Title:
A New Voyage Round the World. Describing particularly, the Isthmus of America, Several Coasts and Islands in the West Indies, Isles of Cape Verd, the Passage by Terra del Fuego, the South Sea Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico; the Isle of Guam on of the Ladrones, Mindanoa, and other Philippine and East-India Islands near Cambodia, China, Formosa, Luconia, Celebes, &c. New Holland, Sumatra, Nicobar Isles; the Cape of Good Hope, and Santa Hellena. Their soil, rivers, harbours, plants, fruits, animals and inhabitants. Their customs, religion, government, trade, &c.
Description:
[10], vi, 384, 387-550, +[4] ad pp. 5 engraved maps (4 folding). (8vo) 19x12 cm. (7½x4¾") period full calf, spine gilt, red leather spine label. Third Edition.
"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." (Hill). Hill 417; Wing D163; Sabin 18374.
Condition:
Binding worn, joints and hinges cracked, lacking front and rear free endpapers; armorial frontispiece map worn at edges and with some irregular folding; bookplate on rear of title page, some foxing; internally very good.