Keate, George

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 USD

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Description

An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the western part of the Pacific Ocean. London: G. Nicol, 1788
paper, ink, leather

4to (288 x 236 mm). Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, 14 plates and 2 engraved folding maps and charts; title and map spotted, some light offsetting. Elaborately tooled calf to style.

Literature

Hill 907

Catalogue Note

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" (Hill).