KEATE George. RELATION OF THE PELEW ISLANDS, situated... Lot 40

KEATE George. RELATION OF THE PELEW ISLANDS, situated in the western part of the Pacific Ocean ; composed on the journals and communications of Captain Henry Wilson and some of his officers, who, in August 1783, were shipwrecked there on the Antelope, a steamer of the East India Company. Indies. Translated from the English, by George Keate. PARIS, MARADAN, 1793. Two volumes, in8, of (1) f., portrait, title, large folding map, 280 pp. - (2) ff. 272 pp. in full contemporary bindings in granite calf. Spines decorated with gilded fillets, gilded titles and bronze morocco endpapers. maroquin, edges speckled. Slight rubbing but a fine copy. Second edition of the French translation, attributed to Mirabeau, of one of the most popular travel accounts of the Pacific in the 18th century. main source of information on the Pelew Islands. Portrait of Captain Wilson engraved by Massarde after frontispiece, a large fold-out map of the Pelew Islands and adjacent islands engraved by P. F. Tardieu and 15 plates hors text: ornaments, portraits, plan of the English landing place at Oroolong, vocabulary of the Pelew language (p. 251 to 267), etc.