- 3306
Wafer, Lionel (d. 1705).
Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description
- A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America. London: for James Knapton, 1699
8vo (204 x 111mm.), [8], 224, [16]pp., illustration: one engraved folding map, 3 engraved folding plates, binding: contemporary blind-tooled calf, spine gilt in compartments, numerous small tears with loss (not affecting text), rust hole on L7 (not affecting text), some plates creased, upper cover detached
Literature
Wing W193; Sabin 100940
Catalogue Note
Wafer spent four months among the Kuna Indians in 1681 after being wounded during a buccaneering expedition in the bay of Panama.