History: Australia And South Pacific from The Owl at the Bridge

Two bookseller catalogues. Quaritch 1017, 385 items, illus.; Lake 51, 158 items. Both in paper covers; both Good or better. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0318.

Three-ring binder holding approx. 32 printed pamphlets, newspapers, and other paper ephemera having to do with the Pacific during World War II. Includes Picture Book of Manila 1945; story The Bamboos by Francisco Arcellana; Del Valle News / Bergstrom Army Air Field, Austin, Texas, Monday, May 31, 1943 (entire paper); page 3 of The Sunday Tribune, April 25, 1943,… Ler mais sobre este item

series: University of Washington Publications in Language and Literature. Volume 9, November 1935. Reprinted 1964? by Maurice Martino in an edition of 350 copies. Chapter headings: (vol. 1) Collections, Circumnavigations, General Travels and Descriptions, Continental Europe, West Europe, North Europe, East Europe, Near East, Central Asia, East Indies, Far East, Siberia, Africa; (vol. 2) Northwest Passage, Northeast… Ler mais sobre este item

The First Marine Division landed on Guadalcanal with a photographic unit of five men led by Lt. Karl Thayer Soule and attached to Division Intelligence. The unit took over 5000 black & white still shots, black & white film, and color film that was lost in transit to Washington. Soule's contribution is not acknowledged here, nor are the pictures well… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge, MA, Harvard UP, 1962. Hard Cover. xix, 456 p., index; 20.5 cm. Includes The Islands (Oceanic Eden; Coming of the Islanders; Australian Aborigines; Melanesians; Polynesians; Micronesians); Aliens (Explorers, 1520-1780; Whalers, Traders & Missionaries, 1780-1850; Planters, Blackbirders & Merchants, 1850-1914; Miners & Administrators, 1914-1939); Metamorphosis (Scope of Change; Dispossessed; Salvation; Coconut Civilization; Sugar Revolution; Sea Harvest; Bases; Profit &… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press, 1965.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. xv, 216 p., illus., ports.; 23.5 cm. "In substance a series of eight lectures given before the Lowell Institute in Boston during February 1962." The second chapter, "Hunting the cachalot": p. 27-56, is on whaling. Bibliography: p. 199-204. Inscribed by Dodge to his friend Stuart Sherman. Stock#45218. Vg… Ler mais sobre este item

Georgian House, Melbourne [1950]. Hard Cover. 62 p., monochrome marginal vignettes throughout, 2 color botanical plates, 22.5 cm. Written and Illustrated by Mervinia Masterman. Endpaper map. With two handmade bookmarks by the author, each with a small botanical color sketch. A profile of the Sanctuary for Fauna and Flora off the South Coast of Australia near Adelaide.… Ler mais sobre este item

Talkarra Press, Cremorne, N. S. W., 1957. Hard Cover. Signed. [18], [21] p.; title-page vignette stamped in blue; 21 cm. Introduced and Annotated by John Earnshaw. The manuscript letter is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. 'Unsigned and incomplete, half in verse and half in prose, covering four closely written pages…', it is a nice thumbnail sketch of early British… Ler mais sobre este item

1958, University of Washington Press, Seattle. The American Ethnological Society. Hard Cover. 'Singapore and the Federation have been considered together as an entity, and the two are discussed under the regional name, Malaya.' With the collaboration of Leonard Comber, Burton Stein, C. Lester Stermer, John E. Trotter. Includes Demographic Patterns; Patterns of Settlements; Systems of Transportation and Telecommunications; Communication… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge UP [Melbourne, 1995]. Hard Cover. x, 228 p., index, illus. 'This book is an exciting exploration of popular late-nineteenth century texts which show Australia-- along with Africa, India and the Pacific Islands-- to be a preferred site of imperial adventure. ...These books... offer insights into the construction of empire, masculinity, race and Australian nationhood and identity. ...From bushranging… Ler mais sobre este item