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, ...
George Keate (1729-1797)
Category
Books
Date
1788
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3188943
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxvii,[1],378p., [17] leaves of plates (2 fold.) : ill., fold. map, plan, ports. ; 4to. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, with putti, and motto: Nil Desperandum, Yates, sculp. Thomas Anson Esqr. Shugborough. [i.e. Thomas Anson, of Shugbrough (1695-1773)]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled calf; gilt tooled spine; gilt lettered red spine label: Keate's Pelew Islands.
Makers and roles
George Keate (1729-1797), author Henry Wilson (1740 - 1810)