Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939, The Library of Franklin Brooke- Hitching, Part 3, K-P

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Lot 919
  • 919

Narborough, John, and others

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description

  • An Account of Several Late Voyages & Discoveries to the South and North. Towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast Tracts of Land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c. Also Towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. London: Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, 1694
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (193 x 116mm.), xxx, [vi], 196, 208pp., 2 folding engraved maps, 19 plates, folding letterpress table, contemporary panelled calf, dark green label

Provenance

Thomas Cartwright, Aynho, Northamptonshire, armorial bookplate dated 1698

Literature

Hill (2004) 1475; Sabin 72187; Wing N154

Catalogue Note

"The book is of greatest importance to an Australian collection, as it contains one of the earliest English accounts of Abel Janszoon Tasman's famous voyage of 1642 from Batavia, in which he discovered Tasmania and New Zealand and visited Tonga and Fiji" (Hill).