A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL VOYAGES: CONTAINING I. CAPT. COWLEY'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE. II. CAPTAIN SHARP'S JOURNEY OVER THE ISTHMUS OF DARIEN, AND EXPEDITION INTO THE SOUTH SEAS, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. III. CAPT. WOOD'S VOYAGE THRO' THE STREI

by Hacke, William, ed:

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Book description: London: Printed for James Knapton, 1699.. [16],45,[1],1-16,33-100 (as usual),53,[3]pp. plus five folding charts and plans, and a small plate of coastal profiles. Modern tooled calf, gilt morocco label. Bookplate on front pastedown. Titlepage nearly detached. Ex- Mercantile Library of Philadelphia, with their very faint ink stamp on the titlepage and a few internal pages. World map with neat partial splits along two fold lines. Old light stains, trimmed a bit close at the top edge, touching a few page numbers. Still a very good copy. Although it is doubtful that Hacke was ever the buccaneer he claimed to be, as a chart maker in Wapping he certainly must have known many of the British pirates. Indeed, it was from Sharpe that he was supplied with the captured Spanish Waggoner atlas from which he made several manuscript copies for presentation to those who could influence the fate of Sharpe, the returned pirate. Of the four narratives contained in this work, two are piratical accounts. The first, Sharpe's own account, here printed for the first time, describes his freebooting cruise in the Pacific, including the attempted sack of New Panama in 1680. There are five other accounts of this cruise (i.e. Wafer, Ringrose, Dick, Dampier, and Cox). The second piratical memoir contained in the above is that of Roberts' account of his adventures with the Greek pirates, his subsequent escape, and his final participation with the Venetian fleet at the battle of Scio. The first of Hacke's two other subjects, Wood, made his visit to the Straits of Magellan in 1670. The second, Cowley, sailed from Virginia with Capt. Cooke and later joined Eaton's ship on an independent circumnavigation. At that time they sailed further south than any predecessor, and visited and named various of the Galapagos Islands. They also visited South Africa and there is a description of Cape Town. The maps are by Herman Moll, and the world map shows California as an island. The three unnumbered pages at the end are ads for other books printed by Knapton, including works by Dampier and Wafer, works on commerce and trade, and Latin classics. One of the classics of British buccaneering literature. HILL 741. SABIN 29473. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 699/96. NMM 4:239. WING H168.

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