Americas.- California.- Shelvocke (Capt. George) A Voyage round the World by the Way of the Great South Sea, first edition, engraved title-vignette, folding engraved twin-hemisphere map, 4 engraved plates, 2 folding, light water-staining, ink stain to Bb8-Cc3, slight worming to outer margin of final gathering, contemporary panelled calf, a little rubbed, small gouge to lower cover, rebacked, [Cowan pp.581-2; Hill pp.272-3; Howes S383; Sabin 80158], 8vo, for J. Senex, 1726.

⁂ Scarce account of Shelvocke's privateering adventures through the Pacific and with what Cowan calls "the fullest account of California, the natives and their features, of any of the old voyagers." The map depicts California as an island and two of the plates show natives of California; there are also early references to Californian gold and Peruvian guano. It has been suggested that Shevlocke's account of the passage around Cape Horn, where a sailor killed an albatross, inspired Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.