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QUEEN LILI'UOKALANI'S KUMULIPO [HAWAIIAN CHANT]. An Account of the Creation of the World According to Hawaiian Tradition. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1897.
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QUEEN LILI'UOKALANI'S KUMULIPO [HAWAIIAN CHANT].
An Account of the Creation of the World According to Hawaiian Tradition. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1897.
8vo (198 x 135 mm). 86 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Contemporary green quarter morocco over marbled boards. Title and frontispiece reattached, repairs to title, toned and some infrequent spots, binding shelfworn.
Provenance: University of California, Berkeley (bookplate, stamps to copyright page, introduction and to spine).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES. A translation of the famous lineage chant Kumulipo, made by Liliuokalani during her imprisonment following the Wilcox Rebellion of 1895, which was after the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893. Liliuokalani used the manuscripts in her family's possession as the source material. The original text was composed for Lonoikamakahiki and read shortly after his birth, around 1700. After the ceremony his name was changed to Ka-I-i-mamao. She notes that the chant was also read to Cook, who was seen as the fulfillment of a prophesy that Ka-I-i-mamao would return from the sea in a large ship: "to the great navigator they accordingly gave a welcome with the name of Lono" (introduction). Interestingly, the Lee and Shepard publishing house was run by her late husband's cousins William Lee and Sara White Lee. This is one of only 100 copies, none of which were intended for sale. 80 copies were bound in paper and 20 in cloth. Only two copies appear in the auction records, one of which is this copy. The other copy was an inscribed copy that lacked title-page. Both sold in these rooms. Forbes 4835.
8vo (198 x 135 mm). 86 pp. Portrait frontispiece. Contemporary green quarter morocco over marbled boards. Title and frontispiece reattached, repairs to title, toned and some infrequent spots, binding shelfworn.
Provenance: University of California, Berkeley (bookplate, stamps to copyright page, introduction and to spine).
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES. A translation of the famous lineage chant Kumulipo, made by Liliuokalani during her imprisonment following the Wilcox Rebellion of 1895, which was after the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893. Liliuokalani used the manuscripts in her family's possession as the source material. The original text was composed for Lonoikamakahiki and read shortly after his birth, around 1700. After the ceremony his name was changed to Ka-I-i-mamao. She notes that the chant was also read to Cook, who was seen as the fulfillment of a prophesy that Ka-I-i-mamao would return from the sea in a large ship: "to the great navigator they accordingly gave a welcome with the name of Lono" (introduction). Interestingly, the Lee and Shepard publishing house was run by her late husband's cousins William Lee and Sara White Lee. This is one of only 100 copies, none of which were intended for sale. 80 copies were bound in paper and 20 in cloth. Only two copies appear in the auction records, one of which is this copy. The other copy was an inscribed copy that lacked title-page. Both sold in these rooms. Forbes 4835.