The Solomon Islands and Their Natives.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Swan Sonnenschein 1887. Royal 8vo. Orig. cloth. Gilt. (slightly rubbed; rebacked preserving the orig. spine). Top edge gilt. (xvi 384pp.). With col. frontisp. map (foxed) and 9 full-page plates. Cyril S. Belshaw's copy with autograph on title-page. NOTE: Guppy was a surgeon aboard H.M.S. Lark a surveying ship in the Western Pacific. This book covers diseases tattooing cannibalism vocabulary ethnology etc. of the Solomon Islands.