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 Honourable East India Company / by George Keate, Esq. F.R.S. and S.A.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keate, George, 1729-1797.

Contributor:

Wilson, Henry, -1810.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antelope (Ship).

Palauan language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc--Early works to 1800.

Palauan language.

Palau--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Palau.

Genre:

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

Penn Provenance:

Sadleir, Richard Vernon, 1722-1810 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Bonnell, Henry H. (Henry Houston), 1859-1926 (autograph) (inscription) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 378 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 17 unnumbered leaves plates (some folded) : illustrations, map, portraits ; 31 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

E.8. S.he asto naMI (3) 1788 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, MDCCLXXXIII [1788]

Notes:

"A vocabulary of the Pelew language": p. 365-378.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscriptions: "From the author" and "Ri: V. Sadleir" (possibly Richard Vernon Sadleir) on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy is a gift of Henry H. Bonnell, and has his autograph with ms. note recording the purchase of this book on the back free endpaper.

Cited in:

ESTC, T122142

OCLC:

2204411