The Chinese Merchants Of Honolulu Request The Pleasure Of Your Company At A Ball To Be Given By Them

by Chun Afong The Chinese Merchants Of Honolulu

$12,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Honolulu, HI: Committee of Invitation, 1856. 5.8 x7.25. Single sheet with scalloped edges and decorative embossed borders, with text printed in gold and blue. Near Fine with minor soiling, light toning and old folds. One of the earliest printed works commissioned by Chinese immigrants in what is now the United States. While the first Chinese explorers reached Hawaii in the late 18th century, Chinese immigration to any part

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