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ELLIS (WILLIAM)
A Journal of a Tour Round Hawaii, the Largest of the Sandwich Islands

19 June 2013, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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ELLIS (WILLIAM)

A Journal of a Tour Round Hawaii, the Largest of the Sandwich Islands, first edition, engraved frontispiece, 4 plates, one folding engraved map, contemporary sheep, rebacked preserving original spine [Forbes 600; cf. Hill 545, first English edition], 8vo, Boston, Crocker & Brewster, 1825

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"The Narrative of English missionary William Ellis is particularly important, as it was the first book written about the Hawaiian Islands and the first serious notice of the Islands since Captain Cook's discovery of them forty-eight years earlier" (Hill).

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