Omai First Polynesian Ambassador To England the True Story Of His Voyage There In 1774 With Captain Cook

by Clark, Thomas Blake

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Omai. First Polynesian Ambassador to England. The True Story of His Voyage There in 1774 with Captain Cook; of How He Was Feted by Fanny Burney, Approved by Samuel Johnson, Entertained by Mrs. Thrale & Lord Sandwich and Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds

by Clark, Thomas Blake.

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1940
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San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1940 First edition. One of 500 copies. Small quarto. [4], 115pp. Frontis portrait. Half linen over batik boards, paper spine label. Bookplate on inner cover. Offsetting to front free endpaper (as usual). Edges of cover slightly faded, else a near fine copy. In 1938 Jane Grabhorn, in partnership with W. M. Roth and Jane Swinerton,… Read more about this item
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OMAI. First Polynesian ambassador to England. The true story of his voyage there in 1774 with Captain Cook.

by CLARK, Thomas Blake.

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1969.
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Honolulu. Uni of Hawaii Press., 1969.. 4to. Or.bds. Qtr.cloth. 114pp. Name on ffe. b/w ill. Very good copy. Omai was a Ra'itean man who was brought to London by Captain Cook during his second voyage. He became a favourite of the aristocratic elite, but died two months after his return to Huahine in 1777.
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