SHELVOCKE, George. A Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea...London: for J[ohn] Senex, 1726. 8o (195 x 115 mm.) Folding map (defective, mostly lacking) and 4 engraved plates including 2 folding (some minor soiling to plates depicting California Indians), generally a very clean copy. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked. FIRST EDITION of this account of Shelvocke's privately-funded endeavor to raid Spanish ships. Sailing up the West Coast of South America, sacking Payta and Peru. Later shipwrecked on Juan Fernandez Island, a new ship was made from the wreckage and sailed to Baja, California. Shelvocke mentioned the gold of California and the guano of Peru, one hundred and thirty years before their modern discovery. An incident in the narrative, describing the passage around Cape Horn, is said to have inspired Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner --Hill, pp. 272-3; Sain 80158; Howes S383.