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• Hawaiian Legislature. Session of 1886 (caption title - title-page or wrapper title not present). 292 pp. preceded by [7] index pp. With original mounted albumen photograph of members of the legislature seated and standing, with printed key affixed to verso identifying the members (the photo is loose and lower edge is trimmed, but a ragged stub, where it was bound into the work, is present). [Honolulu: c.1886]. Bound in before this work are two satyrical paphlets on the reign of Kalakaua:
• [Atkinson, Alatau Tamchiboulac]. [The Gynberg Ballads]. 23 pp. With 13 color-printed illustrations. (Wrappers with title & imprint not present). Forbes 3867. [San Francisco: Schmidt Lithograph Co., 1887].
• [Purvis, Edward W.]. The Grand Duke of Gynbergdrinkenstein. A Burlesque in Three Acts. Respectfully Dedicated to the Public of the Duchy. 22 pp. Printed wrappers present. Forbes 3851. Honolu, H.I.: 1886.

Together, 3 items bound together. 22.5x15 cm. (9x6"), later half leather & cloth, spine lettered in gilt.

Assemblage of rare Hawaiiana, including two satirical pamphlets described in great length by David Forbes in his Hawaiian National Bibliography, and the official record of what as until that time the longest legislative session in Hawaiian history. This copy formerly belonged to Allen M. Nowell, a Hawaiian sugar factor who settled in Hawaii in 1898, with his bookplate, and his ownership signature on the front cover and the front pastedown. Additionally, it is inscribed to him by Wm. W. Goodale, Nov. 19, 1927, with a two-page letter from Goodale to Nowell bound in: "I am sending you the copy of the report of the 1886 term of the legislature as an addition to your collection of Hawaiiana. The folly of the king, his advisers and the members of the legislature made up to a great extent of tax assessors and collectors, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs and personal friends of the king did much to bring about the trouble in 1887 and later, finally culminating in the overthrow of the monarchy..." He goes on to describe the two pamphlets and the true identities of their various characters. Goodale was an active figure in the development of Hawaii’s sugar industry, in which he was continuously engaged for 46 years, 40 of which were spent as a plantation manager, retiring in 1924. OCLC/WorldCat lists no records for the Hawaiian Legislature Session of 1886.