REPORT OF THE CASE OF PETER ALLEN BRINSMADE, of the firm of Ladd & Co., versus James Jackson Jarves, editor of the Polynesian, for alledged Libelous Publications,
decided upon grounds of law by Hon, Lorrin Andrews, Judge in Foreign Cases. Pp. 104; demy 8vo; twentieth century maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards a trifle marked, edges slightly rubbed, the spine lightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Charles E. Hitchcock, Printer, Honolulu, Oahu, H. I., 1846. First edition. *James Jackson Jarves (1818--1888) was an American art critic who is remembered as the first American art collector to buy Italian primitives and Old Masters. In the mid-1840s he edited The Polynesian, an early weekly newspaper in the Hawaiian Islands. After the newspaper published a report on the shaky financial situation of Ladd & Company, Peter Allen Brinsmade (1804-1859), one of the company's founders, sued Jarves for libel for printing the story. (In the 21830s, Ladd & Co. had obtained the first major land lease in Hawaiian history and started the first major Hawaiian sugar plantation). Lorrin Andrews (1795-1868) was an American missionary to Hawaii, who was appointed 'judge of foreign cases' due to the scarcity of legally trained practitioners. Item #181104
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