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57. [NARBOROUGH
John; ROBINSON
Sir Tancred (editor)]. An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north.
57. [NARBOROUGH
57. [NARBOROUGH
John; ROBINSON
Sir Tancred (editor)]. An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north.
57. [NARBOROUGH

Lot 57. [NARBOROUGH, John; ROBINSON, Sir Tancred (editor)].

An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north.

£1200 - £1800

An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north. 98594
Towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast tracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c. Also towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. By Sir John Narborough, Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood, and Frederick Marten of Hamburgh. To which are annexed a large introduction and supplement, giving an account of other navigations to those regions of the globe. The whole illustrated with charts and figures.
London, printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. Walford, printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince’s Arms in S. Paul’s Churchyard, 1694

‘The book 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). An English navel commander, (Rear-Admiral Sir) John Narborough (c.1640–1688) served with distinction in the Anglo-Dutch Wars and against the Barbary Coast pirates. After peace was declared with the Dutch, Narborough was given the command of an expedition to the South Seas departing England on 26 September 1669, before sailing through the Straits of Magellan and into the Pacific in October of the following year. His charts of the Straits of Magellan were a great improvement on those of previous navigators and were used by Bulkeley and Cummins following the wreck of the Wager.

First edition. 8vo., xxx, [vi], 196, 208pp., 2 folding engraved maps, 19 plates, folding letterpress table (short tear repaired), contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, corners repaired, red morocco label, large folding whale plate repaired and laid down, A good copy.

[Hill 1475; Sabin 72187.]