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WILSON, WILLIAM and JAMES. A Missionary Voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the Years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the Ship Duff. 6 engraved plates and 7 maps (variously foxed). [12], c, 395, [7] pages. 4to, modern 1/2 leather; contents heavily toned, with some foxing, engraved matter offset, contemporary morocco lettering piece mounted on rear pastedown. London: T. Gillet for T. Chapman, 1799
Second edition of a book first published the same year on the ultimately unsuccessful attempt by the London Missionary Society to establish a mission in Tahiti. "Apart from the missionary interest of this account, the voyagers made many important discoveries of islands"--Hill 1894 (original edition). Ferguson 302 (this edition).
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