Travel
CHEEVER, Henry T. Rev.
Life in the Sandwich Islands or: the Heart of the Pacific, as it was and is
New York: A.S. Barnes & Co. 1851. 8vo., pp. 355, advertisements on front and endpaper, frontispiece, vignette title and 7 engraved plates, library plate, pages browned, ink writing inside, recased in original publisher's embossed green cloth with gilt, spine sunned; a good copy.
This interesting work relates mainly to Cheever's wide travels among the Hawaiian Islands and to his observations of them Chapters are given on the first Hawaiian college and on Hawaiian literature. One of the illustrations depicts the Hawaiian Sport of Surf Playing. Hill p. 51
Price: £ 200
US Dollar Price: $ 400
Stock Number: 54425