(PIRATES) Lionel Wafer A New Voyage and Description of the I

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(PIRATES.) Lionel Wafer. A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America. Folding map, 3 folding plates. [16], 283, [12] pages. 8vo, contemporary paneled calf, worn, crudely rebacked with part of original backstrip laid down; title page worn and remargined, 2 plates repaired at folds, foxing, moderate wear; early inscription and excised bookplate on front pastedown. London: James Knapton, 1704

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Second edition, expanded with appendices on natural history and gold mining. Wafer was a Welsh physician who signed on for a privateering voyage and after suffering an injury found himself left behind on the Isthmus of Panama in 1681, where he remained for a year among the indigenous Guna people before reuniting with the pirate William Dampier. European Americana 704/168; Palau 373443; Sabin 100940.