Elizabethtown, NJ: Edson Hart, 1819.
Price:
$500.00
About the item
Second edition. Frontispiece portrait. 104, 32, 33, 10, 10 pp. Five parts in one, with sectional title pages. 12mo. Contemporary mottled sheep, red morocco spine label. Joints rubbed and just starting. Light foxing throughout. Very good. Sabin 56429; Felcone 556.
Item #377917
ʻŌpūkahaʻia (c.1792-1818) came from Hawaii to New Haven, Connecticut in 1807 following the death of his parents. There, he met Dwight and was eventually housed and tutored by relative Timothy Dwight IV, then president at Yale College and a founder of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Today ʻŌpūkahaʻia is best known as one of the first Hawaiians to convert to Christianity and an early translator of the Hawaiian language into English. His desire to become a missionary was among the inspirations for the opening of the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, which published this posthumous biography. It was issued with a sermon delivered at ʻŌpūkahaʻia's funeral by Lyan Beecher and three other pieces related to the founding of the Foreign Mission School.
