A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels: Containing Whatever is worthy of Notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America: In Respect to The Situation and Extent of Empires, Kingdoms, and Provinces; their Climates, Soil, Produce, &c. Volume III.
With The Manners and Customs of the Several Inhabitants, their Government, Religion, Arts, Sciences, Manufactures, and Commerce London: Printed by J. Knox, 1767.
Hardcover. Octavo. Volume III only. [2], 520 pages. Illustrated with fold out chart map of the southern section of South America and a chart map of the Pacific Ocean. Binding in poor condition. Marbled paper covered boards are detached. Text block split into two sections. Spine is dry and cracked with no title label. Boards extremely worn. Text is untrimmed. Light staining and fading to the the title page. Previous owner ink name stamp on page 1. A persistent brown stain in the upper gutter of the text partly affecting the Pacific Ocean fold out map in the margins. Page 214 torn in the margin with no loss of print. Some doodles in the margins of a few pages. Light toning to the contents. A poor copy.
Contents include voyage accounts of Captain William Dampier, Captain Woodes Rogers, and Anson's voyage around the world, The Pacific Ocean map shows California and parts of the Philippines. The map has some brown stains in the margins. Poor. Item #36492
Price: $100.00