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Ellis' Tour Through Hawaii 1827 Third Edition

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Title: Narrative of a Tour Through Hawaii, Or Owhyhee; With Observations on the Natural History of the Sandwich Islands, and Remarks on the Manners, Customs, Traditions, History, and Language of the Their Inhabitants.
Author: Ellis, William
Description: [viii], 480 pp. 10 engraved plates including portrait frontispiece; 2 folding maps. (8vo) 8¼x5¼, period marbled boards, all edges marbled. Third Edition.Ellis served as missionary in other Polynesian locales as well as Hawaii, including the Society Islands. Hill remarks that the present work, which was first published in 1826, "contains details relating to Captain Cook's visit and death, and an appendix, `Remarks on the Hawaiian language.'" Hill p. 95.
Heading: zzcPlace Published: London
Publisher: H. Fisher, Son, and P. Jackson
Date Published: 1827