Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(HAWAII.) Ekelöf, Adolf. Ett år i Stilla Hafvet. Resiminnen från Patagonien, Chili, Peru, Californien, Britiska Columbia och Oceanien. 12 tinted plates. 4to, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, rejointed; inked stamps and bookseller's tag on front pastedown. Stockholm, 1872
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Account of Pacific travels in 1866 and 1867 by a Swedish officer with the British navy. Includes substantial accounts of South America, San Francisco, Vancouver, and especially Hawaii, as well as the music to an "Hawaiisk Folkhymn." The fine series of lithographs, done in part after contemporary photographs, includes views of Vancouver Island, Hawaii, and Tahiti, and portraits of Hawaiian and Tahitian islanders. Forbes 2936; Palau 78872.