Exploration & Discovery 1576-1939: The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part I, A-C

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Lot 32
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Anson, George--Byron, John

Estimate
300 - 500 GBP
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Description

  • The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron... containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered... on the Coast of Patagonia. London: S. Baker, G. Leigh, and T. Davies, 1768
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (205 x 125mm.), [2], viii, 258pp., half-title, engraved frontispiece, contemporary speckled pale calf, spine gilt, red morocco label

Provenance

Edwards of Nanhoron, armorial bookplate

Literature

Hill (2004) 232; Sabin 9730

Catalogue Note

"Admiral Byron's narrative of the loss of the Wager is one of the most thrilling in the language, and supplied his illustrious descendant with many particulars for the shipwreck in Don Juan" (Sabin).