1803 ACCOUNT OF PELEW ISLANDS ANTIQUE ILLUSTRATED Palau ENGLISH by George Keate

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


by Keate, George

London, Printed for Captain Wilson and sold by G. Nicol; 1803

[4], xxvii, [1], 244, [8], 72 pp.

With stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of Wilson;

folding chart;

19 (of 20) engraved plates.

(4to) 29x23.5 cm (11½x9¼"),

period mottled sheep, red leather lettering piece,
marbled endpapers.

Lacks plate "Views of the Land".

Fifth Edition

The fifth edition is the first to include the Supplement by J.P. Hockin.

Although the Pelew Islands had been sighted by the Spaniards, the shipwreck of the East India Company's packet near one of the islands brought about the first exploration of the group by Europeans.
The crew eventually managed to build a small vessel from the wreckage, in this they reached Macao, taking with them Prince Lee Boo, one of King Abba Thulle's sons, who made a good impression in London but soon died of smallpox.
(Cox II, pp.302-303; Hill 907).




With bookplate at the front pastedown

Some wear of binding, minor foxing, very good interior


Text in English
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