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Lot 223
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Narborough, John

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Description

  • Narborough, John
  • 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... London: Sam Smith and Benj. Walford, 1694
  • paper, ink, leather
8vo (190 x 115 mm). Two folding engraved maps, 19 engraved plates, light offsetting to maps. Modern paneled calf to style.

Literature

Wing N154; Hill (2004) 1475; Sabin 72187

Catalogue Note

first edition. "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).