Rowe george stringer williams thomas calvert james (13 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

First Edition Thus. Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked brown cloth boards, now with some mottled surface wear. Panel edges worn, with endbands rubbed. Joints torn, with boards attached chiefly by cloth joints; front free endpaper and frontispiece loose. Prelims bear some unobtrusive ownership marks. Text block remains clean and strong; folded matter remains crisp. Despite its faults, a complete and very serviceable example. Physical description; complete, 2 volumes in 1 : illustrations (some color), folded map ; 19 cm. Contents; v.1, Fiji and the Fijians / Thomas Williams -- v.2, Missionary labours among the cannibals / James Calvert. Subjects; Fiji. Missions. 1 Kg.…

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (19 x 13 cm); 3 hand-coloured lithographs including first frontis., 9 further b/w lithographed plates including second frontis., 26 in-text wood engravings, folding map, discreet booksellers tickets to endpapers, a little worming to inner margin of vol. ii, a few plates lightly spotted; publisher's blindstamped orange cloth, gilt lettering to spines, touch of rubbing to extremities, spines professionally restored, a very good set; x, [2], 266; [8], 435p, [2]pp. First edition of 'one of the outstanding works on Fiji' (Hill). The first volume was written by Thomas Williams, an Australian Wesleyan missionary in Fiji for thirteen years, and contains information on the origin and European discovery of the islands, and the culture, language, economy, and religion of the Fijians. The second volume was written by James Calvert, the father of of the Fiji missions who worked on the islands for seventeen years, and gives a detailed history of the missionary work conducted up to that point. Hill 1885.…