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WILLIAM FUNNELL (fl.1705)
A Voyage Round the World. Containing an Account of Captain Dampier's Expedition into the South-Seas in the Ship St. George, in the years 1703 and 1704. Together with the Author's Voyage from Amapalla on the West-Coast of Mexico, to East-India. London: W. Botham for James Knapton, 1707. 8° (192 x 116mm). 5 folding maps and 10 engraved plates, 3 folding. (Some light browning.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt, boards with borders of double gilt rules and central gilt arms, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one (lightly rubbed, skilfully rebacked retaining original lettering-piece). Provenance: [?]Sir Robert Salisbury Cotton (1669-1749, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Cheshire, gilt arms on boards, attributed to Cotton by manuscript note on upper pastedown).
FIRST EDITION OF A CONTROVERSIAL ACCOUNT by the Mate aboard the St. George on William Dampier's privately funded circumnavigation of 1703-1704. Funnell published this very shortly after returning to England, in advance of Dampier who immediately condemned it and published a Vindication of his Voyage in 1709, claiming that Funnell had grossly mispresented the facts. This was followed by An Answer from midshipman John Welbe who charged Dampier with barbarous treatment of his crew on the voyage. As Beaglehole wrote: 'No man was better fitted to navigate a ship [but] he was certainly not a great captain. The voyage was a fruitless one; they took a few small prizes and split into malcontent parties who made off to the East Indies in captured ships'. Funnell wrote that 'disagreements and mismanagement [caused] us to fail our chief designs'. His narrative, however, gives excellent descriptions of the west coast of the Americas, the Dutch East Indies and detailed natural history plates much like those in Dampier's published voyages. Of 183 men that embarked on the expedition, 18 returned. As Dampier published no account of the voyage, Knapton used Funnell's account as vol. IV in his editions of Dampier's voyages 1697-1707 (cf. previous lot) and 1729. Sabin 26213; Hill 664; Borba de Moraes 333-334.
A Voyage Round the World. Containing an Account of Captain Dampier's Expedition into the South-Seas in the Ship St. George, in the years 1703 and 1704. Together with the Author's Voyage from Amapalla on the West-Coast of Mexico, to East-India. London: W. Botham for James Knapton, 1707. 8° (192 x 116mm). 5 folding maps and 10 engraved plates, 3 folding. (Some light browning.) Contemporary speckled calf gilt, boards with borders of double gilt rules and central gilt arms, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-piece in one (lightly rubbed, skilfully rebacked retaining original lettering-piece). Provenance: [?]Sir Robert Salisbury Cotton (1669-1749, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Cheshire, gilt arms on boards, attributed to Cotton by manuscript note on upper pastedown).
FIRST EDITION OF A CONTROVERSIAL ACCOUNT by the Mate aboard the St. George on William Dampier's privately funded circumnavigation of 1703-1704. Funnell published this very shortly after returning to England, in advance of Dampier who immediately condemned it and published a Vindication of his Voyage in 1709, claiming that Funnell had grossly mispresented the facts. This was followed by An Answer from midshipman John Welbe who charged Dampier with barbarous treatment of his crew on the voyage. As Beaglehole wrote: 'No man was better fitted to navigate a ship [but] he was certainly not a great captain. The voyage was a fruitless one; they took a few small prizes and split into malcontent parties who made off to the East Indies in captured ships'. Funnell wrote that 'disagreements and mismanagement [caused] us to fail our chief designs'. His narrative, however, gives excellent descriptions of the west coast of the Americas, the Dutch East Indies and detailed natural history plates much like those in Dampier's published voyages. Of 183 men that embarked on the expedition, 18 returned. As Dampier published no account of the voyage, Knapton used Funnell's account as vol. IV in his editions of Dampier's voyages 1697-1707 (cf. previous lot) and 1729. Sabin 26213; Hill 664; Borba de Moraes 333-334.
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