18th century

First edition; small folio (290 x 202 mm), [3], 109 ll. Modern half calf, over earlier boards, red morocco label to spine, English title stamped in gilt. Staining, browning, foxing and restoration to some leaves, a few small marginal tears. Old ink inscriptions to title and some of the pages.

First edition, 4 vols; folio (46 x 35.5 cm); 8 hand-coloured engraved titles, 4 engraved leaves of dedication, etched initials and head and tail pieces, 437 etched and engraved plates (of which 182 hand-coloured, 77 double-page or folding), last plate in Vol. III with minor worming, occasional minor spotting or offsetting, a few plates slightly shaved, text in French and English in Vols I-II, English engraved title in Vol. III with repairs to verso; handsome modern red morocco to style by Aquarius, green morocco spine labels; a fine set.

Engraved map, uncoloured; 38.8 x 63.5 cm, plus advertissement and echelles at top. Toned uniformly, paper thin in places, where an old backing has been removed; trimmed, with the imprint at bottom retained; good.

First and only edition; 4to (310 x 210 mm); [3], 243 ll.; stains to title page with some text loss, leaf 234 cracked without loss of text; occasional very light foxing and browning to pages. 18th century-style calf, spine gilt, with red morocco label, English title stamped in gilt.

First edition; 4to (290 x 205 cm); [2], 143 ll. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, with title in gilt to spine label; some marginal worming and restoration to first and last leaves, occasional browning and staining.

First edition. Folio; [3], 3-190, 7 ll. 18th-century style calf boards, gilt, edges rubbed, small marginal tears and very slight warming to few leaves.

First edition; Small 4to, (215 x 130 mm); contemporary brown calf, boards with gilt ruled borders, slightly rubbed, spine with floral decorations in gilt, edges browned; [1], 39, [3] ll. Text in Hebrew, English and Ladino.

First editions. 4to (29.2 x 23 cms), x, 1-153, [ii], 246-264; iv, 88pp., engraved portrait of Bligh and 7 engraved charts, plates and plans (of which one folding and 4 double-page); folding plan frontispiece, 3 charts (2 folding). Together bound in contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked.

First edition, 4to (276 x 224 mm); contemporary marbled calf, rebacked to style with red morocco label, endpapers renewed. housed in a custom dark red cloth flat-back box, bookplate of the banker Thomas Coutts, 'Strand, London' to front pastedown, extremities worn, a couple of small nicks to boards, the very occasional faint mark or spot to contents, tiny nick to top edge of K4, else a notably bright, clean copy.

Folio (54.9 x 37.5cm). General title-page in English and French and printed in red and black, 2-page index, 2-page explanations, 11 (of 12) douple-page map-sheets incl. index map, double-page index map and 8 map-sheets, all maps hand-coloured in outline, 2 leaves of text and 2 index leaves in French, printed on rectos only; without the double-page engraved dedication, title a bit browned and spotted, first map of the republic of Genoa lightly stained, a few maps very lightly browned. Contemporary half russia; extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped.