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1735 A Journey Over Land, from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South Sea
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Description
First Edition, Leather Binding, Uncommon
An uncommon first edition.
In this work, John Cockburn recounts his overland trek across Central America following his escape from captivity after a shipwreck, and being captured by the pirate Captain Johnson.
Travelling with several companions, Cockburn describes their passage through what is now Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama, offering one of the earliest detailed English-language accounts of the region’s geography, indigenous peoples, flora, and fauna.
'A Briefe Discoverye' has a separate titlepage with the imprint 'London: printed in the year 1734', as called for. Pagination and register are continuous.
Lacking the folding map frontispiece.
With the collation: A4, B-Z8. Text leaves are collated, complete.
Lacking the front free endpaper.
ESTC T113803
Three pages of advertisements to the rear.
Cockburn’s account remains a valuable early record of British travel and experience in Spanish America.
Condition
In a contemporary calf binding. Joints starting, with boards a touch tender. Lacking front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Lacking folding map frontispiece. Small loss of paper to title page head. Tide marks to lower half of title page and following ten leaves. Light tide marks to tail of final fourteen leaves. Pages otherwise bright, with the odd handling mark, and light spotting to tail of leaves.
Good
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