I have here for sale a book entitled 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 Hon. East India Company, by George Keate.  Published in 1793 by Luke White, Dublin.  It has a frontispiece portrait of Wilson and 16 other b/w plates plus a fold-out map of the Islands - so there are 19 plates as called for in the listing.  At the rear of the book there is a Vocabulary of the Pelew Language.

Hill, Pacific Voyages, p. 160, citing the first edition of 1788: "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. They took Prince Lee Boo, one of King Abba Thulle's sons, with them to England, where he made a very good impression; he unfortunately soon died of smallpox."

Full leather hardboards with gilt bands, a red leather title block and gilt lettering to the spine.  Bookplate to front endpaper.  Pages clean and firm.  Condition: very good.  378 pages, 22 x 14 cm.