Description:
Two volumes. First editions. s.n. London. 1705. s.n. London. 1707. Small quartos. (22), 544, (8)pp; (10), 549, (6)pp. Later full calf, spines in 6 compartments with raised bands and leather labels. Renewed endpapers. All edges sprinkled to volume I. Variable light toning and occasional spotting to Volume I; intermittent light water staining, spotting and toning to Volume II. Minor insect damage to gutter margin p211-250 Volume II. Paper fault: 2 small holes and corner loss to penultimate page of Volume II with no loss to text. ESTC T94112.
Jean Crasset
(1618 – 1692)
George Webb (1653 – 1725)
"The History I have now in hand, speaks of so strange and surprising Adventures which happedn'd at the very utmost extremities of the World, that they may well pass for Romance and Fables." [From the Preface.]