VOYAGE A LA MER DU SUD, FAIT PAR QUELQUES OFFICIERS COMMANDANTS LE VAISSEAU LE WAGER: POUR SERVIR DE SUITE AU VOYAGE DE GEORGES ANSON.

FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH Translated by the Abbe Rivers, (6), xvi, 185, (i), xiv, half-title, title printed in red and black, engraved title vignette, engraved headpiece, a scarce uncut copy in publisher’s grey wrappers, folding case, 4to (270 x 220 mm), Lyon: Duplain, 1756

Although this is the French translation of the book by Bulkeley and Cummins concerning the ship Wager, it also includes the Sequel by Alexander Campbell; the very scarce narrative by Isaac Morris is a translation of A Narrative of the Dangers and Distresses Which Befel Isaac Morris, and Seven More of the Crew, Belonging to The Wager Store-ship, Which Attended Commodore Anson, in his Voyage to the South Sea… … with a Description of the Manners and Customs of the Indians…

A rare narrative written by Isaac Morris, a midshipman on the Wager, and one of the men abandoned in Patagonia by Bulkeley and Cummins. Here the party “remained about fifteen months, ’til they were seized by a party of Indians, and carried above a thousand miles into the inland country”, with Morris being one of three men who eventually returned to England by way of Buenos Aires and Portugal.

Only one copy of the English edition has appeared at auction in the last 50 years.