[Palau islands] Keate, G. Relation des Îles Pelew,

situées dans la partie occidentale de l'océan pacifique; composée sur les journaux et les communications du capitaine Henri Wilson, et de quelques-uns de ses officiers, qui, en août mil sept cent quatre-vingt-trois, y on fait naufrage sur l'Antelope, paquebot de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales. Traduit de l'Anglois (...). Paris, Le Jay and Maradan, 1788, 2 vols., (4),282; (4),274,(6) p., w. stipple engr. frontisp. portrait of Wilson, fold. engr. map of the Palau Islands, the Philippines and the Chinese Sea, 15 engr. plates of which 12 fold., cont. unif. hcalf, gilt and ribbed spines w. mor. letterpieces. Cont. owner's entry on both titles. Bindings worn along extremities, two joints starting, minimal other imperfections. Good copy.

Cox II, p. 303; Hill 160; Cat. NHSM p. 213-14. First French translation of this very popular work on the Pacific, the most important early source on the Pelew or Palau Islands in Micronesia. The first English edition was published in the same year. (total 2)