FRIENDLY AND FEEJEE ISLANDS:
Missionary Visit to Various Stations in the South Seas, in the year MDCCCXLVII. With an appendix containing notices of the political constitution, population, productions, manners, customs, and mythology of the people, and of the state of religion among them. Edited by the Rev. Elijah Hoole. Pp. [iv]+304(last blank), 6 plates, folding frontispiece map, appendix, notes; black cloth boards, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, with later black leather corners, rebacked, with the original black cloth spine (lettered in gilt and decorated in blind) laid on, the boards lightly rubbed, edges worn; later endpapers; bookplate and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, early inked signature at head of title page, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; John Mason, London, 1850. First edition. [See Hill 987]. *The author was General Superintendent of the Wesleyan Society's Missions in New Zealand, and Visitor of the Missions in the Friendly Islands and Fiji. He first arrived in Fiji in 1835. Item #099644
Price: $500.00