ROGERS, Woodes. A Cruising Voyage Round the World: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, London: for Andrew Bell and Bernard Lintot, 1718, 8°, second edition, 5 folding engraved maps (one cleanly torn, occasional browning and staining), contemporary calf (restored, new endpapers, rubbed). [Sabin 72754] With 6 other works in 10 volumes including George Shelvocke's A Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea (London, 1726, worn), David Henry's An Historical Account of all the Voyages Round the World, performed by English navigators (4 vols., London, 1774-73, lacking a few plates and maps) and another work by Defoe (imperfect). (11)

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ROGERS, Woodes. A Cruising Voyage Round the World: first to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, London: for Andrew Bell and Bernard Lintot, 1718, 8°, second edition, 5 folding engraved maps (one cleanly torn, occasional browning and staining), contemporary calf (restored, new endpapers, rubbed). [Sabin 72754] With 6 other works in 10 volumes including George Shelvocke's A Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea (London, 1726, worn), David Henry's An Historical Account of all the Voyages Round the World, performed by English navigators (4 vols., London, 1774-73, lacking a few plates and maps) and another work by Defoe (imperfect). (11)

Provenance

"Bibliotheque Purlique, Jersey," library stamp on verso of title of first work.

Lot Essay

Woodes Rogers (d. 1732) was commander-in-chief of two men-of-war fitted out by Bristol merchants to cruise against the Spaniards in the South Sea, 1708; he reached Juan Fernandez, 1709, and found Alexander Selkirk; then proceeded to the coast of Peru, sacked Guayaquil, and after several engagements returned to England, 1711. DNB describes his journal, first published in 1712, as "a work of great interest and of a quaint humour that renders it delightful reading."

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