1899 The Caroline Islands

Description

First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Binding, Pleasing Copy, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of the work.

With a forty page advertisement catalogue to the rear of the work.

With a frontispiece, thirty five further photographic plates, three plans and two folding maps. Collated complete. 

An important primary source of late nineteenth century Pacific Island culture, covering geography, culture, antiquities, folklore, and island life. 

Written by Frederick William Christian was an author, lexicographer and cricketer, who studied Pacific Island languages and cultures after the death of his friend Robert Louis Stevenson. The pair met when both in Samoa.