Lawry rev walter (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small 8vo, original gilt stamped red cloth, some wear to extremities, spine with white library shelf label at the foot, [viii], 217, iii pp. Two library blind-stamps internally. Signed by the eminent Baptist William R. Williams (1804-1885) on the title page. A good+ copy.…

Bound in dark green cloth with blind-stamped design to covers & spine. Cover with gilt lettering & sailing ship design. Gilt lettering to spine. 303pp. Cloth with light fading to spine & some wear to corners & spine ends. Bookplate to front pastedown. b/w ills. & a fold-out map of Fiji Islands. Small tear to map. Good copy. 1st ed. Scarce. A missionary in Fiji. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Originally published in New Zealand in the Notices of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, and later in two volumes titled "First and Second Missionary Visits" published two years apart. This American edition combines both volumes and presents the text in a more uniform manner. This edition includes additional engraved illustrations (Preface to American Edition). Rev. Walter Lawry (1793 - 1859), a Methodist missionary born in England and later stationed in New Zealand, first visited Tonga in June of 1822, where he stayed for nearly a year. He returned about 25 years later to find that many of the tribes had converted to Christianity and were noticabley more peaceable and less "savage." His first journal details his return visit in 1847 and the second journal discusses his second return visit in 1850. These journals are particularly interesting as Lawry recounts his experiences during both his early 1822 visit as well as his later 1847 and 1850 visits, noting the substantial differences, which he (of course) attributes to the work of missionaries and acceptance of Christ. Includes graphic descriptions of violence he witnessed first hand (Preface). Bound in olive green cloth covered boards with gilt title and decoration to spine. Embossed design to both boards. A few small puncture marks to front joint, minor rubbing to boards, and minor wear to edges of boards and corners. Slight bumping to corners. Ex-library with three library bookplates to front pastedown and browning to rear endpapers from a removed library envelope. Embossed library stamp to title page. Occasional spots of foxing throughout, heaviest on first few pages. Includes map of FeeJee and friendly islands of the South Pacific as well as nine full page illustrations. 499 pages plus 4 pages of advertisements. SOPAC/061225.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. The scarce first edition of a Methodist missionary's travel across Fiji and Tonga, complete with a folding map of the region and six further plates. The first edition of the work. Scarce.With a folding map frontispiece and six further plates. Collated complete.Edited by Elijah Hoole.This nineteenth century travel work details Methodist Missionary Reverend Walter Lawrys' journey through Tonga and Fiji, describing mission stations, and their establishing of chapels and mission houses, as well as observations of the local people, including their religious and social customs, as well as societal and political structures. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Externally smart, with slight bumping to the extremities, resulting in slight lifting to the head and tail of the spine. The odd mark to the boards. Front hinge reinforced. Bookseller label to front paste down. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with just the odd spot and handling mark. Tape reinforcements to folding map. Very Good. Not Stated (illustratore). book.…

A Missionary Visit to Various Stations in the South Seas, in the year MDCCCXLVII by the Rev. Walter Lawry. Folding frontispiece map & 6 woodcut plates. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, bindstamped, gilt, slightly rubbed but a very good copy. 303pp. London, John Mason, Essentially an account of missionary work in the Pacific, Lawry's work is an important early source of information on Fiji. The appendix provides a detailed overview of the population, religious customs and production.…