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George KEATE

Relation des îles Pelew, situées dans la partie occidentale de l'Océan Pacifique, composée sur les journeaux et les communications du Capitaine Henri Wilson, et de ses Officiers, qui en août mil-sept-cent-quatre-vingt-trois, y ont fait naufrage sur l'Antelope, paquebot de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales

Chez Le Jay et Maradan, à Paris 1788, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) 282pp. et (4) 274pp; (3), relié.

Original French edition, illustrated with 16 boards, including 11 folding and a large folding map (indigenous views, objects ...). This edition was published the same year as the original speckled calf anglaise.Demi time in little corners. Smooth back to the net. Part of title morocco beige and green morocco volume number (with wheels). 2 corners bumped. A small tear in the large map on the sidelines due to his difficult opening. Good exemplaire.L'archipel of Palau is located to the east of the Philippines, north of Indonesia, Micronesia; Captain George Wilson and his crew at the service of the East India Company, were shipwrecked on an island near Palau in 1783 The tale book how they were received by the natives and their king, and how they lived until what the king said to build a ship to travel to Macau, while entrusting his son to the care of Captain Wilson, that it received a Western education. George Keate, using diaries of Captain, established narrative of travel of the ship Antelope who left Macau. The introduction is a literature search of the existence of these islands. The book relates, of board, manners and customs of the inhabitants. At the end of Volume II, a vocabulary of the language Pelew. Interestingly, an episode that shows the king in war against the people of other islands, and borrowed five men to the captain to accompany him to the war, the peaceful relations between the English and the king surely derive their origin from this diplomatique.L'ouvrage curious fact was a great success, probably because the testimony he made corresponded to the myth of the noble savage raging in Europe; Paul et Virginie by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was released on the same date. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

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