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COOKE, Captain EDWARD. A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World...in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711...Wherein an Account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk...upon the uninhabited Island of Juan Fernandes. London: Printed by H.M. for B. Lintot, et al 1712. 8vo, contemporary Cambridge-style speckled panelled calf, rebacked to match, a corner recapped, the other three worn, light blue circular ex-libris stamp on title-page, a plate, and 4 other pages, half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, 4 engraved maps and plans (2 folding) and 16 engraved plates (1 folding), advertisement leaf at end, decorative initials and ornaments.
Contains the first account of Alexander Selkirk's years on Juan Fernandez Island (and includes a map of the island); it is generally accepted that Daniel Defoe used this work for his Robinson Crusoe. A second volume of Cooke's narrative of this buccaneering expedition the ships Dutchess and Duke (under the command of Capt. Woodes Rogers)--see the following lot--was published later in the year. "This [first]volume was issued separately, with no indication--as in the second edition--that it was Vol. I of an issue of two volumes, but both Sabin and Wagner incorrectly enter it as Vol. I of a two-volume edition"--Streeter sale IV, 2427. Cooke, second in command of the Dutchess, went on shore in California in December 1709, and gives an account of the country, with plates showing natives and fish. See Hill, p. 64; Howes C 733; Sabin 16303; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 77.
Contains the first account of Alexander Selkirk's years on Juan Fernandez Island (and includes a map of the island); it is generally accepted that Daniel Defoe used this work for his Robinson Crusoe. A second volume of Cooke's narrative of this buccaneering expedition the ships Dutchess and Duke (under the command of Capt. Woodes Rogers)--see the following lot--was published later in the year. "This [first]volume was issued separately, with no indication--as in the second edition--that it was Vol. I of an issue of two volumes, but both Sabin and Wagner incorrectly enter it as Vol. I of a two-volume edition"--Streeter sale IV, 2427. Cooke, second in command of the Dutchess, went on shore in California in December 1709, and gives an account of the country, with plates showing natives and fish. See Hill, p. 64; Howes C 733; Sabin 16303; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 77.