A New Voyage round the World, by a course never sailed before. Being a Voyage undertaken by some Merchants, who afterwards proposed the setting up an East-India Company in Flanders Illustrated with Copper Plates.

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A New Voyage round the World, by a course never sailed before. Being a Voyage undertaken by some Merchants, who afterwards proposed the setting up an East-India Company in Flanders Illustrated with Copper Plates. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row ; and W. Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar, M.DCC.XXV. [but 1724] Paginates: [2], 208; 205, [3] p. Collates: (), B-O8, A-N8. First Edition. Complete. Last leaf is a blank. With Frontispiece of The Globe and three copper plate engravings. In two parts. Separate pagination and register. Published anonymously six years after Robinson Crusoe and attributed to Defoe some fifty years after his death, it is regarded as both a sea adventure and his best travel book. Borrowing from a wide variety of sources, including Dampier, Frézier, Narborough, and the Buccaneer stories of the time, Defoe's Expedition , round the world gives an opportunity for three things: trade, attacks on Spanish shipping and other forms of adventure, and most important of all the discovery of new trade routes and places suitable for English colonies. Above all his The New Voyage , is a fictitious experiment to prove the validity of Defoe s proposals for a colony on the east coast of South America. (Downie). Bound in contemporary Cambridge style blind stamped boards, re-backed to style. The spine in six blind stamped compartments double ruled in gilt, with a black lettering piece in the second compartment from the top. The boards a bit scuffed but still in VG+ shape with the corners unbroken. Internally the leaves a bit browned but still supple. Some light foxing. Pg 31 with repaired tear. With the 18th C. bookplate of Johnstone, probably James Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell and 2nd Marquess of Annandale (1687-1730) The volume measures 20.1 x 13 x 3.4 cm. Each leaf measures 198 x 122 mm. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1689269647286

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