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Jarves's History of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands - Volume with 3 Engravings (Plate + Map + Frontispiece) & Numerous in-text Illustrations - This important volume with map and numerous illustrations is James Jackson Jarves's 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, From the Earliest Traditionary Period to the Present Time . This is the second edition of the work published in Boston by James Munroe and Company in 1844. The volume is bound in original blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. It includes engraved frontispiece, plate, and folding map with numerous in-text illustrations. Forbes notes that the work is ”an early and important non-missionary produced history of the Islands.” (Forbes 1411) Provenance: Inscribed by the author's wife on the front blank leaf Paper Size: ~ 5 7/8” by 9” Paper Type or Special Features: Volume with 3 Engravings (Plate + Map + Frontispiece) & Numerous in-text Illustrations