Relation des îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'Océan Pacifique
Paris - Le Jay et Maradan - 1788
- Format : In-12.
- Number of volumes : 2 tomes.
- Binding : Related.
- Collation : Tome 1: 282 pp. Tome 2: 274 pp.
- Language : Français
Period full marbled basane binding. Smooth, ornate spine. Marbled slices. The edition is adorned with a portrait of Captain Wilson engraved by Sophie Massard after Russell, a folding map of the Pelew Islands, and 15 plates, including 12 folding plates, engraved in intaglio by De Gouy, Pierre François Tardieu, Miss Kent after Devis and S. Jouan.
Original edition of the French translation of this relationship composed by the writer and poet George Keate (1729-1797) from the journals and communications of Henry Wilson, captain of the Antelope which sank in August 1783 on a reef near Kororor. It appeared the same year as the original English one.
Good copy.
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