Dec 04, 2008 - Sale 2165

Sale 2165 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(ANSON, GEORGE, Baron Anson.) A Voyage Round the World, in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV . . . Compiled . . . by Richard Walter, M.A. . . . Ninth Edition. 3 folding engraved maps (world map showing California as an island, Southern Cone, Pacific Ocean). iv, [4], 367 pages. 12mo, contemporary 1/2 mottled sheep, flat spine gilt, lettering piece off, joints rubbed; contents clean. London: T. Osborne et al., 1761

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Official account of Anson''s voyage to harass Spanish shipping in the Pacific, one of the most famous 18th-century circumnavigations, originally published in 1748.