Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii for the Hawaiian Historical Society, 1973. Octavo, red cloth. pp (xii), 344, (4) + plates. Frontispiece portrait and two maps in text. Very nearly fine, no owner names, in a VG price-clipped jacket. Dom Francisco de Paula Marin, a Spaniard, served as horticulturist, interpreter, physician, and distiller for the king and queen and was probably the most inflential European resident in Hawaii in the early 1800s.

New York: Oceanic Publishing Company, 1920. Octavo, dark blue cloth lettered and bordered in white. (xiv), 375 pp + numerous plates, several maps in text at rear, indexed. Tipped in errata slip at page vii. 1922 ink name at front, yellowing to page edges, else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no flaking to the white cover stamping. Much on Hawaii, Japan, and Alaska and also covering the Phillippines, Hong Kong, Easter Island, The Carolines, Norfolk, Pitcairn, Lord Howe, Solomons, Gilberts, Papua and New Guinea, Tahiti, Tonga, Somoa, Fiji, New Zealand, very interesting articles, facts, history, lore of the Pacific Rim. Coffee was Australian. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

Gatineau, Quebec: Éditions Lévesque, 1995. Quarto, green boards gilt lettered. pp 704. VG clean and tight copy, no owner names. Text in original languages with English translations. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.

Cambridge, England: Hakluyt Society / Cambridge University Press, 1966. Two volumes, blue cloth. pp (xviii), 270; (xvi), (271)-446. 3 tables (2 folding,1 in the text) and 7 plates, 9 maps & charts (2 folding, 3 in text). Corner crease to rear free endpaper of volume I else a fine pair, no owner names. One inch tear to front panel on first volume, very light spine sunning, otherwise the jackets are VG+. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.

London: Macmillan, 1874. Two volumes, Tall octavo, original blue cloth, brown endpapers. pp.xii, 570, (2, ads) + frontispice portrait with tissue guard,+ map; 601 [1], (2, ads) + frontispiece portrait with tissue guard + facsimile letter. Bit of wear to spine ends and outer corners, yellowing to page edges, rear joints and inner hinges repaired. Volume I has a vertical crease to spine, shallow chips to front free endpaper. In all, good externally, VG internally, now tight in the bindings. Inscribed at front of Volume I "Jane Wharton, from James (?) Patteson in remembrance of August, 1854. Christmas, 1873." Laid in is a contemporary folding map of Melanesia. Note: 3 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.

London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no date [1860]. 12th printing (first was in 1853). 12mo, original dark green cloth stamped in blind and gilt. [2], xiv, (15)-414, [4, ads] pp. Frontispiece portrait and 16 plates (one folding) inserted, one illustration in text. Minor wear to spine tips; cracked in ner hinges neatly repaired; ink inscription to front free endpaper; a VG attractive copy. This edition adds a 10 page author preface dated 1860 and there are some textual additions since the first edition.

London: John Murray, 1933. Octavo, brown cloth. pp xviii, 324, (2, ads) + 47 plates & charts (3 folding) + folding map in pouch at rear. Spine lightly sunned, else a fine, jacketless copy, no owner names. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.

London: Hakluyt Society, 1981. Blue cloth, 310pp, plates, maps, bibliography, index. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has small tears, VG otherwise. "Jean-Francois-Marie de Surville entered the Pacific by way of the northern Philiippines, made a landfall in the Solomons, sailed to New Zealand...and crossed the southern Pacific to the coast of Peru where he met his death in an attempt to obtain help for his decimated crew." - jacket.

London: Hutchinson, 1929. Tall octavo, original red cloth. Pp 288. Large folding colour map tipped in at rear. Indexed. Private bookplate on front pastedown; slight sunning to spine and upper rear cover; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. An account of the Murut and Dusun. Perhaps the most important work of this British convert to Islam, based on his five years' experience as a district officer for the North Borneo Company. 1.5 kg parcel

London: Hakluyt Society, 1982. Four volume set, complete. Octavo, blue cloth. Colour frontispiece, plates (some folded), maps (some folded). Hakluyt Society, second series, vols 152-155. A fine set, in lightly rubbed VG jackets, small tears. Journal of Cook's principal naturalist on his second voyage. 2 kg parcel.

London Missionary Society, 1919. 12mo, 18.5 cm, khaki cloth coated paper covers. pp 136 + 6 plates + double page map. 4 illustrations in text. Presentation label at front (Toronto, 1925) for a collector of funds. Bump to spine and lower inner corners; small corner crease to front cover and first few leaves; else a VG clean and unworn copy. A history of the Society's missionary ships in the Western Pacific. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.

London: John Murray, 1847. Later issue (first was in 1846). Small octavo. pp xvi, 301, including frontispiece map. Contains at rear (pp 287-301) the sequel, "The Story of Toby". No half-title nor ads. Bound in 20th century half calf and older marbled boards, spine with blind rules and black label. Scattered minor spotting in text; soft diagonal crease to the front free (binder's) endpaper; a VG tight and unworn copy. A non-fiction account of his great youthful adventure jumping ship from an American whaler in the early 1840s, his captivity in the Marquesas, and his escape on an Australian ship. Melville's first book.