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Polynesia: A History of the South Sea Islands, Including New Zealand: with Narrative of the Introduction of Christianity, &c.
by RUSSELL, Right Rev. M
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1852. Hardcover. Good. 486 p. 19 cm. Frontispiece, title vignette, and fold-out map of the South Pacific. Burgundy leather with blank and gilt impressing, all edges gilt. Some spots and rubbing to boards, corners worn. Ink inscription for Douglas Brown of Harbor Grace on front pastedown. Front free endpaper missing. Next leaf has ink signature (E. S. Pinsent) and pencil sketches. Some spots and thumbing to first pages. Rear free endpaper has large chip missing from bottom...
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SGD 103.48
![Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team: HIV/AIDS from an/other angle; [#1] Spring 199](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/533/931/1555931533.0.b.jpg)
Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team: HIV/AIDS from an/other angle; [#1] Spring 199
by Alumit, Noel, editor
Los Angeles: APAIT, 1994. Newsletter. Four panel newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, information, services, resources, news briefs, events, very good newsletter.
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SGD 20.70
![World War II Album of Hawaii, New Guinea, Philippines and Back Home Somewhere near Kansas City. [our title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/649/688/853688649.0.b.jpg)
World War II Album of Hawaii, New Guinea, Philippines and Back Home Somewhere near Kansas City. [our title]
by [Photo Album]
Hardcover. Good. More than 350 photos, mounted 1-10 to a page on both sides of the album leaves. Most are in corner mounts but some have cellophane tape around edges and a handful have been glued down. Tied oblong brown album. Approximately 39 x 29cm. Quality of photos varies but most are clear with good detail. No captions. Our soldier starts the album with about 13 photos of basic training at an unnamed location, followed by about 26 photos of Hawaii. 26 of what appears to be New Guinea, and 135 of...
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SGD 379.44
Sex Life in the South Seas
by B. Schidloff, Ph.D
Melbourne Anthropological Research Association, 1953-01-01. Paperback. Fair. . 0x0x0. FAIR. Black wraps, approx. 6.25'' x 5'', 410pp., most of spine title and spine edge chipped/rubbed away, chips to spine edges, edges and corners of covers, light fading and small chips to covers, small creases to top corner of first few pages, rub wear, a small gray stain and a small light brown stain to side page edges, inner pages are clean and in very readable condition..<p> Once Read Books,...
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SGD 27.46
Philippine Quarterly of Culture & Society: Volume 8, Number 1, March 1980; Special Folklore Issue
Cebu City: San Carlos Publications, 1994. Paperback. 92p., wraps, 7x10 inches, wraps lightly worn else very good condition.
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SGD 16.56
The Tambalans of Northern Leyte
by Tiston, Rebecca C
Tacloban City: Divine Word University Publications, 1983. Paperback. 68p., pictorial wraps, 6x8.75 inches. Wraps worn with crease on front, bleeding-through of cover coloring, else very good. Illustrated with b&w photographs.
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SGD 48.29
Gender, Poverty, and Sustainable Development: Towards a holistic framework of understanding and action
by Wee, Vivienne [and] Noeleen Heyzer
Singapore: Engender Centre for Environment, Gender, and Development Pte Ltd, 1995. Paperback. xvi, 168p., wraps, 5.75 x 8.25 inches, wraps worn, soiled, and creased, else very good condition. Particular focus on Asia and the Pacific.
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SGD 16.56
![La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627), Translated and edited by Celsus Kelly. With ethnological introduction, appendix, anmd other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I [&] Volume II [pair, complete set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/425/772/1462772425.0.b.jpg)
La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627), Translated and edited by Celsus Kelly. With ethnological introduction, appendix, anmd other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I [&] Volume II [pair, complete set]
by Munilla, Fray Martin de; Celsus Kelly, translator & editor
Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society by CUP, 1966. Hardcover. xvii, 270, xv, 273-446p., plates on inserted coated stock, maps and lengthy folded lists of encountered islands as called for, hardbound in the Hakluyt design, fine bright copies in their plain printed dust jackets. Djs are in general good shape, both have some tiny punctures and toned spine panels (v.1 has a quarter-inch chip at the head), each volume with crimping to top and tail rims else entirely sound, clean and unmarked. An...
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SGD 55.19
Mobile in the trade wind: the reactions of people on Bellona Island towards a mining project
by Monberg, Torben
[Copenhagen]: Nationalmuseet, 1976. Paperback. 57p., slender paperback, very good. Working papers of the National Museum of Denmark, no. 1. Examines reactions to a phosphate mine on an outlying part of the Solomon Islands.
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SGD 23.46
Theater in Society, Society in Theater: Social History of a Cebuano Village, 1840-1940
by Mojares, Resil B
Quezon City: Ateneo De Manila University Press, 1985. Paperback. 200p., paperback, 7x10 inches. Light foxing to rear free endpaper, else very good. Illustrated with b&w photographs and maps.
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SGD 103.48
I Come from the Stone Age; translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald
by Harrer, Heinrich
New York: E.P.Dutton & Co., Inc, 1965. Hardcover. First American edition: 256p., illustrated with numerous photo sections, mostly b&w with several dynamite color shots, Hardbound in red cloth boards lettered orange and green and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself bears scattered spots of foxing to fore-edge, and the jacket is a little edgeworn with short tears at the head-rim, an otherwise perfectly sound copy, clean and unmarked. Contains several of the finest colorphoto portraits of indigenous...
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SGD 27.60
Beatrice Witherspoon autobiography of Emma Beatrice Witherspoon, Written during her first mission to the South Sea Islands, from the year 1896 to the year 1900
by Burton, Emma Beatrice
Independence MO / Lamoni IA: Herald Publishing House [reprint by same house], 1970. Paperback. 383p., no illustrations whatsoever, else a reprint of the original 1915 version. Mild wear & tear to paper covers, clean and unmarked within, softbound in 7.5x5 inch wraps, a good (good-only) copy. This represents the account of the mission of the author as a Mormon missionary to the South Sea Islands from 1896-1900.
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SGD 16.56
Isles of adventure; from Java to New Caledonia but principally Papua. With illustrations
by Grimshaw, Beatrice
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. Hardcover. viii, 293p., photographic illustrations as called for, on inserted plates, first edition openweave cloth boards paneled in blind and titled in silverblue foil lettering, boards lightly edgeworn, bookseller's label on free front endpaper, occasional spots of light foxing within. else very good condition. No dust jacket.
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SGD 27.60
Dignity of the soul: The story of Filipino bravery in World War II
by Peavey, Bill
South San Francisco: Bayanihan Publishing Co, 1995. Hardcover. 219p., endpaper maps, foreword, illustrated with b&w photos and maps, very good first edition in an unclipped and worn dust jacket. Inscribed by Peavey on the half title. Former San Francisco lawyer and judge writes about the Philippine resistance to Japan during the second World War.
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SGD 24.84
Mindanao Journal: Volume 1, Number 4
Marawi City: University Research Center, Mindanao State University, Marawi City, 1975. Paperback. 134p., paperback, 6x9 inches. Previous ownership stamp and pen mark on contents page, wraps shelfworn, else very good. Illustrated with maps and diagrams. Articles on fish, water, boatbuilding, and Muslim Filipinos.
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SGD 23.46
The Jama Mapun: a changing Samal society in the southern Philippines
by Casiño, Eric
Quezon City: Ateneo De Manila University Press, 1984. Paperback. xiv, 159p., paperback, 6x9 inches. Sticker scar on upper right corner of front cover, else very good.
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SGD 24.84
Philippine Quarterly of Culture & Society: Volume 22, Number 3, September 1994
Cebu City: San Carlos Publications, 1994. Paperback. 165-242p., paperback, 7x10.25 inches. Small tear in spine, else very good. Articles on land rights before Spanish colonization, Filipino domestic workers, archaeology, and Feminist readings of contemporary Philippine literature.
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SGD 16.56
Work and Life on Raroia: An acculturation study from the Tuamotu group, French Oceania
by Danielsson, Bengt
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956. Hardcover. 244p., cloth-covered boards, tables, maps, one fold-out map at rear, offsetting to endpapers else very good condition in a price-clipped dust jacket with foxing to the verso.
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SGD 16.56
Philippine Colonial Democracy
by Paredes, Ruby R., ed
New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1988. Paperback. 166p., paperback, 6x9 inches. Stamp on title page, sticker scar on spine, else very good. Monograph Series 32/Yale University Southeast Studies.
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SGD 48.29
Dreissig Jahre in der Sudsee: Land und Leute, Sitten und Gebrauche im Bismarckarchipel und auf den deutschen Salomoinseln
by Parkinson, Richard Heinrich Robert, 1844-1909
Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1926. Zweite auflage. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. frontis (portrait), photos, maps (some double-page), facsimile, index, xii, 353p. Gray cloth. dj. 24cm. 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 published in 1907.
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SGD 103.48
Branches: a Publication of the Pacific Asian American Center for Theology and Strategy, Fall/Winter 1993-94; PACTS Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
Berkeley: Pacific and Asian American Center for Theology and Strategies (PACTS), 1994. Magazine. 30p., staplebound journal, 8.5x11 inches, very good. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Featuring articles on Japanese American churches, Christianity in the Pacific Islands, the negative effects of tourism on native Hawaiians, and more.
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SGD 24.84
Folklore of the Atayal of Formosa and the Mountain Tribes of Luzon
by Norbeck, Edward
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950. Staplebound. iv, 44p., staplebound wraps, 6x9 inches. Illustrated with fold-out map. Wraps sunned, staples lightly rusted, minor foxing to top edge of text block, else very good. Anthropological Papers, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 5.
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SGD 27.60
The Filipinos in America
by Winter, Frank H
Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1988. Hardcover. 71p., pictorial boards, 7.25x9.25 inches. Illustrated profusely with b&w photographs. Boards lightly shelfworn, else very good.
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SGD 27.60
![La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo; The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627) - Translated and Edited by Celsus Kelly O.F.M. With ethnological introduction, appendix, and other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I, Volume II [the pair complete]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/022/429/1512429022.0.b.jpg)
La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo; The Journal of Fray Martin de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to The Voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan Missionary Plan (1617-1627) - Translated and Edited by Celsus Kelly O.F.M. With ethnological introduction, appendix, and other contributions by G.S. Parsonson. Volume I, Volume II [the pair complete]
by Munilla, Fray Martin de, O.F.M., &c &c
Cambridge: Published by the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1966. Hardcover. xvii, 270, xv, 273-446p., matched pair in Hakluyt's signature format: blue cloth boards gilt & blind and enclosed in their dust jackets. Top edges of both volumes are dusty and foxed, and the second was printed on paperstock not fully alkaline, giving v.2 a pervasive mild browning. Jackets are a bit edgeworn with toned spine panels; these mild signs of age are matched, along with the general design. A good to...
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SGD 41.39
A vagabond in Fiji
by Foster, Harry L
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1927. Hardcover. viii, 309p., original green cloth boards with titling in gilt, bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, softly bent corners, else in very good condition.
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SGD 20.70
