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286
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ANDERSON, GEORGE WILLIAM.
A New, Authentic, and Complete
Collection of Voyages round the World, undertaken by Royal Authority.
Containing a . . . Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook’s First, Second,
and Third and Last Voyages.
153 (of 157) engraved plates and maps. iv, 655, [1] (of [5])
pages; lacks bookseller’s ads at end. Folio, 384x243 mm, old sheep, worn, spine darkened
and brittle, ends chipped; occasional insignificant foxing or soiling, scattered marginal
stains, repairs on verso of some plates not affecting images. Beddie 17.
London: Alex. Hogg, [1784-86]
[800/1,200]
287
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(ANSON, GEORGE.) Walter, Richard; compiler.
A Voyage Round the World,
In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV.
29 folding engraved plates and 13 folding maps.
[34], 417, [3] pages, including leaf of binder’s directions at end. 4to, 250x204 mm, contem-
porary calf, attractively rebacked in period style, endpapers renewed; varying marginal
foxing and soiling on text leaves and engraved matter, some plates frayed or chipped along
edges generally not entering image, repaired clean tear across map facing page 94, tape
repairs with discoloration on map facing page 261.
London: John and Paul Knapton for the Author, 1748
[1,000/2,000]
FIRST EDITION
of the official account of Anson’s voyage to disrupt Spanish shipping in the
Pacific, one of the most famous 18th-century circumnavigations. Alden 748/225; Hill 1817
(“a masterpiece of descriptive travel”); Palau 12865.
288
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BAEDEKER, KARL, publisher.
Russia. With Teheran, Port Arthur, and
Peking.
Numerous maps and plans. lxiv, 590 pages, including half-title. 12mo, 157x106
mm, original red flexible cloth boards, spine rubbed, chipped at top; owner’s signature on
verso of front free endpaper, scattered underscoring and marginalia.
FIRST EDITION
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Leipzig, 1914
[300/500]
289
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BAKER, THOMAS TURNER.
The Recent Operations of the British
Forces at Rangoon and Martaban.
Hand-colored lithographed frontispiece; 3 uncol-
ored lithographed plates, 2 of them folding. vii, [1], 78 pages. 8vo, 222x141 mm, original
cloth, spine faded, front hinge cracked; preliminaries and plates foxed, frontispiece partly
detached.
London: Thomas Hatchard, 1852
[200/300]
FIRST EDITION
of a report on events in the Second Anglo-Burmese War.
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