Author: Wallis, Helen [ed.]
Title: Carteret's Voyage Round the World / 1766-1769 (Two Volumes)
Description: Cambridge, Printed for the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1965. Hardcover. pp. xii, 273; vi, 275-564. Bound in sky-blue cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt and blind. Maps and illustrations present as called-for. Light shelfwear, bookplate to ffeps, white ribbon page marker taped to rfeps, contents unmarked, binding sound; very good in good- slightly edgeworn, spotted and sunned dustjackets, with clear tape affixed to spines, creasing, two short and one 1" closed tear to volume II. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Part 2, No. 124 & 125. "Derived from the abstract retained by Philip Carteret after his voyage and the journal he compiled from it and other papers in about 1773..A collection of documents, 1756-1811, relating to the preparations, to the voyage itself, and to its aftermath. .

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