TRAVEL. – George ANSON. A Voyage Round the World, In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV… sent upon an Expedition to the South Seas. Compiled… by Richard Walter. London: John and Paul Knapton, 1748. Third edition, 8vo (193 x 114mm.) Title, 3pp. dedication with advertisement verso, 4pp. ‘Contents’, 14pp. ‘Introduction’, 3 folding engraved charts in pocket to rear. (Light browning, occasional scattered spotting, damp-staining to first text leaves, frontispiece map in pocket to rear.) 20th century calf, red morocco lettering piece to spine (rear endpaper and pocket to rear replaced). Note: this edition published in the same year as the first. The folding ‘Chart Shewing The Track of the Centurion round the World’ shows California as an island. Provenance: Gerard J. Napier, R.N. (ink name inscribed to front pastedown, dated Dec. 1871). – And a further two volumes (including Austen H. Layard’s ‘Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon’, 1853, 8vo) (3). [Sabin 1646].