“Blackbirding” in the South Pacific: Or the First White Man on the Beach

Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 255 pp. Illustrated with b/w plates. Rubber stamped name on half-title; bottom corner bumped and extremities rubbed; 2 plates detached; some marginal foxing. “Blackbirding” means kidnapping natives from South Pacific islands and selling them for labour in the Peruvian silver mines.