Heading: (Hawaii)
Author: Cheever, Henry T.
Title: Life in the Sandwich Islands: or, The Heart of the Pacific, as It Was and Is
Place Published: New York
Publisher:A.S. Barnes
Date Published: 1851
Description: 355 pp. 6 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece & added title; 2 wood-engravings in the text; map. 18.5x12 cm (7¼x4¾“), publisher‘s purple cloth with gilt vignette to front cover, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.Hill notes that “much interesting data is included on the history and native culture of the islands. Cheever predicted eventual American rule of the islands because fifty missionary families had settled there and owned extensive lands.“ Among the plates is an early, thought by some to be the first, illustration of surfing in a book. Forbes 1803; Hill p.51.

Moderate binding wear and fading, moderate foxing; still very good.