winter miscellany - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

First Dutch edition. - Official account of Anson’s (1697-1762) famous privateering
expedition (1740-1744) of seven vessels against Spanish commerce in the Pacific, edited
from Anson’s papers by Richard Walter, chaplain of the expedition. Although
Anson lost most of his crew (an estimated 1000 lost to scurvy, 300 to typhus and
dysentery, four in action and the remainder to shipwreck), and all but one of his
ships, he did return with a vast bounty. Anson’s voyage appears to have been the most
popular book of maritime adventure of the 18th century. His exploits brought back
new knowledge about the little-known regions around the southern tip of South
America. - A fine copy.
Tiele 42; Cat. NHSM I, p.136 (2nd ed.); Sabin 1641 (later ed.); Hill 1785; Borba de
Moraes, p.39; European Americana 748/224; Cf. Huntress 57C.
7 ANSON, George. Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les anne’es 1740, 1, 2, 3, 4 ..
dans la Mer du Sud. Tiré des journaux & autres papiers .. par Richard Walter. Traduit
de Anglois. Amsterdam et Leipzig, Arkstee & Merkus, 1749.
4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt (spine sl. damaged), with red morocco title label to
spine. With title-page printed in red and black with fine engraved title-vignette, 14
(12 folding) maps and plans and 20 folding engraved plates. (4), 333,(1) pp.
€ 1.850,00
First French edition. - Official account of Anson’s (1697-1762) famous privateering
expedition (1740-1744) of seven vessels against Spanish commerce in the Pacific, edited
from Anson’s papers by Richard Walter, chaplain of the expedition. Although
Anson lost most of his crew (an estimated 1000 lost to scurvy, 300 to typhus and
dysentery, four in action and the remainder to shipwreck), and all but one of his
ships, he did return with a vast bounty. Anson’s voyage appears to have been the most
popular book of maritime adventure of the 18th century. His exploits brought back
new knowledge about the little-known regions around the southern tip of South
America.
Sabin 1637; Hill 1785 (English ed.); Borba de Moraes, p.38; Huntress 57C.
ADRIAEN BANCKERT (ca. 1620-1684)
8 BANCKERT, Adriaen. E. manhafte zee-held Adriaan Bankert, L. Admiraal van
Zeeland. (No pl., ca. 1650). Engraved halflength portrait with sea-battle in the background
after H. Berckman by Jean du Bois (Johannes van Houten) with 12 line poem
by W. Brest. Ca. 44 x 34 cm. € 295,00
Adriaen (ca. 1620-1684) was the oldest son of the famous Joost Banckert (ca. 1597-
1647; ‘Gesel der Spanjaarden, schrik der Portugezen’). Adriaen played an import role
in the Second and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars, but did not receive the recognition he
deserved because he was from Zeeland.
Cf. Muller, Portretten, 203 a; Hollstein 3; Van Someren 241.