Title: Memoir of Mrs. Mary Mercy Ellis, Wife of Rev. William Ellis Missionary in the South Seas,... Including Notices of Heathen Society, of the Details of Missionary Life,... Author: Ellis, William Place: Boston Publisher: Crocker & Brewster Date: 1836 Description: 286 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece. (8vo) original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First American Edition. Approximately 60 pages on Hawaii. This American edition has an added essay on marriage of female missionaries by Rev. R. Anderson (not included in the prior English editions), in which he refers several times to Hawaiian missions. Forbes 994; Hill, Pacific Voyages, 535. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding worn, spine chipped; a few pages loose at front; foxing; good. Item number: 285991a
Title: Memoir of Mrs. Mary Mercy Ellis, Wife of Rev. William Ellis Missionary in the South Seas,... Including Notices of Heathen Society, of the Details of Missionary Life,... Author: Ellis, William Place: Boston Publisher: Crocker & Brewster Date: 1836 Description: 286 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece. (8vo) original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First American Edition. Approximately 60 pages on Hawaii. This American edition has an added essay on marriage of female missionaries by Rev. R. Anderson (not included in the prior English editions), in which he refers several times to Hawaiian missions. Forbes 994; Hill, Pacific Voyages, 535. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding worn, spine chipped; a few pages loose at front; foxing; good. Item number: 285991a
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