(TRAVEL) Edmund Fanning Voyages Round the World to the So

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(TRAVEL.) Edmund Fanning. Voyages Round the World . . . to the South Seas, North and South Pacific Oceans, China, Etc. 5 plates. 499 pages. 8vo, modern calf; intermittent dampstaining, moderate foxing; later inscriptions and private inked stamp on title page, library catalog stamps on second leaf. New York, 1833

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First edition of Connecticut sea captain's adventures starting with a South Sea sealing expedition in 1792, and including visits to Australia and Fiji. It concludes with an account of the first American naval exploring expedition, a voyage under Benjamin Pendleton to the South Seas in 1829-30. Hill 581; Howes F27 ("aa")