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Byron, John (1723-1786) The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron, Containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered on the Coast of Patagonia.
London: Printed by S. Baker, G. Leigh, & T. Davies, 1768.
First edition, octavo, with half-title, engraved frontispiece (trimmed and mounted), bound in full later tree calf, rebacked; some offsetting, frontispiece slightly foxed, 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.
Byron, grandfather of the poet, writes the tale of the wreck of the Wager, and its aftermath on land. The poet used his grandfather's Narrative when writing the shipwreck account in his epic satirical poem chronicling the adventures of the eponymous Don Juan.
