[Rarebooks] FS: Delano's Voyages 1817

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Delano, Amasa. A NARRATIVE OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS IN THE NORTHERN AND 
SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES: COMPRISING THREE VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD; 
TOGETHER WITH A VOYAGE OF SURVEY AND DISCOVERY IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN 
AND ORIENTAL ISLES. Boston: Printed by E. G. House for the author, 
1817. 598 pp. + errata[1]. Illus. with 3 engraved plates: 
frontispiece portrait of Delano, portrait of Abba Thulle, and folding 
map of Pitcairn's Island. 8vo. Modern cloth over contemporary sheep, 
morocco spine label. Sabin 19349. Shaw & Shoemaker 40635. Howes D233 
(aa). Eberstadt 109-041. Hill I p. 83. Judd 51. Ferguson 673. Du 
Rietz 285. First edition. Includes: Biographical sketch written by a 
friend (pp. 577-593).

Amasa Delano (1763-1817), born in Duxbury, Mass., made several 
voyages to all parts of the world, including the Palau, Hawaiian, 
Galapagos, and Pitcairn Islands; Manila, Canton, and Macao; New 
Guinea, Australia, and the East Indies, and Chile and Peru. His long 
account of the mutiny on the Bounty and the mutineers' colony on 
Pitcairn Island was the first to reach America; and his account of 
his actions in the Negro mutiny and seizure of the Spanish ship 
Tryal, commanded by Don Benito Cereno, off the west coast of South 
America, became the primary source of Melville's story 'Benito 
Cereno.'

Rebacked in brown cloth with contemporary spine label, original sheep 
boards, rubbed and worn, with loss at the corners, new endpapers, 
title page expertly restored (at the edges), leaves with scattered 
foxing and light staining, 1/4 inch closed tear to the upper margin 
of map not affecting borders, otherwise crisp, half a dozen pages 
with pencil marginalia, about a dozen phrases or words in brackets or 
underlined lightly in ink, overall a nice copy.   [28413] $800.00

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