Feb 10, 2005 - Sale 2032

Sale 2032 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 58
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
(HAWAII.) [Dwight, Edwin Welles.] Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, a Native of Owhyhee. 12mo, contemporary cloth-backed boards, covers almost detached, worn; foxing. Philadelphia, 1830

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First published in 1818, this work was influential in garnering support for missions to the islands. This copy is "the first American Sunday School Union edition, issued without an engraved frontispiece portrait"--Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 746.