May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 166

Price Realized: $ 768
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
MACKAY, WILLIAM. Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Juno, on the Coast of Aracan. [4], vii, [1], 59 pages. 8vo, 206x122 mm, modern boards; half-title and blank last page toned. London: J. Debrett et al., 1798

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first edition of an account by the ship's second officer of the 1795 wreck of the Juno on the coast of Burma, a source for Lord Byron's description of the shipwreck in the second Canto of Don Juan. Huntress 128C.