Beyond a Cincinnati Legacy: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fleischmann III, Part II

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[SHIPWRECK]. BULKELEY, John; and CUMMINS, John. A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740-1. London: for Jacob Robinson, 1743.

Octavo. (Some staining and spotting, slight fraying to a few margins.) Modern calf-backed marbled boards.

FIRST EDITION with the authors' names [another edition of 1743 was issued anonymously, priority unknown]. The authors were respectively gunner and carpenter of the Wager, a ship of George Anson's fleet which rounded Cape Horn and ran aground on 14 May 1741 in the Guayaneco Archipelago on the southern coast of Chile. After the loss of the Wager, Bulkeley and Cummins organized the mutiny against Captain Cheap. This narrative describes how the mutineers made their way back through the hazardous navigation of the Straits of Magellan in a surviving longboat, named 'Speedwell', to eventually reach Rio de Janeiro. Sabin and Hill refer to two 1743 editions of Bulkeley's narrative though ESTC lists only the one above. Borba de Moraes I, 133; ESTC T142350; Hill 210; Howgego B-186; Sabin 9108.

In overall fair and stable condition, free of any loose pages. Rebound. Damp staining and toning throughout pages.

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Mr. Fisher rejoined the firm in 2019 after working as a specialist in the American Furniture and Folk Art department at Sotheby’s New York. His areas of expertise include 18th, 19th, and 20th century American, Continental, and English furniture, decorative and folk art. Before coming to Hindman in 2013, Mr. Fisher worked in European Furniture and Decorative Arts in Philadelphia. He began his career working for a prints dealer focusing on works from the 16th through the 20th centuries.

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Ms. Vogelpohl joined the firm in 2013 as a cataloger in the American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts department. She became a department specialist in 2017, focusing on American decorative arts and silver. She received a BA from the College of Charleston and an MLITT in Art History from the University of Glasgow.

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Beyond a Cincinnati Legacy: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fleischmann III, Part II

[SHIPWRECK]. BULKELEY, John; and CUMMINS, John. A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740-1. London: for Jacob Robinson, 1743.

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