A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; with Remarks upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origin, Languages, Tradition and Usages of the Inhabitants
$168.00
Author: Williams, John
Publisher: J. Snow for the author
Place: London
Cover: in worn leather boards
Condition: Very Good
Category: Australiana
Year: 1837
Edition: 1st edition / 4th thousand
Size: octavo
Description: xviii + 590pp., colour (portrait) frontis., wood engravings in text, folding map, With 6 plates in text plus nice colour frontispiece. There is an account of an address by the author in nice copperplate script on three preliminary pages, dated August 1838, one year before he was killed by Cannibals in Vanuatu. Boards rather worn, some peripheral browning to some pages but a very good complete reading / reference copy of an uncommon item
