The Islands of Lema.
[London: for the author by John and Paul Knapton, 1748.]
Coloured engraving. 230 x 520mm (9 x 20½"). Folded as issued, backed on paper.
A profile of the Lema islands of the Mariana Islands, described by Anson as 'rocky and barren'. George Anson's circumnavigation, 1740-44, was one of the last great buccaneering voyages, an official expedition to the South Seas to harass the Spanish bases but, more importantly, plunder their shipping. A main target was one of the richly-laden Manila galleons that crossed between Acapulco in Mexico and Manilla the Philippines. A stroke of luck presented them with one laden with 1.3 million silver pieces of eight; on their return to London, thirty-two wagons were needed to transfer them to the Tower of London. Published in Anson's own account, ''A Voyage Round the World, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV''.
[Ref: 43996] £95.00
Coloured engraving. 230 x 520mm (9 x 20½"). Folded as issued, backed on paper.
A profile of the Lema islands of the Mariana Islands, described by Anson as 'rocky and barren'. George Anson's circumnavigation, 1740-44, was one of the last great buccaneering voyages, an official expedition to the South Seas to harass the Spanish bases but, more importantly, plunder their shipping. A main target was one of the richly-laden Manila galleons that crossed between Acapulco in Mexico and Manilla the Philippines. A stroke of luck presented them with one laden with 1.3 million silver pieces of eight; on their return to London, thirty-two wagons were needed to transfer them to the Tower of London. Published in Anson's own account, ''A Voyage Round the World, in the years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV''.
[Ref: 43996] £95.00