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 ... To which is added, A Supplement, compiled from the journals of the Panther and Endeavour, two vessels sent by the Honourable East India Company to those Islands in 1790 by J. P. Hockin, of Exeter College, Oxford...
By: Keate, George
Contributor(s): Wilson, Henry | Hockin, John Pearce
Publisher: London : Printed for Captain Henry Wilson, by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland Row, sold by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, and J. Asperne, Cornhill, 1803.Edition: The Fifth EditionDescription: [4], xvii, [1], 244, [8], 72 p., 7 [i.e. 21] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., front.(port.), ports., map ; 30 cm.Other title: 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 [Added title page title]Subject(s): Antelope (Packet) | Shipwrecks -- Palau -- Early works to 1800 | Palauan language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. -- Early works to 1800 | Palau -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
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British Museum | Africa Oceania and the Americas | Rare | E.2.A.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00001697 |
The "Supplement to the account of the Pelew Islands" was also published separately in 1803 but was combined at publication with this edition.
Copy 00001697 with handwritten note on end papers: "Presented with the Pelew specimens by Miss Salter in accordance with the intention of the late Rev. W. Wills of Holcombe Rogus, Devon. 1875".
Copy 00001697 with presentation inscription on end papers in ink: "To my daughter Judith Wilson this book is presented on the 28th Day of August 1812, in remembrance of her Grandfather, and being my Birth Day, Aged 45 years, Henry Wilson.".