Compiled from the examination of John Hynes, one of the unfortunate survivors.
By Mr. George Carter, historical portrait painter, upon his passage outward bound to India.
Containing a variety of matter respecting the sufferers, never before made public;
With copper plates descriptive of the catastrophe, engraved from Mr. Carter's designs.
First edition: [2] ,174 pages, frontispiece – shipwreck of the Grosvenor – clumsily folded, 1 plates, contemporary full leather with a red title label on the spine, front board detached, three book plates on the front endpapers.
A South African Bibliography, volume 1, page 475.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck_of_the_Grosvenor) 'The wreck of the Grosvenor, an East Indiaman, occurred on 4 August 1782 on the Pondoland coast of South Africa, north of the mouth of the Umzimvubu River. The shipwreck was close to the place where the Portuguese ship, São João, had gone down more than two centuries earlier on 8 June 1552. The Grosvenor was a three-masted ship of 729 tons on her return voyage to England when she was wrecked, carrying a crew of 132 and 18 passengers (12 adults and 6 children), and a cargo valued at £75,000. Of the 123 survivors, only 18 reached Cape Town and were repatriated, the remainder dying of their privations or joining with tribes. Four survivors, Robert Price, Thomas Lewis, John Warmington, and Barney Larey, eventually got back to England.'
Printed at the Minerva Press, for J. Murray, Fleet Street, and William Lane.
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 8vo (210 x130mm)
