Lot 281: BINGHAM, HIRAM. 1789-1869.

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. Hartford: Hezekiah Huntington & New York: Sherman Converse, 1848. 616 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait, 6 plates, and one folding map. 8vo. Original brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Some light spots, some wear to joints, partially repaired, light shelfwear, head and tail of spine rubbed.

Second edition, signed and inscribed on the front free endpaper by Bingham to Lucy Montague: "'The Lord bless thee & keep thee.'" A signed copy of one of the key books of Hawaiian history. Forbes 1679.