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DAMON, SAMUEL C. The friend: a semi-monthly journal devoted to temperance, marine and general intelligence. Published and edited by Samuel C. Damon, Seaman's chaplin. Vol. V.
Honolulu, Charles E. Hitchcock, printer, 1847. 4to, pp. [2], 192; title within a woodcut border, sixth-page street plan of Honolulu (the first printed street map of Honolulu, reprinted from the October, 1845 issue), a number tables and small woodcuts throughout; contemporary and likely original calf-backed marbled boards, spine a little rubbed and scuffed else very good and sound. The Friend "commenced publishing in January 1843 under the title the Temperance Advocate. By April it called itself the Temperance Advocate and Seaman's Friend … beginning with the January 1845 issue, its masthead read simply The Friend, the name under which it was published throughout the rest of the nineteenth century … The expressed intent of the proprietor was to produce a "temperance paper" for the benefit of seamen, and the subjects found in its pages (particularly during the first decade) reflected Damon's work in this vein among sailors and crews of whale ships, to whom the paper was often distributed gratis … Extensive coverage was given to the whaling industry. Shipping lists were produced. "Marine Intelligence" columns gave detailed reportage on whale ships throughout the Pacific … An invaluable "Register" of all foreigners resident in Honolulu is found in the January 15, 1847 issue" (Forbes). Also in this year there are early reviews of Melville's Typee and J. Ross Browne's Etchings of Whaling Cruise; a rather scathing riposte of Wilkes' account of his stay at Hilo, as well as those of an ascent of Haleakala, shipwrecks, overdue ships, letters to the editor, obituaries, local poetry, numerous classified ads, and other events in the Pacific on Tahiti, Pitcairn, and elsewhere. In the penultimate issue is an account of a Capt. Jackson, ship Inez, on Japan. Forbes 1388.
Offered for US$ 2500.00 by: Rulon-Miller Books ABAA/ILAB - Book number: 27942