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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
- 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 ...
- Author
- Keate, George, 1729-1797.
- Publication
- London, Printed for Captain Wilson, and sold by G. Nicol, 1789.
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- Description
- xxx p., 1 l., 408 p., 1 fold. map, 2 port. (indl. front.); 8vo.
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- Note
- "The editor being desirous to make this Account of the Pellew Islands attainable by those who might not choose the expense of the quarto edition, the plates ... could not be re-engraved for the present octavo size ... This edition ... is verbatim the same as the quarto, the same chart is prefixed to it, and the protrait of Captain Wilson, and also a head of Prince Lee Boo new engraved for theis purpose."--Introduction.
- Portrait of Prince Lee Boo: Publish'd as the ct directs, June 1789 ...
- Call Number
- *KF 1789 (Keate, G. Account of the Pelew Islands)
- OCLC
- 16340610
- Author
- Keate, George, 1729-1797.
- 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 ...
- Imprint
- London, Printed for Captain Wilson, and sold by G. Nicol, 1789.
- Edition
- 4. ed.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Wilson, Henry, -1810.Ford Collection.
- Research Call Number
- *KF 1789 (Keate, G. Account of the Pelew Islands)