Perspective de la Cote de Lucon pres de Manille ab. Lieües de la Cote la plus Haute Montagne Etant a l’Est. [View of the Luzon Coast near Manila at 6 Leagues from the Coast in the Higheest Mountain Range to the East ]

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Author: William Dampier

Publisher: Jean Baptiste Machuel in Rouen.

Year: 1740 [1701] [1698]

Size: 13.5 x 8 cm

Reference: Sabin 18381 und 18382. – Cox I, 43-44. Griep/Luber 308. Henze II, 14f.; not in Quirino

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Description

RARE copper engraving view from ‘Nouveau Voyage Autour du Monde’, vol. 2, p. 74.

Dampier (1652-1715) was an English. navigator/buccaneer, one of the first to round Cape Horn and the first to circumnavigate the world three times. He rescued Alexander Selkirk from Juan Fernandez Island during one of his voyages, which inspired Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
His narratives were bestsellers on account of his splendid writing style and exhaustive scientific studies.