TRAVEL ANSON GEORGE Baron Anson Walter Richard compiler A

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(ANSON, GEORGE, Baron Anson.) Walter, Richard, compiler. A Voyage Round the World, In the Years MDCCXL, 1, II, III, IV. . . . Sixth Edition. 3 folding engraved maps. [24], 548, [4] pages, including 2 ad leaves at end. 8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrip; scattered minor foxing, some light dampstaining in upper margins, clean tear in second map repaired on verso. London: John and Paul Knapton, 1749

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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, first published the year before. Alden 749/285.