Narborough, John, and others

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (177 x 109mm.), 2 folding engraved maps ('Streights of Magellan' and 'North East and North West parts of the Pole'), and 19 plates, folding letterpress table, modern brown cloth, first folding map slightly worn and repaired (with some loss along folds), minor adhesion in gutter of pp.xiv-xv affecting a few letters, repaired tear to folding whale plate, light spotting

Liverpool Public library, cancelled ink stamp on verso of title, stamp on p. 100, and faint blindstamp on plates

Alden & Landis 694/155; Hill (2004) 1475; Sabin 72187

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
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This work, dedicated to Samuel Pepys, "is of greatest importance to an Australian collection, as it contains one of the earliest English accounts of Abel Janszoon Tasman's famous voyage of 1642 from Batavia, in which he discovered Tasmania and New Zealand and visited Tonga and Fiji" (Hill).