A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels, from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. Judiciously selected from the best writers in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German and other Languages.

Second edition. Full black buckram over original, front board cracked. Fifty eight plates some re-mounted, some repaired some torn, Title page and dedication remounted. Magazine cutting pasted to page facing beginning of chapter 1. Minor tears and old repairs on many of the pages. Chapter 1 first page repaired with paper., pages 51, 61 torn, page 83 re-mounted, small piece of plate on page 447 missing, piece of plate on page 499 missing, pages 545 to 548 missing, misprinting of pagination goes from page 557 to 519 to 560 then 560 and then ok again, pages 661-664 missing, page 668 jumps to 679 then back to 670, quarter of page 706 missing (mis-numbered as 506), 3 further plates torn, 2 repaired with paper, 1 small piece peeled away, others small tears , Foxing and soiling to all pages (due to poor quality paper). Occasional offsetting. Closed tear repaired at edge of folding world map. "A collection of voyages and relations of experiences by travelers from the time of the Portuguese navigators to the middle of the eighteenth century, including those of Magellan, Drake, Cavendish, Olivier van Noort, William Dampier, Woodes Rogers, John Clipperton, George Anson, and Lionel Wafer" (Hill). ESTC lists two 1770 editions both with page 706 mis-numbered as 506, the first with the titlepage in red and black, and the other printed in all black. This is the latter, of which the ESTC locates only one copy, in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. ESTC N470709. Further details and images are available on request. This is a heavy / oversized item so may incur higher postage rates.…