Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern
Item #125
DELANO, Amasa. 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. Boston: Printed by E.G. House, 1817. 1st ed. 598,[1, errata]pp. Frontis. portrait, folding map and plate. Contemporary gilt-decorated calf, gilt-decorated spine, black morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. A very good copy. Howes D-233, "aa". Hill, p.83. Rich, pp.92-3. Forbes, Hawaii 463. Naylor 64. 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; Manilla, 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. "This narrative may possibly have been written in collaboration with Horace Holley, who was probably the author of the appended biographical sketch of Delano"--Hill.
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