THE VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN DON FELIPE GONZALEZ in the Ship of the Line San Lorenzo, with the Frigate Santa Rosalia in company, to Easter Island in 1770-1: Preceded By an Extract from JACOB ROGGEVEEN'S OFFICIAL LOG OF HIS DISCOVERY OF EASTER ISLAND, 1722.
Edition: First edition.
Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1908. Hardcover first edition - Important early accounts of Easter Island. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three interior plates. Three folding maps in pocket at rear. Series II, Volume XIII of Hakluyt Society publications. The Hakluyt Society, founded in 1846, and bamed after Richard Hakluyt, collector and editor of narratives of voyages and travels, the society publishes scholarly editions of primary records of voyages, travels and other geographical material. Bibliography, index, lxxvii, 176 pp plus 40 pp of additional information related to the Hakluyt Society.
Condition: Near fine in the publisher's bright blue cloth binding, with gilt vignette to the front boards (significant toning to the endpapers and prelim pages, several pages still unopened, corner of one leaf torn, maps in fine condition)