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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
Bunyan, John (1628-1688) Ka Hele Malihini Ana, mai Keia ao Aku a Hiki i Kela ao.
Honolulu: Mea Pailpalapala a na Misionari, 1842.
First edition in Hawaiian of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 12mo, with wood engraved frontispiece and full-page illustrations by Alexander Anderson and Abraham John Mason; page edges untrimmed and mostly unopened throughout; bound in early 20th century limp suede wrappers, with the front cover titled in "Buniana," in black, one of an unknown number of remaindered copies discovered at the offices of the Hawaiian Board of Missionaries circa 1910 and sold in this binding; the first and last few leaves browned and a little frayed, front cover with printed fragment in Hawaiian with a handwritten inscription in red, mostly flaked away, 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
