MISSIONS IN WESTERN POLYNESIA: being Historical Sketches of these Missions, from their commencement in 1839 to the present time
by Murray, A.W., Twenty-five Years a Missionary in Polynesia in connexion with the London Missionary Society
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(London: John Snow, Paternoster Row. G.R. Addison, Sydney, N.S.W.: 1863) First Edition. Rebound copy with new endpapers but retaining most of the original cloth including the titling-piece on the spine (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 489. Illustrated. Map of New Hebrides. First Edition. Corners of boards rubbed and a little worn; a scuff to the upper margin of one page; a very good rebound copy.
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- exPB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153385
- Title
- MISSIONS IN WESTERN POLYNESIA: being Historical Sketches of these Missions, from their commencement in 1839 to the present time
- Author
- Murray, A.W., Twenty-five Years a Missionary in Polynesia in connexion with the London Missionary Society
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- south seas missionary polynesia new hebrides
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Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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