Nineteen Years in Polynesia: Missionary Life, Travels, and Researches in the Islands of the Pacific
Author:
TURNER, Rev. GEORGE
Title:
Nineteen Years in Polynesia: Missionary Life, Travels, and Researches in the Islands of the Pacific
Publisher:
John Snow 1861
Description:
ORIGINAL BOARDS WORTHY OF A REBIND, NICE CLEAR FRONTISPIECE, super octavo, brown buckram boards- green buckram/cloth beneath at spine, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration (potentially formerly gilt), frontispiece with tissue guard, x + 548pp, illus, V SCRUFFY/TATTY (vv heavy scuffing & surface loss to spine & boards, binding fully shot but boards still miraculously attached, prev. ownership labels to front pastedown, prev. ownership name in ink to ffep, occasional markings in pencil to margins, heavy cracking to gutters as expected, heavy chipping to page edges but text block surprisngly clear & very readable throughout)
Keywords:
exploration Polynesia missionaries history pacific islands