Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea, and the great Loo-Choo Island;

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with an appendix, containing charts, and various hydrographical and scientific notices. By Captain Basil Hall, and a vocabulary of the Loo-Choo language, by H. J. Clifford, Esq., Lieutenant Royal Navy . London : John Murray, 1818. Quarto (290 x 230 mm), papered boards (worn and marked), spine with printed title label; pp. xv (including the half-title, often lacking), [1], 222, cxxx ( Appendix ), [72] ( Loo-Choo Language ), [2] (ads.), [1] (blank); with [9] aquatints (8 coloured), 1 engraved plate, and [5] engraved maps (2 folding); clean and crisp throughout. Account of a voyage to Korea and the Ryukyu (or Nansei) Islands, southwest of Kyushu, by the British ships Lyra and Alceste , written by the captain of the Lyra , Basil Hall. ( Loo-Choo Island refers to the island of Okinawa). The Appendix contains Charts of the Gulf of Pe-Che-Lee, the West Coast of Corea, the Great Loo-Choo Island, Napakiang roads and Port Melville (ii-xxx); Table of observations made with Dr. Wollaston s dip sector (xxxi-l); Meteorological journal from July to November 1816, while the ships were in the Yellow and Japan Seas (li-cvii); Abstract of the Lyra s voyage from leaving England till her return, shewing the distance between the different places at which she touched ([cix]-cviii); and Geological memorandum being a description of the specimens of rocks collected at Macao and the Ladrone Islands ([cxix]-cxxx). The final section, Vocabulary of the language spoken at the Great Loo-Choo Island, in the

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