Dibble Rev Sheldon (5 results)

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 268 pages. Professionally rebound with a red laetyer spine and corners. Gilt title and decorations on spine and covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (no date c1845); Good Only/no dj, small 16mo., 225pp., brown cloth hardcover, blind-stamp covers, faded gold lettering & decoration on backstrip, lacks front endpapers, short tear in cloth center on front exterior hinge, binding tight, heavy foxing throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 268 pages, Original decorated blind stamped brown cloth covers.Gilt title on spine. Corners bumped , edges frayed. Number stamped on reverse side of title page and back board cover. Top and bottom of spine chipped& slightly split at sides. Worm hole at back edge.Scattered foxing. Previous institutional owner's label on front board paper.Previous owners' names on first front endpaper. Size: Octavo. 11 x 19cm.

First Edition. Having graduated from the Auburn Theological Seminary in Massachusetts in 1830, Sheldon Dibble (1809-45) and his newlywed bride sailed for Hawaii with the fourth company from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. They were first sent to Hilo and later to Lahainaluna Seminary on Maui in 1834. After the death of his wife in 1837, Dibble sailed back to America but would return to Lahaina in 1840. He taught history at the seminary, introducing his students to the innovative seminar method by having them collect oral histories from their elders. In addition to this work, Dibble assisted in the translation of the Bible and numerous other scholarly and scriptural texts, and wrote two more histories of the Sandwich Islands, one in English and the other in Hawaiian. An expanded version of this work was published in Lahainaluna in 1843 - the first locally printed historical account of Hawaii. Octavo: xii, 268 p. Original brown ribbed cloth binding, with gilt titles and decorative blind stamping. Some minor foxing, largely to the prefatory and concluding leaves. One signature is a little loose. Previous owner's ink signature to the front flyleaf. The boards are faded along the spine and extremities, with a small nick to the spine head and a few minor stains.

First Edition. First edition, 12mo, pp. 268; original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends a little cracked and bare spots neatly inpainted; modest foxing; old library label removed from spine; old manuscript ex-libris on blank flyleaf reading "No. 159 David Whitcombs Apprentice Library, Templeton, 1848; a good, sound copy. Forbes 1141: "The text contains two parts. The first two chapters are on the early history of the Islands up to the visit of Captain Cook. Chapter III, Introduction of Christianity, discusses Hawaii between Captain Cook's death and the arrival of the first missionaries . Following this is a general history of the progress of the mission." American Imprints 55361; Sabin 19991.