Henry Obookiah (6 results)

150th anniversary edition. Obookiah at age 15 shipped aboard the Triumph & eventually landed in Cornwall, CT, where he began his formal education. Little did he know that his presence would trigger everlasting change in the Sandwich Islands; 109 pages, foldout map intact & firmly affixed. Previous owner's ink name on front end paper. Foxing from dust soiling along top edge. otherwise a clean, unmarked very good+ trade paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book)/ no dust jacket. 8vo.

Full-Leather. Fair copy. In brown leather covers with faded lettering on spine. Square and intact binding, but holding on front cover. All text pages are legible, despite agetoning to some of the pages and moderate foxing. Missing frontispiece. Writing on front pastedown. Heavy wear and moderate scuffing to leather.In protective mylar. Photos upon request. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Full leather. Condition: Fair. 14.5 x 8.5 cm. 18mo. 129, 40, 32, 8 6pp. Frontispiece portrait. Bound into worn leather with black spine label. Front cover hinge split but holding. Small piece out of tail of spine. Scattered moderate to heavy foxing as well as some damp staining. Name on piece of tape affixed to rear paste-down. A serviceable copy of this rare work. Lacking front free endpaper. Separate title pages for each pagination The first pagination is the memoir followed by a sermon delivered at the funeral of Henry Obookiah by Lyman Beecher, a sermon delivered at the inauguration of the Rev. Hermon Daggett as principal of the Foreign Mission School by Joseph Harvey, An Inauguration address delivered at the opening of the Foreign Mission School by Herman Daggert, and The Inauguration address by John Treadwell (no title page for the final pagination). Henry Obookiah was one of the first Hawaiians to convert to Christianity. Preacher and friend of Obookiah Edwin Welles Dwight put together this work from Obookiah's letters and journals after his passing. Dwight taught Obookiah how to read and write when he first came to America after seeing him forlorn on the steps at Yale. First done in 1818, this is an early printing done the following year. (source & more information: The Place for Truth: Henry '?p?kaha'ia and the Birth of Christian Missions in the Hawaiian Islands). Sabin 56429.

Full Leather. Condition: Good. B/w Frontis (illustrator). First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. In full brown leather with red spine label, title in gilt, 12mo, 109+34+34+10pp. (spine restored professionally retaining the original title label; Shelfear, rubbing and scoffing to extremities, endpapers and pages browned from age, name to endpaper, frontis appears trimmed and reset). Several works bound together. Includes the main title work plus "A Sermon Delivered at the Funeral of Henry Obookiah"; "A sermon delivered at he inauguration of the Rev. Herman Daggett As principal of the Foreign Mission School" & "An Inauguration address delivered at the opening of the foreign Mission School". A very scarce early american imprint.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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.

First Edition. "(OBOOKIAH, Henry, a.k.a. OPUKAHAIA, Heneri). [DWIGHT, Edwin Welles, editor]. Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, a Native of Owhyhee, and a Member of the Foreign Mission School [WITH] BEECHER, Lyman. A Sermon Delivered at the Funeral of Henry Obookiah [AND] HARVEY, Joseph. The Banner of Christ Set Up. A Sermon. Delivered at the Inauguration of the Rev. Herman Daggett. [AND] DAGGETT, Herman. An Inauguration Address. New-Haven: Religious Intelligencer, 1818. 12mo, original blue-gray paper boards respined, uncut. $2200.Scarce true first edition of the first biography of the Native Hawaiian and Christian convert whose story inspired the earliest American mission to Hawaii, 1818, with engraved frontispiece portraitthe only known likeness of Opukahaiain original boards.One of the first Hawaiians to convert to Christianity, Henry 'Opukaha'ia (or Opukahaia) fled the violence of the Unification Wars as a teenager and landed in New Haven where, as the story has it, Edwin Welles Dwight found him sitting on the steps of a Yale building, weeping because "No one will give me learning." Dwight and members of his familyincluding Timothy Dwight, president of Yale Collegetutored Opukahaia, who became the first student at the Foreign Mission School, "a special school to prepare natives of heathen countries for missionary service" (Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography) and then the first known Pacific Islander to study at Andover Theological Seminary. Opukahaia was dedicated to the goal of bringing Christianity to Hawaii; he translated the Book of Genesis into Hawaiian and began work on an English-Hawaiian dictionary for missionary use, but contracted typhus and died in 1818 before being able to complete the project. E.W. Dwight edited and published his letters and diaries, and the widely-circulated work quickly became a motivating force for the first American mission to Hawaii. Accompanying the Memoirs here (as issued) are Lyman Beecher's sermon delivered at Opukahaia's funeral, Joseph Harvey's sermon at the inauguration of Herman Daggett as the first principal of the Foreign Mission School, and Daggett's address at the school opening. This 1818 first edition was printed as a fundraiser for the Foreign Mission School shortly after Opukahaia's death and is now uncommon. Shaw & Shoemaker 43896. See Sabin 56429 (listing 1819 editions only). Early inked owner's name.Contents with minor toning and spotting, one leaf with lower outer corner torn away (not touching text), some offsetting from frontispiece. Boards lightly worn, spine refurbished. A lovely copy of this uncommon work, desirable in original boards.".