1864 Ten Months in the Fiji Islands

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound

A first edition, beautifully bound in half crushed morocco.

Illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece, three further chromolithographic plates, several vignette illustrations and four maps, two of which are folding.

Collated, complete. 

Written by Sarah Maria Smythe, wife of Colonel W. J. Smythe, who was commissioned by the British Government to Fiji.

Colonel Smythe provides the introduction, an excursion account, and an appendix. 

Endpapers renewed.

The work offers an interesting perspective of the region, prior to significant British colonial interference, combining topography, narration and illustration.