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Manual Of the Flowering Plants Of Hawai'I Two Volumes
by Derral R Herbst, S H Sohmer Warren L Wagner
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The Friend, Vol. V, No. 12 (June 15, 1847)
by Damon, Samuel Chenery; Sereno Edwards Bishop
Honolulu, Oah, H.I.: S.C. Damon, 1847. Quarto. 8p. A fine copy. Addresses the horrible conditions of the seaman. Besides severe beatings often leading to death, there are those who are demean them. Since the publication also wanted to promote temperance, the evangelical emphasis dealt with that also. It notes the levels of debaucery without details but besides the open sexuality throughout the ports of Polynesia, there is the hinted at but unmentioned problems of young men as victims of buggery....
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NZ$212.78
Leo Hoonani
by Richards, Theodore; Ella H. Paris; Joseph Kalaina
Honolulu(1902 But Reprinted 1945): Ka Papa Hawaii. Oblong 12 Mo. 285p. Hawaiian Language. Reprinted in 1945 as the congregation of the Kawaiaa'o Church was now filled with servicemen who loved the old hymns which here were often sung in Hawaiian and English. It was at one time the national church of the Hawaiian Kingdom and this was its hymnal based on the selections of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association, includes the section He Buke No Ka Paepae ana i Ka Huhan O Ke Anaina Hoomana--page [233]-285....
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NZ$314.91
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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NZ$340.44
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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NZ$30.55
An account of the Sandwich Islands: The Hawaiian Journal of John B. Whitman, 1813-1815
by John B. Whitman, edited by John Dominis Holt
Honolulu, HI, Salem: Topgallant Publishing, Peabody Museum of Salem, 1979. 1st edition. Hardcover. Barbara Pope. in almost like new condition, dj with very faint shelf wear. Ships from Hawaii.
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NZ$83.41
Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey
by Powell, John Wesley; Clarence e Dutton; Joseph Story Curtis; Albert Williams; Charles Ablathar White Angelo Hellprin, John Adams Ryder, Israel C Russell
Washington, DC: G.P.O., 1884. First Edition. Quarto. [8], vii-xxxii, 473 pages, 85 plates (7 double, 5 folded) illustrations (some in color), maps. The largest part is devoted to Hawaiian volcanoes on pages 80-219. Besides maps of all the major islands, it deals with the major eruptions and its effect on the population. There is also a report on the mining geology of the Eureka District of Nevada; A large section on fossils of oysters and the life-history of the oyster, finally, there is geological...
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NZ$297.88
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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NZ$80.85
Flora Hawaiiensis: The New Illustrated Flora of the Hawaiian Islands, Books 1-6 - Rare Complete Set
by DEGENER, Otto
Honolulu, HI: Privately Printed by the Author, 1957. 1st ed. loose leaf in hardcover, with removable screws in binding. very good/no dj as issued. Privately Printed by the Author 1932-1962, 6 volumes in very good condition, with occasional shellf wear or signs of age.. Vol with a signed dedication. Former owners name stamped on inside of covers. Comes additionally with a book review of 1935 from the Honolulu Advertiser and an article about Dr,. Hillebrand written by Degener from a Hawaii Magazine Ships...
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NZ$553.22
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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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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NZ$11,064.30
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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NZ$29.79
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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NZ$306.40
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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NZ$4,255.50
The Japanese in Hawaii under war conditions (1943)
by Andrew Lind
Honolulu, HI: Hawaii Group, American Group, 1943. Hawaii Group, American Group, Institute of Pacific Relations, Honolulu, 1943. vi, 41p., staple bound in wrappers.
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NZ$127.66
Polynesian Researches During a residence of nearly eight years in the Society and Sandwich Islands. Volume III.
by Ellis, William
New York.: J.&J. Harper., 1833. Modern brown cloth, gilt spine title.. Very good, light dampstaining and rippling to pages.. 12mo., 20.4x11.8 cm.. Volume 3 only, (of 4). weight: 0.9 lb.
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NZ$76.60
Ready Aye Ready: A Century of North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club 1906-2006
Sidney: North Bondi Life Saving Club, 2007. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good large format softcover, very good, only slight shelf wear to edges of cover No marks, no ex-library. Ships from Hawaii.
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NZ$84.26
YANKEES IN PARADISE
by Bradford Smith
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1956. first edition as stated. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 7 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOd ; covers clean, sunned at edges, minimal wear. Binding tight. PO's stamp on front ebdpapers, text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; clean, edges have wear, chips to spine ends. Hist. Stax.
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NZ$34.04
History of Later years of the Hawaiian Monarchy and the revolution of 1893
by Alexander, W. D. (William De Witt)
[Honolulu]: [Hawaiian Gazette Company], 1896. Hardcover. Front hinge a bit shaken; modest damping and resulting disoloration to front board (please refer to photos); personal book plate to front paste-down and handsome ownership signature dated 1916 front free endpaper. Overall about very good(-) to good (++). Oblong quarto in red cloth with ornamental gilt titling; [10], 239 pages frontispiece, sepia plates, portraits 16 x 25 cm. Profusely illus with b&w photo reproductions. Hawaii -- History....
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NZ$689.39
Yankees In Paradise: The New England Impact on Hawaii
by Smith, Bradford
Lippincott, 1956. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. Second printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$28.94
The Saga of the Sandwich Islands - Hawaiian History
by E. B. Scott
Crystal Bay, Lake Tahoe: Sierra-Tahoe Publishing Co, 1968. Ist edition. Hardcover. very good/good+. The Saga of the Sandwich Islands Vol 1, a Complete Documentation of Honolulu's and Oahu's Development Over One Hundred and Seventy Five Years. Profusely illustrated.. (a vol. 2 about the other islands was never published) 1968, 933 pages, 11.5 x 9 x 2 inches, 7lb 10oz, With folding map of Oahu in the back. Very good condition, dust jacket Very Good (which is rare with this very heavy book) with...
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NZ$187.24
Three early studies on Hawaiian feather work: 'Hawaiian Feather Work', plus both supplements
by William T. Brigham
Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum Press, 1918. all 1st. editions. in wrappers. very good. 3 volumes published by Bishop Museum Press in Honolulu 1899 (main work) and two supplements in 1903 and 1918. Illustrated with plates from black and white photographs. Each in original printed paper wrappers. Includes: -- Hawaiian Feather Work. 1899. With color frontispiece.81, ii p., [15] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) -- Additional Notes on Hawaiian Feather Work. 1903. Vol. I - No. 5. With index to Volume 1. ;...
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NZ$1,446.87
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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NZ$26.54
Hawaii's Offshore Hunters
by by Friends and editors of Hawaii Fishing News
Honolulu, HI: Hawaii Fishing News, 2001. 1st edition. softcover. very good. Hawaii Fishing News , 2001, oblong format (8.5 x 0.25 x 11 inches). very good conditin. only slight shelfwear to the cover's edges, pages very clean. Ships from Hawaii. ===. An Unequaled Course in Blue Water Catching! Get on board with some of Hawaii's top meat hunters as they explain how they rig for the ocean's top predators. Billfish - Ahi - Aku - Mahimahi - Ono Learn how they read and follow the birds to put more fish in...
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NZ$75.75
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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NZ$68.09
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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NZ$851.10
