Historical Prints

Views of Hawaii

Prints from Thomas Bankes' A Modern, Authentic and Complete System of Universal Geography. London: C. Cooke, ca. 1790. Approximately 4 1/2 x 6 1/2. Engravings.

Wonderful engravings from the Rev. Thomas Bankes' Geography, issued near the end of the eighteenth century. Bankes was the Vicar at Dixton, Monmouthshire, and he compiled his geography of all parts of the world, including "a Genuine History and Description of the Whole World." Also included in this work were images and reports from James Cook's three voyages, so that Bankes' volume provided as complete and up-to-date a report on the known world as was available at the time.

"Man of the Sandwich Islands Dancing." (11 1/4 x 7 1/4) $225
"The Outside of a Morai or Burial Place in Atooi." [Island of Kauai] $125

Herrick. "Village of Kaawaloa, on Kealakekua Bay, where Captain Cook was killed." From The New World. New York: G. & F. Bill, 1857. 4 x 6 1/2. Wood engraving. Original hand color. Some light stains in margins. Very good condition.

A nice view of Kealakekua Bay from Henry Howard Brownell's New World. This work was claimed to contain "numerous beautiful illustrations, drawn and coloured after nature," and this is a nice example showing Hawaii in the middle of the nineteenth century. The scene is signed by Herrick, who drew other images from Brownell's work, and it has enough accuracy that it was probably based on a first-hand drawing. $125

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