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United States, War Department
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Description
The Hawaiian Islands. Report on the Physical Features, Ports of Landing, Supplies, Climate, Diseases, etc. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893.
4to, 6 folding maps, blue printed wrappers; Kenyon College withdrawl stamp on upper cover, covers and backstrip mended with cello tape, a few small tears.
[With:] Dutton, Capt. C[larence]. E[dward]. The Hawaiian Islands and People. A Lecture delivered at the U.S. National Museum ... February 9, 1884. Washington: Judd & Detweiler, 1884.
8vo, printed wrappers; backstrip mended with cloth tape, worm-holes in upper cover and first few leaves, ms. exlibris on title, some soiling.
4to, 6 folding maps, blue printed wrappers; Kenyon College withdrawl stamp on upper cover, covers and backstrip mended with cello tape, a few small tears.
[With:] Dutton, Capt. C[larence]. E[dward]. The Hawaiian Islands and People. A Lecture delivered at the U.S. National Museum ... February 9, 1884. Washington: Judd & Detweiler, 1884.
8vo, printed wrappers; backstrip mended with cloth tape, worm-holes in upper cover and first few leaves, ms. exlibris on title, some soiling.
Literature
Forbes 4:4527 & 4:3585
Catalogue Note
An extensive survey of the physical situation of the Islands prepared for the War Department in the year of the revolution. — Clarence Dutton, better known for his monograph on Hawaiian volcanoes, discusses the abolition of the ancient kapu system (a caste system with corresponding laws) by King Kamehameha in 1819.