[SHIPWRECK]. WOODARD, David, Captain. The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and Four Seamen, Who Lost Their Ship While in a Boat at Sea, and Surrendered Themselves up to the Malays, in the Island of Celebes... London: J. Johnson, 1804.

8vo. Half-title; 2 engraved folding maps (one map torn across fold and with several other separations to folds); 3 engraved plates. (Some staining and browning.) Contemporary calf. Provenance: R. R. & C. Williams (small bookseller's ticket on paste-down).

FIRST EDITION of Woodard's narrative, which "gives a good deal of material about the life of the natives of the Celebes, but probably the most valuable portion of the book is the collection of narratives of shipwrecks and disasters at sea" (Huntress 144). Hill 1912.

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[SHIPWRECK]. WOODARD, David, Captain. The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and Four Seamen, Who Lost Their Ship While in a Boat at Sea, and Surrendered Themselves up to the Malays, in the Island of Celebes... London: J. Johnson, 1804.

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