London: J. Snow, for the Author, 1837. Early printing (4th thousand), same year as the first, and the first printing to contain the Baxter portrait of the author. Original brown cloth decorated in blind, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, original grey endpapers. pp (xx), 590 + colour frontispiece portrait of Williams + folding map + 6 b&w plates; illustrated title page and 18 illustrations in the text (all plates present). Professionally rebacked, with original only lightly sunned spine laid down, inner cloth inner hinges; rubbing to inner margin of front free endpaper; horizontal crease to frontispiece; old pencil notes to verso of front free endpaper about the portrait and an ink note ("George Baxter" to the margin of the author's Preface to the Fourth Thousanda few small light spots on front cover; corner chip to pp 565-66 (no text affected); old pencil owner name on front pastedown; else a VG clean and unworn copy, attractive, not foxed. "A non-conformist missionary, Williams was sent by the London Missionary Society to the Society Islands in 1816. He traveled about the islands, converting the native populace to Christianity. He made his headquarters at Raiatea, but also visited the Cook Islands and discovered Rarotonga, where he sojourned for a considerable time. After his return to Raiatea, he set forth on the other voyages to Samoa, Tonga, and the neighboring islands.[Later he] sailed to the New Hebrides; while visiting the island of Erromanga, he was murdered by cannibals on November 20, 1839. These insights into missionary and native life are very important to a complete understanding of Pacific history" - HILL 1875. The pencil note at front states: "First portrait in colours by Baxter & drawn from life. The portrait was also sold as a separate print & it was this sale which first impressed upon Baxter the advantages of separate prints. (from Coutney Lewis print no. 71)". This book was one of the best and most popular accounts of missionary activity in the Pacific at the time.

Boston: Charles Ewer, 1820. Stated First American Edition. Octavo, pp (xxx), (31)-461 + frontispiece portrait (Mr Mariner in the Costume of the Tonga Islands) (lacking the tissue guard) and large folding map at p. (31). Four pages of words and music at rear. With the Preface to the second London edition (1818, with additions). Modern binding of quarter calf with spine label and gilt rules, marbled boards, new endpapers. Ink digits to upper outer corner of title page; yellowing and foxing to frontispiece and early leaves and to leaves adjacent to the folding map, only scattered foxing in text, text mostly without any foxing; creased nicks to upper edge of a few leaves at rear and a few small corner creases; externally fine, internally VG. First published in a two volume format by John Murray, London, 1818. This American edition doesn't have the Tongan grammar and vocabulary found in the London edition. "Mariner set sail in 1805 on a voyage to South America and the South Seas with two purposes -- whaling and attacking Spanish shipping. the crew mutinied in the Tonga Islands, but were murdered by the natives. Young Mariner was fortunate in being taken prisoner and adopted as the King's son. His work contains a very interesting account of contemporary life in Tonga, of the customs of the inhabitants and their inter-island wars and examples of Tonga songs and music...considered the best report of Tongan life and culture before the arrival of Christianity." - Hill

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1879. Later printing (first US was in 1872). Octavo. pp 406 + colour frontispiece + 3 plates with tissue guards + 1 map + 1 folding map at rear, top edge gilt. Index. Numerous woodcut illustrations and maps in text. Lacking the folding map of Fiji at rear. Folding isocrymal chart of the world at rear has a fold split neatly repaired, one corner chip, creases. Rebound in modern blue buckram. Ink digits at bottom of Contents page and last page, else a mainly fine, clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. Dana was Professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Yale and a member of the Wilkes U.S. Exploring Expedition. of 1838-42, which visited the Tuamotus, the Societies, Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji. The steel engravings are after A.T. Agate (Utiroa, Cocoanut Grove at Fakaafo or Bowditch Island, Scene at Oatafu Island). 1.5 kg parcel

London: The Religious Tract Society, 1895. Original blue illustrated cloth stamped in gilt. pp xiv, (19), 255 + frontis. portrait with tissue guard, one map; full page illustrations in text. Nicks and small worn spot at spine tips; thin acidic endpapers yellowed, with small chips at edges, inner hinges neatly repaired with rice paper tape; old rubber stamps on front endpapers of Walkerton [Ontario] Methodist Sabbath School; occasionsal soil spots in text, a few of them blue; yellowing to page edges; corner crease to tissue card and a few early leaves; else a good, sound and complete copy, now tight in the binding. "Considerable portions of this book have been printed before in WORK AND ADVENTURE IN NEW GUINEA, and PIONEERING IN NEW GUINEA... The new portions consist of various visits and adventures on the part of Mr. Chalmes during the last nine years, and especially the opening up of the Fly River." - Preface.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c1919 (for 1928). Reprint from plates of the 1919 Century edition. Photoplay edition. Octavo, red linen grain cloth lettered in black. pp xii, 450, (2, ads) + frontispiece and three double-sided plates of stills from the 1928 MGM film starring Monte Blue and Raquel Torres. Long Jan., 1933, ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, else a fine copy. Dust jacket (colourful front panel art by Skrenda) has small chips and rubbing to tips of slightly tanned spine; rubbing and small holes to spine folds; nicks to edges of panels; front flap fold has a short tear and some rubbing; pencil drawing of palms covers the rear pastedown; else a VG copy, the front panel showing well. This was MGM's first sound picture, and the first to use the famous lion logo. "A record of one happy year spent by the author among the simple friendly cannibals of Atuona valley, in those marvelous islands, the Marquesas."