Author: Markham, Albert Hastings Title: The Cruise of the 'Rosario' Among the New Hebrides and Santa Cruz Islands Exposing the Recent Atrocities Connected with the Kidnapping of Natives in the South Seas.
Description: Sampson Low Marston Low and Searle, 1873. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 304pp and publisher's catalogue. Blue cloth covered boards with a couple of small marks and with wear to the corners and to the ends of the spine, with a gilt vignette to the front board of sailors landing on a tropical island while a sailing ship fires towards the shore. B + w illustrations. The coloured fold out map has a few light spots of foxing, but is complete. Engraved ornamental chapter headers. The binding is shaky, but holding well, and the book is internally clean. The 'Rosarrio' was sent to prevent the kidnapping of South Sea islanders from the New Hebrides and Santa Cruz group of islands etc to work in the cotton and other plantations of Queensland... Very Good /No Jacket.
Keywords: New Hebrides, Santa Cruz, Slavery, Kidnap
Price: GBP 148.00 = appr. US$ 211.34 Seller: Hessay Books
- Book number: 17743
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