[Rarebooks] FS: Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands

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BINGHAM, HIRAM (1789-1869). 

_A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands; or the Civil,
Religious, and Political History of Those Islands: Comprising a
Particular View of the Missionary Operations Connected with the
Introduction and Progress of Christianity and Civilization Among the
Hawaiian People_. 

Hartford: Hezekiah Huntington; New York: Sherman Converse, 1848. 

Thick 8vo. 9 1/2 x 61/4 inches. 616 pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece
portrait of Bingham with tissue guard, Explanations of Hawaiian
Orthography and Pronunciation, family trees of 3 Sandwich Island Chiefs,
6 wood engraved plates, figures, large folding map of the Hawaiian
Islands at the rear; text unmarked, occasional foxing, offsetting at
pages 408-409. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, spine titled in
gilt, yellow end-papers; binding square and tight, cloth chipped at
outer hinges, spine ends frayed, corners bumped and showing, cup ring on
front cover. Very Good. 

$ 300 

SECOND EDITION. Hiram Bingham was a New England missionary who lead the
first group of American Protestant missionaries to introduce
Christianity to the Hawaiian Islands. "The most important work on the
history of the American Protestant mission in Hawaii during the years
1820-1841, and one of the key books of Hawaiian history." Forbes.
REFERENCES: Forbes, _Hawaiian National Bibliography_, No. 1679; _Hill
Collection of Pacific Voyages_, 2nd ed., No. 127 (1st ed.); Sabin,
_Bibliotheca Americana_, No. 5432. 

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