Asia.- Keate (George) An Account of the Pelew Islands...composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson .. , first edition, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved map, 15 engraved plates (some stipple-engraved) including folding panorama, some with tissue guards, errata leaf at end, a few plates with traces of where tissue guards previously tipped to corners, panorama very slightly soiled and frayed at edges, very occasional spotting but an excellent clean copy, bookplate of Hon. F. Ponsonby, contemporary speckled calf, rubbed and slightly stained, rebacked preserving old gilt spine with red roan label, [Hill 907], 4to, 1788. ⁂ "In 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson was wrecked on a reef near one of the Palau (Pelew) Islands, a previously unexplored group. The entire crew managed to get safely ashore, where they were well treated by the natives 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." Hill
Asia.- Keate (George) An Account of the Pelew Islands...composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson .. , first edition, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved map, 15 engraved plates (some stipple-engraved) including folding panorama, some with tissue guards, errata leaf at end, a few plates with traces of where tissue guards previously tipped to corners, panorama very slightly soiled and frayed at edges, very occasional spotting but an excellent clean copy, bookplate of Hon. F. Ponsonby, contemporary speckled calf, rubbed and slightly stained, rebacked preserving old gilt spine with red roan label, [Hill 907], 4to, 1788. ⁂ "In 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson was wrecked on a reef near one of the Palau (Pelew) Islands, a previously unexplored group. The entire crew managed to get safely ashore, where they were well treated by the natives 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." Hill
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