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![Hilo Hattie [seven Silver photographs, Circa 1940s] / James Arthur Stewart (photographer)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/931/901/39901931.0.b.jpg)
Hilo Hattie [seven Silver photographs, Circa 1940s] / James Arthur Stewart (photographer)
by Stewart, James Arthur [photographer]
Los Angeles, 1940. Soft cover. Near Fine. 10" x 8. Los Angeles: James Arthur Stewart Studios [circa 1940's], Sixteen Sixteen Crown Hill, Los Angeles 26, California. 5 different photos, with two additional of one of them. Typed caption strips attached to the versos by Stewart; Stewart's studio emblem stamped on the versos. Near fine condition. Seven nice shots of the famed Hawaiian schoolteacher-turned-entertainer, Hilo Hattie (the one the clothing and accessories line is named after)....
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SGD 241.43
Kaonohi, Hawaii Etching
by John Melville Kelly
Etching of a Hawaiian woman. Nice virgin image, never framed. Hinges to top edge. Full margined 9 3/4 x 8 inches image; 14 x 10 1/4 inches overall.
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SGD 9,657.20
THE 'UKULELE: A Portuguese Gift to Hawaii - Like New
by Felix, John Henry, Leslie Nunes, and Peter F. Senecal
Honolulu, HI: Published by the authors, 1980. Softcover. like new/no dj as issued. Published by the authors, 1980. First Edition. 3 pages, numerous photos and a few schematics. Trade paperback. The first book on the history of the 'ukulele, In like new condition, rare. limited edition. Despite its iconic status in Hawaiian music, the 'ukulele was never the subject of a book until the 1979 centennial of the arrival of the Madeiran machete (the immediate ancestor of the 'ukulele) in Hawai'i prompted the...
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SGD 172.45
National Geographic Map & Supplement, 'Rediscovering Hawaii'. From the September, 1995 Issue
by National Geographic Society
Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1995. Soft cover. As New. Double Elephant - over 25 - 50" tall. As New; see scans and descriptionWashington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1995. Sixteen-fold Map and supplement, 'Rediscovering Hawaii'. From the September, 1995 issue of National Geographic magazine, in which it was loose-laid as a supplement, per the frequent policy of the NGS at the time. Approx 31 5/8 " x 20". As New; bright, crisp, never opened since new until...
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SGD 26.21
![[Reflections on Fifty Years in Hawaii] Gojunenkan no Hawai kaiko](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/841/610/1442610841.0.b.jpg)
[Reflections on Fifty Years in Hawaii] Gojunenkan no Hawai kaiko
by Soga, Yatsutaro (Keiho)
Honolulu: Gojunenkan no Hawai Kaiko Kankokai, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Autobiography of an Issei journalist affiliated with the Nippu Jiji of Honolulu. Covers the years 1896 to 1953, it includes major socio-political events during the time period and the author's wartime internment."-A Buried Past II, 1756. "Historical essays on the Japanese community over the preceding fifty years, by the president-editor of the Nippu Jiji (later Hawaii Times), a community leader. Contents follow...
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SGD 2,069.40
A Narrative Of Missionary Enterprises In The South Sea Islands; With Remarks Upon The Natural History Of The Islands, Origin, Languages, Traditions, And Usages Of The Inhabitants
by WILLIAMS, John
London: Published for the author by J. Snow, 1837. 1st edition. Hardcover. Published for the author by J. Snow 1837. First Edition. Hill 1874. Illustrated with 25 engravings on wood by G. Baxter,and a colored frontispiece and a folding map . Binding in quarter leather over marbled board, with gilded title on the spine. Pages clean and without markings. Some old worm holes in the spine and gutter. Ships from Hawaii.
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SGD 412.50
Kimo, Hawaii Etching
by John Melville Kelly
Etching of an Hawaiian man. Nice virgin image, never framed. Remnants of hinges to top edge. Image 8 x 10 inches; overall paper 11 1/4 x 14 1/2 inches .
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SGD 3,449.00
I GO TO THE BLACKBOARD. Ke Hele Nei Au i ka Papaeleele
by Comstock, Jane
Honolulu: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1929. First edition. Bound in rare antique Hawaiian tapa cloth. Near fine.. 7 1/2'' x 5 1/2''. 32pp. Illustrated. Bound in tapa cloth.
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SGD 275.92
Chart of the Sandwich Isles : Sketch of Karakakooa Bay
by [Cook / Hogg / Anderson]
London: Alexander Hogg at the Kings Arms, No. 16, Paternoster Row, 1790. Attractive map of the Hawaiian Islands with Cook's tracks charged, as well as an inset map of Karakakooa Bay marked, "Here Capt. Cook was killed". Copper engraving, 13 3/4 x 9" with small margins. T. Conder Sculpt. "Accurately Engraved for Anderson's Large Folio Edition of the Whole of Capt. Cook's Voyages & Complete". Small corner replaced lower left barely affecting the plate mark, a tiny nick in the upper margin outside of the...
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SGD 620.82
Hawaii: Isles of Enchantment
by Gessler, Clifford
New York: D. Appleton-Century Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Textured yellow cloth stamped in blue. First edition evidenced by (1) to bottom of last page of index. Minor wear to spine ends/points, endpages toned. Sound and square. Color frontis. ; Sketches by Suydam; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xvii/382 pages .
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SGD 137.95
Voyage of the United States Frigate Potomac, under the Command of Commodore John Downes, during the Circumnavigation of the Globe, in the years 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834..
by Reynolds, J. N
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835. First edition. This account was written as a defense for an attack on the Malays by the "Potomac" on the island of Sumatra (now Indonesia) in February 1832. Reynolds described the journey aboard the Potomac from Valparaiso, to Rio de Janeiro, the Falkland Islands, Canton, Macao, Hawaii, Tahiti, the Galapagos, Lima and Capetown among others. Not in Spence but should be; Sabin 70434; Hill 252; Borba da Moraes II pp. 202-3. Tall 8vo, 560pp, 30pp ads undated. Folding...
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SGD 620.82
The Adventures of Jack; or a Life on the Wave
by Newhall, Chas. L
Southbridge, MA: Printed by the Author, 1859. First edition. An autobiographical account of the author's early life on whaling vessels, shipping out of Fairhaven, Massachusetts as a cabin boy on the whale ship Leonidas, the captain Cape Codman. The narrative was prized by Franklin Roosevelt- his personal copy was inscribed "Franklin D. Roosevelt/ Hyde Park/ 1927. Very rare [underlined]." The New Bedford Whaling Museum cites this as a "short, easy, engaging memoir". He was also aboard the Copia and the...
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SGD 344.90
Keo's Thai Cuisine
by Keo Sananikone
Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, May 1999. Hardcover. Revised Edition / first printing, full number line. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Inscribed by Author. Spine straight and tight, ends lightly bumped. Light foxing to top edge. Jacket clean and bright. Edges rubbed. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 192 pages.
This is the book that ushered in the revolution in Thai cooking in kitchens across America. Featuring the classic recipes that earned Keo an international following, along... Read more about this item
This is the book that ushered in the revolution in Thai cooking in kitchens across America. Featuring the classic recipes that earned Keo an international following, along... Read more about this item
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SGD 24.76
Fishing
by Cruickshank, Robert. R.C
London, 1796. Very good overall. Copper engraved print with (contemporary) hand-color publ. by Allen & West, 15, Paternoster Row, Aug. 13, 1796. The print depicts a group of men fishing at a pond, with a large building in the background. The illustration within an oval border, 7 x 5", on paper 10 x 8 1/4". A few small marks at lower margin, otherwise very good.
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SGD 103.47
Account of Observations of the Transit of Venus, 1874, December 8, Made Under the Authority of the British Government: And of the Reduction of the Observations
by Airy, George Biddell
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. viii, 512, 21 pages. 8 by 10-1/2 inches. Includes reports of the British expeditions of the Hawaiian (Sandwich) Islands (pp. 1 to 256); Egypt (pp. 257 to 346); Rodriguez Island (now Rodrigues; pp. 347 to 400); Kerguelen Island (Desolation Islands; pp. 401 to 480); and New Zealand (pp. 481 to 512). Illustrated with a few plates, but mostly filled with tables of data. Rbound in modern buckram. Some chipping and wear to...
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SGD 248.33
Shoal of Time : A History of the Hawaiian Islands
by Daws, Gavan
University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1986 Frist Printing 1974. " Gavan Daws ' remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity, Based on years of work in the documentary sources, " Shoal Of Time" emerges as the most readable of all Hawaiian histories." In unread condition.. Soft cover. Neuf.
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SGD 21.44
Hawaiian Yesterdays: Historical Photographs by Ray Jerome Baker
by Baker, Ray Jerome; Van Dyke, Robert E. (Edited by), and Ronck, Ronn (Text by)
Honolulu: Mutual Publishing Company, 1982. Cloth, xii, 243 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 34 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tips lightly bumped. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.
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SGD 24.14
Hawaii Goes Fishing. Techniques of Yesterday and Today
by MaKellar, Jean Scott
New York: Graphic Books, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/good +. 8vo., lite blue cloth, 160pp., illustrated. -- Contents: Net Fishing, Line Fishing, Hooks - Baits - Lures, Big Game Fishing, Fresh Water Fishing, Spear Fishing, Torch Fishing, Fish Ponds, Unusual Techniques of Old Hawaii, Octopus - Eel - Crab and Lobster, The Hawaiian Shark, etc. -- Signed inscription by the author on the first free endpaper.
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SGD 55.18
Na Mana'o Aloha O Kaho'olawe: Hawai'i Warriors-Love for Land and Culture
by Walter Ritte Jr. and Richard Sawyer
Honolulu, HI: Awaiaulu, Inc, 2023. Reprint of 1975 ed. Softcover. NEW/No dj as issued. NEW. Awaiaulu, Inc., Honolulu, 2023 (reprint, first published in 1975). oblong format, 144 pages, 54 illustrations, 3 maps. This republication of Nā Manaʻo Aloha o Kahoʻolawe, the diaries of Walter Ritte Jr. and Richard Sawyer, preserves and perpetuates a piece of Hawai'i history for future generations. Written in 1977, the diaries are a day-to-day record of their thoughts and reflections when the two men occupied...
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SGD 67.60
HAWAII
by GRAVES, WILLIAM
Ed. Nauta, 1977. hardcover. Bueno. Ed. Nauta. Barcelona 1977. National Geographic. Cartone. 26x18. 204 pp. Ilustrado.
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SGD 26.51
Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian islands. Forty-four plates painted in water-colours and described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr. First edition.
by Sinclair, Isabella. "Mrs. Francis Sinclair Jr
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington (1885). Small folio. 27 x 37 cm. Original gilt embossed green cloth, aeg. Spine repaired with new black endpapers. Fine. Original ownership inscription of Annie B. Gallagher, purchased in Honolulu in 1892 for $11.00. Subsequently given to a convent in Oakland, CA in 1916. Forbes states that this work was an early example of a perfect binding and as such copies tend to be found loose in their bindings with damage to the plates and leaves, which...
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SGD 8,967.40
Kelleys of the Outrigger (limited Edition, No 59 of 1000 copies)
by McDermott, John W
Honolulu, Hawaii; (1990): ORAFA Publishing Company. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 1000 copies. The present copy is number 59. xiii, 243 pages, index, illustrations. Biography of Roy Kelley (1905- ) who went to Hawaii from California in 1929 and built the Outrigger hotel chain, which has become a multi-million dollar business in Hawaii. Includes information on the Kelley family. Bound in tan cloth stamped with an illustration of an outrigger in gilt, spine lettering and all edges gilt, a fine copy...
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SGD 103.47
Fishing Hawaii Style Vol.2
by Jim Rizzuto
Daniel James Pub, 1987. Good. Good Softcover First edition 1987, some wear to edges and corners of cover Lower right corner of front cover has a small fold No Ex-library, no underlining Pages very clean Ships from HawaiiThe second in the series offers many more illustrated tips on Hawaii's popular marine fishes and where and how to catch them from shore, blue water trolling and deep sea bottom fishing plus crabbing, shrimping, and trapping lobsters .
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SGD 65.53
The Northern Hemisphere / The Southern Hemisphere, with Cook's 2nd & 3rd Voyages tracked
by Kincaid, Alexander
Edinburgh, 1799. Two attractive double hemisphere world maps showing the track of the Resolution, James Cook's ship during his 2nd voyage from 1772 to 1780. The Resolution was the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle. Likely from a Scottish edition of Cook's Voyages, the map illustrates the discoveries of Cook's 1st voyage, and the discoveries and tracks of the 2nd and 3rd voyages. Copper engravings, the hemispheres 9 7/8" in diameter on laid paper 11 x 12". Margin added, as usual, along one side...
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SGD 620.82
Plan charta tilhorande underrattelsen om Captn Cook sista uptackter
A map showing the third Cook voyage(1776-1780). Paper : 23.7 x 25.7; plate 16 x 20.5 cm. Scale 1:60m. Degrees: N80 S00; E130 - E250. Minor stain to lower right (see image). Scarce.
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SGD 689.80
