[NEW GUINEA] Plumes from paradise : trade cycles in outer Southeast Asia and their impact on New Guinea and nearby islands until 1920.

/ Pamela Swadling. With contributions by Roy Wagner and Billai Laba. Boroko : Papua New Guinea National Museum in association with Robert Brown & Associates (Qld) Pty Ltd, 1996. First edition. Small quarto (270 x 195 mm), publisher’s pictorial boards in the original dust jacket; pp 352, profusely illustrated with colour and b/w plates; maps, bibliography, index; an immaculate copy (in a clear protective jacket) of this magnificently researched and produced book by Australian archaeologist Pamela Swadling (Curator of Prehistory at the National Museum of PNG, 1978-1999). Now very scarce.