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Moscow: Sinodalnaya Typografija, 1899. Fine. Octavo, [iv], 114 (paginated in Old Slavonic); old quarter sheep with marbled boards. Rare: evangelical text translated into the Aleut language (and printed in Cyrillic), prepared by Ivan Veniaminov-Popov (1797-1879), the great Orthodox missionary to the northern Pacific. Veniaminov was educated in Irkutsk and chose a theological vocation. As a young man he was selected for the Orthodox mission to Unalaska and arrived there in 1822 with his wife and children. While some conversion had been previously successful, it was feared by the Church that Christian and indigenous beliefs had become merged. The scope of the missionary project soon expanded to include the entire Alaskan peninsula and surrounding islands, a vast and often inhospitable geographical area. For ten years Veniaminov was an intrepid traveller, often using small craft and kayaks to visit coastal settlements, and travelling on foot through rugged mountainous regions. In 1832 he was appointed…
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Ukazanie Puti v Tsarstvie Nebesnoe. Pouchenie na Aleutsko-Lis'evskom jazike, sochinennoe svjaschennikom Ioannom Veniaminovym 1833 goda. [Indication to the Way to the Kingdom of Heaven, in Aleut language, composed by Priest Ioann Veniaminov in 1833]
by [ALEUT LANGUAGE] VENIAMINOV-POPOV, Ivan Evseevich (Innokentii)
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Un Royaume Polynésien. Iles Hawaï
by [HAWAII] ANGLADE, Marie Gabriel Bosseront d'
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Paris: Librairie Plon, 1893. Front wrapper creased.. Octavo, folding map; uncut in the original blue-grey wrappers. A fine copy of the first edition: this is an especially good account of Hawaii at the end of the nineteenth century, by a French diplomat, written under the pseudonym Georges Sauvin. D'Anglade was French Consul and Commissioner to Hawaii and writes about Honolulu and the Hawaiian royal family from personal experience. His excellent memoir of life in Hawaii has been recently translated as A Tree in Bud: The Hawaiian Kingdom 1889-1893, with one wonderful quote making it to the internet: 'Everybody in Hawaii finds the businessman a sympathetic figure, for his constant concern is to 'make money'... This is his first object and ruling passion, toward which he dedicates all his faculties. All foreigners who settle in Hawaii are - or want to be - businessmen'. .
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Un Royaume Polynésien. Iles Hawaï
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Paris: Plon, 1893. Front wrapper chipped.. Octavo, folding map; a good copy, uncut in the original blue-grey wrappers, First edition: this is an especially good account of Hawaii at the end of the nineteenth century, by a French diplomat, written under the pseudonym Georges Sauvin. D'Anglade was French Consul and Commissioner to Hawaii and writes about Honolulu and the Hawaiian royal family from personal experience. His excellent memoir of life in Hawaii has been recently translated as A Tree in Bud: The Hawaiian Kingdom 1889-1893, with one wonderful quote making it to the internet: 'Everybody in Hawaii finds the businessman a sympathetic figure, for his constant concern is to 'make money'... This is his first object and ruling passion, toward which he dedicates all his faculties. All foreigners who settle in Hawaii are - or want to be - businessmen'. .
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