"Based on the Original Papers of Captain Philip Saumarez on Board HMS Centurion, Lord Anson's Flagship During his Circumnavigation 1740-44". The first circumnavigation known but no at all planned and this author transitions seamlessly between the actual log and the explanatory comments. Published by Macmillan in 1974, printed in Great Britain with mapped endpapers, mylar covered dj not price clipped. Interior flaps of dj have minor curling to top corners. With 59 b/w reproductions, glossary, and selected bibliography among 264 clean pages.  Gift quality condition