Author: Dampier, William
Title: A New Voyage Round the World (Two Volumes) Describing Particularly, the Isthmus of America, Several Coasts and Islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape Verd, the Passage by Terra Del Fuego, the South Sea Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico; the Isle of Guam One of the Ladrones, Mindanao, and Other Philippine and East India Islands, Near Cambodia, China, Formosa, Luconia, Celebes, &C. New Holland, Sumatra, Nicobar Isles; the Cape of Good Hope, and Santa Hellena. Their Soil, Rivers, Harbours, Plants, Fruits, Animals, and Inhabitants. Their Customs, Religion, Government, Trade,&C. (Vol. I: 1699) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Voyages and Descriptions 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 Campechy; with a Description of the Coasts, Product, Inhabitants, Logwood Cutting, Trade, &C of Yucatan, 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. (Vol. II: (1700); Illustrated with Particular Maps and Draughts, to Which Is Added a General Index to Both Volumes
Description: London, Printed for James Knapton at the Crown, in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1700. The Fourth Edition Corrected (Vol. I) & The Second Edition (Vol. II). Leather-bound. 2vol. Maps. Full contemporary leather, rebacked with contrasting brick-red spine labels lettered and bordered in gilt. Four raised double-raised bands, with years 1699 and 1700 stamped to each foot of spine, respectively. Endpapers bear the stamp of the Rhode Island Historical Society, Bequest of Joseph J. Cooke. 5 p. l. vi, 550, [4] p. illus. 5 maps (4 fold.) tables. 19 cm. Vol. I 550 pp. plus 4 pp. advertisements for books published by James Knapton, at rear. Vol. II: 1-184 pp; 1`-132 pp.; 1-112; lxx (Index) iv (advertisements). Seven folding maps, plus several others, and one chart. "Dampier was the best known, and probabaly the most intelligent, of the famous group of buccaneers that tormented the Spaniards in the South Sea from 1680 to 1720. His industry in taking notes of what he saw was equalled by his pains in preserving them from destruction. He traveled extensively in the Orient on several voyages which lasted from 1683 to 1691. It was on one of these trips that the first landing was made by the English on Australian shores, at the entrance of KIng Sound on the northwest coast, in 1688." Dampier was an important British explorer, known to be the first to circumnavigate the globe three times. Somewhat of a storied rogue, a sometimes pirate, and notoriously difficult to get along with, nonetheless, Dampier was a recognized authority on the hydrography of the southern hemisphere (Howgego D8). Very Good .

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