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BULKELEY (JOHN) AND JOHN CUMMINS A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740-1, FIRST EDITION, Jacob Robinson, 1743
26 February 2020, 13:00 GMT
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BULKELEY (JOHN) AND JOHN CUMMINS
A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740-1, FIRST EDITION, modern half calf [Borba de Moraes I, 133; Hill 210; Sabin 9108], 8vo, Jacob Robinson, 1743
Footnotes
"This is one of the principal accounts of the Wager [one of Anson's fleet], which was wrecked off the southern coast of Chile after rounding Cape Horn... After the wreck gunner John Bulkeley and carpenter John Cummins conducted the mutinous part of the crew until they arrived safely in Rio de Janeiro. Much of the adventure and interest of the account is in the description of their travails passing through the Strait of Magellan in a longboat" (Hill). This copy, with the author's name given on the title-page, is the first of two issues printed in 1743.