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Anson, George - Baron Anson - A Voyage Round the World, quarto, calf with repaired hinges and spine, replaced endpapers, 42 folding maps, plates and charts, numerous annotations in pencil and additions in a knowledgeable hand, together with later charts inserted:- Chart on tracing paper of "Rough Outline of SE Portion of Tierra del Fuego", inserted at p.76. Plate 20 neatly remounted, 1835 Chart of Anna Pink Bay by The Officers of HMS Beagle inserted at p.142, chart on tracing paper "To illustrate the position of the Wager May 14th 1741 and her wreck on the following day" inserted at p.144, "Approximate [manuscript] Mister Roll of HMS Wager", slip in at p.148, Chart on tracing paper of "Coast of Peru and Equador - Port Payton", inserted at p.188, London 1748 Estimate £1,000-1,500 While Great Britain was at war with Spain in 1740, Commodore George Anson led a squadron of eight ships on a mission to disrupt or capture Spain's Pacific possessions. Returning to Britain in 1744 by way of China and thus completing a circumnavigation, the voyage was notable for the capture of an Acapulco galleon but also horrific losses to disease with only 188 men of the original 1,854 surviving.