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Fanning, Edmund. VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD; WITH S

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Fanning, Edmund.  VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD; WITH S
Fanning, Edmund. VOYAGES ROUND THE WORLD; WITH SELECTED SKETCHES OF VOYAGES TO THE SOUTH SEAS, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC OCEANS, CHINA, ETC. ...... New York: Collins & Hannay 1833 xii,(13)-499pp. Five plates (2 folding) Original papered boards, recently rebacked in leather, uncut. Boards very worn & eroded, minor scattered spotting, couple of minor edge tears to plate, but overall, a very superior copy, seldom so found.

Rosove 119.A1; Hill p.101; Howes F-27; Spence 454. Fanning made several late 18th-early 19th century sealing voyages into the South Atlantic & Pacific, and had much to do with the earliest American activities in the Antarctic. He includes here an account of the 1819-22 voyages of the "Hersilia", & "Frederick", sloop "Hero", etc. under Shefield, Pendleton and Palmer. One of the plates is "Palmer's Land as seen from the South Shetlands".