Sale: 348 / Rare Books, Nov. 17./18. 2008 in Hamburg Lot 485

George Shelvocke - Voyage round the world, 1726. [67]


485
George Shelvocke
Voyage round the world, 1726. [67]
Estimate:
€ 2,000 / $ 2,140
Sold:
€ 3,120 / $ 3,338
(incl. surcharge)
Shelvocke, G., A voyage around the world by the way of the great south sea. perform'd in the years 1719, 20, 21, 22. With engr. title vignette, engr. folding map and 4 (2 folding) copper plates. London, J. Senex 1726. Contemp. calf, front board with centrepiece stepped in colours. 8vo. 4 ll., XXXII pp., 2 ll., 468 pp.
Sabin 80158. - Barba de Moraes II, 252f. - Howes p. 383. - Alden/Landis VI, 16. - Adams, Travelers & Travel Liars p. 175. - First edition. - Travelogue by Shelvocke (1675-1742), one of the most enigmatic figures in European Pacific seafaring. - An episode from his report about a shot albatross presumably served as the central motif for S. Coleridge's famous poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798). - With world map in two hemispheres (printed from two plates), the plates showing Chilean and Californian Indians and seals. Corners bumped, joints slightly loosened, spine ends with small restorations.
First edition of the account, including an episode about a shot albatross which is said to have been the inspiration for the main image in Coleridge's famous poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 4 engr. plates and 1 folding engr. map. Contemp. calf. - Inside clean. Edges bumped, joints slightly shaken, extremities of spine restored.



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George Shelvocke
Voyage round the world, 1726. [67]
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