South Seas.- [Wilson (William)] A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean...in the Ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson, first edition, 7 engraved maps, 5 folding, and 6 plates, all with delicate hand-colouring, maps in outline, list of subscribers at end, maps and plates foxed and a little offset, some with tears repaired, with long contemporary manuscript inscription from Robert Cowie of Highbury place near London to Rev. Thomas Allen of Pittsfield, Mass. on front free endpaper, and further inscription to Rev. Wm. Allen from his brother inscribed at head of title, contemporary mottled calf, gilt, rubbed, rebacked, [Ferguson 301; Hill 1894; Sabin, 49480], by S.Gosnell, for T. Chapman, 1799 § Keate (George) An Account of the Pelew Islands...composed from the Journals and Communications of Captain Henry Wilson... , first edition, stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved map, 15 engraved plates (some stipple-engraved) including folding panorama, all with delicate hand-colouring, tissue guards, errata leaf at end defective but no loss to text, some foxing to plates, occasional offsetting to text, typed notes on the voyage loosely inserted, modern half calf, old roan label preserved on spine, [Hill 907], 1788, 4to (2)

⁂ The first is an account of the first missionary voyage to the South Pacific, including Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji and the Marquesas. The maps made an important contribution to Pacific cartography and the plates include a view of Rio de Janeiro. One of two issues published in the same year, this one on larger paper.
The second item describes the tale of a voyage in the Pacific a few years earlier: "In 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Captain Henry Wilson, was wrecked on a reef near one of the Palau (Pelew) Islands, a previously unexplored group. The entire crew managed to get safely ashore, where they were well treated by the natives and eventually managed to build a small vessel from the wreck, in which they reached Macao. They took Prince Lee Boo, one of King Abba Thulle's sons, with them to England, where he made a very good impression. Unhappily, in spite of all precautions, he soon died of smallpox." Hill.