Dampier, William, Capt.:

$15,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

A NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. DESCRIBING PARTICULARLY, THE ISTHMUS OF AMERICA, SEVERAL COASTS AND ISLANDS IN THE WEST INDIES...THE SOUTH SEA COASTS OF CHILI, PERU, AND MEXICO.... [with:] VOYAGES AND ... A set of scarce first editions of the writings of the celebrated British navigator and buccaneer, William Dampier. It is very difficult to find sets of Dampier in first editions, the first volume in particular being quite elusive. The first editions vary in content from the more commonly encountered 1729 edition, to which the publisher, Knapton, appended writings by some of Dampier's shipmates in the last volume (every one of which Dampier denounced and had disapproved). Henry Stevens notes (as quoted in Sabin): "It is better to have Dampier undefiled, and the best editions of Dampier are his volumes as originally published."Dampier's first voyage to the Pacific was in 1680, raiding on the Spanish coast of South America, then crossing the Pacific to the East Indies. During the next two decades he travelled extensively through the Pacific, at various times visiting Terra del Fuego, the west coasts of South and Central America, Guam, the Philippines, the East Indies, China, the Campeche coast, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.In 1688, Dampier touched on New Holland, or Australia, for the first time, making a survey of the coast near King Sound. In 1698, after the first volume of his voyages had been published and received great acclaim, the Admiralty gave him a commission as a

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