A voyage round the world, from 1806 to 1812;

in which Japan, Kamschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands, were visited. Including a narrative of the author’s shipwreck on the Island of Sannack, and his subsequent wreck in the ship’s long-boat; with an account of the present state of the Sandwich Islands, and a vocabulary of their language. Edinburgh : printed for Archibald Constable and Company ; and for Longman, BHurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London ; and John Smith and Son, Glasgow, 1816. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), contemporary full diced calf with gilt borders (scattered stains to both boards), spine in compartments with gilt decoration and lettering joints and headcaps repaired); with an interesting Hawaiian association, bearing the ownership signature of Frederick Wundenberg (1850-1908) – son of early German settler on Kauai, Hawaii, Gottfried Frederick Wundenberg – to the half-title and at the head of the Preface; pp. 288, with a frontispiece folding chart (fine condition); occasional browning, preliminaries with pale water-stain around the foot of the gutter, but a very good copy with wide margins.

First edition of this account of the North Pacific maritime adventures of Scottish sailor Archibald Campbell (1787-1821), with descriptions of Japan, Kamchatka, the Aleutian Islands, and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), and of Campbell’s ordeal after the wreck of his ship Eclipse on Sanak Island in the Aleutians, and his subsequent journey in an open boat to Kodiak off the coast of Alaska. Having lost both his feet to frostbite, Campbell was sent to Hawaii to recuperate, and he spent over a year there in 1809-10, living ‘among the chiefs and then with Isaac Davis’ (Forbes), and even serving as sailmaker to King Kamehameha I. This first edition was edited by James Smith, and published with the intention of raising funds to support Campbell after his return home to Scotland.

Sabin 10210; Forbes 448; Hill 244; Lada-Mocarski 71; Howes C-88