Oct 21, 2014 - Sale 2362

Sale 2362 - Lot 117

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ANSON, GEORGE.) Walter, Richard; compiler. A Voyage Round the World, In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. 29 folding engraved plates and 13 folding maps. [34], 417, [3] pages, including leaf of binder's directions at end. 4to, 251x202 mm, late 18th-/early 19th-century calf gilt, moderate wear, front cover detached; scattered minor foxing, varying offsetting from and onto engraved matter, light dampstaining in lower portion of contents in middle of volume, bookplate removed. London: John and Paul Knapton for the Author, 1748

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first edition of the official account of Anson's voyage to disrupt Spanish shipping in the Pacific, one of the most famous 18th-century circumnavigations. Alden 748/225; Hill 1817 ("a masterpiece of descriptive travel"); Palau 12865.