Byron's Journal of his Circumnavigation 1764-1766 Second Series, No. CXXII

by Robert E. Gallagher

$45 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. LXXXII, 230pp. Original gilt-, and blind-stamped blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Frontispiece. In 1764 John Byron was commissioned by the Admiralty to sail to the South Atlantic to search for Pepys's Island and the Southern Continent. He was then to continue into the Pacific itself and look for a possible

• Binding: Hardcover

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