WILLIAMS, Thomas; CALVERT, James; ROWE, George Stringer (editor).
Fiji And The Fijians.
Fiji And The Fijians.
Stock Code 116978
London, Alexander Heylin, 1858.
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.
First edition; 2 volumes, 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.
Hill 1885.
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