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ANSON, George

Reize rondsom de Werreld, gedaan in de Jaaren 1740 tot 1744 door den heere George Anson, opperbevelhebber over een esquader Engelsche schepen op een expeditie naar de Zuidzee. Ed. R. Walter

Amsterdam
Isaak Tirion
1748

€300 - €450

In-4°, [26], 386, [4] pp. Titel gedrukt in rood en zwart, met titelvignet, volledig met 15 (uitslaande) gegraveerde kaarten en plannen en 20 uitslaande gravures buiten de collatie. Goed exemplaar, met weinig vlekken, gebonden in vol kalfsleder uit de tijd, rug versierd met goud, restauraties aan de kapitalen

Dutch edition of the official account Anson's important voyage, containing the double-page chart of the world, with California depicted as an island, which was not issued with the first English edition of the same year (and is not listed in the table of plates in the present edition).
Ref. Tiele 42 ; cf. Cat. NHSM p.136 (2nd Dutch ed. of the first work, 1749) ; Sabin 1641 (Dutch editions 1754 and 1765) ; Cox I, p.49 ; Hill 1817 ; Howgego A100. Hill comments that ""This compilation has long occupied a distinguished position as a masterpiece of descriptive travel. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century."" Howgego: ""Although Anson lost most of his crew and all but one of his ships, he did return with a vast bounty, at the time valued at £400.000

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