A voyage round the world in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. (Large paper copy)

A$6,250 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

By George Anson Esq; Commander in Chief of a squadron of His Majesty s ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from the papers and other materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty s ship the Centurion, in that expedition. Illustrated with forty-two copper-plates. London : printed for the author by John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street, MDCCXLVIII [1748]. Quarto (265 x 210 mm), contemporary calf ruled in double gilt (boards rubbed and scuffed), recased and rebacked, spine in compartments with gilt decoration and lettering; edges stained red; front pastedown with late 19th-century bookplate; pp. [34] (last blank), 417, bound without the terminal directions to the binder leaf; page 319 misnumbered as 219 and thus, according to Cox, a genuine first ; 42 folding or double-page copperplate maps, charts and plates (plate at p. 340 supplied, chart at p. 94 with a tear at gutter fold); very occasional light foxing, otherwise a clean copy with larger margins than usual, one of 350 such copies issued to 350 of the names marked with an asterisk in the list of subscribers. First edition, large paper copy of one of the most significant maritime voyages of the eighteenth century. Anson’s circumnavigation was significant in that it provided much valuable navigational information crucial to the success of Cook’s voyages in the South Seas. After a series of disasters, Anson’s ini

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