The WESTERN PACIFIC and MASHONALAND. Letters of Hugh Hastings Romilly, 1878-1891. David Nutt, London 1893. 384 pp.+17 illustrations. Romilly was ‘Deputy Commissioner for the Western Pacific and acting Special Commissioner for New Guinea'. A Pacific colonial memoir in diary and letter form. Slightly worn bevelled blue cloth boards, preliminaries foxed, bookplate for Geoffrey Ingleton, text clean and tight. (23x16cm)