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Rare and modern books

Jarves

HISTORY OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS: Embracing Their Antiquities, Mythology, Legends, Discovery By Europeans in the Sixteenth Century, Re-Discovery By Cook, with Their Civil, Religious and Political History, From the Earliest Traditional Period to the Present Day

Charles Edwin Hitchcock, 1847

4250.00 €

Buddenbrooks Inc.

(Newburyport, United States of America)

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Year of publication
1847
Place of printing
Honolulu
Author
Jarves
Publishers
Charles Edwin Hitchcock
Edition
FIRST EDITION OF THE VERY SCARCE FIRST HAWAIIAN EDITION OF ONE
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

The scarce first edition printed in Hawaii, the first Honolulu edition and third edition overall. Much rarer then the earlier Boston and London editions. Text double column, with woodcut illustrations within, one of which is full-page. 8vo, contemporary marbled boards backed in brown leather, gilt ruled on the spine. 240 pp. A bright, clean and handsome copy, the text uncommonly fresh with only a few very occasion spots, two gatherings a bit toned but the rest surprisingly bright, the binding solid with only very light rubbing, a small piece neatly excised from the blank front free-fly.