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BURNEY, JAMES. A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea. 39 (of 41) engraved plates and maps. 5 volumes. 4to, mid-19th-century 1/2 calf, worn, upper half of Volume 1 spine missing; offsetting from plates throughout, some plates foxed and/or offset, Volume 3 lacks plate to face page 28 (Chart of the Coast from Callao etc.), Volume 4 lacks plate to face page 145 (Cowley's Chart of the Galapagos Islands). Henry Marquand bookplates. London, 1803-17
first edition. "The most important general history of early South Sea discoveries, containing practically everything of importance on the subject . . . Many of the early voyages to California would be inaccessible were they not herein collected"--Hill 221. Howes B1002 ("monumental and valuable synthesis").
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