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Ekelof’s Ett ar I Stilla hafvet - Volume with 12 Lithographs including Hawaiian Kings & Queen (Sandwich Islands) - This book is Adolf Ekelof’s Ett ar I Stilla hafvet. Remanned Fran Patagonian, Chili, Peru, Californian, British Columbia och Oceanien. or A Year in the Pacific, Travel Memories from Patagonia, Chile, Peru, California, British Columbia, and Oceania . It was published in Stockholm in 1872 by the Stockholm Lithographic Art Institution and printed by K. L. Beckman in the same year. It is bound by a contemporary cloth back board with a new spine. This volume includes 12 lithographed plates with 17 images of people and places both in the New World and Oceania, including Kings Kamehameha IV & V, and Queen Emma of Hawaii. Adolf Ekelof (1839-1903) was a Swedish naval officer and painter who produced several paintings in oil and watercolor based upon his travels in the Pacific Ocean. Paper Size: ~ 8 3/8” by 10 1/2” Paper Type or Special Features: Volume with 12 Lithographs including Hawaiian Kings & Queen (Sandwich Islands)