Ten Months in The Fiji Islands
186420961Oxford and London: John Henry and James Parker. Good with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Small tears and chips to cloth at ends of spine and at tips of corners of boards. Hinges split and reinforced with red cloth tape. Signs of label removal from front endpaper. Contemporary owner's signature on title page "Geo C. Smythe / Coole Glehn illegible". ; x 2 xviii 2 282 2 blank pages chromolithograph frontispiece 3 chromolithograph plates 6 tinted lithograph plates 4 maps 1 with hand-coloured route of Col. Smythe; 2 folding 2 lithograph plates. 3 in-text engravings. Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine gilt sailing vessel illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 223 x 138mm. Pink coated endpapers. "The circumstances which led to my official mission to the Fiji Islands and an account of the voyage to them by way of Sydney and Auckland and on return to England by San Francisco and Panama will be found briefly related in the Introduction. Mrs. Smythe's Letters written originally to friends at home contain a personal narrative of our cruise aomng the Isaldns and of our subsequent sojourn at them." - from the Preface by W. J. Smythe. The illustrations are: Levuka Island of Ovalau; The 'Pegasus' towed to her Moorings; Interior of the Great Chapel at Mbau; Mbau; Chapel in process of erection at Vutia; Navatu; Meeting at Nanduri Mathuata; Meeting at Nakorotumbu; View of the Reef Lakemba; Fawn Harbour Vanua-levu; View from the Observatory Levuka; Cocoa-nut Trees in a Storm; View from Observatory looking towards the Wood. The 4 maps are: Map of Pacific Ocean; Map of Fiji Group; Map of Route from Navua to Namusi; Map or portion of Melanesia. ; 8vo . John Henry and James Parker hardcover
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