AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE, AND OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, FROM THE VOYAGE OF MAGELLAN TO THE DEATH OF COOK.
Book Details + Condition: Oliver & Boyd and Simpkin, Marshal & Co. (Edinburgh and London). First Edition, 1836. Hardcover with full leather boards. 490 pages with Index. Illustrated with engravings of islands, boats, ships, portraits, and native lands. The most significant world voyages from the earliest and most iconic explorers are related. Details are provided of the lives and voyages of Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, Francis Drake, George Anson, Captain James Cook, and many other voyages and explorers. Chapters include:
- Discovery of the South Sea (1513)
- Circumnavigation of Magellan (1519-1522)
- Circumnavigation and Discoveries of the Seventeenth Century (1600-1700)
- Circumnavigation From the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to The Reign of George III (1700-1761)
- Circumnavigation of Byron, Wallis and Carteret (1764-1769)
- Circumnavigation of Bougainville (1766-1769)
- First Circumnavigation of Cook (1768-1771)
- Observations of the Character of Cook
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, which appear to have been re-attached at some point; chafed spine ends, with bits missing; original spine label darkened and ripped, but present; toning to frontispiece engravings; interior is clean and free of markings, save owner name to title page; blank rear ffep torn in half.
