George stringer rowe editor (4 resultados)
Editorial: Fiji Museum, 1982
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Librería: Boomer's Books, Weare, NH, Estados Unidos de AmericaBoomer's Books
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EUR 13,13
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Añadir al carritoSoftcover. Condición: 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.
Editorial: Fiji Museum, Suva, Fiji, 1982
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Librería: monobooks, Waterford, MI, Estados Unidos de Americamonobooks
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EUR 31,16
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Añadir al carritoSoft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint 1982 with new introduction, original edition 1858. Published by Fiji Museum, Suva, Fiji. Trade softcover without DJ as issued. Condition near fine, square and tight book, very slight edgewear, spine not creased, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, s…pine not sunned, not a reminder. 8vo, XI + 266 pages, illustrated, fold-out map in perfect condition/.
Fiji and the Fijians: Volume 1: The Islands and Their Inhabitants.
Williams, Thomas; Rowe, George Stringer (editor); Clunie, Fergus (introduction).
Editorial: Fiji Museum, Suva, 1982
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Librería: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, AustraliaBOOKHOME SYDNEY
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EUR 12,60
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Añadir al carritoFacsimile 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. T…he 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.).
Más imágenesEditorial: London Alexander Heylin, 1858
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Librería: Shapero Rare Books, London, Reino UnidoShapero Rare Books
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EUR 361,31
Envío por EUR 17,54Se envía de Reino Unido a Estados Unidos de AmericaCantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Añadir al carritoFirst 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 bli…ndstamped 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. 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. Hill 1885.
