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Leicester University Press. Used - Very Good. 2001. Hardcover. Cloth, no dj. Slight shelf-wear. Very Good. (Subject: Exploration).

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1789. KEATE, George. AN ACCOUNT OF THE PELEW ISLANDS, SITUATED IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN. COMPOSED FROM THE JOURNALS AND COMMUNICATIONS OF CAPTAIN HENRY WILSON, AND SOME OF HIS OFFICERS, WHO, IN AUGUST 1783, WERE THERE SHIPWRECKED, IN THE ANTELOPE, A PACKET BELONGING TO THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY. London: Printed for Captain Wilson, 1789. 4th edition. a-b8, A-2C8, 2D4. XXX, [2], 408 pp. 8vo., calf with gilt spine and gilt red morocco spine label. Text complete, includes two portraits but lacks map opposite introduction. Frontsipiece has shallow faint dampstain to fore-edge, not affecting image. C3 has short closed tear at fore-edge in margin; Y3 has small puncture at top fore-corner (page number removed). Pp. 220-227 have some light soiling near the bottom of the page. Occasional light foxing. Other than as noted, a very good copy.

London: Printed for Captain Wilson; and sold by G. Nicol,, 1789. First octavo edition, the fourth overall, of one of the most popular shipwreck narratives of all times. With this edition the publisher aimed to make Keate's Account available to those who could not afford the previous quarto versions: the text was reproduced verbatim, and the famous portrait of Prince Lee Boo, sketched by Keate's daughter, was re-engraved. In 1783, the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, was wrecked on a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a group previously unexplored by Western forces. The entire crew managed to get safely ashore, where they were well treated by the island's inhabitants and eventually managed to build a small vessel from the wreck, in which they reached Macao. "They took Prince Lee Boo, one of King Abba Thulle's sons, with them to England, where he made a very good impression. Unhappily, in spite of all precautions, he soon died of smallpox" (ODNB). The present account "was extremely popular… Leer más