FUNNELL, William. A Voyage around the world. Containing an account of Captain Dampier's expedition into the South-Seas in the ship St George, in the years 1703 and 1704...Together with the author's voyage from Amapalla on the West-Coast of Mexico, to East-India... the Cape of Good Hope, &c. London: W. Botham for James Knapton, 1707.
FUNNELL, William. A Voyage around the world. Containing an account of Captain Dampier's expedition into the South-Seas in the ship St George, in the years 1703 and 1704...Together with the author's voyage from Amapalla on the West-Coast of Mexico, to East-India... the Cape of Good Hope, &c. London: W. Botham for James Knapton, 1707. 8 o (182 x 115 mm). 10 engraved plates depicting fish, mammals, plants, island profiles, 5 folding engraved maps and charts. (One plate with small marginal tear, another shaved at lower edge, some pale spotting). Half green calf, gilt spine, red morocco gilt-lettered labels (rubbed). Provenance : Driscoll Piracy Collection, Wichita City Library (bookplate; sold Christie's East, 12 December 2000, lot 75). FIRST EDITION. "It was Funnell, not Dampier, who really circumnavigated the globe on this voyage, as Dampier proceeded only as far as the South Seas. The purpose of the expedition was to harass the Spaniards and take plunder from vessels and towns in South America. Its failure was due to the differences that arose between them. Funnell arrived in England before Dampier and seized the opportunity to compose a relation of his voyage; a task for which he was poorly qualified. His narrative contained much that was disapproved of by Dampier, who immediately after published a vindication of his voyage, pointing out the misrepresentations of Funnell" (Hill). Borba de Moraes, I:333-334 ("the majority of copies have only 13 or 14 maps and plates, when in reality there should be 15"); Hill 664; Sabin 26213.
FUNNELL, William. A Voyage around the world. Containing an account of Captain Dampier's expedition into the South-Seas in the ship St George, in the years 1703 and 1704...Together with the author's voyage from Amapalla on the West-Coast of Mexico, to East-India... the Cape of Good Hope, &c. London: W. Botham for James Knapton, 1707.
FUNNELL, William. A Voyage around the world. Containing an account of Captain Dampier's expedition into the South-Seas in the ship St George, in the years 1703 and 1704...Together with the author's voyage from Amapalla on the West-Coast of Mexico, to East-India... the Cape of Good Hope, &c. London: W. Botham for James Knapton, 1707. 8 o (182 x 115 mm). 10 engraved plates depicting fish, mammals, plants, island profiles, 5 folding engraved maps and charts. (One plate with small marginal tear, another shaved at lower edge, some pale spotting). Half green calf, gilt spine, red morocco gilt-lettered labels (rubbed). Provenance : Driscoll Piracy Collection, Wichita City Library (bookplate; sold Christie's East, 12 December 2000, lot 75). FIRST EDITION. "It was Funnell, not Dampier, who really circumnavigated the globe on this voyage, as Dampier proceeded only as far as the South Seas. The purpose of the expedition was to harass the Spaniards and take plunder from vessels and towns in South America. Its failure was due to the differences that arose between them. Funnell arrived in England before Dampier and seized the opportunity to compose a relation of his voyage; a task for which he was poorly qualified. His narrative contained much that was disapproved of by Dampier, who immediately after published a vindication of his voyage, pointing out the misrepresentations of Funnell" (Hill). Borba de Moraes, I:333-334 ("the majority of copies have only 13 or 14 maps and plates, when in reality there should be 15"); Hill 664; Sabin 26213.
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