Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Livres anciens et modernes

Erskine, John Elphinstone, Captain R. N.

Journal of a Cruise Among the Islands of the Western Pacific, including the Feejees and Others Inhabited by the Polynesian Negro Races, in her Majesty's ship Havannah

1853

351,56 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

Demander plus d'informations

Mode de Paiement

Détails

Année
1853
Lieu d'édition
London. John Murray
Auteur
Erskine, John Elphinstone, Captain R. N.
Edition
First edition.
Thème
Travel - Pacific & Australia
Langues
Anglais
Premiére Edition
Oui

Description

8vo [22.5 x 15 cm]; vi, [i, errata sheet inserted loose], 488, 32 [publisher's ads dated January 1853] pp, 7 plates including 4 colored lithographed plates, frontis, other engraved illus, large folding engraved map, tables. later cloth, gilt title lettering on red leather spine label, minor foxing or light stain on few leaves, mostly marginal, short presentation inscription to the Survey of the North Pacific & China Seas, from 'the Observatory', 1853, very good+ copy, sound. Abbey Travel 602. Ferguson 9436. Snow 633. Taylor 80. Hill p. 98. Good descriptions of customs, society, conditions, bit on cannibalism, etc, Savage Island, Manua, Tutuila, Upolu, Samoa, Vavau, Lifuka, Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Port Jackson, etc.