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GEORGE SHELVOCKE (1675-1742)
A Voyage round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, Perform'd in the Years 1719, 20, 21, 22. London: Printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1726. 8° (197 x 124mm). Folding engraved map (part depicting Europe, Africa and Asia bound in before title, part with the Americas bound in at beginning of text), 4 engraved plates, one folding. (Title, map of Africa, Europe and Asia, and verso of final leaf of text browned and a little soiled, final leaf of text misbound after contents, light worming in inner gutter at beginning, a few upper margins lightly soiled, a few spots throughout.) Contemporary calf (worn). Provenance: John Clevland (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Shelvocke conducted raids against Spanish shipping on the west coast of South America. He sailed northwards to Cabo San Lucas where he remained for some months, writing one of the earliest descriptions of the Indians of Baja California, and suggesting the possibility of finding gold in California. It was while rounding Cape Horn that one of his crew shot an albatross, reported here and later read by William Wordsworth who surely relayed it to Coleridge. Alden & Landis 726/192; Barrett 2261; Borba de Moraes II, 796. Cowan I, pp.211-212; Cowan II, pp.581-582. Hill 1557; Howes S-383; Leighly California as an Island 159; Sabin 80158. Sold with a copy of the 1757 second edition of this work (browned, spotted and a little waterstained).
A Voyage round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, Perform'd in the Years 1719, 20, 21, 22. London: Printed for J. Senex, W. and J. Innys, J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1726. 8° (197 x 124mm). Folding engraved map (part depicting Europe, Africa and Asia bound in before title, part with the Americas bound in at beginning of text), 4 engraved plates, one folding. (Title, map of Africa, Europe and Asia, and verso of final leaf of text browned and a little soiled, final leaf of text misbound after contents, light worming in inner gutter at beginning, a few upper margins lightly soiled, a few spots throughout.) Contemporary calf (worn). Provenance: John Clevland (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. Shelvocke conducted raids against Spanish shipping on the west coast of South America. He sailed northwards to Cabo San Lucas where he remained for some months, writing one of the earliest descriptions of the Indians of Baja California, and suggesting the possibility of finding gold in California. It was while rounding Cape Horn that one of his crew shot an albatross, reported here and later read by William Wordsworth who surely relayed it to Coleridge. Alden & Landis 726/192; Barrett 2261; Borba de Moraes II, 796. Cowan I, pp.211-212; Cowan II, pp.581-582. Hill 1557; Howes S-383; Leighly California as an Island 159; Sabin 80158. Sold with a copy of the 1757 second edition of this work (browned, spotted and a little waterstained).
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