Author: Seemann, Berthold.
Title: VITI: An Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Islands in the Years 1860-61.
Description: Cambridge Macmillan & Co., 1862. 1st Ed. xv + 447pp. 2 tinted litho. plates, folding map, text ills. Marbled e.ps., prize bookplate, ex.-libris Leonard James Williams, contemporary calf binding with gilt rule and blind fillet edged boards, minor marking and wear, gilt compartments and gilt lettered label to faded spine, a.e.g. ¶ Hill pp.271. Seemann was one of the members of the commission sent to Fiji in 1860 to report on the islands when the subject of cession to the English crown was being discussed. His description here is detailed, and covers almost all aspects of life in the islands and their history.

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; AUSTRALASIA AND SOUTH PACIFIC


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