Voyages.- Shelvocke (Captain George) A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, first edition, engraved vignette title, woodcut head-pieces and initials, engraved folding map and 4 plates (2 folding), folding map and 1 folding plate torn with loss, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original backstrip, [Sabin 80158], 8vo, J.Senex, 1726. ⁂ An important work for its early descriptions of California, Shelvocke's Voyage is also notable for supposedly inspiring Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Voyages.- Shelvocke (Captain George) A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, first edition, engraved vignette title, woodcut head-pieces and initials, engraved folding map and 4 plates (2 folding), folding map and 1 folding plate torn with loss, contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original backstrip, [Sabin 80158], 8vo, J.Senex, 1726. ⁂ An important work for its early descriptions of California, Shelvocke's Voyage is also notable for supposedly inspiring Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
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