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ROGERS, CAPTAIN WOODES - A Cruising Voyage Round the World: first to the South Sea, thence to the East - Indies,
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ROGERS, CAPTAIN WOODES
A Cruising Voyage Round the World: first to the South Sea, thence to the East - Indies,
and homewards by the Cap of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish'd in 1711.
Second edition. London: Ptd for Andrew Bell and Bernard Linton 1718.
xix, 428p, 57p [Appendix], 8p index at end. Five folding maps: World by Herman Moll & four by John Senex. Maps complete with browning and tide marks, world map badly folded short tears at folds. Front endpaper, map and title page detached. Text with browning, some pencilled marginal notations. 200mm, bound in old worn calf. Complete.
Rogers sailed from Bristol in 1708 with William Dampier as pilot, after sailing round Cape Horn and then to Juan Fernandez he found and rescued the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, from a lonely existence after being marooned four years. The rescue became the source for Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'.
A Cruising Voyage Round the World: first to the South Sea, thence to the East - Indies,
and homewards by the Cap of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish'd in 1711.
Second edition. London: Ptd for Andrew Bell and Bernard Linton 1718.
xix, 428p, 57p [Appendix], 8p index at end. Five folding maps: World by Herman Moll & four by John Senex. Maps complete with browning and tide marks, world map badly folded short tears at folds. Front endpaper, map and title page detached. Text with browning, some pencilled marginal notations. 200mm, bound in old worn calf. Complete.
Rogers sailed from Bristol in 1708 with William Dampier as pilot, after sailing round Cape Horn and then to Juan Fernandez he found and rescued the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, from a lonely existence after being marooned four years. The rescue became the source for Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'.
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