Brown men and women or The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896

London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1898. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial maroon cloth gilt (light rubbing, corners slightly bumped, head and tail of spine a little softened, spine lightly sunned), 60 photographic illustrations, folding map, bookplate to front pastedown, small paper flaw to frontispiece, internally fresh and clean, a very good copy.

Memoir of a tour which commenced in New Zealand and took the author through the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, the Cook Islands and Tahiti. Observations on traditional cultures and lifestyles, including those of the Maori.