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First edition of this edited collected voyages of The English Circumnavigators, pulling together the voyages of Drake, Anson, Dampier, Cook.
First edition of this edited collected voyages of The English Circumnavigators, pulling together the voyages of Drake, Anson, Dampier, Cook.
First edition of this edited collected voyages of The English Circumnavigators, pulling together the voyages of Drake, Anson, Dampier, Cook.
First edition of this edited collected voyages of The English Circumnavigators, pulling together the voyages of Drake, Anson, Dampier, Cook.

PURVES, David Laing and CHOCHRANE, R. (editors).

The English Circumnavigators. The most remarkable voyages round the world by English sailors.

London and Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo, 1876.

$343.00
$343.00

The English Circumnavigators.

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A handsome copy of this work of the collected voyages of Drake, Anson, Dampier, and Cook, each with a map of their journey.

First edition; 8vo (18 x 12.5); multi-portrait lithograph frontispiece, additional lithograph title with vignette, 4 folding maps, prize bookplate, discreet booksellers ticket, frontis a little foxed; full contemporary purple calf prize binding, gilt vignettes to boards, spine in six gilt compartments with gilt morocco lettering piece, all edges marbled, a little rubbed, a very good copy; 831 pp.

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First edition of this edited collected voyages of The English Circumnavigators, pulling together the voyages of Drake, Anson, Dampier, Cook.

The English Circumnavigators.

$343.00
$343.00

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