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ANSON (GEORGE) A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, FIRST EDITION, John and Paul Knapton, for the Author, 1748
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ANSON (GEORGE)
A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, FIRST EDITION, edited by Richard Walter, with p.319 misnumbered 219, 42 engraved plates, maps and plans (most folding, generally clean, fore-edge of 3 or 4 slightly creased), list of subscribers, "Directions to the bookbinder" at end, nineteenth century half calf, titled in gilt on spine, upper joint weakened with small loss to leather [Hill 1817; Sabin 1626], 4to (257 x 204mm.), John and Paul Knapton, for the Author, 1748
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First edition of "a masterpiece of descriptive travel. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century" (Hill). The first official account of Anson's circumnavigation, edited from Anson's "papers and materials" by Richard Walter, the expedition's chaplain. "The book was both a stirring story of adventures at sea and an exhortation to further Pacific enterprise" (Glyn Williams, The Prize of All the Oceans. The Triumphs and Tragedy of Anson's Voyage, 1999).

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