A Voyage Round the World, In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, II, IV. By George Anson, Esq; Commander in Chief of a Squadron of His Majesty's Ships, sent upon an Expedition to the South-Seas.

First edition, first issue of the highly anticipated, best-selling official account of Anson's voyages which went through numerous editions and was translated into several European languages. Quarto, three volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over pebbled boards with gilt titles and five raised bands to the spine, marbled endpapers, illustrated with forty-two folding maps and copper-plates. Of this voyage, Sabin wrote "the progress of science formed no part of this expedition which was prepared for attacking, unawares, the Spanish possessions and shipping in the South Sea, and which was so successful, that the prize-money divided amongst the officers and crews amounted to more than a million sterling." (Sabin 101175). Hill pp. 317-8. In very good condition with rubbing to the extremities. Very clean internally with some expert repairs to the versos of some of the large folding plates. Armorial bookplate to each pastedown, ownership inscription to the title page on the first volume. A very sharp set.