Polynesia: A Popular Description of the Physical Features, Inhabitants, Natural History, and Productions of the Islands of the Pacific. With an Account of Their Discovery, and of the Progress of Civilization and Christianity Among Them.

Hardcover. Original blue cloth with highly ornate spine in gilt; cover vignette gilt. n.d. (1866). Illustrated with countless engravings in text and numerous engraved plates; folding coloured map at front. xii + 436 pp. + ads. Map lightly browned, with small tear to map hinge, not affecting map image; edges tanned; but else a nice, tight, clean copy with still bright covers & gilt; Near Fine, given its age.