Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew;

Second Edition, first published the previous year. McLeod was the Surgeon of the Alceste which carried Lord Amherst on his embassy to China. The ship was wrecked in the Strait of Gaspar, all hands survived to be menaced by Malay pirates but eventually rescued by the East-Indiaman Ternate. A reviewer in the Edinburgh Review remarked on “Mr. McLeod’s animated and ennobling story of the loss of the Alceste, and the deliverance of the crew … makes us proud of our country, and puts us in good humour with our species.”

8vo (217 × 137 mm). Attractive contemporary black half calf on marbled boards, title direct to spine, elegant gilding in the compartments. Soft ground etched portrait of Capt. Murray Maxwell as frontispiece and 5 coloured aquatint plates. Contemporary pencilled ownership inscription of Louisa Du Cane on title. A little rubbed at the extremities, some scattered foxing, plates mildly browned, but overall a very good copy.