Amasa Delano's 3 Voyages Round the World 1817
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Author: Delano, Amasa
Title: 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
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Printed by E.G. House, for the Author
Date Published: 1817
Description:
Author: Delano, Amasa
Title: 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
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Printed by E.G. House, for the Author
Date Published: 1817
Description:
596 [missing final two leaves] pp. plus two engraved plates including frontispiece portrait, and engraved folding map. (8vo) 21.4x12.5 cm (8½x5"), period tree calf with border tooled in gilt, gilt decorated spine.
One of the major printed accounts of world voyages for its time, and the source book for Melville's Benito Cerino. Delano recounts his travels between 1790 and 1810, encompassing visits to the Palau, Hawaiian, and Galapagos islands; Manila, Canton, and Macao; New Guinea, Australia, and the East Indies; and Chile and Peru. Includes detailed accounts of whaling and seal hunting, observations of the inhabitants indigenous to Delano's stopping points, etc.
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Hinges cracked, covers scuffed; rebacked with replaced endpapers and loss of two final leaves at rear; 3cm trimmed off top of title page; fold out map clipped at central crease with loss of left half of map; light foxing, some dampstains, else good.
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Amasa Delano's 3 Voyages Round the World 1817
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