Central America.- Pirates.- Cockburn (John) A faithful account of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, mariner, and five other Englishmen; Who were taken prisoners by a Spanish pyrate...set on shore, on an uninhabited island, naked and wounded, and obliged to travel over land from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South-Sea, being 2400 miles, 2 parts in 1, second edition, folding engraved frontispiece map depicting Central America and the Isthmus, 3pp. advertisements at end, titles to 2 parts transposed, map with split at fold, some soiling and spotting (including map), contemporary calf, gilt (dulled) spine in compartments, lacking label, upper corners little worn, rubbed and scuffed, [cf. Gosse Pirate Library p. 26; Hill 324; Sabin 14095], 8vo, Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1740.

⁂ Rare edition at auction. Cockburn was an 'English seaman who had sailed to the coast of Central America in 1731 under the master Edward Burt. Cockburn's ship was boarded off the coast of Honduras by the Spanish coastguard and the crew taken to Puerto Cavalho. From there, with five other Englishmen, he made his way across Central America to the Pacific coast.' (Howgego)