(TRAVEL) Shelvocke George A Voyage Round the World by the Wa

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(TRAVEL.) Shelvocke, George. A Voyage Round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea. Folding map on 2 sheets, 4 plates. [8], xxxii, [4], 468 pages. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, rebacked with portion of worn backstrip laid down; lacking half of map with full facsimile bound in, several minor tears and repairs; early owner's signature on title page, 1833 gift inscription on flyleaf. London, 1726

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first edition of a privateering narrative. "Shelvocke has the fullest accounts of California, the natives and other features, of any of the old voyagers. Gold-dust was discovered by the party in abundance, or such they claimed"--Cowan 1933, page 211. Two of the plates depict Californians. Also contains interesting accounts of Brazil, sacking a Peruvian village, and a shipwreck on Juan Fernandez Island, South America. Borba de Moraes, page II:795; European Americana 726/192; Hill 1557 ("An incident . . . in which a sailor kills an albatross, is said to have inspired Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner"); Howes S383 ("b"); Sabin 80158; Wagner, Spanish Southwest 88.