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CONSTANTINE JOHN PHIPPS, BARON MULGRAVE (1744-1792)
The Journal of a Voyage undertaken ... for making discoveries towards the North Pole, London: F. Newbery, 1774. 8° (220 x 131mm.). 2 folding engraved maps, one engraved plate. (One folding plate with clean marginal tear, a few leaves waterstained, last leaf creased, soiled and with long repaired tear, a few spots.) Later half calf (lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, issue with thin rules between title and imprint. This treatise contains particulars that were not given in the official account. Sabin 62573.
Edward Cavendish DRAKE. A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels from the earliest accounts to the present time, London: J. Cooke, 1768. 2° (357 x 238mm.). Title printed in red and black, 54 engraved plates and 8 maps. (Lacking frontispiece and text leaves 3D1, 4T1, 5C1, 5C2, 6D1 and 7F2, world map defective, a few repaired tears, outer margin of Uu2 partly torn away, lightly browned and/or spotted.) Contemporary calf (worn).
With William Dampier's The Voyages and Adventures of Captain William Dampier (2 vols., London, 1776) and Captain Black's Narrative of an Expedition ... on the Arctic Shores (London, 1838). The lot sold not subject to return. (5)
The Journal of a Voyage undertaken ... for making discoveries towards the North Pole, London: F. Newbery, 1774. 8° (220 x 131mm.). 2 folding engraved maps, one engraved plate. (One folding plate with clean marginal tear, a few leaves waterstained, last leaf creased, soiled and with long repaired tear, a few spots.) Later half calf (lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION, issue with thin rules between title and imprint. This treatise contains particulars that were not given in the official account. Sabin 62573.
Edward Cavendish DRAKE. A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels from the earliest accounts to the present time, London: J. Cooke, 1768. 2° (357 x 238mm.). Title printed in red and black, 54 engraved plates and 8 maps. (Lacking frontispiece and text leaves 3D1, 4T1, 5C1, 5C2, 6D1 and 7F2, world map defective, a few repaired tears, outer margin of Uu2 partly torn away, lightly browned and/or spotted.) Contemporary calf (worn).
With William Dampier's The Voyages and Adventures of Captain William Dampier (2 vols., London, 1776) and Captain Black's Narrative of an Expedition ... on the Arctic Shores (London, 1838). The lot sold not subject to return. (5)
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