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Bulkeley & Cummins Voyage to the South-Seas

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Title: A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the Years 1740-1, Containing, A Faithful Narrative of the Loss of his Majesty's Ship the Wager on a desolate Island....
Author: Bulkeley, John and John Cummins
Description: xx, 220 pp. Lacking ads at rear. (8vo) 7¾x4¾, contemporary full calf with later rebacking, endpapers replaced. First Edition."This book is one of the main accounts of the wreck of the Wager off the Southern coast of Chile after passing through the Strait of Magellan. The ship was part of Anson's fleet which was on it's way to harass the Spanish. The gunner, John Bulkeley, and the carpenter, John Cummins, conducted the mutinous part of the crew until they arrived safely in Rio de Janeiro." Hill pp. 30.
Heading: zzcPlace Published: London
Publisher: Jacob Robinson
Date Published: 1743