. 200p. Original tan buckram. 23cm. Moderate cover soil. Library loan stamp on endpaper but no other library markings. No Jacket. 62d Cong. 3d Sess. House Doc. No. 1257. More