Home
Shopping cart (0 items € 0)
Go Back

One of 50 copies in half morocco

FORBES, David.
Hawaiian national bibliography 1780-1900.
Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press; Sydney, Hordern House, 1999-2003. 4 volumes. 4to. Original publisher's red half morocco, gold-tooled spines.
€ 2,500
The standard reference work on Hawaii, number 22 of 50 copies of an issue specially bound for Hordern House and signed by the author. "The Hawaiian National Bibliography is intended to be a comprehensive, annotated record of all printed works on some aspect of the political, religious, social, cultural, and scientific history of the Hawaiian Islands from 1780 to 1900. That is, from the first printed notice mentioning the Islands in a German periodical of January 10, 1780, tot the beginning of the twentieth century" (preface).
In fine condition.
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Related Subjects:

Australia, new zealand & pacific  >  Australia & New Zealand | Pacific Islands
Book history, education, learning & printing  >  Bibliography & Biography