Beschreibung:

A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising Three Voyages round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands Author: Delano, Amasa Place: Boston Publisher: Printed by E.G. House, for the Author Date: 1817 Description: 598, [1] pp. plus two engraved plates including frontispiece portrait, and engraved folding map. (8vo) 21.4x12.5 cm (8½x5”), period tree calf with border tooled in gilt, gilt decorated spine. One of the major printed accounts of world voyages for its time, and the source book for Melville's Benito Cerino. Delano recounts his travels between 1790 and 1810, encompassing visits to the Palau, Hawaiian, and Galapagos islands; Manila, Canton, and Macao; New Guinea, Australia, and the East Indies; and Chile and Peru. Includes detailed accounts of whaling and seal hunting, observations of the inhabitants indigenous to Delano's stopping points, etc. Lot Amendments Condition: General wear to boards, a bit of fraying at spine head, joints starting; front hinge cracked, plates removed from pastedowns with some residue, scattered light foxing; about very good. Item number: 325040