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Section I: Americana: Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Ephemera, Lots 1-342Section II: Travel & Exploration, Lots 343-411Section I: Americana1. Adams, Ansel and Edward Joesting. The Islands of Hawaii - condensed edition. [16] pp. includingwrappers. 28x35.5 cm. (11x14”), wrappers.Hawaii: Bishop National Bank of Hawaii, 1959“Since we have had many more requests for the book than we have been able to supply wedecided to publish this condensation.” -introduction. Some light wear to wrappers, a small tearat spine; dust soiling inside and out; very good.(100/150)SELECTION OF BLACK AMERICANA2. (African-American) Cobb, W. Montague. The First Negro Medical Society: A History of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia, 1884-1939. x, 159 pp. (8vo) original green cloth. FirstEdition.Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers, 1939Written by a Professor of Anatomy at Howard University, and published by the first African-American publishing company in the US, brainchild of the “father” of Black history, CarterWoodson. Light wear and soiling to cloth; very good.(200/300)3. (African American) Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore. The Dunbar Speaker and EntertainerContaining the Best Prose and Poetic Selections by and About the Negro Race. 288 pp. Portrait frontispieceand several other plates from photographs. (8vo) cloth. First Edition.Naperville, Ill: J.L. Nichols & Co., [1920]First printing of an early literary anthology of Black writers and poets, published at the dawnof the Harlem Renaissance and edited by the widow of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, an authorin her own right, as well as an active suffragette and political reformer. Selections from Dunbarhimself, as well as William Stanley Braithwaite, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Chestnutt,W.E.B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Charlotte Grimke, T. ThomasFortune – and Alexander Pushkin, the great Russian romantic poet, who was descended from anEthiopian prince held captive in Turkey. Light wear and soiling to cloth, short split to rear jointat head; very good.(150/250)Each lot is illustrated in color in the online version of the catalogue.Go to www.pbagalleries.comPage 1