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FANNING, Edmund (1769-1841). Voyages Round the World; with selected sketches of Voyages to the South Seas, North and South Pacific Oceans, China, Etc . New York: Collins & Hannay, 1833. 8° (234 x 147mm). 5 lithographic plates, 2 folding. (one restored, one torn at fold). Modern cloth backed boards. FIRST EDITION. Fanning's first of many whaling voyages to the Falklands, Tierra del Fuego and South Georgia was in 1792. In 1829 he organized the first American Naval exploring Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere commanded by Benjamin Pendleton and Nat Palmer. Hill p. 100-101. Rosove 119. Conrad p. 35. Charles G. BARNARD. A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of... in a Recent Voyage Round the World, including an account of his residence for two years on an uninhabited island . New York: J.P. Callender, 1836. 8° (224 x 140mm). Folding map, 6 lithographic plates. (Some browning throughout). Original patterned cloth, rebacked. [Benjamin MORRELL]. Voyages and Adventures of Jack Halliard . Boston: Russell, Odiorne and Newburyport: J.G. Tilton, [1833]. 12° (130 x 108mm). Frontispiece, 17 woodcuts. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION of the voyages of Capt. Morrell, Stonington shipwright, adventuring seafarer and circumnavigator 1822-31, 'the biggest liar in the Pacific' and source for Poe's 'Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.' See: Hill, p. 204. No early issue in the British Library. Together with another issue, 1833. (4)