Honolulu. Two folio albums, 16½" x 14½" and 14½" x 12¼", about 200 pp. total, containing ephemera, news clippings, and photographs. Ululani Franklin Lemon - "Uncle Nani" - was born in Honolulu in 1881 to a naturalized Canadian father and a Hawaiian mother. He lived his entire life in Honolulu..... More
[Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Co., 1896.]. First edition, oblong 8vo, pp. [8], 238; tinted lithographic advertisement plate for Wilder's Steamship Co., composite frontispiece, 40 plates (1 double-p. panorama, a number of the others composite), several vignette portraits in the text; original red cloth stamped in black and gilt on upper cover..... More
Honolulu: Henry M. Whitney, 1865. First edition thus, being a second and much expanded version of Andrews' earlier A Vocabulary of Words in the Hawaiian Language, Lahaina, 1836 which is the first dictionary printed in the Pacific; 8vo, pp. xvi, 559; text in double column; full contemporary sheep, worn, and..... More
Portland: Holly Press, n.d., [ca. 1920-25]. Very large advertising broadside (poster) in three sections, each approximately 28" x 42" and approximately 84" x 42" overall, printed in black on tan paper; previous folds, but essentially fine and handsome. The type face, along with the fact that the Kilauea was erupting..... More
New York: Taylor & Dodd, 1839. First edition, 12mo, pp. 268; orig. brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine; spine ends a little cracked and bare spots neatly inpainted; modest foxing; old library label removed from spine; old manuscript ex-libris on blank flyleaf reading "No. 159 David Whitcombs Apprentice Library, Templeton, 1848; a...... More
Honolulu: Hawaiian Service, n.d., [ca. 1960s]. 8vo, pp. 117; original printed tan wrappers; contains a 30-page Hawaiian dictionary and 83 lessons in the language. Very good. More
New York [et al]: American Book Co., [1900]. 12mo, pp. [5]-208; double-p. frontispiece map in color, a number of illustrations in the text throughout, mostly from photographs; near fine in original decorative green cloth. Fictional account of a trip to the islands, for advanced students. Issued in the publisher's Eclectic..... More
Palmer, MA: May 1, 1817. First edition, second issue (with the Palmer imprint), 12mo, pp. xii, 13-144; contemporary full sheep, rubbed and worn, but sound; corner torn from the first page of text with loss to 3 letters (sense remains clear), pp. 95-96 torn (but with no loss). Hill 1315..... More
[San Francisco]: John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, [1970]. 4to, pp. 158; The Earth's Wild Places --A Friends of the Earth series; pictorial endpapers, 61 color plates, black & white pictorial illustrations within the text, jacket lightly soiled, otherwise a fine copy in original red cloth with gilt lettering on..... More
[San Francisco: Friends of the Earth Foundation, n.d. [ca. 1970]. Folio, pp. [1], 158, [2]; illustrated throughout from photographs, very good in original red cloth, dust-jacket. Part of The Earth's wild places, a Friends of the Earth series. More
