Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(HAWAII.) Hiram Bingham. A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands. Folding map, 7 plates, one text illustration on page 578. 616 pages. Large 8vo, publisher's calf, minimal wear; minimal toning to contents; original owner's pencil inscriptions on front endpapers. Hartford, CT, 1848

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Second edition, described by Forbes as an "unaltered reprint" of the 1847 first edition. An unusually fresh example. "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 1679.