A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, edited by Richard Walter, with p.319 misnumbered 219, 42 engraved plates, maps and plans (most folding), list of subscribers, "Directions to the bookbinder" at end, one map with tear repaired, one shaved just touching image, occasional toning and light off-setting, contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt-tooled spine with red gilt morocco spine [Hill 1817; Sabin 1626], 4to (285 x 225mm.), John and Paul Knapton, for the Author, 1748

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"A MASTERPIECE OF DESCRIPTIVE TRAVEL. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century" (Hill). The first official account of Anson's circumnavigation, edited from Anson's "papers and materials" by Richard Walter, the Expedition's chaplain. "The book was both a stirring story of adventures at sea and an exhortation to further Pacific enterprise" (Glyn Williams, The Prize of All the Oceans. The Triumphs and Tragedy of Anson's Voyage, 1999). This copy is considerably larger than the standard quarto first edition (see following lot).

Provenance: Earl of Breadalbane, bookplate. This is most probably the third Earl, John Campbell (1696-1782); Stowe Library, bookplate.

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ANSON (GEORGE) A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV, FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER COPY, John and Paul Knapton, for the Author, 1748

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