Bulkeley and Cummins. Voyage to the South Sea in the Years 1740-1741. 1743, First edition, 8vo, calf

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BULKELEY, JOHN, AND JOHN CUMMINS

A Voyage to the South Seas, in the years 1740-1. London: for Jacob Robinson, 1743

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (193 x 115mm.), woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces, contemporary speckled calf, spotting, rebacked, slightly worn at extremities

"One of the principal accounts of the Wager, which was wrecked off the southern coast of Chile after rounding Cape Horn. Under the command of Captain Cheap, the Wager was one of Anson's fleet, which was on its way to harass the Spanish. After the wreck, gunner John Bulkeley and carpenter John Cummins conducted the mutinous part of the crew until they arrived safely in Rio de Janeiro. Much of the adventure and interest of the account is in the description of their travails passing through the Strait of Magellan in a longboat" (Hill). A later edition of 1743 was published by J. Twig, and omits the authors' names.

LITERATURE:

Borba de Moraes p.133; Hill (2004) 210; Sabin 9108