A Collection of Original Voyages :

A$8,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Containing I. Capt. Cowley s voyage round the globe. II. Captain Sharp s journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South seas, written by himself. III. Capt. Wood s voyage thro the Streights of Magellan. IV. Mr. Roberts s adventures among the corsairs of the Levant; his account of their way of living; description of the Archipelago islands, taking of Scio, c / Illustrated with several maps and draughts. Published by Capt. William Hacke . London : Printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul s Church-Yard, 1699. Octavo (200 x 130 mm), early calf rebacked, upper board with faint ownership signature of Robert Studden, RN, 1844 ; endpapers replaced, front pastedown with bookplate of maritime adventurer Hugh Craggs; title-page with Studden s boldly written signature (also dated 1844); pp. [16], 45, [1 blank], 1-16 and 33-100, 1-53, [3 advertisements]; complete with the folding world map engraved by Herman Moll showing Cowley s track across the Pacific, 5 folding charts and plans, 1 plate of coastal profiles, and 2 woodcuts in the text; light spotting and browning, a very good example. Rare first edition of one of the most celebrated collections of accounts of the exploits of English buccaneers. William Hacke (or Hack) was a London map and chart maker who had sailed with the notorious buccaneer Bartholomew Sharpe on his expedition along the coasts of Spanish South America in 1679-82. Here he presents four buccaneer and pirate accounts: those of Cowley, Shar

• Binding: Hardcover

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