A Voyage to the South Sea and Round the World Perform'd in the Years 1708 1709 1710 and 1711. Containing A Journal of all memorable Transactions during the said Voyage; ...

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A Description of the American Coasts from Tierra del Fuego in the South to California in the North ... Wherein an Account is given of Mr. Alexander Selkirk his Manner of living and taming some wild Beasts during the four years and four Months he liv'd upon the uninhabited Island of Juan Fernandes. London: Printed by H.M. for B. Lintot ... 1712. 8vo. Orig. full old calf (early reback; top corner of binding repaired). (xxiv 456 x 2pp.). With 19 wood-engrv. plates and maps some of which are folded. The original First Issue. Extremely rare. Note: Apparently there was considerable rivalry between the publishers of Cooke's account of this voyage and the publishers of Woodes Rogers' account to be the first to get their edition on the market. Cooke's account was the first but only in a very few copies. Extremely rare; both Sabin and Hill record the second edition only. The publishers almost immediately reprinted the work and extended it to two volumes. Edward Cooke was second captain on board the "Dutchess" the ship which accompanied the "Duke" both under Woodes Rogers on a privateering voyage round the world. Dampier who projected the expedition and prevailed upon some able persons at Bristol to venture upon the undertaking went as pilot in the "Duke". It is generally supposed that De Foe took his "Robinson Crusoe" from the account here given of Alex. Selkirk as it was the first book containing it. This expedition sailed across the Pacific Ocean from California to Guam in the Marianas in the early part of 1710. On arriving at Guam the author tells how Spaniards there told them that one of their vessels had discovered a group of islands which they called the Solomon Islands.