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DELANO (AMASA)
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

19 June 2013, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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DELANO (AMASA)

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, 2 engraved portraits (the author; King of Pelew Islands), folding engraved map of Pitcairn, spotting throughout, contemporary calf, red morocco spine label [Ferguson 673; Hill 463; Kroepelien 285; Sabin 19349], Boston, E.G. Hose, for the Author, 1817

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Includes a long section on William Bligh and the Bounty, including the first published account of the finding of the mutineers on Pitcairn by the American whaler Topaz in 1808. Delano, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, undertook several voyages between 1790 and 1807 to Canton and Australia, visiting New Guinea, Borneo, Macao, the Hawaiian Islands, and Timor en route.

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