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ROBERTS, GEORGE. The Four Years Voyages . . . being, A Series of Uncommon Events, which befell himin a Voyage to the Islands of the Canaries, Cape de Verde, and Barbadoes, from whence he was bound to the Coast of Guiney. 4 engraved plates; folding map. [6], 458 pages. 8vo, 194x117 mm, early 19th-century calf, rebacked, endpapers renewed; contents toned, with marginal browning and dampstaining. London: A. Bettesworth and J. Osborne, 1726
first edition. "According to the narrative, Roberts set out on a slaving expedition, but his ship was captured and plundered by pirates off the African coast. After a number of adventures the ship struck on one of the Cape Verde Islands, and was lost. Roberts joined another ship and eventually reached Barbados"--Huntress 41C. Alden 726/180; Furbank & Owen, Defoe De-Attributions, page 142.
