A New Voyage Round the World by A Course Never Sailed Before. Being A voyage undertaken by some Merchants, who afterwards proposed the Setting up an East-India Company in Flanders

London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red-Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row; and W. Mears, at the Lamb, without Temple-Bar, 1725. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. ESTC T70641. Octavo. Two volumes in one. [2], [1]-208, [1]-205, [1]pp. Worn contemporary boards, rebacked. Prior owners names on the back of the frontispiece (one dated 1738, the other 1906). Upper corner of title page cut away, with another owner's name below. 4 illustrations from copper plates: frontispiece with globe, facing page I:40, II:59, II:93, as well as headpieces and initials to the first page of each volume. Professionally repaired to reattach loosening frontispiece and final pages.

Defoe's account of an imagined voyage around the world, allowing him to imagine (and make the case for) British colonization of South America.