KEATE, G. Relation des Iles Pelew, situees dans la partie occidentale de l'ocean pacifique composee sur les journaux et les communications du capitaine Henri Wilson, et de quelques-uns de ses officiers, qui, en aout mil sept cent quatre-vingt-trois, y on fait naufrage sur l'Antelope, paquebot de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales. Traduit de l'Anglois (...). I-II. Paris, Le Jay and Maradan, 1788.

8vo. (195x125 mm.). (4), 282; (4), 274, (5) pp. With engraved frontispiece portrait of Wilson, 1 large folding engraved map of the Palau Islands, the Philippines and the Chinese Sea, 15 mostly folding engraved plates (some with dampstaining).
Contemporary brown hafl calf bindings, partly worn, some crack to joints, gilt spine in compartments with red title labels, some damages to spines. Vol 1 with some spotting and dampstaining.

First French translation of a 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.
Cox II, 303.
2 vols.