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UNCOMMON IRISH EDITION - A PACIFIC EXPLORATION CLASSICfirst Irish edition tall 8vo. xxx, 378pp., large folding map, 16 engraved plates (1 folding), contemporary calf, smooth spine panelled by gilt fillets and with a plum red morocco label gilt, some scattered light dusty fingering in margins, minor wear and bruising to binding, but generally a very good copy in original condition.
Contemporary signatures of John Mahony on title and of Richard Mahony on endpaper.
ESTC t121530 locating copies in B.L., Cambridge, Dublin City, N.L.I., Oxford, National Trust; Berlin; 8 locations in U.S.A and 5 in Australasia. Some copies with 4 advertisement leaves at the end.After their ship was wrecked on the Pelew or Palau islands in the western Pacific the crew succeeded in reaching the shore where they were well treated by the natives who had not previously encountered Europeans. Using a small boat built from the wreckage the crew got to Macao and thence to England, taking with them Prince Lee Boo, the son of King… Read More