A cruising voyage round the world: . first to the South-Seas, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish'd in 1711. ... By Captain Woodes Rogers, ...
Woodes Rogers (d.1732)
Category
Books
Date
1712
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 3094963
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxi,[1],428,56,[14]p., [5] folded leaves of plates . maps . 8vo. Provenance: Marginalia and underscorings in pencil; according to Sydenham Hervey such "mysterious little pencil marks in the margins" are a sign of ownership by John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (1665-1751).. Binding: Eighteenth-century Cambridge-style blind-panelled sprinkled calf binding; gilt roll on board edges. Rebacked in goldd-tooled calf, with gilt title label and date stamp on spine. Red sprinkled edges.
Provenance
Part of the Bristol Collection. The house and contents were acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1956
Makers and roles
Woodes Rogers (d.1732) Herman Moll (1654-1732) John Senex (1678-1740)