Dampier New Voyage Round The World

Dampier, William. Voyages and descriptions. Vol. III. In three parts, viz. 1. A Supplement of the Voyage round the world, describing the countreys of Tonquin, Achin, Malacca, &c., their product, inhabitants, manners, trade, policy, &c. 2. Two voyages to Campeachy, with a description of the coasts, product, inhabitants, logwood-cutting, trade, &c. of Jucatan, Campeachy, New-Spain, &c. 3. A discourse of trade-winds, breezes, storms, seasons of the year, tides and currents of the torrid zone throughout the world; with an account of Natal in Africk, its product, negro's, &c. To whtich is added, a general index to both volumes. London, James Knapton, 1700.
Der Engländer William Dampier (1651-1715), Freibeuter, Entdecker und Geograph, umsegelte dreimal die Welt. Nach der Rückkehr seiner ersten Reise erschienen seine Reiseschilderungen unter dem Titel "New Voyage Round the World". - Von den 4 Karten sind folgende 3 Karten vorhanden 'A Map of the Bay of Campechy', 'A View of the General & Coasting Trade Winds in the great Sout Ocean' und 'A View of the General & Coasting Trade Winds in the Atlantick & Indian Ocean'. - (Rücken und Vorsätze fachgerecht erneuert. Name auf titelblatt. S. 49-64 gebräunt im 1. Teil).

The second edition. 8°. 4 Bl., 184 S., 132 S., 2 Bl., 112 S., (76) S. Index. Mit 3 (von 4) gefalt. Karten. Ldr.-Bd. der Zeit mit blindgepr. mehrfacher Deckelfiletierung und Eckfleurons.; 2

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DAMPIER, William (1652-1715): A Collection of Voyages. In four volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier's voyages ... II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer ... And Davis's expedition... III. A voyage round the world...by W. Funnell ... IV. Capt. Cowley's voyage round the globe. V. Capt. Sharp's journey ... VI. Capt. Wood's voyage ... VII. Mr. Roberts's adventures,

London: James and John Knapton, 1729. 4 volumes, 8vo. (7 11/16 x 4 3/4 inches). 28 pp. publisher's advertisements. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Dampier at front of vol.II, 63 other engraved maps, plans, coastal profiles or plates (the maps, 18 of which are folding, by or after Herman Moll; 3 of the plates folding), occasional woodcut illustrations. Contemporary paneled calf, spines with morocco lettering-pieces lettered in gilt (neatly rebacked with original spines preserved). Bookplate on front pastedowns. Internally quite clean. A fine set of a work which includes the most important Buccaneering narratives. In addition, William Dampier is generally described as the first Englishman to set foot on the Australian continent. This is the first collected edition, and textually the best, of Dampier's voyages. The additional titlepage in the first volume designates this 'the seventh edition, corrected' of the work. Hill states that the narratives in the second volume are in the fourth edition, those in the third volume are in the third edition, and those in the fourth volume are not designated, although he notes: 'Parts II-V of v. 4 are a reprint, with separate title page and paging, of Hacke's A Collection of Original Voyages, London, 1699.' Dampier's first voyage to the Pacific was in 1680, raiding on the Spanish coast of South America, then crossing the Pacific to the East Indies. Throughout the next two decades he travelled extensively in the Pacific, at various times visiting Tierra del Fuego, the west coasts of South and Central America, Guam, the Philippines, the East Indies, China, the Campeche coast, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. In 1688, Dampier touched on New Holland, or Australia, for the first time, making a survey of the coast near King Sound. In 1698, after the first volume of his voyages had been published to great acclaim, the Admiralty gave him a commission as a captain in the Royal Navy and command of "The Roebuck". With it he undertook another expedition to Australia, the second British expedition to go there and the first to have that destination as its objective. He explored the south coast of New Guinea, discovered New Britain and Dampier Strait, and explored along the western coast of Australia. Although hampered by illness amongst his crew, he ultimately completed the circumnavigation in 1701. Dampier was the best known, and probably the most intelligent, of the famous group of buccaneers who tormented the Spanish in the South Sea from 1680 to 1720. 'This collection of Dampier's works is considered by many to be the best edition. However, Dampier obviously did not write the whole work ... [as it also] includes the narratives of Lionel Wafer and William Funnell as well as the whole book of William Hacke' (Hill). His books were a great success and were frequently reprinted. See the Dictionary of National Biography (vol.V, pp.452-457) for a detailed sketch of this remarkable man. Cf. Borba de Moraes I, pp.242-43; European Americana 729/69; Hill (2004) 422; NMM 1:92, 93, 95, 96; Sabin 18374-18377.

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Dampier, William: A New Voyage Round the World. With an Introduction by Sir Albert Gray and a new Introduction by Percy G. Adams. Unabridged and unaltered republication of te work published by the Argonaut Press in 1927. Dover Publications, New York 1968.

21,2 x 14,2 cm. XLV, 376 Seiten. Original-Karton (Paperback), Kanten ein wenig berieben, Rücken und Ränder etwas gebräunt, innen gut und sauber.

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Dampier, William: A New Voyage round the World, London Adam & Charles Black 1937
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With an introduction by Sir Albert Gray. From the text first pubished 1927 by the Argonaut Press in an edition of 975; this copy from the first unlimited edition of said text. Handsomely set with various maps, plus replicas of the title page of the first edition and of a page of Dampier's journal; a portrait of Dampier; various maps; index of persons, places and ships. Brown cloth boards show minor wear, rubbed a little at top edge; contents clean and sound throughout. TPW First Thus No Jacket hardcover Used

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