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HAWAI'I--AUTOGRAPH ALBUM 48 entries, many with inscriptions and eight with accompanying photographic portraits, chiefly by royalty and local dignitaries, including: King Kalakaua and Queen Kapionlani, Princess Liliʻuokalani, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop (with photographic portrait and inscription) and her husband Charles R. Bishop, Queen Emma (signed "Kaleleonalani"), Princess Likelike (with photographic portrait and inscription), Alatau T. Atkinson (with photographic portrait and inscription), Charles C. Harris (with inscription), Alfred Wallis Bishop of Honolulu, John Mott-Smith (with inscription), Henry A. P. Carter, George M. Robinson, Francis March Hatch, and 12 members of the crew of HMS Opal, 32 pages, plus blanks, oblong 8vo, brown cloth blocked in gilt and black lettered "The Photo-Autograph Album", chiefly 1878-79 (with a pair of entries in England dated April 1880) A "WHO'S WHO" OF HAWAIIAN HIGH SOCIETY IN THE LATE 1870S, including Kalakaua - the last elected King of Hawai'i, his sister and eventual successor Princess Lili'uokalani, and dowager Queen Emma (who had stood against Kalakaua in the 1874 election for the throne). This was a period of increasing US influence on the islands, and the album includes several influential Americans who had settled in Hawai'i. These include Charles Reed Bishop, a businessman who had married into the royal family and set up the first chartered bank in the kingdom; and Henry A.P. Carter, who combined business interests as an exporter of sugar cane with a diplomatic career, most notably in negotiating a free trade treaty with the USA. This album was compiled by a visitor to the island, probably (from the tone of the inscriptions) a young English woman. PROVENANCE: "W.J. Beynon. September 1951", later ownership inscriptionCondition reportHinges splitting, at least four leaves loose The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The