(Capt. William) [The Voyages] 3 vol., comprising A New Voyage Round The World, fourth edition, 1699; Voyages and Descriptions, first edition, 1699; A Voyage to New Holland, second edition, 1709, 40 engraved maps, plates and plans (9 folding), advertisements, occasional light spotting, vol. 1 & 2 contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed, later endpapers, vol.3 contemporary calf, corners and spine ends bumped, rubbed, [Sabin 18374-18376], 8vo, for J.Knapton. *** Dampier, often called the 'precursor to Banks and Darwin in his keen observations' and an 'indefatigable navigator', was the first English navigator to record and collect natural history, and survived shipwreck, desertion and imprisonment. He made an unprecedented three circumnavigations and also was the first to correctly describe the winds and currents in the Pacific Ocean. His stated aim was discovery, not Spanish gold, in the islands of the East Indies not yet controlled by the VOC. Volumes I-II contain his earlier voyages to the West Indies from 1674-76 and his 1681-91 voyages from Virginia and Mexico around the Horn to the Philippines, China and Australia where, in 1688, he made the first English landing on the continent. This fourth edition of volume I is an exact reprint of the first of 1697. a naval commission in 1698 he embarked on a second voyage to Australia in the naval vessel Roebuck, a rotten, badly-provisioned and short-handed ship in which he surveyed the north coast of New Guinea, New Ireland and New Britain, proving them to be separate from Australia, discovered Dampier Strait, and concluded that Australia was not joined to Asia, Africa or America. The third volume includes Dampier's A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland. Condition report disclaimer
(Capt. William) [The Voyages] 3 vol., comprising A New Voyage Round The World, fourth edition, 1699; Voyages and Descriptions, first edition, 1699; A Voyage to New Holland, second edition, 1709, 40 engraved maps, plates and plans (9 folding), advertisements, occasional light spotting, vol. 1 & 2 contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, rubbed, later endpapers, vol.3 contemporary calf, corners and spine ends bumped, rubbed, [Sabin 18374-18376], 8vo, for J.Knapton. *** Dampier, often called the 'precursor to Banks and Darwin in his keen observations' and an 'indefatigable navigator', was the first English navigator to record and collect natural history, and survived shipwreck, desertion and imprisonment. He made an unprecedented three circumnavigations and also was the first to correctly describe the winds and currents in the Pacific Ocean. His stated aim was discovery, not Spanish gold, in the islands of the East Indies not yet controlled by the VOC. Volumes I-II contain his earlier voyages to the West Indies from 1674-76 and his 1681-91 voyages from Virginia and Mexico around the Horn to the Philippines, China and Australia where, in 1688, he made the first English landing on the continent. This fourth edition of volume I is an exact reprint of the first of 1697. a naval commission in 1698 he embarked on a second voyage to Australia in the naval vessel Roebuck, a rotten, badly-provisioned and short-handed ship in which he surveyed the north coast of New Guinea, New Ireland and New Britain, proving them to be separate from Australia, discovered Dampier Strait, and concluded that Australia was not joined to Asia, Africa or America. The third volume includes Dampier's A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland. Condition report disclaimer
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