(HAWAII) Extracts from the Minutes of the General Meeting of

Sale 2444 - Lot 160

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(HAWAII.) Extracts from the Minutes of the General Meeting of the Sandwich Islands' Mission. 18, [1] pages. 12mo, original plain wrappers; minor foxing. Oahu: Mission Press, 1836

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Includes a detailed report on missionary printing activities, showing the number of copies printed over the past year. Only 80 copies of this report were issued, and these only for private distribution among the mission families. As explained in a surviving 1832 letter, "we carefully keep these from the eyes of strangers" (see Ballou and Carter, "History of the Hawaiian Mission Press," Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society 14 (1908), page 39. Forbes 1025; none traced at auction.