During 2008 we shall be exhibiting at the following fairs: London Antiquarian Bookfair, Olympia 2008 (ABA) Thursday 5 – Saturday 7 June 2008 Olympia 2 Exhibition Centre, Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London W14 Madrid ILAB Congress and Book Fair 2008 (AILA) Thursday 11 – Saturday 13 September 2008 Madrid Congress and Exhibition Centre London Antiquarian Bookfair, Chelsea (ABA) Friday 7 – Saturday 8 November 2008 Old Chelsea Town Hall, Kings Road, Chelsea Boston (ABAA) Friday 14 – Sunday 16 November 2008 The Hynes Convention Center, Boston, USA please contact us if you wish to receive complimentary tickets We accept all major credit cards, as well as direct payment to: Acc. Name: <strong>Peter</strong> <strong>Harrington</strong> Account Number:40010920 Sort Code: 82-60-22 IBAN number GB73CLYD82602240010920 BIC/SWIFT code: CLYDGB21022 Bank: Clydesdale Bank, 2 Bishop’s Wharf, Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, GU1 4UP. Shop Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday, 10.00 - 18.00 <strong>Peter</strong> <strong>Harrington</strong> Antiquarian Bookseller 100 Fulham Road, Chelsea, London SW3 6HS Tel.+44 (0)20 7591 0220 Fax +44 (0)20 7225 7054 email: mail@peterharringtonbooks.com website: http://www.peterharringtonbooks.com Design: Nigel Bents; Photography Ruth Segarra 1. ANSON, George. A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. ... Compiled from Papers and other Materials of the Right Honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his Direction, By Richard Walter, M.A. Chaplain of his Majesty’s Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. Illustrated with Forty- Two Copper-Plates. London: for the author, by John and Paul Knapton, 1748 [26435] £6750 4to (283 × 225 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, brown morocco label, spine richly gilt in compartments, board-edges with gilt roll, red sprinkled edges. With the list of subscribers and 42 folding engraved plates, plans, charts and maps. Bookplate of the Earl of Breadalbane, later Stowe Library booklabel, <strong>bookseller</strong>’s catalogue description. A little offsetting, but an excellent copy, handsomely bound. FIRST EDITION, Large Paper Copy. Anson was in command of a squadron sent to plunder Spanish trading territories on the Pacific coast of South America during the War of Jenkins’ Ear. His expedition threatened to turn into a military fiasco. His small squadron was battered by storms and too few of his crew survived the journey round Cape Horn to man even the largest ship properly. Anson limped across the Pacific to Macao, where he was able to have the Centurion repaired and find more crew. Finally in June 1743 he achieved a single but substantial victory, capturing a Spanish treasure ship, the Manila galleon, off the Philippines, and returned to England in June 1744 a rich man. “Anson’s voyage is remembered as a classic tale of endurance and leadership in the face of fearful disasters, but to the British public of 1744 it was the treasure of the galleon, triumphantly paraded through the streets of London, which did something to restore national selfesteem battered by an unsuccessful war” (ODNB). <strong>Peter</strong> <strong>Harrington</strong> <strong>antiquarian</strong> <strong>bookseller</strong> Catalogue 57: Travel Section 1: World Voyages & Compilations Items 1-22, pages 2-17 Section 2: Africa and the Middle East to Persia Items 23-95; pages 18-53 Section 3: The Americas, Greenland and the Arctic Items 96-141; pages 54-77 Section 4: Asia including Russia Items 142-211; pages 78-105 Section 5: Australia and Antarctica Items 212-232; pages 106-117 Section 6: Europe, including Constantinople Items 233-276; pages 118-139 Section 7: Mapping, Navigation and Naval History Items 277-331; pages 140-169 Index; pages 170-171