signed first edition
1887 · San Francisco
by Hitchcock, H.R.
San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1887. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to William De Witt Alexander (1833-1913), the noted educator, author, and linguist in the Kingdom of Hawaii, on a prefatory blank leaf, with Alexander's pencil notes opposite the chronological table at the rear.
Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr. (1835-91) was the son of a Massachusetts missionary who arrived in Hawaii during the summer of 1832. The younger Hitchcock published this dictionary of the Hawaiian language while principal of Lahainaluna School, in an effort to teach Hawaiians the English language. Prior to its publication, he served in (truncated)
Harvey Rexford Hitchcock, Jr. (1835-91) was the son of a Massachusetts missionary who arrived in Hawaii during the summer of 1832. The younger Hitchcock published this dictionary of the Hawaiian language while principal of Lahainaluna School, in an effort to teach Hawaiians the English language. Prior to its publication, he served in (truncated)