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Bingham 21 Years in the Sandwich Islands 1848

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Title: 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
Author: Bingham, Hiram
Description: 616 pp. Illustrated with 6 wood-engraved plates; steel-engraved frontispiece portrait; folding map. (8vo) 22.5x13.5 cm. (9x5½"), original ribbed brown cloth embossed in blind, gilt spine title. Second Edition.A Congregational minister from New England, Bingham arrived in Hawaii in 1820, and spent the next 21 years there in missionary work. He learned the language and devised a writing system for the language as well, translating the Bible into Hawaiian in conjunction with William Ellis. Sabin says this is "probably the best work on the Sandwich Islands." First edition was published in 1847. Hill 127; Sabin 5432.
Heading: (Hawaii)Place Published: Hartford
Publisher: Hezekiah Huntington
Date Published: 1848