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JAMES BURNEY (1750-1821)
A Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. Part I. Commencing with an Account of the earliest Discovery of that Sea by Europeans, And terminating with the Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, in 1579 [- Part V. To the Year 1764]. London: Printed by Luke Hansard, 1803-1817. 5 vols. 4° (297 x 235mm). 45 engraved maps and plates, many folding, including 2 engraved illustrations and 2 maps in the text. (Some off-setting to plates, intermittent foxing to text, Vol. II title-page restored at margin, one folding map chipped at fore-edge.) Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt in compartments (rebacked, old spines laid down, one inner hinge cracked, corners renewed, label removed from original endpapers).
FIRST EDITION of the most important general history of South Sea discoveries before James Cook, collected from all sources, printed and manuscript, including important remarks by the Author, a great authority on South Sea voyages who sailed as lieutenant on James Cook's second and third voyages. Early voyages are strongly represented by Magellan, Drake, Cavendish, the major Spanish and Dutch voyages; both voyages of Tasman are printed; the supposed voyage of Bartholomew de Fonte to the North-West Passage is re-printed; Narborough's voyage with his detailed chart of the Straits of Magellan and the seventeenth and eighteenth century privateering voyages are covered, as are the circumnavigations of Anson and Bougainville. Many of the early voyages to the west coast of America would be inaccessible had Burney not collected them for this work. Hill 221; Hocken 30-34. (3)
A Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean. Part I. Commencing with an Account of the earliest Discovery of that Sea by Europeans, And terminating with the Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, in 1579 [- Part V. To the Year 1764]. London: Printed by Luke Hansard, 1803-1817. 5 vols. 4° (297 x 235mm). 45 engraved maps and plates, many folding, including 2 engraved illustrations and 2 maps in the text. (Some off-setting to plates, intermittent foxing to text, Vol. II title-page restored at margin, one folding map chipped at fore-edge.) Contemporary polished calf, spines gilt in compartments (rebacked, old spines laid down, one inner hinge cracked, corners renewed, label removed from original endpapers).
FIRST EDITION of the most important general history of South Sea discoveries before James Cook, collected from all sources, printed and manuscript, including important remarks by the Author, a great authority on South Sea voyages who sailed as lieutenant on James Cook's second and third voyages. Early voyages are strongly represented by Magellan, Drake, Cavendish, the major Spanish and Dutch voyages; both voyages of Tasman are printed; the supposed voyage of Bartholomew de Fonte to the North-West Passage is re-printed; Narborough's voyage with his detailed chart of the Straits of Magellan and the seventeenth and eighteenth century privateering voyages are covered, as are the circumnavigations of Anson and Bougainville. Many of the early voyages to the west coast of America would be inaccessible had Burney not collected them for this work. Hill 221; Hocken 30-34. (3)
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