Voyages.- Anson (George) A Voyage round the World, first edition, ?subscriber's copy with the Marquess of Rockingham, list of subscribers, double-page engraved chart frontispiece (not issued in all copies), 29 engraved folding plates, 13 engraved charts and maps (12 folding), 2H3 with short marginal tear and neat repair, occasional very faint spotting, bookplates, contemporary calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, [Sabin 1625], 4to, 1748.
⁂ Provenance: Bookplate of the Marquess of Rockingham, with later paper slip reading "M. Rockingham Grosvenor Square" pasted on top. Bookplate of William Dowdeswell (1721-75), Chancellor of the Exchequer under the Marquess of Rockingham in 1765. Bookplate of William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam (1872-1943).
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