Photographs of Hawaii, 1870-1883

A$2,400 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Eleven albumen print photographs mounted recto and verso of [7] pages removed from a nineteenth century travel album, all in format 175 x 235 mm, contemporary captions in French and English in ink beneath each image, the prints attached to the leaves with the original double-sided adhesive tape at each corner, occasional foxing and mild wrinkling, but the most important image, titled Danseurs d Hawaï (Ioane Ukeke with his troupe of hula dancers, attributed to J.J. Williams) is a strong print in fine condition; [together with] a twelfth photograph (mounted verso of a view of the Port of Honolulu), a view of the township of Russell, on the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, by Burton Bros. The captions are as follows: 1. Honolulu vu du port. Vue sur le Pali. 2. Honolulu vu du Pali. 3. Steam ship Alameda at wharf [ Alameda was built in 1883] 4. Centre d Honolulu [taken in autumn, 1870, by H.L. Chase] 5. Royal mausoleum 6. Palace guard 7. . from the Pali 8. Cratère Halemaʻumaʻu 9. Hawaiian Hotel 10. Danseurs d Hawaï (Ioane Ukeke and his hula troupe) 11. [Hawaiian royal family] 12. Russell [Bay of Islands, New Zealand] From Flagstaff Hill. (Burton Bros., Dunedin)

• Binding: Hardcover

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