An Account Of The Pelew Islands Situated In The Western Part Of The Pacific Ocean Composed From The

by George Keate

$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Dublin: Luke White, 1793. Second Dublin edition, 8vo, pp. xxix, 1 , 378; frontispiece portrait, 14 engraved plates 1 folding , 2 maps 1 folding ; contemporary full calf, red morocco label on gilt-paneled spine; spine scuffed, extremities rubbed; a good, sound copy. Hill, Pacific Voyages, p. 160, citing the first edition of 1788: In 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored

• Binding: Leather

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