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Resources of the Pacific Slope. A statistical and descriptive summary of the mines and minerals, climate, topography, agriculture, commerce, manufactures...of the states and territories west of the Rocky Mountains. With a sketch of the settlement and exploration of lower California
by Browne, J. Ross
New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1869. 2 parts in 1; 8vo, pp. 378; 200; original brown cloth, spine faded and rather chipped at the top; ex-Northern Pacific Railway Co. with small rubberstamp on the flyleaf, but no other markings; good and sound. This copy inscribed to "Thomas H. Canfield Esq. with the compliments of J. Ross Browne." Canfield (1822-1897) was a Burlington, Vermont, businessman who played a prominent role in the development of transportation routes in Vermont, across the northern United...
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€489.87
Yankee whalers in the south seas. Drawings by Richard M. Powers
by Whipple, A. B. C
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1954. First edition, 8vo, pp. 304; map endpapers, illustrated throughout; occasional ink annotations, else fine in a lightly chipped jacket. Whaling lore, cannibalism, shipwrecks, and the story of Mocha Dick and Melville's classic novel.
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€27.21
Shells of Cornwall's Beaches. Identifying and Collecting
by Pascoe, Ann
Truro, UK:: Tor Mark Press First printing in stapled pamphlet. 35 pp. Photographs, reading list. Front cover has some sunning at the spine, rear cover has light soiling. Very Good.
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€7.06
Nitrogen in the Sea Forms, Abundance, and Rate Processes
by Wada, Etaro & Akihiko Hattori
CRC Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0849362733 . Hardcover. Nice clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Covers are nice and clean. Binding has begun to pull away at the bottom causeing pages 25-52 to pull away slightly. All pages are accounted for and are nice and clean. There is a mark on the outside edge of pages 139-158 but it does not bleed onto the page or obstruct any of the text. Overall a great copy. ; 10.16 X 7.32 X 0.79 inches; 208 pages .
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€94.66
![太平洋戦争への道 / Taiheiyou sensou e no michi [= The road to the Great Pacific War]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/078/363/1544363078.0.b.jpg)
太平洋戦争への道 / Taiheiyou sensou e no michi [= The road to the Great Pacific War]
by Japan Association of International Relations
Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1963. 8vo, 8 vols, including a final volume out of series; text in Japanese; text illustrations, 3 folding maps; full gray cloth, title in white and gilt on spines; prospectuses for 6 volumes and two errata slips laid in, slight rubbing to spine of vol. 1, else fine. An important record of the Pacific Theater of World War II. The Japan Association of International Relations, led by Hikomatsu Kamikawa, conducted a three-year research project on the events leading up to Japan's...
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€381.01
Cruise of the "Alert." Four years in Patagonian, Polynesian, and Mascarene waters. (1878-82.)
by COPPINGER, RICHARD WILLIAM, Dr
London: Swan Sonnenschien and Co., n.d., 1883. Large 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], 256; 16 full-p. wood-engraved illustrations from photographs by F. North, R. N., and from sketches by the author, identified on the title as Staff Surgeon in the Royal Navy; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and red on upper cover, in gilt only on spine, t.e.g.; several signatures extended, top of spine cracked, bottom of spine and extremities rubbed; all else very good. Ferguson 8682 citing the 1883 edition: "In the...
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€244.93
Ka Palapala Hemolele a Iehova ko kakou akua o ke Kauoha kahiko a me ke Kauoha hou i unuhiia mailoko mai o na olelo kahiko Paiia no ko Amerika poe hoolaha Baibala
Oahu & Honolulu: Na na misionari i pai, 1843. First octavo edition, and the first one-volume edition of the Bible in Hawaiian. 8vo, pp. 1451, [1]; original full Hawaiian sheep, black morocco label lettered in gilt on spine; vertical crease in spine, small chips at spine ends, the whole moderately scuffed, old Bowdoin accession label at base of spine, upper joint cracked at the top. Contained in a new brown cloth clamshell box. Ex-Athenian Society of Bowdoin College, with the Society's bookplate, a...
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€7,075.84
Pamulong pulong sa pagbaton sang palañgaku-an sang Iyang' Kamahalan Jose P. Laurel, Pañgulo sang Republika sang Pilipinas
by Laurel y García, José Paciano
[Manila: publisher not identified], 1943. 8vo, pp. 20; fine copy in original printed brown wrappers. An Ayer Linguistics duplicate with small release stamp from the Newberry Library inside front cover. Inaugural address by Laurel, President of the Philippines 1943-45, in Hiligaynon (Ilongo), an Austronesian language spoken by the inhabitants of Panay, Negros, and other islands in the central Philippines. Laurel (1891-1959) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, and judge, who served as the president of the...
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€54.43
Treatment of Exotic Marine Fish Diseases
by Kingsford, Edward
St. Petersburgh, FL: The Palmetto Publishing Company., 1975 First printing in trade paperback. 92 pp. Inset boxes, color plates, tables, glossary, index. Minor rippling to rear cover and last several pages, sticker scuff on front cover. Text is clean and unmarked. Good.
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€10.61
Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, to co-operate with the polar expeditions: performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom ... in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28
by Beechey, F. W., Capt
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. xxvi, [2], 472; [2], iv, 452; complete copy with 23 engraved plates and 3 maps (2 folding, 1 double-p.), plus both half-titles; bound in 20th-century full brown morocco with the gilt supralibros on upper and lower covers of the Marquis of Cunningham, gilt lettering direct, with ornaments on spines, a.e.g.; some rubbing but generally a very good, sound, and clean set. "Beechey's book is one of the most valuable of modern...
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€2,721.48
Adventures of a Zoologist (association copy)
by Scheffer, Victor B. (signed); Joseph Meeker (inscribed to)
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. An association copy, inscribed on the first blank: "For Joe Meeker, with best wishes, Victor B. Scheffer." Uncommon signed. Scheffer was a marine biologist who worked for thirty years for government agencies, including the National Park Service, Forest Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service, before he moved to academia at the University of Washington in 1969 and devoted himself to popular writing. He won the John...
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€354.98
SEA TREK
by HOLMES, MARTHA
Dust jacket has a couple of very small spots on lower edge. Full colour photos throughout. Covered in Plastic. Please expect extra postage overseas.
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€20.04
The Ever Changing Sea
by David B. Ericson and Goesta Wollin
Paladin, 1971. Some wear, binding sound; good overall.. paperback. Good. Book.
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€0.95
Moresby mice. A souvenir of the Papuan campaign
by Graham, G. B. (Bill)
Melbourne: Robertson and Mullins, n.d., 1943. 4to, pp. [24]; illustrated throughout with photographs and cartoons by Graham; original cloth-backed pictorial boards printed in green and black; small abrasion at the gutter near the bottom of the spine; all else very good. "The Aussies and the Yanks in Papua ... who fought and worked and laughed together during the grim days of 1942-43."
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€48.99
The oceanic languages shemitic
by Macdonald, D., Rev
Melbourne: Mason, Firth & M. Cutcheon, printers, 1886. First edition, 8vo, pp. 34; near fine in original terracotta wrappers, side-stapled. A paper read at the Royal Society of Australia 11 March, 1886. It includes sections on personal pronouns, and numerals, with an appendix on Australian and Tasmanian numerals. Macdonald was erroneous in his assumption that the Pacific languages were Semitic, but he did compile in the year following this publication, Three New Hebrides Languages (Efatese, Eromangan,...
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€217.72
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (uncorrected proof)
by Earle, Sylvia
NY: Putnam Adult, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. The uncommon softcover uncorrected proof. A near fine copy in off-white wraps with blue lettering. Sylvia Earle (b. 1935) is a standout marine biologist, oceanographer and explorer, often described as a Rachel Carson of the oceans. She has been a National Geographic explorer-in-residence since 1998, was the first female chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and was named by Time Magazine as its...
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€118.32
A trip through the Hawaiian Islands 7 - reels pictures - 7 and lecture showing native life in the islands and the world's largest active volcano Kilauea in active eruption..
by [Bonine, Robert Kates?]
Portland: Holly Press, n.d., 1920. Very large advertising broadside (poster) in three sections, each approximately 28" x 42" and approximately 84" x 42" overall, printed in black on tan paper; previous folds, but essentially fine and handsome. The type face, along with the fact that the Kilauea was erupting frequently in the early 1920s point to the first half of the 1920s as a date of printing. The illustrated film program is almost certainly based on the films of Robert Kates Bonine (1862-1923), a...
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€1,632.88
A dictionary of the Maori language ... sixth edition, revised and augmented under the auspices of the Polynesian Society
by Williams, Herbert W
Wellington: R. E. Owen, Government Printer, 1957. 8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 499, [5]; text in double column; full red cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; corners bumped, ex-library with call number on spine, perforated stamp on title page and checkout slip tipped in to free endpaper; very good.
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€38.10
A dictionary of the Hawaiian language, to which is appended an English-Hawaiian vocabulary and a chronological table of remarkable events
by Andrews, Lorrin
Honolulu: Henry M. Whitney, 1865. First edition thus, being a second and much expanded version of Andrews' earlier A Vocabulary of Words in the Hawaiian Language, Lahaina, 1836 which is the first dictionary printed in the Pacific; 8vo, pp. xvi, 559; text in double column; full contemporary sheep, worn, and with restoration at the extremities; good and sound. The Hawaiian press was first established in Honolulu in 1822 and later at Lahaina in 1834 by Lorrin Andrews, a missionary who claimed some...
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€816.44
A narrative of missionary enterprises in the South Sea islands; with remarks upon the natural history of the islands, origin, languages, tradition, and usages of the inhabitants ...Twenty-first thousand
by Williams, John, Rev
London: John Snow, 1840. 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 154; text in double column; frontispiece portrait, folding map of Polynesia, plus a number of wood engravings in the text; bound with: Koempfer, Engelbert, An account of Japan...abridged and arranged from the translation of J. G. Schuechzer, pp. xvi, 105; text in double column, wood-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page; bound with: Bligh, William, Lieut., Narrative of the mutiny on the Bounty, on a voyage to the South Seas...to which are added some...
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€190.50
On Ari'is in Tahiti
by Salmon, Tati
New Plymouth [New Zealand]: Thomas Avery, 1910. 8vo, pp. [39]-46 (i.e. 8 pages); original printed salmon wrappers, stapled; spine chipped, staples rusty; good. An offprint from the Journal of the Polynesian Society, volume.19, no. 1. A study of fourteenth-century migration from Tahiti to New Zealand. O'Reilly & Reitman 5064.
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€81.64
Opening the Oceans
by Ruhen, Olaf
Sydney: Nautical Press. No DateCirca 1980. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. With 31 b/w plates and one folding map [32x49cm] exhibiting the discoveries made by Captain James Cook during his three voyages in H.M.S. Endeavour & H.M.S. Resolution. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. 189 pages. Study of the 18th and 19th century exploration of the Pacific. Robust,...
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€9.27
The South Sea whaler, an annotated bibliography
by Forster, Honore
Sharon, MA: The Kendall Whaling Museum, 1985. 8vo, pp. ix, [7], 157, [3]; frontispiece and map endpapers; full gray cloth; previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, else fine.
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€38.10
Adam's River. the Mystery of the Adams River Sockeye
by Hume, Mark. Photographs By Rick Blacklaws
Vancouver: New Star Books., 1994 First printing in paper covers. 108 pp. Illustrations, sources, index. Minor curl to front cover, gift inscription on the front endpaper. Very Good.
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€9.19
The Natural History of the Ocean a Graphic Account of the Mighty Deep
by Prof. J. W. Van Dervoort
Union Publishing House. Good with no dust jacket. 1890. Hardcover. Good hardcover with clean, but yellowed pages. No dust jacket. Minor shelf wear and scuff marks to covers and spine. One small pin hole in the spine. Binding is cracking at the hinges, but no pages appear to be missing or loose. Back cover has some water damage and the red dye from the cloth has bled onto the bottom edge of page 475 to the back end page, but this does not affect the text. Previous owner attached an ex-libris sticker...
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€71.00
