A New Voyage round the World, by a course never sailed before.

Bound in contemporary Cambridge style blind stamped boards, re-backed to style. The spine in six blind stamped compartments double ruled in gilt, with a black lettering piece in the second compartment from the top. The boards a bit scuffed but still in VG+ shape with the corners unbroken. Internally the leaves a bit browned but still supple. Some light foxing. Pg 31 with repaired tear.

With the 18^th C. bookplate of Johnstone, probably James Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Annandale and Hartfell and 2nd Marquess of Annandale (1687–1730)

Published anonymously six years after Robinson Crusoe and attributed to Defoe some fifty years after his death, it is regarded as both a sea adventure and his best travel book. Borrowing from a wide variety of sources, including Dampier, Frézier, Narborough, and the Buccaneer stories of the time, Defoe’s ‘Expedition’, round the world gives an opportunity for three things: trade, attacks on Spanish shipping and other forms of adventure, and – most important of all – the discovery of new trade routes and places suitable for English colonies.

Above all his ‘The New Voyage’, “is a fictitious experiment to “prove” the validity of Defoe’s proposals for a colony on the east coast of South America.” (Downie).