[Exploration] Bukeley, John and John Cummins. A Voyage to the South-Seas in the Years 1740-1. Containing a Faithful Narrative of the Loss of the Ship the Wager. Jacob Robinson, London,1743. First edition, 8vo. xx, 220 pp. Contemporary calf."One of the principal accounts of the Wager, which was wrecked off the southern coast of Chile after rounding Cape Horn. Under the command of Captain Cheap, the Wager was one of Anson's fleet, which was on its way to harass the Spanish. After the wreck, gunner John Bulkeley and carpenter John Cummins conducted the mutinous part of the crew until they arrived safely in Rio de Janeiro. Much of the adventure and interest of the account is in the description of their travails passing through the Strait of Magellan in a longboat" (Hill). Borba de Moraes 133; Hill 210; Sabin 9108.Condition: Moderate rubbing, joints starting.Provenance: From the Library of the Godfather of Biodiversity, Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy.