Lot 1301 , Keate, George - An Account of the Pelew Islands... composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, 1st edition, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved map, 15 engraved plates (som

° Keate, George - An Account of the Pelew Islands... composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson, 1st edition, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved map, 15 engraved plates (some stipple-engraved) including folding panorama, 4to, 1788, occasional light offsetting and some marginal damp-staining, errata f., full calf, [Hill 907]: Note: "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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