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[DEFOE, Daniel (1661?-1731)]. A New Voyage round the World by a course never sailed before. London: A. Bettesworth and W. Mears, 1725. 8° (193 x 116mm). Engraved frontispiece and three smaller folding plates. Modern panelled calf, t.e.g. Provenance: Elizabeth Jane Wather (early signature on title); Henry Yates Thompson (morocco label). FIRST EDITION. Furbank and Owens 221.

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[DEFOE, Daniel (1661?-1731)]. A New Voyage round the World by a course never sailed before. London: A. Bettesworth and W. Mears, 1725. 8° (193 x 116mm). Engraved frontispiece and three smaller folding plates. Modern panelled calf, t.e.g. Provenance: Elizabeth Jane Wather (early signature on title); Henry Yates Thompson (morocco label). FIRST EDITION. Furbank and Owens 221.

DEFOE, D. The True-born Englishman, a satyr. [London:] 1701. 4° (199 x 150mm). (One or two headlines shaved.) Modern calf. Provenance: Sir Mayson M. Beeton (bookplate). Second edition listed by Foxon. Furbank and Owens 17; Foxon D154.

The Memoirs of an English officer ... by Capt. George Carleton. London: E. Symon, 1728. 8° (215 x 140mm). Late 19th-century calf, gilt crest on upper cover, gilt edges (spine rubbed). FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY. Moore 500; rejected by Furbank and Owens; together with 3 other works by or once attributed to Defoe.
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