598, [1]pp. plus two engraved plates including frontispiece portrait, and engraved folding map. (8vo)21.4x12.5 cm (8½x5”), full brown leather. 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.
598, [1]pp. plus two engraved plates including frontispiece portrait, and engraved folding map. (8vo)21.4x12.5 cm (8½x5”), full brown leather. 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.
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