4to (290 x 228 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, 14 engraved plates (5 folding), one folding chart. (A few preliminary leaves with mostly marginal dampstain, some light spotting.) Contemporary tree calf gilt, red lettering-piece gilt (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, recornered). 

 

Third edition. "'In 1783, the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was wrecked. The entire crew managed to get safely ashore, where they were well treated by the natives and eventually managed to build a small vessel from the wreck, in which they reached Macao" (Hill). Cox II, pp 302-303; ESTC N16075; Hill 907. 

 

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