A Missionary Visit to Various Stations in the South Seas, in the year MDCCCXLVII by the Rev. Walter Lawry.
Folding frontispiece map & 6 woodcut plates. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, bindstamped, gilt, slightly rubbed but a very good copy. 303pp. London, John Mason, 1850.
Essentially an account of missionary work in the Pacific, Lawry’s work is an important early source of information on Fiji. The appendix provides a detailed overview of the population, religious customs and production.
