A Descriptive Account Of The Islands Lately Discovered In The South Seas From The First Discovery

by John Trusler

$7,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Original blue boards, tan paper spine, contemporary manuscript titling on front board, housed within a card slipcase A rare and important privately printed compilation of early South Seas voyages, put together by John Trusler, who drew primarily on Cook's explorations, with a long account of Tahiti and the different Society Islands Streeter . The first introduction of many readers to the English advances in exploring the Pacific. John Trusler is described in

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