ANSON, George (1697-1762). A Voyage round the World, In the Years 1740... 1744. Compiled by Richard Walter. London: John and Paul Knapton for the author, 1748. 4to (254 x 197 mm). 42 engraved folding plates and maps (some offsetting from text to plates); 12 pp. list of subscribers (lacking directions to binder leaf). Full contemporary calf twice ruled in gilt, neatly rebacked to style with elaborate gilt tooling on spine. Provenance: James Pennyman (armorial bookplate and signature on title), whose name is listed as being a subscriber; Henry Fowler Broadwood (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE with unnumbered plates and page 319 misnumbered as 219. The official account of one of the landmark 18th-century circumnavigations: ?This compilation has long occupied a distinguished position as a masterpiece of descriptive travel. Anson?s voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure of the eighteenth century? (Hill). RARE SUBSCRIBER?S COPY. Borba de Moraes, p. 38; Cox I, p. 49; ESTC T89475; Hill 1817; Sabin 1625 101175. [With:] a partial manuscript document signed (?Anson?) tipped to front pastedown, for a loan on salt, 21 May 1752.