Lot 934
  • 934

Narrative

Estimate
600 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Narrative of the Mission at Otaheite, and other Islands in the South Seas; commenced by the London Missionary Society. London: Printed for the Society, 1818
  • paper
SECOND EDITION (see footnote), 8vo (200 x 125mm.), [iv], 8, 86pp., folding engraved map, red half morocco, blue paper boards and endpapers, red title label on the upper cover

Literature

Forbes 485; Ferguson 718; not in Hill or Kroepelien

Condition

A good copy
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Catalogue Note

A much expanded edition compared with the first (of the same year) and with a map. The wording on the title-page is "London Missionary Society" and the map in this copy is dated 26 June 1818; the first edition (48pp., and with no map) has the wording "Missionary Society of London", a title which was changed on 14 May 1818 to the London Missionary Society.