COOKE, Edward (fl.1710). A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World, Performed in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711. [- Vol. II. A Continuation of the Voyage from California, through India, and North about into England] . London: H.M. for B. Lintot and H.M. Gosling, A. Bettesworth and W. Innys, 1712. 2 volumes, 8°. Folding frontispiece map and 19 engraved plates and maps, 2 folding, 18-page bookseller's catalogue [I] and 10 engraved maps, plates and tables, 6 folding, numerous woodcut coastal profiles in text [II] (some browning or off-setting, small early library stamp on title and last leaf versos, map chipped at inner margin). Contemporary Cambridge-panelled sprinkled calf (rebacked retaining original spines, modern calf labels, rubbed). Provenance : George Clendining (18th-century engraved armorial bookplate) -- Kings Inns Library, Dublin (inkstamps on versos of titles and final leaves). FIRST EDITION AND RARE COMPLETE FIRST ISSUE of the rival account to Woodes Rogers' account of the same year. Cooke sailed as second captain and keeper of the ship's journal aboard the Dutchess , in company with Woodes Rogers who commanded the voyage from the Duke . This highly successful privateering voyage was planned by William Dampier, who sailed as pilot and navigator, and funded by Bristol merchants. Cooke's account was rushed into print in advance of Rogers' and was padded out with Orellana's account and map of the Amazon and other earlier accounts of South America. It also made only brief mention of Alexander Selkirk's rescue from Juan Fernandez -- a story that was hotly competed for by publishers. Cooke was encouraged to expand and embellish the story for a second issue of vol. I which was printed with this sole issue of vol. II the same year and contains a much extended translation of the captured Spanish sailing directions from Tierra del Fuego to California, which first appeared in the appendix of Rogers' account, and a more detailed account of the voyage from California to England. The folding route map engraved by John Senex in vol. I is that used in Rogers' account. Kroepelien 224; Sabin 16303; Hill 372. (2) (2)
COOKE, Edward (fl.1710). A Voyage to the South Sea, and Round the World, Performed in the Years 1708, 1709, 1710, and 1711. [- Vol. II. A Continuation of the Voyage from California, through India, and North about into England] . London: H.M. for B. Lintot and H.M. Gosling, A. Bettesworth and W. Innys, 1712. 2 volumes, 8°. Folding frontispiece map and 19 engraved plates and maps, 2 folding, 18-page bookseller's catalogue [I] and 10 engraved maps, plates and tables, 6 folding, numerous woodcut coastal profiles in text [II] (some browning or off-setting, small early library stamp on title and last leaf versos, map chipped at inner margin). Contemporary Cambridge-panelled sprinkled calf (rebacked retaining original spines, modern calf labels, rubbed). Provenance : George Clendining (18th-century engraved armorial bookplate) -- Kings Inns Library, Dublin (inkstamps on versos of titles and final leaves). FIRST EDITION AND RARE COMPLETE FIRST ISSUE of the rival account to Woodes Rogers' account of the same year. Cooke sailed as second captain and keeper of the ship's journal aboard the Dutchess , in company with Woodes Rogers who commanded the voyage from the Duke . This highly successful privateering voyage was planned by William Dampier, who sailed as pilot and navigator, and funded by Bristol merchants. Cooke's account was rushed into print in advance of Rogers' and was padded out with Orellana's account and map of the Amazon and other earlier accounts of South America. It also made only brief mention of Alexander Selkirk's rescue from Juan Fernandez -- a story that was hotly competed for by publishers. Cooke was encouraged to expand and embellish the story for a second issue of vol. I which was printed with this sole issue of vol. II the same year and contains a much extended translation of the captured Spanish sailing directions from Tierra del Fuego to California, which first appeared in the appendix of Rogers' account, and a more detailed account of the voyage from California to England. The folding route map engraved by John Senex in vol. I is that used in Rogers' account. Kroepelien 224; Sabin 16303; Hill 372. (2) (2)
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