Oceania.- Keate (George) An Account of the Pelew Islands, third edition, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved map, 15 engraved plates (some stipple-engraved) including folding panorama, tissue-guards (some torn or lacking), armorial bookplate of Pauncefort Duncombe, map with short repaired tear at inner-edge without loss, occasional soiling and light offsetting, foxing, mainly to plates, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving much of original spine label, corners worn, covers rubbed, [cf. Hill 907], 4to, Printed for Captain Wilson, 1789.
⁂ "In 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, was wrecked on a reef near one of the Palau (Pelew) Islands, a previously unexplored group. The entire crew managed to get safely ashore, where they were well treated by the natives and eventually managed to build a small vessel from the wreck, in which they reached Macao. They took Prince Lee Boo, one of King Abba Thulle's sons, with them to England, where he made a very good impression. Unhappily, in spite of all precautions, he soon died of smallpox" (Hill).
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