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
de KEATE, George
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London: For Captain Wilson and sold by G. Nicl, 1789. Third Edition. Good. Quarto : pp. [v] xxvii [xxviii] [1] 378 : frontis, Capt. Henry Wilson : 15 engraved plates, including 1 folding : large fold-out map : 12 page section of The Vocabulary of the Pelew Language : tissue guards to plates : original leather boards with contemporary rebacking : red spine label with gilt : 5 raised spine bands : 14 double gilt bands to spine : rust red cloth full slip case with black spine label : armorial bookplate.
Rebacked; corners bumped and abraded but reinforced; foxing to title and frontis; tidemark to foot of first few gatherings at the gutter; some offsetting from bookplate; occasional foxing throughout, especially to margins of some plates. George Keate (1729-1797) was an English author and poet who travelled extensively, was friends with Voltaire and was known for his enjoyment in talking about his own work. His account of the Pelew Islands was based on the experiences of Henry Wilson (1740-1810), an English naval captain of the British East India Company. Wilson was in command of the British East India Company packet ship Antelope, when it shipwrecked off Ulong Island, near Koror Island in Palau in 1783, and the East Indiaman Warley at the Battle of Pulo Aura. Keate's rendering of the tale was extremely popular in it's day and saw translations into German and French.
Rebacked; corners bumped and abraded but reinforced; foxing to title and frontis; tidemark to foot of first few gatherings at the gutter; some offsetting from bookplate; occasional foxing throughout, especially to margins of some plates. George Keate (1729-1797) was an English author and poet who travelled extensively, was friends with Voltaire and was known for his enjoyment in talking about his own work. His account of the Pelew Islands was based on the experiences of Henry Wilson (1740-1810), an English naval captain of the British East India Company. Wilson was in command of the British East India Company packet ship Antelope, when it shipwrecked off Ulong Island, near Koror Island in Palau in 1783, and the East Indiaman Warley at the Battle of Pulo Aura. Keate's rendering of the tale was extremely popular in it's day and saw translations into German and French.
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- 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
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- KEATE, George
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- Usado - Bien
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- 1
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- Third Edition
- Editorial
- For Captain Wilson and sold by G. Nicl
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1789
- Palabras clave
- Palau; "Noble savage
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