A Voyage round the World,in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV.

WALTER (Richard). & [ANSON'S VOYAGE].

A Voyage round the World,in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV.

First edition. 42 copper plates. 4to. Contemporary calf, gilt tooling and raised bands to spine. Joints starting, front fragile but holding by strings, corners rubbed, vertical crack up spine with portion of label lost, headcaps chipped. [xii xxxvi], 417 2pp (directions to the binder). London, Knapton, 1748.

£1,200.00

“A masterpiece of descriptive travel” (Hill).

“The government having thought proper… to send a squadron into the South Seas, to annoy the Spaniards in that part of the world, the lords commissioners of the admiralty had proper directions from his Majesty in council, to get ready six men of war”. Anson was given command of this fleet and set out for the Pacific in the hope of cutting off Spain from the great wealth that flowed from the West coast of South America as well as the Pacific. He captured several prizes, but none to compare with the Manilla galleon containing treasure worth £400,000.

“The most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century” (Hill), which was compiled by Anson’s chaplain Richard Walter from the various journals from the voyage. The manuscript for a second volume which would have included nautical observations was lost when the editor Benjamin Robins died in India. Hill, p318.

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