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Voyages.- Sparks (Jared) Memoirs of the Life and Travels of John Ledyard, first English edition,

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Voyages.- Sparks (Jared) Memoirs of the Life and Travels of John Ledyard, first English edition, lacking half-title, armorial bookplate of Robert Eden to front pastedown, contemporary aubergine calf, gilt, spine gilt in compartments, a little rubbed, 8vo, Henry Colburn, 1828.

⁂ Ledyard accompanied Cook on his third voyage and would later travel to Siberia before dying in Cairo in 1789.

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Voyages.- Sparks (Jared) Memoirs of the Life and Travels of John Ledyard, first English edition,

Name: Voyages.- Sparks (Jared) Memoirs of the Life and Travels of John Ledyard, first English edition,
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