WARD, Arthur

The Miracle of Mapoon, or, From Native Camp to Christian Village

London, S.W. Partridge & Co. and Moravian Mission Agency, [1908].

Octavo, 272 pages with a map plus 20 leaves of plates.

Blue cloth lettered in gilt; covers slightly flecked, rubbed and sunned; first and last page a little tanned; tiny chip to one leaf; an excellent copy.

An account of the missionary activities of the Moravian Church in north Queensland. Provenance: the anthropologist Peter Sutton, with his signature (dated November 1993), and his pencilled annotation next to the name of Peter Bee, 'the South Sea Islander' referred to glowingly in the preface (dated Ayr, 2 April 1908): 'murdered 7/2/08 for pederasty'.

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