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WILLIAM FUNNELL
A Voyage around the world. Containing an account of Captain Dampier's expedition into the South-Seas in the ship St George, in the years 1703 and 1704... Together with the author's voyage from Amapalla on the West-Coast of Mexico, to East-India... the Cape of Good Hope, &c. London: W.Botham for James Knapton, 1707. 8° (19.3 x 11.6cm). 10 engraved plates, 5 folding engraved maps and charts. (The world map creased and with small tear at inner margin, small tear to outer margin of map of Amboyna, occasional light soiling and browning.) Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked and cornered, later endpapers). Provenance: Thomas Connolly (armorial bookplate).
First edition. "It was Funnell, not Dampier, who really circumnavigated the globe on this voyage, as Dampier proceeded only as far as the South Seas. The purpose of the expedition was to harass the Spaniards and take plunder from vessels and towns in South America, Its failure was due to the differences that arose between them. Funnell arrived in England before Dampier and seized the opportunity to compose a relation of his voyage; a task for which he was poorly qualified. His narrative contained much that was disapproved of by Dampier, who immediately after published a Vindication of his voyage, pointing out the misrepresentations of Funnell.": Hill pp.117-118; Sabin 26213.
A Voyage around the world. Containing an account of Captain Dampier's expedition into the South-Seas in the ship St George, in the years 1703 and 1704... Together with the author's voyage from Amapalla on the West-Coast of Mexico, to East-India... the Cape of Good Hope, &c. London: W.Botham for James Knapton, 1707. 8° (19.3 x 11.6cm). 10 engraved plates, 5 folding engraved maps and charts. (The world map creased and with small tear at inner margin, small tear to outer margin of map of Amboyna, occasional light soiling and browning.) Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked and cornered, later endpapers). Provenance: Thomas Connolly (armorial bookplate).
First edition. "It was Funnell, not Dampier, who really circumnavigated the globe on this voyage, as Dampier proceeded only as far as the South Seas. The purpose of the expedition was to harass the Spaniards and take plunder from vessels and towns in South America, Its failure was due to the differences that arose between them. Funnell arrived in England before Dampier and seized the opportunity to compose a relation of his voyage; a task for which he was poorly qualified. His narrative contained much that was disapproved of by Dampier, who immediately after published a Vindication of his voyage, pointing out the misrepresentations of Funnell.": Hill pp.117-118; Sabin 26213.