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(CALIFORNIA.) Cooke, Edward.
A voyage to the South Sea, and round the
world.
8 maps, 19 plates, 3 folding tables, a few text illustrations. 2 volumes. [24], 456, [12];
[8], xxiv, 328, [8] pages. 8vo, contemporary calf, minor wear, tastefully rebacked to match; a
bit toned but quite nice internally; early bookplate on first pastedown.
London: Lintot and Gosling, 1712
[4,000/6,000]
Second and greatly expanded edition, the entire second volume being new material. Written by
an officer on Captain Woodes Rogers’s privateering ship Dutchess, on a mission of plunder
around the world. After doing battle with a Spanish galleon bound from Acapulco to Manila,
the ship visited Cabo San Lucas on Baja California, described in Volume I:335-344 (see
illustration). Also includes a long translation of a captured Spanish navigation manuscript,
illustrated in the text with views of the Spanish Pacific coastline. Borba de Moraes, page I:206;
European Americana 712/41; Hill, Pacific Voyages 372; Sabin 16303; Wagner, Spanish
Southwest 77.