GEORGE ANSON
WALTER, Richard, compiler. Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les anneés MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. Geneva: Henri-Albert Gosse, 1750. 4° (244 x 185 mm). Half-title, title-page printed in red and black. 34 engraved maps, all but 2 folding, wood-engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. (Corner repaired to pl. 3 not affecting engraved area, variable light browning throughout.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, red edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: D. de Nobele (Parisian bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper). Later edition in French. Sabin 1637.
GEORGE ANSON
WALTER, Richard, compiler. Voyage autour du monde, fait dans les anneés MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. Geneva: Henri-Albert Gosse, 1750. 4° (244 x 185 mm). Half-title, title-page printed in red and black. 34 engraved maps, all but 2 folding, wood-engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. (Corner repaired to pl. 3 not affecting engraved area, variable light browning throughout.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, marbled endpapers, red edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: D. de Nobele (Parisian bookseller's ticket on front free endpaper). Later edition in French. Sabin 1637.
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