Los 3417
[Pacific]. Wilson, J.
A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, Performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff (...) with a preliminary discourse on the geography and history of the South Sea Islands; and an appendix including details never before published, of the natural and civil state of Otaheite. London, "published for the benefit of the Society" by T. Chapman, 1799, (12),C,420,(12)p., 7 (fold.) engr. maps and 6 views, contemp. gilt hcalf w. letterpiece, 4to.
- Los
- 3417
- Auktion
- Auction 80, 13-17 May 2024
- Abteilung
- OLD and RARE BOOKS
- Schätzpreis
- 300 € – 500 €
- Fotos
- 2 Fotos
Zustand
Bookplate on upper pastedown; upper hinge broken; large map w. repaired tear; one map w. waterstain in lower part; outer edge of one view cut short w. loss of text. Backstrip restored.
Anmerkungen
The first missionary voyage to the Pacific. Sabin 49480; Howgego W42; Kroepelien 528; Taylor 170; Ferguson 301; Cox II, p. 307; Carlsmith 181; Borba de Moraes p.943; Cat. Nat. Maritime Mus. 632: "This voyage was undertaken by the London Missionary Society, for the purpose of establishing a mission in Tahiti. A settlement of 25 persons was formed." "(...) The narrative is fresh, although sometimes naive, and provides a glimpse of everyday life on the islands that the mariner or naturalist didn't consider worth reporting. (...) The long "preliminary discourse" was anonymously written by Samuel Greatheed, using the then-unpublished narrative of James Morrison, one of the pardoned Bounty mutineers. (...)" (Hill 1894).