A journey over land, from the Gulf of Honduras to the great South-Sea / performed by John Cockburn, and five other Englishmen ... who were taken by a Spanish guarda-costa, in the John and Jane, Edward Burt master, and set on shoar at a place called Porto-Cavalo, naked and wounded, as mentioned in several news-papers of October, 1731 ... ; to which is added, a curious piece, written in the reign of...
viii, 349, [3] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Early works to 1800
Place:
Central America
East Indies
Date:
1735
Notes:
Separate t.p. for A briefe discoverye of some things best worth noteinge in the travells of Nicholas Withington. London, Printed in the year 1734.
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.
Publisher's advertisements: p. [3] of third pagination sequence.
Singatures: A⁴ B-Z⁸
Also available online.
SCNHRB has two copies.
SCNHRB c.1 (39088002582112) bound in modern orange cloth with paper spine label.
SCNHRB c.2 39088011699949 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer. Armorial bookplate of ink ms. notation 'Lieut. Gibson no. 172'; armorial bookplate of George H. Hoskins and inscribed on front paste-down: G.H. Hoskins 29.3.09. Bookseller's label: Angus and Robertson ... Sydney. With occasional pencilled ms. annotations.
SCNHRB c.2 bound in calf with double gilt fillets.
