A New Voyage Round the World,

by a Course Never Sailed Before by Daniel Defoe

$2,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked Provenance: Bookplate of Thomas Fleming Jr. First edition of one of Defoe’s major fictional travel narratives. An important work in Defoe’s later career, and an important early example of the fictional circumnavigation in English literature. Framed as the journal of a group of merchants undertaking a circumnavigation by a course never sailed before, the work describes an imaginary trading and occasionally

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