Lot
227
Lot 227
COOKE CAPT. EDWARD. A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the...
Hammer
£500
COOKE CAPT. EDWARD. A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World Perform`d in the Years 1708, 1709. 1710 & 1711. Title relaid. Fldg. dbl. globe eng. map of the world & 8 eng. single page plates (thus 9 plates only of 20 but textually complete). Defective bdgs., lower brd. det. but present, worn cond. & some leaves tending loose. Printed by H.M. for B. Lintot & R. Gosling, 1st. ed., 1712. On this voyage they discovered castaway Alexander Selkirk on Juan Fernandez island: the real-life story that inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe. The map plate of Juan Fernandez is present (p.99).
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