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Hello, and thanks for looking. Bidders from any nation are welcome. Please see photos at top left with zoom and enlargement features Here offered: Tahiti Without the Gospel Tahiti Receiving the Gospel Tahiti With the Gospel American Sunday-School Union: Philadelphia, 1832, 1833, 18343 Volumes, each measuring 6 x 4 inches. 243, 195, 246 pages Comprehensive missionary perspective on Tahiti from the early 1830s. Charles Darwin would visit with the Beagle one year following the publication of our third volume. Tahiti Without, and Tahiti Receiving are illustrated, the latter with frontispiece as well. Marbled boards, leather spines with gilt titles. Foxing primarily to endpapers of "Without" and frontispiece of "Receiving", elsewhere slight. Front hinge of "With" is weak, others are sound. Uncommon to find the three as a set. From Wikipedia: In April 1769 Captain James Cook visited the island on secret orders from the Lords of the Admiralty to view the Transit of Venus on 2 June. He set up camp at Matavai Bay and stayed on until 9 August. Cook estimated the population to be 200,000 including all the nearby islands in the chain. This estimate was later lowered to 160,000 by anthropologist Bengt Danielsson at the time of discovery in 1767. After Cook, European ships landed with greater frequency. The best-known was HMS Bounty, whose crew mutinied after leaving Tahiti in 1789. After European contact, the population fell rapidly and traditional society was disrupted by guns, prostitution, venereal disease, alcohol, and Christianity. Introduced diseases including typhus, influenza and smallpox killed so many Tahitians that by 1797, the population was only 16,000. Later it was to drop as low as 6,000, leaving only 4% of the original pre-contact population. The London Missionary Society, founded in 1795, instructed its Tahitian missionaries to intervene in what they saw as wretched conditions and demonic influence. Viceroy of Peru Manuel de Amat y Juniet, following the rules of the Spanish Crown, decided to take possession of the island in 1772, largely to control the expansion of other countries and also to evangelize. So, he sent four expeditions within the period 1772-1775, but Charles III of Spain finally cancelled the mission as a consequence of his secular policy. Most notable of these expeditions was the drafting of a Diary by a soldier of the Marine named Maximo Rodriguez, covering a period of 12 months, revealing many ethnological details about the Tahitians of the 18th century. In November 1835 Charles Darwin visited Tahiti aboard the HMS Beagle on her circumnavigation, captained by Robert FitzRoy. He was impressed by what he perceived to be the positive influence the missionaries had had on the sobriety and moral character of the population. Darwin praised the scenery, but was not flattering towards Tahiti's Queen Pomare IV. Captain Fitzroy negotiated payment of compensation for an attack on an English ship by Tahitians, which had taken place in 1833. In 1839 the island was visited by the United States Exploring Expedition; one of its members, Alfred Thomas Agate, produced a number of sketches of Tahitian life, some of which were later published in the United States. In 1842, a European crisis involving Morocco escalated between France and Great Britain when Admiral Dupetit Thouars, acting independently of the French government, convinced Tahiti's Queen Pomare IV to accept a French protectorate. George Pritchard, a Birmingham-born missionary and acting British Consul, had been away at the time. However he returned to work towards indoctrinating the locals against the Roman Catholic French. In November 1843, Dupetit-Thouars (again on his own initiative) landed sailors on the island, annexing it to France. He then threw Pritchard into prison, subsequently sending him back to Britain. News of Tahiti reached Europe in early 1844. The French statesman François Guizot, supported by King Louis-Philippe of France, had d...
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