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 TRADITIONARY PERIOD TO THE YEAR 1846

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242pp. printed in two columns and including in-text illustrations, plus 18pp. of printed advertisements. Photographic frontis. Half title. Original half calf and pebbled cloth, spine gilt. Boards slightly rubbed and stained, spine leather cracked. Light scattered foxing and edge wear. Very good. "The fourth, revised, edition of Jarves' HISTORY, first published in 1843 in Boston.and London.This is the second edition to be printed and published in Honolulu and is interesting for its early use of an albumen photograph of Kamehameha V added as a frontispiece. All copies have the frontispiece leaf with a rule border and title printed below.but not all copies have the actual photograph added" - Forbes. In addition to the new frontispiece, this revised edition of Jarves' seminal work adds an appendix, written by the publisher Henry M. Whitney, which presents details and statistics of the Hawaiian Islands at the time of publication, along with a "Historical Sketch of Hawaiian Volcanoes" and several pages of tables presenting the results of the 1866 census. Though completely reorganized to be printed in two columns, many of the illustrations from the first edition have been maintained in the new layout. In the rear of the volume are eighteen pages of printed advertisements for Hawaiian businesses, including one for the book and stationery shop of Thomas Thrum, who eventually bought the remainder of this edition and reissued it in the 1880s without the frontispiece photograph or printed ads. FORBES 2957. N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM57601A

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