[Rarebooks] FS: Popular narrative of a shipwreck in the "Pelew" Islands. London: 1788

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(TRAVEL) Keate, George. 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. London: Printed for G. Nicol. 1788. First edition. Lg. 4to. xxviii,378,(2)pp. Illustrated with 14 copper engraved plates including a frontispiece portrait, 3 other portraits, a folding view of the Pelew Islands, a chart and a folding map (with a short closed tear neatly repaired on verso). Cont. calf, outer hinges expertly repaired, red calf spine label.	$1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
The "Antelope," a packet under the command of Capt. Henry Wilson, was wrecked on one of the Pelew (i.e. Palau) Islands. The entire crew survived, was well treated by the natives, built a new boat from the wreckage, and sailed it to Macao. This book went through numerous later printings and became one of the most popular of all shipwreck narratives.


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