ATLASES, MAPS, VOYAGES and NAVIGATION
Property from the Collection of
The Late ROBERT H. POWER
ANSON, GEORGE, Lord. A Voyage round the World, in the Years MDCCXL[-]...IV... Compiled from Papers...by Richard Walter. London: for the Author 1748. 4to, 275 x 215 mm. (10¾ x 8½ in.), original blue sugarpaper over pasteboard, UNCUT, backstrip perished, upper cover detached, corners worn, one small marginal tear in the 13th engraving, lacks the "Directions to the book-binder" leaf. FIRST EDITION, 42 engraved maps, charts, coastal profiles and views. Hill, pp. 317-8; Sabin 1625. Glyndebourne book-label -- PURCHAS, SAMUEL. Purchas his Pilgrimage...The third Edition, much enlarged. London: William Stansby for Henry Fetherstone 1617. Folio, 330 x 215mm. (13 x 8 3/8in.), contemporary calf, later gilt lettering on spine, binding broken, backstrip fragmentary, leaves H3 and H4 inlaid, some dampstaining. Large-Paper copy (but leaves 1&6, B2&5, 2V3&4, 3D1&6, 3Y1&6, 4M1&6, 4N1&6 and 4Q2&5 on regular paper). Sabin 66681. (2)
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ANSON, GEORGE, Lord. A Voyage round the World, in the Years MDCCXL[-]...IV... Compiled from Papers...by Richard Walter. London: for the Author 1748. 4to, 275 x 215 mm. (10¾ x 8½ in.), original blue sugarpaper over pasteboard, UNCUT, backstrip perished, upper cover detached, corners worn, one small marginal tear in the 13th engraving, lacks the "Directions to the book-binder" leaf. FIRST EDITION, 42 engraved maps, charts, coastal profiles and views. Hill, pp. 317-8; Sabin 1625. Glyndebourne book-label -- PURCHAS, SAMUEL. Purchas his Pilgrimage...The third Edition, much enlarged. London: William Stansby for Henry Fetherstone 1617. Folio, 330 x 215mm. (13 x 8 3/8in.), contemporary calf, later gilt lettering on spine, binding broken, backstrip fragmentary, leaves H3 and H4 inlaid, some dampstaining. Large-Paper copy (but leaves 1&6, B2&5, 2V3&4, 3D1&6, 3Y1&6, 4M1&6, 4N1&6 and 4Q2&5 on regular paper). Sabin 66681. (2)