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,
Author:
KEATE, GEORGE
Title:
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,
Subtitle:
A Packet Belonging to the Honourable East India Company
Publisher:
Printed for Captain Wilson & sold by G Nicol1789
Description:
Re-bound, all plates & maps present, quality archival tape repair to minor closed tears to folding map, quarto, quarter-bound, heavy card boards & leather title panel cut into brown leather spine, frontispiece, folding map, xvii + 378pp, illus + folding maps, VG+ (4cm piece of sellotape to rear board, owner's ex libris label to front pastedown, year 1788 in crayon to title page, mild foxing & mild tanning)
Keywords:
George Keate Pelew Islands Pacific The Antelope Captain Henry Wilson nautical history diaries journals exploration shipwreck anthropology culture