Codrington, R,H.

The Melanesians. Studies in their Anthropology and Folk-Lore

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1891. Octavo, original cloth boards, b&w engravings, folding map, pp xvi, 419, viii. With the bookplate of William Garden Cowie, Bishop of Auckland, with inscription presenting the book to John Patterson Cowie; also with previous owner's bookplate. Card tipped in rear endpaper: "with the compliments of the delegates", Clarendon Press. Corners bumped, very good condition.

Robert Henry Codrington was an anthropologist and missionary: he made the first study of Melanesian people and culture. Item #93164

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