Title: Dampier's Voyages: Consisting of a New Voyage Round the World, a Supplement to the Voyage Round the World, Two Voyages to Campeachy, a Discourse of Winds, a Voyage to New Holland, and a Vindication, in answer to the Chimerical Relation of William Funnell Author: Dampier, William Place: London Publisher: E. Grant Richards Date: 1906 Description: 2 volumes. Edited by John Masefield. ix, [1], 612; vii, [1]. 624 pp. 11 folding maps; frontis. portrait; plates.22.2x14 cm. (8¾x5½"), original cloth stamped in gilt. As Hill notes, in describing the original editions, "Dampier was the best known and probably the most intelligent of the famous group of buccaneers that tormented the Spaniard in the South Seas from 1680 to 1720. His industry in taking notes of all he saw was equaled by his pains in preserving them from destruction. His first voyage took him from Virginia to Spanish America and across the Pacific to the East Indies. He traveled extensively in the orient on several voyages which lasted from 1683 to 1691. It was on one of these trips that the first landing was made by the English on Australian mainland, at the entrance of King Sound on the northwest coast, in 1688." A few instances of ink marginal notes; ownership signatures dated 1914. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to covers, very good. Item number: 233878
Title: Dampier's Voyages: Consisting of a New Voyage Round the World, a Supplement to the Voyage Round the World, Two Voyages to Campeachy, a Discourse of Winds, a Voyage to New Holland, and a Vindication, in answer to the Chimerical Relation of William Funnell Author: Dampier, William Place: London Publisher: E. Grant Richards Date: 1906 Description: 2 volumes. Edited by John Masefield. ix, [1], 612; vii, [1]. 624 pp. 11 folding maps; frontis. portrait; plates.22.2x14 cm. (8¾x5½"), original cloth stamped in gilt. As Hill notes, in describing the original editions, "Dampier was the best known and probably the most intelligent of the famous group of buccaneers that tormented the Spaniard in the South Seas from 1680 to 1720. His industry in taking notes of all he saw was equaled by his pains in preserving them from destruction. His first voyage took him from Virginia to Spanish America and across the Pacific to the East Indies. He traveled extensively in the orient on several voyages which lasted from 1683 to 1691. It was on one of these trips that the first landing was made by the English on Australian mainland, at the entrance of King Sound on the northwest coast, in 1688." A few instances of ink marginal notes; ownership signatures dated 1914. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing to covers, very good. Item number: 233878
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