Author: HAMILTON, GEORGE.
Title: A Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora. First printed in 1793 reissued with a foreword by Alex Allan, British High Commissioner and an essay by Peter Gesner, Curator of Maritime Archaeology Queensland Museum. Australian Maritime Series Number Four.
Description: Limited Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 37, 164; map, portrait frontispiece, hand bound in original quarter cherry Scottish calf over marbled boards; minor fading of spine and top edge, otherwise a fine copy. Sydney; Hordern House; 1998. (Originally published by W. Phorson, Berwick, MDCCXCIII. [1793].) Limited Edition of 950 copies. Hand bound in quarter cherry Scottish calf. Includes shipwreck, famine, Society Islands, cannibals, human sacrifice, Tahiti, tattoo's, death by drinking saltwater and many more adventures.

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