Author: ANSON, George.
Title: Reize rondsom de werreld, gedaan in de jaaren 1740 tot 1744.. op een expeditie naar de Zuidzee; opgesteld uit de journaalen en andere papieren van.. Anson zelven, en onder zyn opzicht uitgegeven door Richard Walter. Uit het Engelsch vertaald. 3e druk .. merkelyk verbeterd. (And:) Reize naer de Zuidzee, met het schip De Wager, onder het opzicht van George Anson, ondernomen in den jaere 1740. Zynde een vervolg op de reize van .. Anson. In't Nederduitsch vertaeld. (1e druk).
Description: Leiden, Amsterdam., Johannes Le Mair, Stephanus Jacobus Baalde, Cornelis van Hoogeveen, 1765-1766.2 volumes. 4to. 19th century half cloth, spines gilt. With title-page printed in red and black with fine engraved title-vignette, 15 folding maps and plans (2 small tears rep.) and 20 folding plates; title-page printed in red and black with fine engraved title-vignette and 8 engraved plates (4 folding). (32), 384,(1); (36),212,(16) pp.First published in Dutch in 1749. - Official account of Anson's (1697-1762) famous privateering expedition (1740-1744) of seven vessels against Spanish commerce in the Pacific, edited from Anson's papers by Richard Walter, chaplain of the expedition. Although Anson lost most of his crew (an estimated 1000 lost to scurvy, 300 to typhus and dysentery, four in action and the remainder to shipwreck), and all but one of his ships, he did return with a vast bounty. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the 18th century. His exploits brought back new knowledge about the little-known regions around the southern tip of South America. The second volume contains the account of John Byron (1723-1786), midshipsman to the Wager, separated from Anson's fleet in fog off Patagonia, he rounded Cape Horn and ran aground in the Guayaneco Archipelago, to the south of the Golfo de Penas on the southern Chilean coast. The fate of the survivors, who then divided into two return parties, is one of the most gripping yarns of maritime history. - A classic account of circumnavigation. - Two small library stamps on title-page otherwise a good copy.Tiele 42-43; Cat. NHSM I, p.136; Sabin 1641-1642a; Hill 1785; Borba de Moraes, p.39; European Americana 748/224 (first ed.); Cf. Huntress 50C and 57C; Howgego A100.
Keywords: America Brazil Dutch travel Islands piracy travel
Title: Reize rondsom de werreld, gedaan in de jaaren 1740 tot 1744.. op een expeditie naar de Zuidzee; opgesteld uit de journaalen en andere papieren van.. Anson zelven, en onder zyn opzicht uitgegeven door Richard Walter. Uit het Engelsch vertaald. 3e druk .. merkelyk verbeterd. (And:) Reize naer de Zuidzee, met het schip De Wager, onder het opzicht van George Anson, ondernomen in den jaere 1740. Zynde een vervolg op de reize van .. Anson. In't Nederduitsch vertaeld. (1e druk).
Description: Leiden, Amsterdam., Johannes Le Mair, Stephanus Jacobus Baalde, Cornelis van Hoogeveen, 1765-1766.2 volumes. 4to. 19th century half cloth, spines gilt. With title-page printed in red and black with fine engraved title-vignette, 15 folding maps and plans (2 small tears rep.) and 20 folding plates; title-page printed in red and black with fine engraved title-vignette and 8 engraved plates (4 folding). (32), 384,(1); (36),212,(16) pp.First published in Dutch in 1749. - Official account of Anson's (1697-1762) famous privateering expedition (1740-1744) of seven vessels against Spanish commerce in the Pacific, edited from Anson's papers by Richard Walter, chaplain of the expedition. Although Anson lost most of his crew (an estimated 1000 lost to scurvy, 300 to typhus and dysentery, four in action and the remainder to shipwreck), and all but one of his ships, he did return with a vast bounty. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the 18th century. His exploits brought back new knowledge about the little-known regions around the southern tip of South America. The second volume contains the account of John Byron (1723-1786), midshipsman to the Wager, separated from Anson's fleet in fog off Patagonia, he rounded Cape Horn and ran aground in the Guayaneco Archipelago, to the south of the Golfo de Penas on the southern Chilean coast. The fate of the survivors, who then divided into two return parties, is one of the most gripping yarns of maritime history. - A classic account of circumnavigation. - Two small library stamps on title-page otherwise a good copy.Tiele 42-43; Cat. NHSM I, p.136; Sabin 1641-1642a; Hill 1785; Borba de Moraes, p.39; European Americana 748/224 (first ed.); Cf. Huntress 50C and 57C; Howgego A100.
Keywords: America Brazil Dutch travel Islands piracy travel
Price: EUR 2035.00 = appr. US$ 2211.73 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 2191
- Book number: 2191