Dorothy Shineberg (48 results)

Condition: Used - Like New. 1999. Hardcover. Fine.

Shineberg, Dorothy. The people trade: Pacific Island laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999, xxiii, 309pp., very good blue gray hardcover with printed cover titles. Pacific islands monograph series no. 16. - CONTENTS: pt. 1. Recruiting for New Caledonia. 1. The Pacific Island Labor Trade and New Caledonia. 2. The Colony Established. 3. Entrepreneurial Recruiting in the 1870s. 4. The Kidnapping Inquiries and the Suspension of the Labor Trade, 1880-1882. 5. Settlers Triumphant: The Labor Trade Revived. 6. The New Century -- pt. 2. Profile of Recruits. 7. Men and Motives. 8. The Women. 9. The Children -- pt. 3. At the Workplace. 10. Work in New Caledonia. 11. Living and Working in New Caledonia: By Law or Custom? 12. "Perpetual Theft" 13. Sickness and Death. 14. "Hebrideans" in Colonial Society. 15. Life after Indenture. 16. "Nothing More Convenient." - ISBN 0824821017. ISBN 9780824821012.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. pp.61-82. 24cm. Printed wrappers with edge wear and creasing. Twi minor ink corrections. Footnotes. (Reprinted from: The Journal of Pacific History, volume 6. 1971). A fair copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair to Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Foreword by H E Maude. xv, 351 pages, three maps, illustrated with Cheyne's own sketches and maps, references, index, end-paper maps: the voyages of Andrew Cheyne. EX-LIBRARY copy with stickers and a date label on the rear flyleaf (over map) and stamps on each of the three page edges. No other library stamps or marks. Cloth boards, heavily silverfished by the upper and fore-edges of the front board and, to a lesser extent, by the upper-and lower-edges of the rear board. Cheyne's unfinished manuscript covered the four voyages (three in full, one barely begun) he spent collecting Pacific Island produce for the China market from July 1841 to September 1844. No 3 of the Pacific History series. Size: 8vo. Ex-Library.

Couverture souple. Condition: Bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Bon. Traduction : Traduit de l'anglais par André Surleau.

Cloth. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. 351 pp, b/w maps and illustrations, the book and contents are clean and solid, the end- papers are illustrated with a map of Cheyne's voyages, the dust jacket has light rubbing and soil, a very nice copy of this book.

Condition: New. pp. 334.

Volume 13, No. 4, August 1966. 101 - 147 PP. Contains article pages 133 to 144. Stapled card covers. Near fine. 24.5 x 15.5. Paper read to the Association on 8 December 1964. Other article: Of Ships and Sealing Wax: the Montagu, the Navy and the Law, by P.A. Howell.

first edition 299pp ills. VG+ (brown cloth,sl.bumps to extrems.,edges sl.soiled) in VG d/w (sl.soiled w.spine sl.sunned,mod.bumps and wear to extrems.).

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

22.0 x 15.0cms 300pp b/w illusts very good hardcover & dustwrapper This book explores the Europeans first sustained contact with the Melanesian peoples of New Caledonia New Hebrides and the Loyalty Islands.

1st Ed. 299 PP with facsimile of the title page of the Log of the Louisa and 2 maps, plus 12 pages with 22 b/w illustrations. Fp: Andrew Cheyne's plan of the Isle of Pines, 1842. Cloth cover, dj (price-clipped). Near fine. 22 x 14.5. A study of the sandalwood trade in the South West Pacific 1830-1865.

hardcover octavo (VG+), d/w (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 22.5cm. VG+ h/c in VG DJ with some edgewear, few small tears.Inked name etc top front pastedown, three inked words front top DJ. 299 pages, 22 b/w illus, dec e/papers, two maps, 1 fig. Little has been recorded of the South Pacific sandalwood trade of 1830/65. Sandalwood was the initial trading contact between native and European and led to traders conflict with missionaries. A fascinating study.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 299pp with b/w photos and illustrations - tan cloth - small ink number to preliminary page - minor foxing to content edges - dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and soiled - slight wear and chipping to edges.

First Edition; 8vo; pp. xiv, 299; illustrated endpapers, illustrated frontispiece, 3 figures, 22 plates, appendices, references, bibliography, index, original cloth, minor chipping to dustjacket, previous owner's name neatly written on front free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has light wear. The page edges are lightly yellowed with age. 298 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size D: 7"-8" Tall (177-203mm).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. xiv, 299pp, index, bibliography, refrences, appendices, bw ills, pictorial endpapers. Or brown cloth in jacket. Small bookseller label inside front cover, minor bump to bottom rear corner. FAscinating account of the Pacific sandalwood trade describes the first contact between Europeans and the Melanesians of New Caledonia, the New Hebrides and the Loyalty Islands. Examines relationships between the two ethnic groups and also between European traders and missionaries, between traders, and between tribes. A fine analysis of the confrontation of two cultures, approached from the standpoint of Melanesian history rather than as an extension of European history into the Pacific islands. Size: 8vo.

First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xxiv, 309, (2); endpaper maps, text illustrated with 33 b/w. photographs, 3 maps, 6 figures, and 4 tables, notes, references, index, bound in original grey cloth, title lettered in blue on spine and upper board, signed by the author on title page, fine copy.

Cloth Boards. pp xiv, 299, Index, b/w plates, cloth boards, dustjacket. Some pencil marks. Very good condition in good d.j. Account of the sandalwood trade describing the first regular contact between Europeans and the Melanesians of New Caledonia, the New Hebrides and the Loyalty Islands.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned. 139 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1967. 1st edition. Hardback. 22x14cm. xiv+299 pages plus all the listed black & white plates. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket has only minor edge wear. Front flap is not price-clipped: $7.50. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zmb.

Roneotyped paper. 13 PP (recto only). Contained in platic folder, clear front. French text. Very good. 31 x 23.5 Paper read in Nouméa on 13 July 1993.

Maps, endpaper maps, black and white illustrations (Cheyne's own sketches), xv + 351pp, references, index, very good little worn dustjacket. Record of Andrew Cheyne's voyages in the Western Pacific, from Australia to the Philippines, Macao and Hong Kong, and Java, in the 1840s. In the four voyages described he searched for sandalwood, beche-de-mer, and other tropical produce at the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands and the Solomons in Melanesia, and Ponape, Yap, and Palau in Micronesia.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Indigenous people, European traders, and missionaries, and their overlap in 'The Sandalwood Trade in the South West Pacific 1830-1865'. Very good in dustwrapper. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. lacking free front end paper. Ex-Library.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo xiv + 299pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, This account of the sandalwood trade describes the first regular contact between Europeans and the Melanesians of New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, and the Loyalty Islands.

First edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling and decorative endpapers; 299pp., with a frontispiece map and 12pp. of monochrome plates. Text block edges lightly toned; retailer's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very light edge wear to the price-clipped dustwrapper; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive film. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. The fascinating account of the sandalwood trade describes the first regular contact between Europeans and the Melanesians of New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, and the Loyalty Islands.

1st French edition, No. 61 in Société d' Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Translated by Béatrice Atherton from the 1999 US original The People Trade: Pacific Island Laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930 published by University of Hawai'i Press. 440 PP with 3 maps, 4 tables, 5 figures and 34 b/w photos. Pictorial soft cover. Fine. 24 x 16. Blackbirding, and indentured labour from the New Hebrides.

3rd edition of the French edition. No. 68 in Société d'Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Translated by André Surleau from the 1967 original "They came from Sandalwood". 384 PP with tables and b/w illustrations (5 maps and 20 drawings or photos). Pictorial soft cover. New. 24 x 16.