(Colonialism, Missionary and the South Pacific Islands) Five...

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(Colonialism, Missionary and the South Pacific Islands) Five decorative bindings R. Vernon. 'James Calvert; Or, From Dark to Dawn in Fiji,' third edition, fifteenth thousand, vg original decorative cloth with gilt tooling, spotting to edges of leaves and text block, illustrations throughout, good to vg, S. w. Partridge and Co, London, [c.1890]; William Robson. 'James Chalmers. Missionary and Explorer of Rarotonga and New Guinea,' new edition, original decorative cloth with gilt tooling, steel engravings throughout, toning, vg, S. W. Partridge and Co, London, [c.1890]; George Cousins (compiler). 'From Island to Island in the South Seas; Or, the Work of a Missionary Ship,' second edition, original pictorial cloth with gilt lettering, plates, vignette engravings, fold out map, vg, London Missionary Society, 1894; William H. G. Kingston. 'Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries,' original decorative cloth with pictorial gilt tooling to the front board, gilt edge, text block nearly loose from binding, steel engravings throughout, good, The Religious Tract company, London, [c.1890]; Rev. William Wyatt Gill. 'Life in the Southern Isles; Or, Scenes and Incidents in the South Pacific and New Guinea,' original pictorial cloth rubbed and bumped, owner signature to ffep Emma Jane White Feb 27 1881, spotting throughout, steel engravings throughout, good, The Religious Tract Company, London, [c.1881]. (5) From the library of Guy Slatter, whose lifelong passion for island life began in childhood with an interest in Pitcairn. After studying at Oxford and working for the BBC, he spent two years in the 1960s setting up a radio station in the Kiribati Islands. His deep connection to the Pacific led to many return visits, including work for a German museum, where he facilitated the export of an ethnic house for an exhibition. A dedicated scholar of Pacific history and culture, he built his collection of books over many years through a dealer in York and even translated two German works into English: The Material Culture of Kiribati and The Material Culture of Tuvalu.