Viti : an account of a government mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the years 1860 – 61

A$750 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Cambridge : Macmillan Co., 1862. Octavo, full polished calf, ruled in gilt, edges a little rubbed, spine slightly faded, bound in compartments with raised bands, gilt rule and tooling, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, school prize label to front pastedown and armorial bookplate to front free endpaper for Leonard James Williams, tinted lithograph frontispiece and plates, folding map, a handsome copy. An important study of Fiji by the German botanist Seemann, following the 1850 agreement of cession with Great Britain. Seemann records the fauna and flora of the islands (including the medicinal use of plants) the history of the islands and detailed ethnographical notes on its inhabitants.

• Binding: Hardcover

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