Item #19139 The Tourists' Guide Through the Hawaiian Islands, Descriptive of Their Scenes and Scenery. HAWAII, Henry M. Whitney.
The Tourists' Guide Through the Hawaiian Islands, Descriptive of Their Scenes and Scenery
The Tourists' Guide Through the Hawaiian Islands, Descriptive of Their Scenes and Scenery
The Tourists' Guide Through the Hawaiian Islands, Descriptive of Their Scenes and Scenery
The Tourists' Guide Through the Hawaiian Islands, Descriptive of Their Scenes and Scenery

The Tourists' Guide Through the Hawaiian Islands, Descriptive of Their Scenes and Scenery

Honolulu: Hawaiian Gazette Company, 1890.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 16 (ads), xii, 1-40, 21-24 (ads), 41-176, 25-40 (ads), with four folding maps (Oahu; Hawaii; Maui, Molokai and Lanai; Kauai) and 18 illustrations from photographs and engravings. Complete but for the original wrappers, which were replaced c. 1920 with plain brown wrappers. Chip to head of spine, previous owner's name, repair to verso of one map; good to very good overall. Whitney (1824-1904) was the first postmaster of Hawaii as well as an early journalist, publisher, and promoter or the islands. His Hawaiian Guide Book for Travellers (1875) was the first formal guide book for Hawaii. This Tourists' Guide is a longer and more elaborate work, with more maps and illustrations. It offers demographic and other statistical information and details about climate (and related health benefits), commerce, flora and fauna, volcanoes, major buildings and institutions, steamer travel, the railroad under construction by the Oahu Railway and Land Company, accommodations, sights and attractions, and suggested tour routes. Approximately 65 different advertisers offer lodging, groceries, dry goods, wine and spirits, horses, clothing, hardware, books, rifles, and most anything else a traveler might need.

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