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Verlag: Leipzig : Brockhaus, 1977., 1977
Anbieter: Antiquariat Axel Straßer, Irsee, Deutschland
1. Auflage. 1.-13. Tsd. 253 S., 1 Bl., 31 Abb. (nach zeitgenössischen Vorlagen) auf Taf., 6 mehrf. gefalt. farb. Abb. (Zchngn), Kt.Skz. (auf Innenseite d. Originalumschlages). Ill.OLnOU; dieser angerändert, papierbedingt minimal randgebräunt, sonst in sehr gutem Zustand. Neuausgabe der erstmals Hamburg 1789 erschienenen Reisebeschreibung `Nachrichten von den Pelew-Inseln in der Westgegend des stillen Oceans`. Kapitän Henry Wilson (1740-1810) kommandierte die »Antelope«, ein Schiff der Englisch-Ostindischen Kompanie, die 1783 auf der Fahrt von Macau in die Südsee vor den Palau-Inseln östlich der Philippinen auf ein Riff lief. Die Mannschaft konnte sich an Land retten, wo sie von den Bewohnern freundlich aufgenommen wurden. Mehrere Monate hielten sie sich auf den bis dahin wenig bekannten Inseln auf. Mit einem aus Wrackteilen gebauten Boot konnten sie schließlich Macau erreichen und von dort nach England zurückkehren. Mit den Engländern reiste Li-Bu (engl. Lee-Boo), ein Sohn des Inselherrschers, nach England. Er starb dort jedoch bald an den Pocken. Den Reisebericht stellte der Schriftsteller George Keate (1729-1797) nach Wilsons Journalen und nach Erzählungen der Schiffsoffiziere zusammen (Henze).
Verlag: Printed by Daniel Lawrence for John Tiebout, 1802
Anbieter: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich
the paper a little toned throughout with brown patches encroaching onto top corner and leading edge occasionally, a handful of leaves dog-eared, pp. 131, iv (Contents), 12mo, contemporary quarter sheep with buff boards, a little worn with some light marks, pencilled ownership inscription of 'Mary L Lacy' to flyleaf, paper repair to fore-margin of same, in a red cloth dropback box, good. The Antelope was a packet ship of the East India Company, wrecked on its maiden voyage on rocks near the Pelew Islands in Oceania, in August 1783. Once ashore, the crew used the timbers of the wreck to build a schooner, Oroolong, with the assistance of the Islanders; after three months they embarked home, leaving behind one of the crew, Madan Blanchard, and taking with them Prince Lee Boo. Keate's account, first published in 1788, was tremendously popular and ran to numerous editions both domestically, around Europe, and in the US - the present edition, originating in the Quaker community in Stanford, Dutchess County, in upstate New York, is preceded there by editions printed in Philadelphia and Brookfield, MA.
Verlag: Gale Ecco, Print Editions, 2010
ISBN 10: 1170828256ISBN 13: 9781170828250
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
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Verlag: G. Nicol for Captain Wilson, London, 1789
Anbieter: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, Australien
Boards. Captain Henry Wilson (illustrator). 4th Edition. 1st octavo edition (4th ed), full leather boards (original leather laid over new leather to spine: spine includes device of the Order of the Garter). Large folding map (in very good condition), b&w frontis portrait and another portrait plate, pp xxx, I, 408, scattered foxing at prelims and end-pages, cloth tape to inner hinges. Complete. Nineteenth-century bookplate (Charles Chatfield) and later owner's bookplate (Western Australian anthropologist D'Arcy Ryan), previous owner's signature, very good condition. Captain Henry Wilson commanded the East India ship the Antelope, which was shipwrecked near Ulong Island, Palu, in 1783. The book describes the sailors' experiences and the inhabitants of the islands. Includes vocabulary and chart of the islands and surrounding seas. First octavo edition, uncommon with map.
Verlag: G. Nicol, 1788
Anbieter: Bruce Marshall Rare Books, Cheltenham, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, with engraved portrait frontispiece, 16 engraved plates, charts and maps, 2 folding, errata leaf, contemporary tree calf, gilt coroneted crest of the Earl of Darnley on both covers, red morocco spine label, large 4to [300 x 270mm], London: Printed for G. Nicol, 1788, a fine large choice copy with an extraordinary provenance. "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 Thule's sons, with them to England, where he made a good impression. [but] he soon died of smallpox" (Hill). Keate wrote the account based on the journal and papers of Wilson and other officers. 'The context was the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War normal routes from China westwards for British shipping were hampered by the Dutch East Indies. The Antelope had been returning from Macau by the "Eastern Passage", a route designed to avoid the south-west monsoon, but had strayed too far in the easterly direction. On the north coast of New Guinea Wilson anchored in the vicinity of the Schouten Islands. After some dialogue over two days with Papuan inhabitants who came out to the ship, in which Wilson used vocabulary collected by Thomas Forrest at Dory Harbour, Wilson felt the numbers he faced were threatening. He used small arms to deter them, and the crew of the Antelope was attacked, an encounter in which the artist Arthur William Devis was injured. The wreck on Ulong followed. Although Spain had claimed the islands previously, Wilson's crew made the first sustained contact, which was friendly. One of the crew of the Antelope knew Malay, allowing contact to be made with the ibedul on Koror, whom Wilson treated as a local king, somewhat misapprehending his status which was more like an elected official. While his men spent three months rebuilding the ship, Wilson entered an effective alliance with the ibedul in conflicts with Melekeok and others. One of the Antelope's guns proved decisive, shipped in a boat and discharged with powder alone'. DNB Provenance: "Capt. Barkley/Navy", contemporary inscription on verso of the frontispiece. This is most probably Captain Charles William Barkley (1759-1832) who, from 1786 to 1788 sailed the Indian Ocean in the Princess Frederica, then in the Halcyon to Kamchatka and Alaska, Hawaiian Islands and Cochin China before being captured by the French at Mauritius. Barkley's wife Frances (who was one of the first women to circumnavigate the globe) recorded in her journal that in May 1792 the Barkleys had landed at the New Carolina Islands in the Celebes, commenting that "they answer the description given by Captain Wilson of the Pelew Islands and the words given in his vocabulary of those Islands" (The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley, 1769-1845, 2003, edited by Beth Hill and Cathy Converse). Library of the Earl of Darnley with his gilt crest on both covers. Cox II, 302; Hill 907.
Verlag: London: Printed for Captain Wilson; and sold by G. Nicol, 1789, 1789
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
First octavo edition, the fourth overall, of one of the most popular shipwreck narratives of all times. With this edition the publisher aimed to make Keate's Account available to those who could not afford the previous quarto versions: the text was reproduced verbatim, and the famous portrait of Prince Lee Boo, sketched by Keate's daughter, was re-engraved. In 1783, the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, was wrecked on a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a group previously unexplored by Western forces. The entire crew managed to get safely ashore, where they were well treated by the island's inhabitants 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" (ODNB). The present account "was extremely popular and in 1788 and 1789 four editions were printed in London" (Hill). Included in the account is a vocabulary of the Palauan language. George Keate (1729-1797) was a writer and painter whose "interests respectively in natural history and in antiquarian studies led to his being elected to fellowships of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries, both in 1766. Although Keate is now remembered, if at all, as a minor artist, this seems a somewhat harsh judgement on one whose wide-ranging intellectual curiosity about literary, artistic, and scientific fields was genuine and deeply committed" (ODNB). Two of the three portraits are by Henry Kingsbury after Arthur William Devis, son of Arthur Devis, who accompanied Wilson as draughtsman on the Antelope. See Hill 907, Huntress 107C. Octavo (209 x 129 mm). Contemporary calf, flat spine with black oxidized gilt rules and lettering, gilt decoration to board edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Wilson by James Heath after John Russell, portrait of Prince Lee Boo by Thomas Kirk, large folding map. Short splits to joints at ends but holding, a few cosmetic repairs to boards, corners worn, light foxing to a couple of final leaves, small stain to lower outer corner of one leaf with traces of adhesion (no loss of text), small repair to verso of folding map, otherwise bright and clean contents. A very good copy.
Verlag: Dublin, Luke White 1788., 1788
Anbieter: Antiquariat Burgverlag, Wien, Österreich
gr.-8°. 1 Bl., XXIX (1) 378 S. Mit 1 gest. Titelportr., Mit 10 Kupfertaf. in Punktiermanier, 1 Plan u. 1 Taf.-Fragment. HLdr. d. Zt. Einbd. berieb. Titelportr. u. Tit. m. Fehlstelle am oberen Rand - ohne Text - bzw. Bildverlust, 1 Taf. m. Einr., 1 Taf. nur fragmentarisch. 3 Taf. fehlen. EA. Brunet III, 647; Graesse IV, 8; Cox II, 302 - George Keate (1729-1797), englischer Dichter und Schreiber. Henry Wilson (1740-1810), war englischer Kapitän der `British East India Company`. Palau ist ein Inselstaat im westlichen Pazifik. Das Land besteht aus ungefähr 250 Inseln, die die westliche Kette der Carolinen bilden. Sie umfassen etwa 466 km . - Der erste ausführliche Bericht über die Palau-Inseln. "Der Bericht ist wertvoll als frühester Aufschluß über Charakter und Geberen der zuvor als wilde Kannibalen verschrienen Insulaner, die nun vielmehr `als Zierde der Menschheit` dem staunenden, sich an der Geschichte begeisternden Publikum vorgestellt wurde." (Henze V, 515) Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.
Verlag: Dublin: Luke White. 1793, 1793
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
xxix,[1],378p, front. port., fold. maps, plates. 8vo. Contemp. calf, red label; sl. rubbed. Attractive bookseller's ticket of T. Gorman, Clonmel, 1795, on leading pastedown. ESTC N6698, not in BL; Cambridge, Cork & NLI; four copies in North America. First published in 1788.
Verlag: Dublin, Luke White, 1788., 1788
Anbieter: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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8vo, pp.xxix, [1 ('Directions to the Binder'), 378, with a stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait, 15 plates (one folding, several with tissue guards), and a large folding map; occasional spots, offsetting from plates, but a very good copy; in contemporary marbled calf, with borders roll-tooled with gilt Greek key motif, spine gilt in compartments with gilt-lettered red morocco label, marbled endpapers; boards a little rubbed, corners lightly bumped; contemporary ink ownership inscription 'Mary Blackburne' to title and to p.100.First Dublin edition of this popular work, first published in London earlier the same year, by the virtuoso George Keate, member of the Royal Society and Society of Antiquities (1729-1797). '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. George Keate was the author of numerous books of poetry, history, and letters, who counted Captain Wilson as well as Voltaire among his friends. He composed this relation from the journals and communications of Captain Wilson and some of his officers. The Account was extremely popular, and in 1788 and 1789 four editions were printed in London. There were numerous other English and foreign language editions' (Hill, p.321). In writing his Account, Keate sought to be 'the instrument of introducing to the world a new people;- and a far greater one, in having the means in my power, of vindicating their injured characters these unknown natives of Pelew, so far from disgracing live an ornament to human nature' (p.xiii). 'Although it occurs late in the history of the idea (and he himself was nearly sixty when he wrote it) Keate's Account is the most thoroughgoing and elaborate presentation of the noble savage in the literature of the South Seas' (Smith, p.137). The work contains a wide-ranging 'Vocabulary of the Pelew Language' (pp.365-378), with translations of inter alia, numbers, colours, verbs, and foodstuffs such as 'Meeake', 'A sweetmeat made of almonds and molosses' (p.370). The portraits of the inhabitants and scenes from Pelau were completed by a draughtsman and 'two or three young men acquainted with drawing' (p.xvi) on board the Antelope, and the portrait of Prince Lee Boo was drawn by the author's daughter. Provenance: likely Mary Blackburne (1783-1847) of Dublin, Ireland. Cf.Hill, 907. See Smith, European Vision and the South Pacific (1985 ). Language: English.
Verlag: Printed for Captain Wilson, 1789
Anbieter: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, Vereinigtes Königreich
3rd Ed. 4to. xxvii + [i] + 378pp. Port. frontis., folding map, 15 plates. Signature Bb2 with marginal loss, some very light browning, early signature 'J. G. W. 1789' to head of t.p. and with a seal of the same to front f.e.p., marbled e.ps., inner gilt dentelles, contemporary tree calf with gilt tooled border, minor wear with sl. rubbed corners, skilful reback with original intricate spine laid down, gilt tooled spine with gilt tooled 'Three Sails Packet Ship' to 5 compartments, with two gilt lettered labels. In August 1783, the Antelope, commanded by Wilson, ran aground near one of the Pelew islands and was wrecked. These hitherto unexplored islands were investigated by Wilson and his crew, who managed to escape safely to shore. The islanders treated them well, and when, by means of a small vessel built from the wreck, they left the islands for Macao, they took with them Prince Le Boo, or Libu, one of the king's sons. Wilson brought him to England, where he created a very good impression, but unfortunately he later died of smallpox.(European Vision and the South Pacific, pp. 136-7). 'a splendid yarn of danger and adventure in the South Seas and the most thoroughgoing and elaborate presentation of the noble savage in the literature of the South Seas' US$950.
Verlag: London for Captain Wilson, 1788
Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Second edition, 4to (29.5 x 24.5 cm), xxviii, 378 pp., portrait frontispiece, folding map, 15 plates (11 of which are folding), some offsetting from plates to text, occasional light foxing, contemporary calf gilt, red morocco lettering piece, raised bands, a very handsome example. 'In 1783 the Antelope commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was wrecked. 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' (Hill). Hill p160 (first edition).
Anbieter: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (ILAB), Vianen, Niederlande
Dublin, Luke White, 1788.8vo. Contemporary tree calf, spine richly gilt with red morocco title-label. With large folding engraved chart and 16 engraved portraits and plates. XXVIII,378,(8) pp.Edition in 8vo published in the same year as the 4to edition; with armorial bookplate of colonel Cooper. - In 1783 the East India Packet Antelope under command of Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was wrecked. The crew reached shore and were well treated by the natives. From the wreck they built a small boat which they managed to get to Macao, taking with them Prince Lee Boo, the son of king Abba Thule. Lee Boo soon died of smallpox in England. Captain Wilson allowed Keate (1729-97) to write a faithful account of the events from Wilson's journals and communications. This account did much to reinforce the idea of the noble savage and it is one of the most popular 18th century books on the Pacific and also the main source of early knowledge of the Palau Islands, the most western group of the Caroline archipelago. Includes a vocabulary of the Pelew language. - A fine copy of the rare Dublin edition.Hill 907; Huntress 107C; Cox II, 302-303; Howgego p.1105.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1789
Anbieter: Henry Sotheran Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
London, Printed For Captain Wilson; And Sold By G. Nicol, Bookseller To His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1788. 4to. Slightly later full calf, spine with raised bands, lettered and ornamented in gilt, boards with gilt-ruled double fillets and gilt-stamped anchors in the corners, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers (see below); pp. xxvii, [1], 378, two stipple-engraved portraits, engraved folding map, engraved folding panorama, 13 engraved plates (including one map, and one further portrait); hinges, head and tail of spine expertly restored; light wear to extremities; very minor spotting to the paper in places only; a very good and wide-margined copy; provenance: slightly later armorial bookplate of George W. Galloway with his motto Higher inside front cover. Second edition, corrected, published shortly after the first, which needed an errata leaf at the end. In 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Capt. Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was wrecked. 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; he unfortunately soon died of smallpox. Keate, a literary man, composed the account from journals and communications of Capt. Wilson and some of the officers. Among the crew on board the Antelope was the eminent artist Arthur William Devis, who contributed two portraits, that of the king of Pelew and of one of his wives. He had been injured during a Papuan attack prior to the ship being wrecked. Wilson returned with the first collection of Palau artifacts to reach the West, and his illustrated travelogue fitted well in with the concept of the 'noble savage'. Binding and provenance: This maritime-themed binding was produced by one of the foremost fine binders of the period, Auguste Marie Compte de Caumont of Frith Street (printed label inside front fly-leaf), who had left revolutionary France and set up a book binding studio at three successive addresses in Soho, finally at No. 1 Frith Street (1803-1814), where he employed talented and famous craftsmen, such as L. Cordeval and C. S. Kalthoeber. The compartments of the spine contain finely gilt-stamped images of a three-mast ship, and in the corners of the covers anchors, inscribed Nile & C and Nelson. The spine bears the date 1783, the year the expedition took place. We can only speculate that Nile & C (Nile & Company) could refer to either the company of men that served under Nelson at the battle of the Nile, or specifically the Captains of the ships known as the Band of Brothers. ESTC T121539; Hill p160.
Verlag: Printed for Capt. Wilson by G. Nicol, London, 1789
Anbieter: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, USA
Leather-bound. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Third Edition. 4to. Printed for Captain Wilson; and sold by G. Nicol, Bookseller To His Majesty, Pall-Mall. 3/4 leather with (scuffed) marbled paper boards. Gilt decorated spine. Red leather title label. Marbled edges and endpapers. Frontis portrait of Wilson. xxvii,[1],378p. 13 of 15 plates MISSING foldout chart before Introduction, and 2 of the 15 plates ("Cove and Tents"; "Views of The Land" ) Includes: A Vocabulary of the Pelew Language (pp.365-378). Clean copy with plates in good condition. Full title: 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 George Keate, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A. In 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a pregiously unexplored group, and was wrecked. 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;he unfortunately soon died of smallpox. Keate, a literary man, composed the relation from the journals and communications of Captain Wilson and some of his officers. (Hill p. 160).
Anbieter: Vangsgaards Antikvariat Aps, Copenhagen, Dänemark
Verbandsmitglied: ILAB
Printed for Captain Wilson, London 1789. 4to. XXVII+(1)+378 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Captain Wilson, large folding engraved map + 15 engraved plates. Contemporary full brown calf binding. Armorial bookplate. Spine renewed, reusing the original titlelabel. Corners worn. Some of the plates with foxing. * Wilson [1740-1810] was the captain of the British East India Company ship Antelope. They suffered a shipwreck off Ulong Island, north of New Guinea, and the crew became friends with the people living there. When the ship was repaired after three months, they sailed back to England accompanied by the local Prince Lee Boo, who unfortunately died in England of smallpox.
Verlag: London: Printed For G.Nicol, 1788., 1788
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. xxvii, [1]directions to binder, 378, [1 leaf]errata. folding engraved map, engraved frontis. portrait of Wilson, engraved plan & 14 other engraved plates (1 folding). early 19th century diced russia, rebacked (corners & edges worn, some foxing to plates). First Edition. Keate's narrative of the shipwreck of the Antelope off the hitherto unexplored Pelew Islands in 1783 includes a full and interesting description of the manners and customs of the islanders. Constructing a small ship from the wreckage, the crew managed to reach Macao, and eventually arrived safely in England. They took with them Prince Lee Boo, one of the King's sons, but he unfortunately died of smallpox. [BOUND WITH:] HOCKIN, Reverend John Pearce [1773?-1831]. A Supplement To The Account Of The Pelew Islands; Compiled From The Journals Of The Panther And Endeavour, Two Vessels Sent By The Honourable East India Company To Those Islands In The Year 1790; And From The Oral Communications Of Captain H.Wilson. 4to. pp. 3 p.l., 72. 5 engraved plates (3 bound in previous item). (some foxing to plates). London: Printed For Captain Henry Wilson, By W.Bulmer And Co.; Sold By G. And W.Nicol; And J.Asperne, 1803. Hockin's supplementary work, which was added to the fifth edition of Keate (1803) and also provided as a separate to owners of earlier editions, relates the experiences of the crews of the ships Panther and Endeavour, commanded by Captain John M'Clure, sent by the East India Company to convey the unfortunate news of the death of his son to Abba Thulle, King of the islands. The ships conveyed gifts of cattle, animals, plants, and seeds, to the islanders, and the crews taught the natives how to plant and cultivate the new crops. Each ship spent several months at a time surveying the coast of New Guinea and visiting the coast of China. Bell K15 & H205. Cox II 302-303. Hill p. 160 & p. 449.
Anbieter: Antiquariaat Wim de Goeij, Kalmthout, ANTW, Belgien
Verbandsmitglied: ILAB
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London, Printed for Captain WIlson and sold by G. Nicol, third edition, 1789, in-4°, frontispiece portrait + xxvii pp + 378 pages + 15 engraved plates including the folding engraved view of the Pelew Islands and a folding engraved map (complete). Bound in 20th-century full mottled calf, raised gilt spine with red leatehr title label, edges painted yellow, fine gilt fillet on both covers, marbled endpapers, in paper slipcase. Exceptionally fine binding, perfectly preserved. In August 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Wilson, ran aground near one of the Pelew Islands and was wrecked. These hitherto unexplored islands were investigated by Wilson and his crew. The islanders treated them well and by means of a vessel built from the wreck, they left the island for Macao. The publication met with a great success so that this third edition appeared already one year after the first edition.
Verlag: London: Printed For G.Nicol, 1789., 1789
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 4to. pp. xxvii, [1]directions to binder, 378. folding engraved map, engraved frontis. portrait of Wilson, engraved plan & 14 other engraved plates (1 folding). A handsome copy in later russia, covers with gilt & blind-tooled borders, rebacked (light wear to covers, some marginal browning & light foxing to plates). gilt arms of the Duke of Sutherland (Leveson-Gower) stamped on upper cover. Third Edition. Keate s narrative of the shipwreck of the Antelope off the hitherto unexplored Pelew Islands in 1783 includes a full and interesting description of the manners and customs of the islanders. Constructing a small ship from the wreckage, the crew managed to reach Macao, and eventually arrived safely in England. They took with them Prince Lee Boo, one of the King's sons, but he unfortunately died of smallpox. Cox II 302-303. cfBell K15. cfHill p. 160.
Verlag: Printed for Captain Wilson 1789, London, 1789
Anbieter: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Original Boards. Zustand: Good. Third Edition. xxvii, 378 pp. Original boards. Lacks spine covering. Corners worn and boards badly marked. Front board detached. Uncut. Lacks free endpaper. Staining to frontis.Internally clean. Frontis portrait engraving. Folding map. Fifteen full-page engravings, including many folding. With Fuimus bookplate of the Bruce family, Lords Elgin, to the front pastedown. Second bookplate of Robert Washington Oates, who was a cousin of the explorer Capt. Oates. He helped fund the Gilbert White Museum, to which he donated his natural history collection, hence the Oates Collections at Selborne. Housed in a solander to help preserve the original condition. 4to.
Verlag: London : Nicol, 1788
Anbieter: Wissenschaftliches Antiquariat Köln Dr. Sebastian Peters UG, Köln, Deutschland
Zustand: gut. Frontispiz, XXVII, 378 S., Faltkarte, 15 Taf., 30,5 x 23,5 cm, geprägter Ledereinband berieben, Innendeckel mit Exlibris, Vorblatt mit Besitzvermerk, gebräunt, leicht fleckig. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Printed for Captain Henry Wilson by W. Bulmer and Co, London, 1803
Anbieter: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fair to very good condition. Fifth Edition. Quarto. [4] xvii [i], 244, [8] 72pp., 1 folding map, 17, 2 plates. Original three quarter leather over brown boards with gilt lettering and ruling on black leather label of spine. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portrait engraving of Capt. Henry Wilson. Three wing "Chart of the Pelew Islands and Adjacent Seas," bound in following dedication page. Description of the Pelew Islands features and its inhabitants, compiled after Captain Wilson's shipwreck during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. First published in 1788 the supplement, bound in here, was first published in 1803. The Antelope was shipwrecked on the previously unexplored Pelew Islands in August 1783. Wilson and his crew eventually managed o build a small vessel and sailed to Macao. On their return to England they brought with them Prince Lee Boo, one of the King's sons. The Prince was celebrated and introduced into the highest levels of society but soon died of smallpox. The islands had been claimed by Spain previously though it was Wilson who made the first sustained contact with the islanders. The plates depict the crew and islanders, including the first encounter, King Abba Thulle, Ludee one of the wives of the king, views of the island and the villages, a plan of the Englishmen's harbour, the ship Oroolong, and several plates with artifacts found on the island. Binding with some scuffing and chips along edges and boards heavily rubbed. Some chipping along edges and and spine cracked half way at front joint. Endpapers faded along edges and binding reinforces with blue cloth tape at gutters. Previous owner's inked note on front free endpaper. Lightly starting at plain front and back endpapers. Light foxing of block at some pages at front and back; block lightly age-toned. Light offsetting of some plates to facing pages. Binding in overall fair, interior in good, plates in very good condition.