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History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands : embracing their antiquities, mythology, legends, discovery by Europeans in the sixteenth century, re-discovery by Cook, with their civil, religious, and political history

Title
History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands : embracing their antiquities, mythology, legends, discovery by Europeans in the sixteenth century, re-discovery by Cook, with their civil, religious, and political history / by James Jackson Jarves.
Author
Jarves, James Jackson, 1818-1888.
Publication
Boston : Tappan and Dennet, 1843.

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Additional Authors
Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books NjP
Description
407 p. : illus., 4 pl. (incl. front.) 2 port., fold. map; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Hawaii > History
  • Hawaii
Genre/Form
History.
Note
  • Added t.-p., engraved.
  • Added t.p. portrait of "A Hawaiian Chief" illustrated by J. Webber, and engraved on copper or steel by J. Andrews. Folded map of the "Hawaiian Islands" is by the author, and lithographed by E.W. Bouvé. There are also several small woodcuts within the text, for the most part unsigned.
Provenance (note)
  • Inscribed "B.J. Rotch, presented by Mr. Lawrence, April 22nd, 1843."--In pencil, on fourth fly-leaf, recto.
  • Shipping label and newspaper clipping, laid in. Now located in GC181.
Binding (note)
  • Blind stamped, publisher's, brown cloth binding; gold stamped title on spine.
LCCN
05013508
OCLC
  • ocm10163451
  • 10163451
  • SCSB-211832
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library