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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Auckland University Press Auckland 2005 First Edition VG (card covers w french flaps sl rubbed and worn, spine v sl faded).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. It's difficult to imagine a more sumptuously produced volume about a social history so intriguing as The Pressure of Sunlight Falling. How did 18th-century travelers and explorers describe the peoples they met while in transit around the world, including to the insular Pacific? Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the blind-stamped brown cloth over boards covers, blind-stamped lettering to spine, bright interior, clean, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond nick to front spine bottom, heavy, thick, illustrated with an evocative photographs. Replete with the author's black-and-white and sepia photographs of the amazing life-casts made by Pierre-Marie Dumoutier in Durmont d'Urville's insular Pacific voyage of 1837-1840. The photographer is Maori-Scottish by birth and resident artist in New Zealand. Augmented with two fine essays by Kriselle Baker and Elizabeth Rankin, a Foreword by Rhana Devenport, David Elliott, Nicholas Thomas (!), Yves le Fur, Stacy L. Kamehiro, Ross Calman, Ariana Tikao, and Anne Salmond (!). [5], 6-159 pp. and including notes about the authors.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.