[NEW HEBRIDES; MISSIONS] Memoirs of Rev. S. F. Johnston, the Rev. J. W. Matheson, and Mrs. Mary Johnston Matheson, missionaries on Tanna.

: with selections from their diaries and correspondence, and notices of the New Hebrides, their inhabitants and missionary work among them / by Rev. George Patterson, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Green Hill, Pictou, N.S. Philadelphia : W. S. & A. Martien, [1864]. First edition. Octavo (190 x 140 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked purple pebbled cloth (corners bumped), spine lettered in gilt (sun-faded, frayed at ends); front hinge cracked; pp. 504, with 14 illustrations (several lithographed plates, plus text figures) including full-page portraits of Mary Johnston Matheson (fine, tissue guard intact), Rev. S. F. Johnston (heavy foxing), and Rev. J. W. Matheson (light foxing); otherwise internally very clean.