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George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726
George Shelvocke, Voyage round the World, first edition, London 1726

Lot 69. SHELVOCKE, George.

A Voyage round the World by Way of the Great South Sea,

£1800 - £2200

A Voyage round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, 98123
perform’d in the Years 1719, 1720, 1721, 1722, in the Speedwell of London … till she was cast away on the Island of Juan Fernandes in May 1720; and afterwards continu’d in the Recovery, the Jesus Maria and Sacra Familia, &c.
London, J. Senex, 1726

‘Captains Shelvocke and Clapperton led a privately financed privateering expedition to attack Spanish shipping. Shevlocke gave his superior officer the slip in a storm and proceeded to Brazil and thence to the west coast of South America, where in two months he sacked Payta, Peru, and captured several small prizes. His vessel, the Speedwell, was wrecked at Juan Fernández Island, but a ship was built out of the wreckage, and he sailed up the coast to Baja California. After crossing the Pacific via Guam and Macao, Shelvocke returned to England, where he was accused of piracy and embezzlement, and then acquitted’ (Hill).

First edition. 8vo, [viii], xxxii, [iv], 468pp., title with engraved vignette, folding engraved world map, 4 engraved plates (of which 2 folding), 18th-century polished calf, spine richly gilt, upper joint cracked at head.

[Borba II, 795; Hill, 1557; Sabin, 80158.]