Williams thomas george stringer rowe editor (2 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: Fiji Museum 1982
- Softcover
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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. A clean tightyl bound softcover modern reprint of a work originally published in 1858, essentially a facsimile thereof. Light shelf and edge wear and a partial crease to upper front and rear corners of card cover. Clean and unmarked.
Weitere BilderVerlag: London Alexander Heylin 1858
- Hardcover
- Erstausgabe
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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 bli…ndstamped 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.
