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179919378Lonbdon: T. Chapman 1799. Map. Very good. Single page engraved12 by 16 inches the image being 11 by 15 inches and matter in a 16 by 20 inch mat. Engraved by T. Foot. Later hand-coloring. Several flattened folds as published closed marginal tear affecting the outside border but stopping short of the image of the island else a very good copy. T. Chapman unknown books
182237418Boston: Samue T. Armstrong and Crocker & Brewster New York: John P. Haven 1822. First American edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Later burgundy cloth browning and spotting some short tears and creases. From the library of John Mason Warinner with bookplate. First American edition. 1 vols. 12mo. With much on voyage in the Duff and on Tahiti. Ferguson 870 locating only one copy; O'Reilly & Reitman 683; S & S Samue T. Armstrong, and Crocker & Brewster, New York: John P. Haven unknown books
1869245034Paris: Librairie Internationale Boulevard Montmartre 15. A. Lacroix Verboeckoven et Cie. Éditeurs à Bruxelles à Leipzig à Livourne 1869. First edition. 56 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green printed wrappers part of back wrapper mising front covers chipped at top and loose else internally fine. First edition. 56 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Jacolliot was a barrister and author who lived on Tahiti India and other parts of Asia He collected and transcribed Sanskrit myths. Madame Blavatsky and Nietzsche were influenced by him.<br/><br/>This pamphlet is a defense of the actions taken by the French Commissioner Émile de la Roncière who wanted to set up a financial system of local taxation reducing Tahiti's dependence on France.<br/><br/>Roncière was the famous victim of a French miscarriage of justi having been convicted in 1835 on unbelievavble eveidence of assaulting Marie de Morell the 16 year old daughter of a Cavalry General. Many prominent peoplke rallied to his defense but he served 8 years in prison and was not completely exonerated until 1849. This was known as "L'Affaire de la Ronci``ere." O'Reilly # 6903 Librairie Internationale, Boulevard Montmartre, 15. A. Lacroix, Verboeckoven et Cie. Éditeurs à Bruxelles, à Leipzig, à Livo unknown books
182914664London: Fisher Son & Jackson 1829. First Edition. Eight engraved plates two maps one folding and other woodcut illustrations in text. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary marbled boards brown calf spine and tips boards abraded and spines worn some internal staining but a tight crisp copy. First Edition. Eight engraved plates two maps one folding and other woodcut illustrations in text. 2 vols. 8vo. First Edition. The first edition of an epochal work by a scholar and missionary who lived in and wrote extensively of Hawaii and Polynesia and later Madagascar. After an adventurous life in foreign and frequently insalubrious climes he died of a chill caught in an English railway carriage. Robert Southey in a review of Polynesian Researches stated "A more interesting book we have never pursued" and it has become one of the classic accounts of South Sea Island culture and life. O'Reilly & Reitman Bibliographie de Tahiti 7556; Hill Collection of Pacific Voyages p. 96 citing edition of 1830; Day Books About Hawaii 24; Hawaiian National Bibliography 719 Fisher, Son, & Jackson unknown books
