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[John Young]
An Affecting Narrative Of the Unfortunate Voyage and Catastrophe Of his Majesty's Ship Wager, One of Commodore Anson's Squadron in the South Sea Expedition. London: for John Norwood and sold by the Booksellers of London, Bristol and Liverpool, 1751. 8° (19.5 x 12cm.). Contemporary speckled sheep (scuffed, joints weak). Provenance: Rev. Dr. Peter Gunning, 'Farmborough' (booklabel); Everard im Thurn (signature, dated 1913).
FIRST EDITION, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN YOUNG, OF A "SCARCE AND THRILLING NARRATIVE OF ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE VOYAGES EVER UNDERTAKEN." When the Wager [one of Anson's squadron], under Captain David Cheap, was wrecked off the coast of Chile, John Bulkeley, with eighty others, set out in the long boats to reach the coast of Brazil, some 3,000 miles away. Many died of hunger and exposure, some had to be abandoned on the coast of Patagonia, but thirty finally reached Rio Grande do Sul. Of these, three, Bulkeley and Cummins, the gunner and carpenter of the Wager, and the author of this account, were able to take a Portugese ship to Lisbon" (Hill p.4). Borba de Moraes p.948; Hill pp.3-4; Sabin 1634.
An Affecting Narrative Of the Unfortunate Voyage and Catastrophe Of his Majesty's Ship Wager, One of Commodore Anson's Squadron in the South Sea Expedition. London: for John Norwood and sold by the Booksellers of London, Bristol and Liverpool, 1751. 8° (19.5 x 12cm.). Contemporary speckled sheep (scuffed, joints weak). Provenance: Rev. Dr. Peter Gunning, 'Farmborough' (booklabel); Everard im Thurn (signature, dated 1913).
FIRST EDITION, ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN YOUNG, OF A "SCARCE AND THRILLING NARRATIVE OF ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE VOYAGES EVER UNDERTAKEN." When the Wager [one of Anson's squadron], under Captain David Cheap, was wrecked off the coast of Chile, John Bulkeley, with eighty others, set out in the long boats to reach the coast of Brazil, some 3,000 miles away. Many died of hunger and exposure, some had to be abandoned on the coast of Patagonia, but thirty finally reached Rio Grande do Sul. Of these, three, Bulkeley and Cummins, the gunner and carpenter of the Wager, and the author of this account, were able to take a Portugese ship to Lisbon" (Hill p.4). Borba de Moraes p.948; Hill pp.3-4; Sabin 1634.