This edition contains not only Dampier’s voyages, but also those of Lionel Wafer, as well as William Hacke’s Collection of Original Voyages, which included the voyages of Cowley and Sharp, and Roberts’ adventures with the corsairs of the Levant, all previously published by Knapton in 1699.
A Collection Of Voyages. In Four Volumes. Containing I. Captain William Dampier’s Voyages round the World: Describing particularly, the Coasts and Islands in the East and West-Indies ... &c. II. The Voyages of Lionel Wafer; Giving an Account of his being left on the Isthmus of America ... And Davis’s Expedition to the Golden Mines. III. A Voyage round the World: Containing an Account of Capt. Dampier’s Expedition into the South-Seas ... IV. Capt. Cowley’s Voyage round the Globe. V. Capt. Sharp’s Journey over the Isthmus of Darien ... VI. Capt. Wood’s Voyage through the Streights of Magellan. VII. Mr. Roberts’s Adventures and Sufferings amongst the Corsairs of the Levant: His Description of the Archipelago Islands, &c. Illustrated with Maps and Draughts: Also several Birds, Fishes, and Plants, not found in this Part of the World: Curiously Engraven on Copper-Plates. London: Printed for James and John Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard. M DCC XXIX.