{"title":"Explorers","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-voyage-round-the-world-in-the-years-1711-1712-1713-1714-by-richard-walter-m-a-1769-fourteenth-edition","title":"A Voyage Round the World, in the Years 1711, 1712, 1713, 1714 by Richard Walter, M.A. 1769, Fourteenth Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eA VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. BY GEORGE ANSON, Esq; Now LORD ANSON, Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty’s Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas. Compiled from his PAPERS and MATERIALS, By RICHARD WALTER, M. A. Chaplain of his Majesty’s Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\"Perhaps the most popular maritime exploration of the 18th century\" [Sabin 1626]. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the official account of Anson's adventurous and troubled four-year circumnavigation of the globe. In 1740 England was at war with Spain and equipped six warships and two merchant vessels with 1900 men, many of whom were untrained and unprepared for such a voyage, under the command of Commodore George Anson to harass the Spaniards on the western coast of South America, thus cutting off Spanish supplies from the Pacific Area. From the outset the voyage was fraught with problems, sickness and deaths among the crew, attacks by Spanish ships that had received word of the expedition, storms, flawed navigation charts, mutinies, but also with the successful capture of a Spanish galleon off the coast of the Philippines which yielded an immense treasure of over 34 tons of silver. After a brief pause in Canton, Anson started his voyage back to England in December 1743, rounding the Cape of Good Hope in April and arriving in England in June 1744, where he was richly rewarded for the capture of such a lavish treasure.\u003cbr\u003eAlthough several private journals of the voyage had been published, the official version of events was published in London 1748, as \"A Voyage Round the World...\". It was a great popular and commercial success and a 5th edition was already in print by 1749. As well as detailing the adventures of the expedition, it contained a huge amount of useful information for future navigators and with 42 detailed charts and engravings, most based on drawings by Capt. Piercy Brett, it laid the basis for later scientific and survey expeditions by Captain Cook and others. The final words from the authorized account are: «Thus was this expedition finished, when it had lasted three years and nine months, after having, by its event, strongly evinced this important truth: That though prudence, intrepidity, and perseverance united are not exempted from the blows of adverse fortune, yet in a long series of transactions they usually rise superior to its power, and in the end rarely fail of proving successful.».\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eGood- last 4 pages are missing. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salish Sea Charts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43657648341080,"sku":null,"price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/1954\/9272\/files\/60EE5F3D-DE97-4F05-924B-B16128DA5918.jpg?v=1768278449"},{"product_id":"general-william-hulls-memoirs-or-the-campaign-or-the-north-western-army-1812","title":"General William Hull's Memoirs or The Campaign or The North Western Army 1812, Published 1824","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst edition of an important work on the War of 1812. William Hull (1753-1825) was a Revolutionary War veteran and a general in the War of 1812. He was court-martialed and sentenced to death for his surrender of Fort Detroit to the British, but eventually pardoned by President James Madison. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Series of Letters addressed to the Citizens of the United States, with an Appendix, containing a Brief Sketch of the Revolutionary Services of the Author.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"One of the most important sources on the war in the Old Northwest.\" In 1812 Hull was made Brigadier-General with responsibility,as Governor of the Territory, for defending Michigan and for attacking Upper Canada from Detroit. His ill-calculated plans, which were accepted by President Madison, failed and he was driven back to Detroit and surrendered there to Gen. Isaac Brock. He was court-martialed for treason, cowardice and neglect of duty, found guilty on the latter two charges and sentenced to be shot. His sentence was remanded by Madison on account of his Revolutionary service.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salish Sea Charts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43657688383576,"sku":null,"price":425.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/1954\/9272\/files\/3086E47C-E1F3-4463-858D-CBD26005A3AA.jpg?v=1768270731"},{"product_id":"the-cartography-of-the-northwest-coast-of-america-to-the-year-1800-by-henry-r-wagner-1937-volumes-1-2","title":"The Cartography of The Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800 by Henry R. Wagner 1937 Volumes 1 \u0026 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBerkeley, CA: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"publisher\"\u003eUniversity of California Press,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 1937. Very Good. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"bookEdition\"\u003eFirst Edition, 1st Printing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Limited to 750 copies in Two Volumes [12.5x9.25in] Vol 1- xi, [1] map of The Basin of the Northeast Pacific, 270 pp., 40 maps with some folding, 11 charts, 3 tables, index; Vol 2- 271-543 pp., listings of 34 pre-discovery maps and 862 post-discovery maps, index, current and obsolete place names, bibliography; Black cloth covers with gilt titles on spine, all edges trimmed; Minor shelf wear to lower edges and corners, some fraying to top and bottom of spine, age-toning to end papers and edges, small dents to foredge of Vol 1, prior owner handwritten gift letter tipped in to map fold facing p. 97, without dust-jackets or slipcase. [Howes W7, Axe 86]. Item #13968\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"description\"\u003eHenry R. Wagner (1862-1957) was a book collector, cartographer, historian, author and bibliographer. He was a Yale law school graduate and worked for mining interests in North and South America, New York and London. He was a major book collector in later shifted from collecting to research and writing articles, books and bibliographies on the American Southwest, exploration and maps of the Northwest Coast of America. He is credited with 193 publications from Ruth Axe book, The Published Writings of Henry R. Wagner, 1988.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese volumes are an extensive and important account of the evolution of cartography of the Northwest Coast of America. Includes the list of maps, place names in use and obsolete, and a lengthy map bibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a very person gift inscription letter, dated September 8th, 1962, Tokyo from Eco to Jack regarding this book as a gift that was purchased from a bookshop in Tokyo. 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