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• Tahiti
• Discovery and exploration

• The quest and occupation of Tahiti by emissaries of Spain during the years 1772-1776. Told in despatches and other contemporary documents; tr. into English and comp., with notes and an introduction (Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1913), by Bolton Glanvill Corney and Máximo Rodríguez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Injured islanders. (Printed for J. Murray, 1779), by Gerald Fitzgerald and John Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• O-Taïti, histoire et enquête (Chez Paulin, libraire, et chez L.R. Delay, 1845), by Henri Lutteroth (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Noa Noa. (G. Crès, 1924), by Paul Gauguin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Noa Noa (Nicholas L. Brown, 1920), by Paul Gauguin and Otto Frederick Theis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern Pacific lands: Tahiti and the Marquesas islands (R. Scott, 1910), by F. W. Christian, Uchter John Mark Knox Ranfurly, and Martin Luther Rouse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travel and talk, 1885-93-95. My hundred thousand miles of travel through America, Australia, Tasmania, Canada, New Zealand, Ceylon, and the paradises of the Pacific (Chatto & Windus;, 1896), by H. R. Haweis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un protectorat disparu; l'annexion de Tahiti et ses dépendances. (A. Pedone, 1894), by E. Rouard de Card (page images at HathiTrust)
• Îles Tai̋ti. Esquisse historique et géographique, précédée de considérations générales sur la colonisation française dans l'Océanie. (A. Bertrand, 1844), by C. A. Vincendon-Dumoulin and César Louis François Desgraz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern Pacific lands: Tahiti and the Marquesas islands. With sixty-four illustrations. (R. Scott, 1910), by Frederick William Christian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs de la navigation à voiles: la marine d'autre-fois, la Sardaigne en 1842, le proctectorat français à Taïti, les grandes flottilles (E. Plon et cie., 1882), by Jean Pierre Edmond Jurien de La Gravière (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missionary records: Tahiti and Society Islands. (Religious Tract Society, 1840), by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noa-Noa (N. L. Brown, 1919), by Paul Gauguin and Otto Frederick Theis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Noa Noa (B. Cassirer, 1925), by Paul Gauguin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tahiti et les colonies francaises de la Polynesie. (F. Jouvet, 1887), by Henri LeChartier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Otahiti, au pays de l'éternel été. (A. Colin, 1911), by Henri Lebeau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Noa Noa (B. Cassirer, 1912), by Paul Gauguin and Luise Wolf (page images at HathiTrust)
• 50,000 milles dans l'océan Pacifique (E. Plon, Nourrit et cie, 1886), by Albert Davin (page images at HathiTrust)

• The island of tranquil delights, a South Sea idyl, and others (H. B. Turner & company, 1904), by Charles Warren Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of the South seas (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912), by John La Farge (page images at HathiTrust)
• First [and second] missionary voyage[s] to the South-Sea, performed in the years 1796, 1797 and 1798 in the ship Duff, commanded of the Missionary society. (J. Cundee, 1805), by William Wilson, James Wilson, and London Missionary Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trois ans chez les Canaques (Payot, 1908), by Eugène Hänni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reisen der Spanier nach der Südsee, insbesondere nach der Insel O. Taheite : jetzt zum Erstenmal aus dem spanischen Ubersetzt (F. Maurer, 1802), by Pedro Estala and Friedrich Wilhelm August Bratring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tahiti (Grant Richards ltd., 1921), by George Calderon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Islands near the sun; off the beaten track in the far, fair Society islands (H.F. & G. Witherby, 1927), by Evelyn Cheesman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Îles de la société Tahiti : considérations géologiques, météorologiques et botaniques sur l'île. État moral actuel des Tahitiens, traits caractéristiques de leurs moeurs, végétaux susceptibles de donner des produits utiles au commerce et a l'industrie, et de procurer des frets de retour aux navires, cultures et productions horticoles, catalogue de la flore de Tahiti, dictionnaire Tahitien (Impr. TheÌ€ze, 1860), by Gilbert Henri Cuzent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tahiti : isle of dreams (Hutchinson, 1925), by Robert Keable (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mystic isles of the South Seas (Hodder and Stoughton, 1921), by Frederick O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• The South Sea islander : containing many interesting facts relative to the former and present state of society in the island of Otaheite ; with some remarks on the best mode of civilizing the heathen. (W.B. Gilley, 1820) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur l'isle d'Otahiti, située dans la mer du Sud; et sur l'esprit et les moeurs de ses habitans. (Froullé, 1779), by Taitbout and Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moana; ou, Voyage sentimental chez les Maoris et les peaux-rouges des îles. (Nouvelle revue francaise, 1923), by Celine Rott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of the South seas (Doubleday, Page, 1916), by John La Farge (page images at HathiTrust)
• La nouvelle Cythère (G. Charpentier et cie, 1888), by Mativet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Where life is different ([S.l., 1913), by William Farmer Whyte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kleine Schriften ein Beytrag zur Völker-und Länderkunde, Naturgeschichte und Philosophie des Lebens (Bey Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1789), by Georg Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The island of tranquil delights : a South Sea idyl, and others (H. B. Turner, 1905), by Charles Warren Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kleine Schriften ein Beytrag zur Völker-und Länderkunde, Naturgeschichte und Philosophie des Lebens (Bey Paul Gotthelf Kummer, 1789), by Georg Forster (page images at HathiTrust)

• Denkwürdigkeiten von Arii Taimai e Marama von Eimeo, Teriirere vo n Tooarai, Teriinui von Tahiti, Tauratua i amo. (O. Meissner, 1923), by Henry Adams, Paul Hambruch, and approximately 1824-1896 Ari'i Ta'ima'i (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime de Pitcairn. (M. Dreyfous, 1878), by Louis Jacolliot (page images at HathiTrust)

• Îles de la société Tahiti : considérations géologiques, météorologiques et botaniques sur l'île. État moral actuel des Tahitiens, traits caractéristiques de leurs moeurs, végétaux susceptibles de donner des produits utiles au commerce et a l'industrie, et de procurer des frets de retour aux navires, cultures et productions horticoles, catalogue de la flore de Tahiti, dictionnaire Tahitien (Impr. TheÌ€ze, 1860), by Gilbert Henri Cuzent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plantes usuelles des tahitiens (impr. J. Martel, 1864), by Jean Nadeaud (page images at HathiTrust)

• Essai historique sur l'introduction du Christianisme dans l'ile de Tahiti. (Jouve, 1892), by Sully Lombard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tahitian Fungi collected by W.A. Setchell and H.E. Parks (University of California Press, 1926), by Harold Ernest Parks and William Albert Setchell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Îles de la société Tahiti : considérations géologiques, météorologiques et botaniques sur l'île. État moral actuel des Tahitiens, traits caractéristiques de leurs moeurs, végétaux susceptibles de donner des produits utiles au commerce et a l'industrie, et de procurer des frets de retour aux navires, cultures et productions horticoles, catalogue de la flore de Tahiti, dictionnaire Tahitien (Impr. TheÌ€ze, 1860), by Gilbert Henri Cuzent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lichenes a W.A. Setchell et H.E. Parks in insula Tahita a 1922 collecti (University of California Press, 1924), by Edv. A. Vainio, Harold Ernest Parks, and William Albert Setchell (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Brief account of the late revivals of religion in a number of towns in the New-England states, and also in Nova-Scotia extracted chiefly from letters written by several gentlemen of unquestionable veracity : to which is added a very interesting letter from a minister in London to his friend in Massachusetts. (Printed by Manning & Loring, 1798), by Thomas Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quelques personnages officiels à Tahiti sous le règne de Napoléon III. (J.B. Lefournier ainé, 1871), by Jean Paul Chopard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Brief account of the late revivals of religion in a number of towns in the New-England states, and also in Nova-Scotia extracted chiefly from letters written by several gentlemen of unquestionable veracity : to which is added a very interesting letter from a minister in London to his friend in Massachusetts. (Printed by Manning & Loring, 1798), by Thomas Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Islands near the sun; off the beaten track in the far, fair Society islands (H.F. & G. Witherby, 1927), by Evelyn Cheesman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Îles de la société Tahiti : considérations géologiques, météorologiques et botaniques sur l'île. État moral actuel des Tahitiens, traits caractéristiques de leurs moeurs, végétaux susceptibles de donner des produits utiles au commerce et a l'industrie, et de procurer des frets de retour aux navires, cultures et productions horticoles, catalogue de la flore de Tahiti, dictionnaire Tahitien (Impr. TheÌ€ze, 1860), by Gilbert Henri Cuzent (page images at HathiTrust)

• A preliminary compilation of Tahitian animal and plant names (Hawaii Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, 1963), by Fannie C. C. Goo and Albert Henry Banner (page images at HathiTrust)

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