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Boston: E. House. Good with no dust jacket. 1817. First Edition. Hardcover. Old calf, with gilt lines to spine, red spine label. Rubbing and worming/ few minor stains to the leather, label is rubbed and a bit chipped. PO inscription. Includes errata at rear, frontis, plate of Abba Thulle, and folding plate of Pitcairn's Island. Foxing/browning, some damping, worming. Sound. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 598,[1] pages .
A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Comprising Three Voyages Round the World ... by Delano, Amasa - 1818
by Delano, Amasa
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A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Comprising Three Voyages Round the World ...
by Delano, Amasa
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Boston: E. G. House, 1818. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 598pp. Folding map and two plates, one a portrait of the author, the other of Abba Thulle. The second edition, identical to the first. Modern half pigskin, spine tooled in blind, marbled paper boards and endpapers. occasional light foxing else a very good copy.
Includes a biographical sketch, 'written by a friend', who, according to Hill, was probably Horace Holley. The author visited Palau, Hawaii, Galapagos, Manila, Canton, Macao, New Guinea, Australia, East Indies, Chile and Peru. Howes D233. Hill, 83; Ferguson, 673. Forbes, 463, which notes that this Narrative is particularly important for its text concerning Bligh, the Bounty and Pitcairn Island "part of which appears nowhere else." The folding plate is of Pitcairn.
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- Date Published 1818
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A Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands
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A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery of the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands (War of 1812 Provenance - U.S. Naval Officer Joel W. Abbot Signatures)
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This is an interesting copy of "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres Comprising Three Voyages Round the World; Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery of the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands" by Amasa Delano. This particular copy has ties to the War of 1812 - please see "Provenance" below. 1817 1st edition; Printed by E.G. House, for the Author; Boston. Full leather binding. With a frontispiece portrait of Delano, a portrait of "Abba Thulle" - King of the Pelew Islands taken 1791, and a partial fold-out map of "Pitcairns Island" (only 2 of the 3 panels are present). The book chronicles Massachusetts sea captain Delano's voyages between 1790 and 1810, covering the Hawaiian, "Pelew," and Galapagos islands; New Guinea, Australia, and the East Indies; Chile and Peru; and Manila, Canton and Macao. This book (chapter 18 in particular) was used as inspiration by Herman Melville for his novel "Benito Cereno."PROVENANCE: This copy contains the handwritten names…
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