NARBOROUGH, Sir JOHN, and others. An Account Of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North. Towards The Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast Tracts of Land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c. also Towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford 1694. 8vo, contemporary Cambridge style blind-panelled calf, spine in six gilt compartments, speckled edges, modern folding buckram chemise and morocco-backed slipcase, old restorations to head and tail of spine and to second compartment (lacking title-label), joints split, a few small gouges to covers and spine, perforation to fol. E1 affecting 3 letters, small stain to K4v obscuring 2 letters, short fold break to the first folding map, the folding weather table with outer border cropped with loss to a letter and numeral of the "Latitude" column, and one small repaired tear, short tear at inner edge of folding plate Q (of whales), light marginal foxing and slight browning at folds of a few of the folding plates, title lightly offset, occasional pale marginal dampstaining . FIRST EDITION, title in red and black, 2 folding engraved maps, folding weather table, 19 engraved plates of which 7 folding. "Of particular interest because of its description of Narbrough's passage in the Batchelour through the Strait of Magellan and into the South Pacific to Chile, which was much read by later navigators... The book is of the greatest importance to an Australian collection, as it contains one of the earlies English accounts of Abel Janszoon Tasman's famous voyage of 1642 from Batavia, in which he discovered Tasmania and New Zealand and visited Tonga and Fiji... The narrative of Friedrich Martens, here first translated into English, was the first book on a voyage to Spitsbergen and Greenland, undertaken for whaling purposes..."--Hill, pp. 1-2; Wing N154; Sabin 72185. Provenance : Robert Byerly of Gouldesbrough, engraved armorial bookplate dated 1702 pasted down on verso of title-leaf; a few eighteenth-century marginalia; loosely inserted slip with eighteenth-century signature of Thos. Pennant Esq., with later pencil annotations on verso.
NARBOROUGH, Sir JOHN, and others. An Account Of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries to the South and North. Towards The Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast Tracts of Land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c. also Towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford 1694. 8vo, contemporary Cambridge style blind-panelled calf, spine in six gilt compartments, speckled edges, modern folding buckram chemise and morocco-backed slipcase, old restorations to head and tail of spine and to second compartment (lacking title-label), joints split, a few small gouges to covers and spine, perforation to fol. E1 affecting 3 letters, small stain to K4v obscuring 2 letters, short fold break to the first folding map, the folding weather table with outer border cropped with loss to a letter and numeral of the "Latitude" column, and one small repaired tear, short tear at inner edge of folding plate Q (of whales), light marginal foxing and slight browning at folds of a few of the folding plates, title lightly offset, occasional pale marginal dampstaining . FIRST EDITION, title in red and black, 2 folding engraved maps, folding weather table, 19 engraved plates of which 7 folding. "Of particular interest because of its description of Narbrough's passage in the Batchelour through the Strait of Magellan and into the South Pacific to Chile, which was much read by later navigators... The book is of the greatest importance to an Australian collection, as it contains one of the earlies English accounts of Abel Janszoon Tasman's famous voyage of 1642 from Batavia, in which he discovered Tasmania and New Zealand and visited Tonga and Fiji... The narrative of Friedrich Martens, here first translated into English, was the first book on a voyage to Spitsbergen and Greenland, undertaken for whaling purposes..."--Hill, pp. 1-2; Wing N154; Sabin 72185. Provenance : Robert Byerly of Gouldesbrough, engraved armorial bookplate dated 1702 pasted down on verso of title-leaf; a few eighteenth-century marginalia; loosely inserted slip with eighteenth-century signature of Thos. Pennant Esq., with later pencil annotations on verso.
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