Lot 343

Pacific.- [Keate (George)] An Account of the Pelew Islands...Composed from the Journals of Capt. Henry Wilson and his Officers, Stanford (State of New-York), Printed by Daniel Lawrence, for John Tiebout, 1802.

 

Hammer Price: £220

Description

Pacific.- [Keate (George)] An Account of the Pelew Islands...Composed from the Journals of Capt. Henry Wilson and his Officers, front free endpaper with short tear and paper repair, some foxing and mostly marginal staining, original leather-backed boards, worn at corners, rubbed and soiled, preserved in a red cloth drop-back box, 12mo, Stanford (State of New-York), Printed by Daniel Lawrence, for John Tiebout, 1802.

⁂ A classic memoir of shipwreck in the South Pacific, with the unusual American imprint of Stanford, a Quaker community in Dutchess County, upstate New York. We can trace no copy with this imprint at auction.

Description

Pacific.- [Keate (George)] An Account of the Pelew Islands...Composed from the Journals of Capt. Henry Wilson and his Officers, front free endpaper with short tear and paper repair, some foxing and mostly marginal staining, original leather-backed boards, worn at corners, rubbed and soiled, preserved in a red cloth drop-back box, 12mo, Stanford (State of New-York), Printed by Daniel Lawrence, for John Tiebout, 1802.

⁂ A classic memoir of shipwreck in the South Pacific, with the unusual American imprint of Stanford, a Quaker community in Dutchess County, upstate New York. We can trace no copy with this imprint at auction.

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