[Rarebooks] FS: 1st ed. of "...Entertaining Voyages and Travels" London: 1768 (with the world map)

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(TRAVEL) Drake, Edward Cavendish. A NEW UNIVERSALCOLLECTION OF AUTHENTIC AND ENTERTAINING VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, from the EarliestAccounts to the Present Time... Both by Sea and Land... Europe, Asia, Africaand America. London: J. Cooke. 1768. Folio. (10),5-706pp. Complete. Doublecolumn text. Title printed in red & black. Illus. with a large (13" x16") folding map of the world (missing in many copies), engravedfrontispiece and 53 copper engraved plates, plus 8 engraved maps (includingNorth America). Cont. calf, rebacked, red morocco spine label. Binding a bitrubbed, but hinges are quite sound. Some minor worming in blank margins.Overall, a very nice copy.       $2,750.00(trade discount allowed)
Thisis the scarce first edition (other printings are 1769, 1770, and 1771), of awork which was published by subscription (this copy with the 4 page list ofsubscribers) and issued in 60 parts.
 
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