A cruising voyage round the world : first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish’d in 1711.

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Containing a journal of all the remarkable transactions; particularly of the taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the Acapulca ship, and other prizes : an account of Alexander Selkirk s living alone four years and four months in an island; and a brief description of several countries in our course noted for trade, especially in the South-Sea. With maps of all the coast, from the best Spanish manuscript draughts. And an introduction relating to the South-Sea trade. By Captain Woodes Rogers, Commander in Chief in this expedition, with the ships Duke and Dutchess of Bristol. The second edition, corrected. London : Printed for Bernard Lintot at the Cross-Keys between the Temple-Gates, Fleetstreet, and Edward Symon against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1726. Octavo (200 x 130 mm), early calf rebacked; front pastedown and endpaper with 20th-century bookplates of David Murray; pp. xix, [1 blank], 428, 1-57 (Appendix), [7 Index]; complete with the 5 folding maps (including the double-hemisphere map by Moll, the Emanuel Bowen map of the coast of Mexico, and three by John Senex) and 2 folding plates, all in excellent condition; a clean, crisp example. Second edition (first published in 1712) of one of the classics of buccaneering literature. After sailing down the coast of Brazil and rounding Cape Horn, [Rogers] made for the deserted island of Juan Fernandez to seek shelter from a severe storm. There Rogers rescued the celebrated Alexander Selkirk, a Scot who had been marooned several yea

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