Narborough, Sir John, et al. | First edition of this significant collection of voyages, probably edited by Sir Tancred Robinson

Narborough, Sir John, et al.

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. By Sir John Narborough, Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood, and Frederick Marten of Hamburgh. To which are annexed a large introduction and supplement, giving an account of other navigations to those regions of the globe. London: Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, 1694

8vo (195 x 112 mm). Title-page printed in red and black, 2 engraved folding maps, 19 engraved plates (7 folding), folding letterpress table; some plates with tears or fold separations, one browned. Contemporary blind-paneled calf, plain edges, red-sprinkled edges; rebacked preserving original red morocco spine label, some minor restoration to extremities.

First edition of this significant collection of voyages, probably edited by Sir Tancred Robinson, and particularly important for the description of Narborough's passage through the Strait of Magellan into the Pacific, for which there is a fine chart, and also for the account of Tasman's discoveries Tasmania and New Zealand, one of the earliest in English.

REFERENCES:

European Americana 694/155; ESTC R18669; Sabin 72187

PROVENANCE:

"W. H." (purchase notation on front free endpaper, "3. 6. Anno 1711") — Hurley (armorial bookplate)