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COCKBURN, JOHN. A faithful account of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, mariner, and five other Englishmen;who were taken prisoners by a Spanish pyrate . . . The second edition. To which is annexed, The travels of Mr. Nicholas Whithington, a factor in the East-Indies. Folding engraved map. viii, 349, [3] pages, including final ad leaf. 8vo, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, front joint cracked; minor marginal soiling on a few leaves, contents otherwise generally quite clean. Bookplate of Thomas Percival, Esquire. London: C. Rivington, 1740
Captured by pirates in the Caribbean and left on an uninhabited island, Cockburn and his fellow seamen reached the Mexican mainland and trekked across Central America to Panama, reaching England in 1732. Alden 740/63 (this edition); Hill 324 (1735 edition, "an authentic account of adventures so extraordinary that it was regarded as little more than a romance by contemporaries"); Howgego I, C137; Huntress, page 65.
