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DWIGHT, EDWIN WELLES. Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, a Native of Owhyhee .. , 1819.
Price: US$258.75 + shipping
Description: [DWIGHT, EDWIN WELLES]. Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, a Native of Owhyhee, and a Member of the Foreign Mission School; who Died at Cornwall, Conn. Feb. 17, 1818, Aged 26 Years. Elizabeth Town: Edson Hart, J. & E. Sanderson, printers, 1819. 104, 32, 33, 10, 10 p. Port. Contemporary sheep (scuffed, front cover detached). Foxed, portrait browned. Five works, printed together and issued as a single volume. Henry Obookiah was born in the Sandwich Islands in 1792. His parents were killed when he was a young boy, and in 1809 he came to America. His chief tutor was Edwin Welles Dwight at New Haven, where these works were first printed in 1818. See Felcone, New Jersey Books (2nd edn.), 556, for a detailed account of Obookiah and the printed texts.
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Very Rare Vintage Copy. Previous Owner Name And Note Penciled On Front End Page Reading, "To Eddie L Marshall Presented To Him By His Grandmother". Pages Extremely Foxed, Scuffed, And Stained; Slight Warping Of Pages. Page Edges Darkened; Corners Somewhat Worn. Faded And Rubbed Leather Boards With Wear On Corners, Spine Ends And Edges. Several Discoloration Areas On Front And Back Board. Front Board Is From Spine With Extreme Wear On Spine And Front Cover Creases. Back Board Is Attached To Spine. Front And Back End Pages Show Extensive Foxing And Smudges. Bottom Corner Area Of Title Page Is Torn But Has Been Carefully Attached By White String Stitching! Back End Page Also Has A 2 Inch Round Ecru Doily Attached By Thread To The Top Area Of This End Page. First 104 Pages Contains Memoir. Frontispiece Is A Browned Portrait Of Obookiah, Native Of Owhyhee. The Following 32 Pages Contain "A Sermon Delivered At The Funeral Of Henry Obookiah, A Native Of Owhybee And An Member Of The Foreign Mission School In Cornwall, Connecticut February 18, 1818 By Lyman Beecher," A M Paster Of A Church In Litchfield. The Following 33 Pages Contains " The Banner Of Christ Set Up. A Sermon" Delivered At The Inauguration Of The Rev. Hermon Daggett, As Principal Of The Foreign Mission School In Cornwall, Connecticut. May 6, 1818 By Joseph Harvey A M Pastor Of A Church In Goshen, Conn. The Final 10 Pages Contains "An Inauguration Address Delivered At The Opening Of The Foreign Mission School, May 6, 1818" By Herman Daggett A M Principal Of The School. Book Is Rare Copy, Readable, But Could Be Restored!
Seller: Attic Treasures Book Shop, Mt. Carmel, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 32mo leather bound volume. Spine and boards tight and complete. Spine has label front board is starting to split at top and bottom but holding ok. Front end paper is missing as is rear. Contents tight and complete with all sermons and addresses. Usual toning and some light foxing but no watermarks.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Obookiah, Henry. Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, A Native of Owhyhee. Edson Hart, 1819.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, A Native of Owhyhee, and a Member of the Foreign Mission School; Who Died at Cornwall, Conn. Feb. 17th, 1818, Aged 26 Years, Published by Edson Hart, Elizabethtown, N.J., 1819, 104 pp. A Sermon Delivered at the Funeral of Henry Obookiah, A Native of Owhyhee, and a Member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, February 18, 1818, by Lyman Beecher, Edson Hart, 1819, 32pp. The Banner of Christ Set Up a Sermon Delivered at the Inauguration of the Rev. Hermon Daggett, As Principal of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, May 6, 1818, by Jospeh Harvey, 1819, 33 pp. An Inauguration Address, Delivered at the Opening of the Foreign Mission School. May 6, 1818, by Hermann Daggett, 1819, 10 pp. The Inaugural Address by the Hon. John Treadwell, Esq. 10pp. Full original leather, 6 x 3.75, 18mo. In good condition. Binding dried at edges with scuffed and desiccated spine. Front board is worn with cracking at joint. Joint tender. Corners rubbed, slightly rounded. J. Dart Jr. bookplate on front pastedown. All edges yellow. Textblock lightly toned with scattered foxing. A few instances of age-stain. Free of known markings. Binding intact. A sound copy with minor aesthetic issues. Please see photos. Invaluable early biography about Henry 'Opukaha'ia (c. 1792-1818) with some of his own personal writings and recollections printed therein. His first name is sometimes written in Hawai'ian as Heneri and he was known as Henry Obookiah throughout his lifetime. Henry 'Opukaha'ia was one of the first Hawai'ians to become a Christian and is credited with inspiring American Protestant missionaries to come to the Hawai'ian islands for mission work. 'Opukaha'ia had a tragic childhood. According to the book's documentation, 'Opukaha'ia was only ten or twelve years old when his parents and baby brother no more than two to three months old (his entire family) were brutally murdered by Hawai'ian warriors. 'Opukaha'ia relays subsequent events in which he is first taken in to live with one of his family's murderers but then finds refuge when he is united with one of his uncles. In 1807, 'Opukaha'ia decides to travel and is taken on board a ship, the Triumph, by Captain Caleb Britnall. On the ship's journey to New Haven, Connecticut, he and a Hawai'ian cabin boy, Thomas Hopu, learn English and become friends. They land in New Haven in 1809, and 'Opukaha'ia is looked after by local residents and works summer jobs. That same year, he crosses paths with Edwin W. Dwight, one of the authors and an acquaintance of Hopu. Dwight was a Yale College senior student at the time and would eventually become a reverend. 'Opukaha'ia refers to how Dwight, or "Mr. D.," helps him read, write, and speak English more fluently. One of Dwight's relatives, Timothy Dwight IV, founder of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), also furthers 'Opukaha'ia's studies in core curricula as well as Christian theology. 'Opukaha'ia converted to Christianity in 1815. By that time, he had years of academic experience having studied a variety of subjects as a student. 'Opukaha'ia was part of a movement of Polynesian and Indigenous (Native American) Christians who wanted to learn evangelism and become missionaries. Their interest led to the founding of the Foreign Mission School in 1816 in Cornwall, Connecticut. The school was open for ten years and admitted students from different ethnic backgrounds. 'Opukaha'ia had wanted to return to Hawai'i as a missionary and nearly finished a Hawai'ian dictionary and grammar and spelling book for his mission. Sadly, 'Opukaha'ia's life was cut short when he came down with typhus fever. He passed away in Cornwall at the age of twenty-six.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original publisher's brown full leather binding. Gilt lettering on red spine label. 3 1/2" x 5 3/4." Pages [3] 4-104, [3] 4-32, [3] 4-33, [3] 4-10, [1] 2-10, complete. One black-and-white frontispiece portrait of Henry 'Opukaha'ia, complete. Former owner's inscription in black ink on front free endpaper: "Hannah Baldwin's Book, July 20th, 1822." Pages are foxed but intact. Covers have slight corner, edge, and surface wear but are clean and intact. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. Following the main title are four additional sermons, all of which have the same publisher's information of the main title with the exception of the last, which does not have a title page. Edson Hart is noted as "Agent of the Foreign Mission School." The four sermons: "A Sermon Delivered at the Funeral of Henry Obookiah, a Native of Owhyhee, and a Member of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, February 18, 1818." by Lyman Beecher; "The Banner of Christ Set Up A Sermon Delivered at the Inauguration of the Rev. Herman Daggett, as Principal of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, May 6, 1818." by Joseph Harvey; "An Inaugural Address Delivered at the Opening of the Foreign Mission School, May 6, 1818." by Herman Daggett; and "The Inaugural Address" by John Treadwell. Invaluable early biography about Henry 'Opukaha'ia (c. 1792-1818) with some of his own personal writings and recollections printed therein. His first name is sometimes written in Hawai'ian as Heneri and he was known as Henry Obookiah throughout his lifetime. Henry 'Opukaha'ia was one of the first Hawai'ians to become a Christian and is credited with inspiring American Protestant missionaries to come to the Hawai'ian islands for mission work. 'Opukaha'ia had a tragic childhood. According to the book's documentation, 'Opukaha'ia was only ten or twelve years old when his parents and baby brother no more than two to three months old (his entire family) were brutally murdered by Hawai'ian warriors. 'Opukaha'ia relays subsequent events in which he is first taken in to live with one of his family's murderers but then finds refuge when he is united with one of his uncles. In 1807, 'Opukaha'ia decides to travel and is taken on board a ship, the Triumph, by Captain Caleb Britnall. On the ship's journey to New Haven, Connecticut, he and a Hawai'ian cabin boy, Thomas Hopu, learn English and become friends. They land in New Haven in 1809, and 'Opukaha'ia is looked after by local residents and works summer jobs. That same year, he crosses paths with Edwin W. Dwight, one of the authors and an acquaintance of Hopu. Dwight was a Yale College senior student at the time and would eventually become a reverend. 'Opukaha'ia refers to how Dwight, or "Mr. D.," helps him read, write, and speak English more fluently. One of Dwight's relatives, Timothy Dwight IV, founder of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), also furthers 'Opukaha'ia's studies in core curricula as well as Christian theology. 'Opukaha'ia converted to Christianity in 1815. By that time, he had years of academic experience having studied a variety of subjects as a student. 'Opukaha'ia was part of a movement of Polynesian and Indigenous (Native American) Christians who wanted to learn evangelism and become missionaries. Their interest led to the founding of the Foreign Mission School in 1816 in Cornwall, Connecticut. The school was open for ten years and admitted students from different ethnic backgrounds. 'Opukaha'ia had wanted to return to Hawai'i as a missionary and nearly finished a Hawai'ian dictionary and grammar and spelling book for his mission. Sadly, 'Opukaha'ia's life was cut short when he came down with typhus fever. He passed away in Cornwall at the age of twenty-six.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.