410 [AMERICANA] - SPRING (Gardiner). Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel J. Mills, late missionary to the south western section of the United States, and agent of the American colonization society, deputed to explore the coast of Africa. New York, J. Seymour, 1820, in-8, [2] ff. n. ch., pp. 9-247, modest marbled fawn basane, smooth spine rebound in modern period, title page preserved (period binding). Very rare first edition. The collation is in accordance with Sabin's notice. A native of Connecticut, Presbyterian missionary Samuel John Mills (1783-1818) was one of the first organizers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the first American missionary society, founded in 1810. Corners bumped, spine rubbed, abundant foxing.