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Lot 271
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
4:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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COCKBURN, John Mariner. A Journey over Land, from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South Sea…Containing…A Brief Discoverye of some Thi
8vo (194 x 115 mm). With the rare engraved folding map. 20th-century speckled calf gilt, red and green lettering-pieces gilt. FIRST EDITION of this "curious and authentic narrative which seemed so extraordinary as to be looked upon as little better as a romance during its own time. It is now considered a work of great significance" as a very early and excellent English account of the coastal and interior Central American Indians, and as a remarkable survival account (Hill). Cox I, p.289; II pp.248-9; Hill, pp.56-7; Sabin 14095.

