Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis

Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis

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Adventuring In Coral Seas BY Albert F. Ellis. SIGNED & DATED BY AUTHOR with an inscription to previous owner. VERY SCARCE.

Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1937. Very good hardback with jacket. Blue cloth boards have a little bumping and rubbing to spine ends with gilt titles dulled down on spine. Small mark/stain to back top edge. Binding tight. Some pages have large foxing spots. Jacket is rubbed, chipped and marked with some tears, and loss to spine ends. Sellotaped at edges.

Sir Albert Fuller Ellis (28 August 1869 11 July 1951) was a prospector in the Pacific, he discovered phosphate deposits on the Pacific islands Nauru and Banaba Island (Ocean Island) in 1900. Ellis was born in Roma, Queensland, his family moved to Auckland where he attended the Cambridge District High School. At the age of 18 Albert Ellis joined his brothers James and George in working for John T. Arundel and Co. Their father George C. Ellis, a chemist, and later a farmer in New Zealand, was a director of the company. John T. Arundel and Co. was engaged in Pacific trading of phosphates, copra, and pearl shell. Ellis wrote a book about the history of the Pacific phosphate islands, his discovery and subsequent development of the phosphate industry on the islands, Ocean Island and Nauru.

Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis
Adventuring In Coral Seas. SIGNED (1937) By Albert F. Ellis