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Toronto: Coles Canadiana Collection - Coles Publishing, 1973. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 142 pp. Trade paperback format. This was originally published in 1633 and again in 1740. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with a map. The rest of the title, after South Sea, reads: wherein the Miseries Indured, both Going, Wintering and Returning, and the Rarities Observed Philosophical, Mathematical and Natural are Related in this Journal of it, published by the Special Command of King Charles I. To Which Is Added, a Map for Sailing in those Seas: Also divers Tables of the Author's of the Variation of the Compass With an Appendix Concerning the Longitude by Master Gelibrand, Astronomy Reader at Gresham College. The Contents are: Dedication; Preparations Made for the Voyage; and A Voyage of Discovering a North West Passage to the South Sea; followed by appendices..

Folio; pp. 479-544; original cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, light brown stain to pages mainly on the margin, where on text does not interfere with readability, small 4mm cut to top edge of front board, spine and corners bumped, binding tight, tape repair to bottom margin of page 523, does not include the map referred to in the title, still a good copy. London, N.P., n.d. [? London, Churchill, 1732]. From Churchill's Voyages Vol. II pp. 479-544.