1. [Private Materials Sir Harry Luke] – [Luke, Harry Sir/ Lukach, Harry].

‘Correspondence regarding the burial of my dear mother Eugenie Luke, who died during the War in 1941, while I was in the Pacific and her subsequent Exhumation and Cremation in Paris’.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London / Paris, 1956. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

2. [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.

3. [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.

4. [Pacific Content] – [Luke, Sir Harry] / McKay, C.G.R. (Compiler – Secretary of Native Affairs) / [Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton].

A Chronology of Western Samoa – Being principally a Record of Chief Events since its First European Discovery in 1722. [Sir Harry Luke’s personal copy with his ownership-signature and ‘Apia 1938’ on endpapers. Interesting annotations, markings and comments in Luke’s hand throughout the Volume. With a Typed Letter (TLS) on the stationery of Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, signed ‘Alan’ (i.e. “The Rt. Hon. Viscount Boyd of Merton. Secretary of State for the Colonies 1954-59”): “My Dear Harry, I hoped that our paths would have crossed since my letter to you nearly a year ago……” (plus in manuscript hand added: “I often think of you my dear Friend – Your Ever Alan” 16th February 1961)]. Compiled by C.G.R. McKay (Secretary of Native Affairs).

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Apia (Western Samoa), J.W.Liston, 1937. Octavo. XII, 47 pages with two maps. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. From the library of Sir Harry Luke.

5. [Miscellaneous] – Luke, Sir Harry.

Akbar Exhibition – Part I: The Emperor Akbar – Written in Connexion with the Showing of the Akbar Exhibition in Trinidad by Sir Harry Luke / Part II: Catalogue.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Trinidad, June, 1944. Octavo. 15 pages. Stapled. From the personal collection of Sir Harry Luke.

6. [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.

7. [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.

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

Drafted letter by Sir Harry Luke regarding his appointment in 1938 [as Governor of Fiji]. On St.James Club – stationery and with a calling card of Luke. / With a later note from 1945 on the letterhead.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. London, 1938 / 1945. Octavo. From the private collection / library of colonial governor, diplomat and historian, Sir Harry Luke.

9. [Education of Sir Harry Luke] – [Lukach, Harry Charles / Sir Harry Luke].

Early childhood letters by Harry Charles Lukach, later Sir Harry Luke.

[This item is part of the Sir Harry Luke – Archive / Collection]. Heiligenkreuz (bei Baden), 1893. Quarto / Octavo. Two childhood letters to Luke’s Mother. From Sir Harry Luke’s personal Library.

10. [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.