71. [Pacific Content] – [Luke, Harry Charles] From Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha-at Islam, Fiji.

His Excellency, Sir Harry Charles Luke, Kt. C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Fiji. From Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha-at Islam, Fiji.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Suva, Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha-at Islam, Fiji, 22nd September, 1938. 33 cm x 26,5 cm. [5] pages. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

72. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles / Queen of Tonga [Salote Tupou III (born Salote Mafile‘o Pilolevu)]

Islands Of The South Pacific. [With ten (10) letters loosely inserted among which is a wonderful, signed letter to Sir Harry Luke, by the Queen of Tonga, Salote Tupou / (Also included are four (4) items of Ephemera)]. With the printed dedication: “To Leander McCormick-Goodhart – Who knows some of these Islands – Pignus amicitiae per annos LXIII”.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / Toronto / Sydney, etc., George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1962. 21,5 cm x 15 cm. 285 pages, 61 illustrations (Many Photographs and some Woodcuts from Robert Gibbings). Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With one annotation by Harry Luke. Some tearing to dustjacket, tanning to spine. Otherwise in good condition. See below a full list of manuscript letters and typed letters which were loosely inserted by Sir Harry Luke in this personal copy of his book on the “Islands of the South Pacific”.

73. [Pacific Content] – [Luke, Harry Charles].

[Typescript of Sir Harry Luke’s visit to Noumea in the “Viti” after the fall of France, in August, 1940. [in: The American Mercury / Digest Of World Reading – with several interesting articles, also including an article describing the impression Sir Harry Luke made in the West Pcific in his duty for the British Empire].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. New York, The American Mercury Inc., c. 1941. 20 cm x 14,5 cm. c. 245 pages. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Some spotting on boards, bumping to corners. Otherwise in good condition.

74. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

The British Pacific Islands. [Sir Harry Luke’s personal working copy (and titled by him as such on the front cover) with a cutout on page 5/6 and some longer annotation on page 24 regarding Pitcairn Island as well as more annotations at the end of the pamphlet].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Oxford University Press, 1943. 18 cm x 12 cm. 31 pages with maps printed on the front pastedown (″The Western Pcific Islands”) and the rear pastedown (″The Pacific Ocean”). Original Softcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal Working copy. With annotations and markings by Harry Luke. Some rubbing to covers. Otherwise in good condition. [Oxford Pamphlets On World Affairs, No. 64.].

75. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

Sammelband / Collection of various editions of publications related to the British Western Pacific which were written by Sir Harry Luke.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Nicholson & Watson, 1945, 19 cm x 13 cm. 252 pages. Original Hardcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. With his signature to the endpaper.

76. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

[Luke Pamphlets and Essays] Extremely interesting Sammelband with 18 items of which are: twelve (12) pamphlets [Omnibus-Letters] on the British Pacific Colonies including very rare, printed (!) personal and confidential situation-reports from Fiji (with at least one manuscript-annotation by Luke), together with five (5) essays and news paper-articles by Luke, hidden in a pocket to the rear of the Volume / Also loosely included one (1) pamphlet on Malta / Cyprus: “Discrittione delle cose di Cipro, con le ragioni in favore, o contra diverse openioni, et delle provisioni, che erano necessarie per quel Regno”. – See detailed list and some confidental content mentioned below.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Fiji / Malta, Government Printing Office etc., 1932 – 1943. 26 cm x 17,5 cm Original Softcover pamphlets bound in red cloth. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Very good condition.

77. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

British Pacific Islands. (Notes For Lantern Slides / Colonial Empire Marketing Board Collection) / With a manuscript sheet regarding a Lecture on March 12th, 1952 in which Luke wanted to talk about Guadalcanal etc.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, Imperial Institute, c.1943. 24 cm x 11,5 cm. 13 pages. Original Softcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Slight wrinkling to covers, a brown spot to front cover. Otherwise in good condition.

78. [Pacific Content] – Luke, Harry Charles.

Britain And The South Seas [Two Volumes ! Comes with Sir Harry Luke’s personal working copy of the text-only-version of this publication, with one annotation].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / New York / Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co., 1949. 18,5 cm x 12 cm. 79 pages, 21 illustrations. Original Softcover. Harry Luke’s (Lukach) personal copy. Split hinge, almost detached. Otherwise in fair condition.

79. [Pacific Content] – [Luke, Harry / Lukach, Harry / Sir Harry Luke].

Easter Island [Typescript / Manuscript – Proof – Pad of Harry Luke – with his personal note and corrections on the article on Easter Island which he prepared during and after his visit in April and May 1952 for “The Geographical Journal” (published subsequently in Volume CXX, Part 4, 1954)].

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. [London], [1952]. Octavo. 32 pages. Stapled. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

80. [Malta Content] – Luke, Sir Harry [Lieutenant-Governor of Malta 1930-1938].

Malta: An Account and an Appreciation. [SIGNED by Sir Harry Luke on the titlepage].

First Edition. [This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1949. Octavo. 200 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover (without dustjacket). Very good condition.