Lot 80
[Debes, Lucas Jacobson] Faeroe, & Faeroa Reserata: That is a Description of the Islands and Inhabitants of Foeroe: Being Seventeen Islands subject to the King of Denmark... Englished By J.[ohn] S.[torpin], first edition in English, folding engraved map, folding engraved plate of a whirlpool, woodcut, some browning and spotting, seventeenth century calf, extremities rubbed, rebacked, new endpapers, 12mo, London: William Iles, 1676 [Wing D511]
PROVENANCE: Admiral Davidge Gould (1758-1847), with his signature to title.
Admiral Davidge Gould was a distinguished Royal Naval officer, born at Sharpham Park near Bridgwater, Somerset. He was one of Lord Nelson's Band of Brothers at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and served in the American Revolutionary, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
