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ARION PRESS Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Limited Edition. 2 Volume Set: The World is Round and The World is Not Flat. The World is Round is signed by Clement Hurd on half-title page. The World is Not Flat is signed by Edith Thacher Hurd on half-title page. Both volumes are bound in red cloth boards with blue lettering on covers, and housed in original square box. Package includes the balloon. Limited to 400 copies. Illustrations are printed from photoengravings taken from proofs of the original linoleum blocks and wood blocks cut by Clement Hurd for the 1967 edition published by Young Scott Brooks, WITH SPECIAL COMPLIMENTARY CARD. scrap on back of box..

Printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh, 1768. First edition, [4],viii,257,[1]pp., with half-title and engraved frontispiece, cont. half calf, marbled paper boards, hinges slightly cracked, head and foot of spine worn with some light worming to raised bands, marbled paper on lower board peeling, but overall internally a clean and bright copy. Of the first work Hill notes "This account of John Byron's circumnavigation is usually ascribed to midshipman Charles Clerke, who later sailed on all three of Captain Cook's voyages...". Of the second work, Byron was midshipeman aboard the Wager when it was wrecked off the Chilean coast, and he provides a vivid account of the privations endured by the survivors. The author's grandson Lord Byron drew upon the Narrative as a source for his epic poem 'Don Juan'. Hill, 311 & 232.

London: Printed for A. Millar and J. Hodges, 1784.. 93pp. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, rebacked in matching modern calf, black morocco label stamped in gilt. Some wear and scuffing to boards, corners worn. Occasional spots of light soiling, slight tanning. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Very good. Rare second edition of this anonymous account of the Dolphin's voyage to the South Seas, written by "a Midshipman on Board the said Ship," generally assumed to be Charles Clerke, who later sailed with Cook on all three voyages, serving as commander of the third voyage for the last six months. "Early in 1764 the Hon. John Byron ('Foul-Weather Jack' [and grandfather of Lord Byron]) was appointed in command of the Dolphin Frigate, the first English vessel to be sheathed with copper, and ordered to proceed to the East Indies, with secret instructions...to sail to the Pacific Ocean on an exploring expedition. The vessel sailed westward across the Pacific from the Straits of Magellan and… Read More

London, Newbery 1773-1774. 8vo. pp.l+5pp. subscribers' list+directions to binder+480; 440; 470; 364+[3]+118. With 43 engraved plates, 6 folding engraved maps. Contemporary mottled calf professionally rebacked to style. Some browning and staining, most noticeable to start of first volume. 'Henry was for many years a voluminous contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine. This set of collected voyages is introduced by an admirable summary of all the voyages, undertaken for discovery only, in both the southern and northern hemispheres in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. The work is especially important for its inclusion of the early circumnavigators who had not published their own accounts' (Hill). Much of the work is devoted to Cook's first voyage and it includes accounts of Drake, Cavendish, Cowley, Dampier, Cooke, Rogers, Anson, Byron, Wallis and Carteret and Bougainville. The final volume contains the first printing of the anonymous account of the Phipps expedition, the official account of which was… Read More