Lot 3052: KEATE, GEORGE.

An Account of the Pelew Islands ... Composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson. London: For Captain Wilson, 1788. xxvii, [1], 378 pp. Frontispiece, folding chart and 13 other plates (only, of 15, 1 folding). 4to (295 x 229 mm). Marbled calf, rebacked. Lacking two portraits, occasional minor foxing, small dampstain to title/frontis, worming to gutter margin at end.

Second edition. This copy with an early 16-line manuscript postscript to the account (trimmed at bottom of page with one line apparently lost). The postscript relates the contents of a letter from an officer on board the Panther who visited Pelew after Wilson's departure. It describes the monarch's reaction to news of the death of Lee Boo and the fate of the Englishman Blanchard who was left on Pelew at his own request.
Provenance: John Thurlow Dering; Sir Samuel Hoare (armorial bookplates).