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A new voyage round the world, by a course never sailed before. Being a voyage undertaken by some merchants, who afterwards proposed the setting up an East-India Company in Flanders. Illustrated with copper plates.
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DEFOE, Daniel (1661?--1731)
A new voyage round the world, by a course never sailed before. Being a voyage undertaken by some merchants, who afterwards proposed the setting up an East-India Company in Flanders. Illustrated with copper plates.
London:, printed for A. Bettesworth; and W. Mears,, 1725 [i.e. 1724].
[2], 208; 205, [1] p., engr. frontis., [2] pl. ; 18.3 cm. (8º)
Anonymous. By Daniel Defoe. In two parts with separate pagination and register. One of Defoe's fictional travel narratives published in the wake of Robinson Crusoe. Furbank and Owens 221; ESTC t70641; Moore 469.
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on page 144 of the second part (cropped at the fore-ege) [Tho?]mas and [Ja?]mes, and on blank final page Labor for Lerning be you / Grow ould. The full verse can be made out on the recto of the frontispiece plate, which is pasted to the flyleaf of an earlier binding: Labor for Lerning be for you / Grow ould for Lerning is better [than?] / Silver & Gould, and possibly the name Lewis. Bound as part of a uniformly bound 48-volume set of works by or attributed to Defoe which on the evidence of endleaves variously watermarked '1814', '1808', etc. was presumably assembled around 1810--15.
Binding C19th half calf, marbled-paper boards, gilt-tooled spine direct-lettered in gilt 'Defoe's Works' and 'Voyage Round The World'.
Reference Number 783
A new voyage round the world, by a course never sailed before. Being a voyage undertaken by some merchants, who afterwards proposed the setting up an East-India Company in Flanders. Illustrated with copper plates.
London:, printed for A. Bettesworth; and W. Mears,, 1725 [i.e. 1724].
[2], 208; 205, [1] p., engr. frontis., [2] pl. ; 18.3 cm. (8º)
Anonymous. By Daniel Defoe. In two parts with separate pagination and register. One of Defoe's fictional travel narratives published in the wake of Robinson Crusoe. Furbank and Owens 221; ESTC t70641; Moore 469.
Copy Notes Inscribed in ink on page 144 of the second part (cropped at the fore-ege) [Tho?]mas and [Ja?]mes, and on blank final page Labor for Lerning be you / Grow ould. The full verse can be made out on the recto of the frontispiece plate, which is pasted to the flyleaf of an earlier binding: Labor for Lerning be for you / Grow ould for Lerning is better [than?] / Silver & Gould, and possibly the name Lewis. Bound as part of a uniformly bound 48-volume set of works by or attributed to Defoe which on the evidence of endleaves variously watermarked '1814', '1808', etc. was presumably assembled around 1810--15.
Binding C19th half calf, marbled-paper boards, gilt-tooled spine direct-lettered in gilt 'Defoe's Works' and 'Voyage Round The World'.
Reference Number 783