KEATE, George (1729-1797). 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: G. Nicol, 1788.
KEATE, George (1729-1797). 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: G. Nicol, 1788. 4 o (288 x 220 mm). Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, 14 plates (including 3 further stipple-engraved portraits) and 2 engraved maps and charts (one folding). (2 plates slightly cropped at fore edge.) Contemporary tree calf, flat spine elaborately gilt with finely detailed maritime and angling tools, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance : William Constable (armorial bookplate) 1721-91, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. FIRST EDITION. "In 1783, the Antelope , commanded by Captain Henry Wilson ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was wrecked. 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 good impression" (Hill). Books from Constable's library appear invariably to have survived in fine condition. Cox II:302; Hill 907.
KEATE, George (1729-1797). 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: G. Nicol, 1788.
KEATE, George (1729-1797). 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: G. Nicol, 1788. 4 o (288 x 220 mm). Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, 14 plates (including 3 further stipple-engraved portraits) and 2 engraved maps and charts (one folding). (2 plates slightly cropped at fore edge.) Contemporary tree calf, flat spine elaborately gilt with finely detailed maritime and angling tools, red morocco lettering piece in the second compartment (light rubbing to extremities). Provenance : William Constable (armorial bookplate) 1721-91, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. FIRST EDITION. "In 1783, the Antelope , commanded by Captain Henry Wilson ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was wrecked. 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 good impression" (Hill). Books from Constable's library appear invariably to have survived in fine condition. Cox II:302; Hill 907.
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