拍品 121
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WILSON, James. A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, London: S. Gosnell, 1799. Small 2 (305 x 245mm.), one engraved folding map, 6 engraved charts, 4 folding, 6 copper-engraved plates (some spotting and staining, a few tears to folding plates at folds, some offsetting to text leaves), old vellum-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. Voyages & Travel 632

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WILSON, James. A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff, London: S. Gosnell, 1799. Small 2 (305 x 245mm.), one engraved folding map, 6 engraved charts, 4 folding, 6 copper-engraved plates (some spotting and staining, a few tears to folding plates at folds, some offsetting to text leaves), old vellum-backed boards. FIRST EDITION. Voyages & Travel 632

This voyage was undertaken by the London Missionary Society, for the purpose of establishing a mission in Tahiti. A settlement of 25 persons was formed.
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(WILSON, J)
A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean
This is not bound in old vellum-backed boards but in modern vellum-backed boards