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Lot 284
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Travel & Exploration]. Cockburn, John Mariner. A Journey over Land, from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South Sea…Containing…A Brief Discoverye of some Things best worth Notinge in the Travells of Nicholas Withington, a Factor in the East-Indias
London: C. Rivington, (1734)-35. First edition. 8vo. With the rare engraved folding map. Full speckled calf, red and green morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt. Provenance: Steve Fossett Sale, 15 March 2019, lot 271. Cox I, p. 289; II pp. 248-9; Hill, pp. 56-7; Sabin 14095
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).