Philips's An Authentic Journal Of the late Expedition Under the Command of Commodore Anson

Philips's An Authentic Journal Of the late Expedition Under the Command of Commodore Anson
This volume on Anson's expedition is John Philips's An Authentic Journal Of the late Expedition Under the Command of Commodore Anson. Containing a regular and exact account of the whole proceedings and several transactions thereof: particularly at Madeira, St. Catherine's, St. Julian's, St. Juan Fernandez; their manner of living here upon sea-lions, sea-dogs, &c. the taking of Payta; their cruizing on the coast of Acapulco, Chequatan Bay, Tenian, one of the Ladrone islands, and Macao; the taking of the rich Spanish galleon, called the Nuestro Signora de Cabodongo, from Acapulco bound to Manila, commanded by Don Geronimo Montero, a Portuguese; there going to Canton in China, &c. To which is added, a narrative of the extraordinary hardships suffered by the adventurers in this voyage The work was published in London in 1744 for J. Robinson. The book is bound in full leather with gold gilt details to spine and boards.

John Philips served as the midshipman for the Centurion. His journal serves as the first full-length account of Anson's circumnavigation. This is the first edition and "seems to have been based on one or more genuine logs. This book appeared, with some changes of wording and arrangement, in several pirated editions." (Williams, Prize of all the oceans p. 243)


Paper Size: ~ 5" by 7 1/2"


Paper Type or Special Features: Historic Adventure Volume

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