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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]. ANSON, George (1697–1762). A Voyage round the World, In the Years 1740... 1744. Compiled by Richard Walter. London: John and Paul Knapton for the author, 1748.
4to (276 x 216 mm). 42 engraved folding plates and maps (marginal repairs to several, some offsetting from plates to text, few minor stains); 12 pp. list of subscribers and directions to binder leaf at end. Later half blue niger, spine in 6 compartments with raised bands, gilt–lettering in second, UNCUT (spine gently sunned). Provenance: Graham A. Wenman (book label).
FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE with unnumbered plates and page 319 misnumbered as 219. The official account of one of the landmark 18th–century circumnavigations: “This compilation has long occupied a distinguished position as a masterpiece of descriptive travel. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century” (Hill).
RARE IN ORIGINAL UNCUT FORMAT. Borba de Moraes, p. 38; Cox I, p. 49; ESTC T89475; Hill 1817; Sabin 1625 101175.