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Thomas, Julian.
Cannibals & Convicts: notes of personal experiences in the western Pacific.
Publisher: Cassell & Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne,
Date of Publication: 1886
Stock Code: 15460
First edition. Octavo, pp., xvi, 407, [1], plus wood-engraved frontispiece portrait. Publisher’s original crimson cloth; titled in gilt to spine and to upper board; black-stamp borders to boards continuing to spine; floral patterned end-papers. Peabody Museum bookplate (cancelled) dated 1919 to front paste-down; Unobtrusive Peabody museum stamps in blind to frontispiece and title-page. Spine sunned; corners a touch bumped and rubbed; foxing to fore-edge; binding otherwise square. Occasional light scattered foxing internally. A very serviceable copy. A sensationalist account of the travels of an Anglo-Australian journalist across the Pacific. This copy was formerly owned by the Peabody Essex Museum of Salem, Mass., which holds significant collections of Asian and Pacific art, and was successor to the East India Marine Society. £50.00