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WAFER, Lionel.- A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America [...]. The second edition. To which are added, the Natural history of those parts, by a fellow of the Royal Society : and Davis's Expedition to the Gold mines, in 1702....

Estimation : 600 / 700
Adjudication : Invendu
Description
Illustrated with several copper-plates.
London, printed for James Knapton, 1704.
In-8° : [16]-283-[13] pp.; 4 folding pl. (slightly browned except a few pp. stronger, foxing, rare marginal stains). Contemporary binding : sprinkled calf, gilt fillets on the boards, gilt decorated ribbed spine, red sprinkled edges (upper joint partly split, small defects). In a blue cloth chemise and slipcase in half black morocco by J. Desmonts & J. MacDonalds.
Second edition (1st ed. : 1699) of Wafer's personal experiences in Panama where he was stuck in the Isthmus with four other privateers. In this work describing his journey, the country, Indians' costumes, natural history, etc., Walfer appeals to the British government to make a settlement there because a free passage by land from the Atlantic to the South Sea might easily be effected and would greatly benefit the East India trade.
It also contains the first description of a cigar and its ceremonial use. Illustrated with 1 map and 3 folding plates figuring Indians.
With catalogues of books printed for James Knapton (2 pp.).
# Sabin 100940; # Leclerc 1502 (1st ed.); # not in Chadenat (French ed.).
Provenance : Reverend Dr. Peter Gunning, Farmborough (label); William H. Slingluff, Norristown (id.).
Seconde édition de ce voyage dans l'isthme de Panama illustré de 4 pl. dépliantes. Plein veau moucheté de l'ép., sous chemise et étui modernes (ex. lég. bruni sauf qqs pp. plus fortement, rouss.).
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