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Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. A clean tightyl bound softcover modern reprint of a work originally published in 1858, essentially a facsimile thereof. Light shelf and edge wear and a partial crease to upper front and rear corners of card cover. Clean and unmarked.

Facsimile ed. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, colour plates (including frontispiece), black & white drawings, foldout map, faint fading spine as common, typewritten introduction, minor edgewear. 266 pp. A classic concise but detailed anthropological study by Reverend Thomas Williams of Fijians, still useful today. The author was a stern Methodist preacher who arrived in Fiji in 1840. The rebellious Fijians proved resistant to conversion, but he eventually appreciated their worldview and decided to record their culture before all was lost. A facsimile of the original edition of 1858. Includes new introduction by Fegus Clunie. (No ISBN in book.).…

First edition of 'one of the outstanding works on Fiji' (Hill). The first volume was written by Thomas Williams, an Australian Wesleyan missionary in Fiji for thirteen years, and contains information on the origin and European discovery of the islands, and the culture, language, economy, and religion of the Fijians. The second volume was written by James Calvert, the father of of the Fiji missions who worked on the islands for seventeen years, and gives a detailed history of the missionary work conducted up to that point. First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (19 x 13 cm); 3 hand-coloured lithographs including first frontis., 9 further b/w lithographed plates including second frontis., 26 in-text wood engravings, folding map, discreet booksellers tickets to endpapers, a little worming to inner margin of vol. ii, a few plates lightly spotted; publisher's blindstamped orange cloth, gilt lettering to spines, touch of rubbing to extremities, spines professionally restored, a very good set; x, [2], 266; [8], 435p, [2]pp. Hill 1885.…