First edition. 2 volumes. 25 half-tone plates, 8 figures & 6 maps in the text, plus a folding map. Tall 8vo. Original blue buckram (free endpapers somewhat browned). Spines dull and that of the first volume a little torn. Offsetting from an obituary notice to half title of the first volume. Inner joints cracked, pencil marginalia. xii, 400; 610, 2ads.pp Cambridge University Press, 1914.
Two further obituary notices are laid in and in the second volume in its original envelope addressed to John W. Layard (author of Stone Men of Malekula) is a two page autograph letter, signed, from Rivers. The envelope is inscribed by Layard - “Rivers’s last letter to me” - the postmark being 21 March 1922. Rivers died on the 4th of June 1922 and the St. John’s College, Cambridge funeral memorial is tipped in.
