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Keate's Account of the Pelew Islands 1788

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
Author: Keate, George
Description: xxviii, 378, [1] errata pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece, folding map, and fifteen portraits, views, and plans, a few folding. (4to) 11¼x9, period full calf with modern rebacking, gilt lettered black morocco spine label. First Edition.Although the Pelew Islands had been sighted by the Spaniards, the shipwreck of the East India Company's packet near one of the islands brought about the first exploration of the group by Europeans. The crew eventually managed to build a small vessel from the wreckage, in this they reached Macao, taking with them Prince Lee Boo, one of King Abba Thulle's sons, who made a good impression in London but soon died of smallpox. (Cox II, pp.302-303; Hill 907).
Heading: zzfPlace Published: London
Publisher: G. Nicol
Date Published: 1788