A journey over land, from the Gulf of Honduras to the great South-Sea
By: performed by John Cockburn, and five other Englishmen ... who were taken by a Spanish guarda-costa, in the John and Jane, Edward Burt master, and set on shoar at a place called Porto-Cavalo, naked and wounded, as mentioned in several news-papers of October, 1731 ... ; to which is added, a curious piece, written in the reign of King James I, and never before printed, intitled, A brief discoverye of some things best worth noteinge in the travells of Nicholas Withington, a factor in the East-Indiase
Contributors: Withington, Nicholas; Hoskins, George H., former owner; Bayer, Frederick M., former owner
Publisher: Printed for C. Rivington ...
Published: 1735
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Indians of Central America; Early works to 1800; Description and travel; Travel; Social life and customs
Other titles: Distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, &c.; Voyages and travells of Nicholas Withington
Notes: Separate t.p. for A briefe discoverye of some things best worth noteinge in the travells of Nicholas Withington. London, Printed in the year 1734.

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials.

Publisher's advertisements: p. [3] of third pagination sequence.

Singatures: AB-Z

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SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c.1 (39088002582112) bound in modern orange cloth with paper spine label.

SCNHRB c.2 39088011699949 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer. Armorial bookplate of ink ms. notation 'Lieut. Gibson no. 172'; armorial bookplate of George H. Hoskins and inscribed on front paste-down: G.H. Hoskins 29.3.09. Bookseller's label: Angus and Robertson ... Sydney. With occasional pencilled ms. annotations.

SCNHRB c.2 bound in calf with double gilt fillets.