Title Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years in the South Sea Islands, including descriptions of the natural history and scenery of the Islands, with remarks on the history, mythology, traditions, government, arts, manners, and customs of the inhabitants / by William Ellis

Published London : Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1829

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
ADPML SPC	919.6 Ell/Prd	1	LIB USE ONLY
ADPML SPC	919.6 Ell/Prd	2	LIB USE ONLY

Description 2 volumes (xvi, 536; viii, 576 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm Series Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK1902 ANL Rex Nan Kivell Collection ; NK4124 ANL Notes National Library of Australia's 919.6 ELL set half bound with gilt top edge, marbled boards and endpapers; front board detatched from volume 2; rule for the 'Return of Library Books' for the Railway Institute pasted inside front covers; stamped 'G. Jerrems' bookbinder, 425 Kent Street and 'Railway Institute, Redfern Sydney'. ANL National Library of Australia's NK1902 set untrimmed and in brown publisher's boards; Norfolk & Norwich Library label pasted on front covers and presentation bookplate identifying John Henry Gurney Esq. as donor; volume 1 also bears the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1829/12). ANL National Library of Australia's NK4124 set half bound in calf with marbled boards; both volumes bear the bookplate of Rex de C. Nan Kivell (no. 1879/23). ANL Subject Ethnology -- Polynesia. Ethnology. SUBJECT Polynesia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116617 Author Gurney, John Henry, 1819-1890, former owner ANL LC no. 86205025

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