Honolulu: Published by the Board, 1922. 674pp., plus [26]pp. of manuscript notes laid in. Original tan buckram, gilt leather labels. Light shelf wear, labels starting to chip. One introductory page torn in lower margin and gutter (with no loss of text), with tape repairs. Light scattered foxing. Contemporary ownership inscription.....
Lahainaluna: Press of the High School, 1836. iv,132pp. printed in double columns. Modern three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Closed tear in upper inner corner of titlepage (not affecting text, and no paper loss), shallow chip in foredge of titlepage and following nine leaves. Moderate foxing, faint stain.....
London. 1823. iv,[2],xxvii,[5],285,[2],297,[3]pp. plus folding map and twenty-five lithographic plates. Quarto. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt and blind, spine elaborately gilt, a.e.g. Expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Minor shelf wear, modern bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing on map and plates, with some offsetting to facing pages, but.....
Vienna: Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1869. [8],202,[2]pp. plus seven woodcut plates and folding color map. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards, paper library label. Slightly rubbed. Old institutional stamps on titlepage. Internally quite clean. Very good. Departing San Francisco in 1866, Bechtinger travelled to Hawaii and remained there for one.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1843. Two volumes. xxii [i.e. xxxviii],[2],387,16 [advertisements dated February 1843] pp. plus eight plates (including frontispiece); vi,[2],474pp. plus eleven plates (including frontispiece). Three folding maps in front pocket of first volume. Original blue embossed cloth, spines gilt. Spines sunned, minor edge wear, corners bumped. Bookplate on front.....
[Washington, D.C. ca. 1898-1916]. Fifty-two leaves, each containing an autograph and a pen-and-ink portrait. Oblong small octavo. Original limp calf, gilt stamping on front cover, a.e.g. Wear to extremities, front board starting to separate from pastedown, rear board with vertical crease and cracked pastedown. A few spots of light soiling.....
London: John Murray, 1875. viii,[4],473,[2]pp., including two in-text illustrations, errata leaf, and two pages of printer's advertisements, plus frontispiece, two folding maps, and seven engraved plates. Half title. Original gilt pictorial green cloth. Light shelf wear, hinges cracked but strong. Scattered foxing. Very good. "One of the classic (and most.....
[San Francisco]: Printed by Wm. C. Brown, 1889. [6],54,[11]pp. including one chromolithographic advertisement, plus three colored folding maps and four photographic plates of ships. Original brown cloth, gilt title on front board within gilt border. Minor wear and soiling, corners lightly bumped and worn, front hinge a bit weak. Small.....
Leipzig. 1874. Two volumes. Original publisher's cloth, spines gilt. Front hinges a bit loose, corners bumped, light wear to cloth. Contemporary bookseller's labels and photographic bookplate on pastedowns, contemporary gilt inscription on front free endpaper of volume one. Some tanning, heavier at edges. About very good. A collection of works.....
London. 1852. x,388,[2]pp. plus advertisements. Frontispiece portrait. Large octavo. Modern half morocco. Library stamps on titlepage and frontis. Good. The author crossed by the Platte route in 1850, making much of the journey in the winter under harrowing circumstances. He later wrote another book with the rather rock 'n' roll.....
London. [ca. 1784]. Engraving. Folio. Matted, suitable for framing, with the mat cut to near the plate mark. Very good. An individual plate from the atlas to Cook's THIRD VOYAGE.
London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan for G. Nichol and T. Cadell, 1784. Three quarto text volumes plus large folio atlas. Text: Twenty-four engraved maps, coastal profiles, and charts (thirteen folding); folding letterpress table. Atlas: Sixty-three engraved plates, charts, and maps (including one folding map and one double- page.....
Dublin. 1784. Three volumes. [8],xcviii,421; [14],549; [11],559pp., plus frontispiece portrait, eighteen folding maps and charts, seven folding plates, and folding table. Contemporary calf, spines gilt, leather labels. Extremities lightly worn, slight wear to spine ends and hinges, first volume expertly rebacked, with original spine laid down. Minor occasional foxing. A......
Philadelphia: W. Woodward, for B. Johnson, 1796. 252pp. 12mo. Modern pink paper boards, printed paper label. Light dampstaining and soiling to text, heavier in some places. Good plus. "Faithfully abridged from the quarto edition." An abridged children's version of Captain James Cook's third and final voyage, on which he was.....
London. 1773. [with:] Cook, James: A VOYAGE TOWARDS THE SOUTH POLE, AND ROUND THE WORLD...IN THE YEARS 1772, 1773, 1774, AND 1775.... London. 1784. [with:] Cook, James: A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN.... London. 1784-85. [with:] Kippis, Andrew: THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK. London. 1788. Ten volumes all together.....
London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1831. Two volumes. [iii]-xxiv,368; [iii]-viii,400pp. Lacks half titles. 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, spine richly gilt with raised bands and black and burgundy morocco labels. Small ink stamp at bottom of both titlepages. Light shelf wear. Occasional foxing and tanning. Very good. First.....
London. 1832. Two volumes. xx,333; vi,350pp. Modern three-quarter brown calf and cloth, spines gilt. Top corner of first few leaves lightly stained. Internally clean and fresh. Very good. The second London edition, preceded by the first London edition of 1831 and the first American edition of 1832, with a slightly.....
San Francisco. 1909. 108pp. plus twenty-two plates in portfolio sleeve. Quarto. Original three-quarter red morocco and cloth, spine gilt, leather label on front board, white silk doublures, a.e.g. Fine. A catalogue of Hawaiian stamps and the typeset numerals used thereon from the mid- 19th century, and a history of a......
Honolulu. 1856. [4],96pp. Quarto. Original printed wrappers, gatherings laid in. Lacking first gathering (January 1856). Wrapper soiled and chipping at edges. Significant worm damage, affecting wrapper and some text. Another copy of issues 1-4 are laid in, supplementing the missing text. Light toning and foxing. Untrimmed and uncut. Fair. A.....
New Haven: Printed for J. Hunnewell, 1868. 48,[1]pp. Frontis. Original salmon-colored printed wrappers. Bright and clean internally. Fine. The first American edition, the pamphlet originally having been published in Honolulu in 1866. Appendix A reprints a letter from Hawaiian missionary James Kekela to President Lincoln. "According to the Hunnewell bibliography.....
New York. 1840. 483pp. 12mo. 20th-century three-quarter calf and marbled boards, rebacked with contemporary calf, backstrip and label laid down. Quite clean internally. A very good copy. The second issue of the first edition, without the dot over the "i" on the copyright page, and with the broken type heading.....
Ann Arbor: Chase's Steam Printing House, 1869. 331pp. plus advertisements. Original cloth. Bit frayed at extremities, rear board slightly bowed. Some light scattered foxing, minor marginal dampstain to a few early leaves. Good. An interesting travel account, particularly in view of the imprint. The author was the assistant librarian at.....
Boston: Printed by E.G. House, for the Author, 1817. 598,[1]pp. plus two engraved plates including frontispiece portrait, and engraved folding map. Contemporary calf, rebacked in modern calf in matching style, spine gilt. Boards scuffed and worn, especially at extremities. Light foxing throughout, faint dampstain in lower gutter throughout the text.....
Lahainaluna: Press of the Mission Seminary, 1843. viii,464pp. plus folding engraved map. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, spine gilt, leather label. Scattered foxing and staining. Contemporary presentation inscription on front free endpaper (see below). Very good. The first edition of the "first full-scale history [of Hawaii] printed in the Islands...one of the.....
Lahainaluna: Press of the Mission Seminary, 1844. xi,[1],132pp. 12mo. Original half green sheep and floral- patterned cloth, spine gilt. Cloth scraped, worn at spine ends. Lacking front free endpaper. Scattered foxing, some leaves tanned. Very good. Partially unopened. A scarce religious tract emphasizing the moral imperatives for evangelistic missionary work.....
