ERSKINE (Capt. John Elphinstone).

Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific,

including the Feejees and others inhabited by the Polynesian Negro Races, in Her Majesty’s Ship Havannah.

First edition. Folding map, 4 hand-coloured (3 of these with 2 illustrations) & 3 further lithograph plates, with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. In a later casing of half calf with marbled paper boards, newly rebacked in calf. Slight rubbing to boards. A very good bright copy. vi, [2], 488, 32ads.pp. London, 1853.

£500.00

Erskine set out from Russell, New Zealand and visited the Samoan Islands, Fiji, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and Port Jackson. Hill, p98.

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