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(KNOX, J.). (7). A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels: Containing Whatever is worthy of Notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America: in respect to the Situation and Extent of Empires, Kingdoms, and Provinces, their Climates, Soil, Produce, &c. With the Manners and Customs... I-VII. London (printed for J. Knox) 1767.

8:o. 49 partly folding maps, plans, and plates (all, minor foxing, some offsetting from plates to text).
Contemporary brown full calf, worn, gilt edges of covers, 2 volumes with cracks in upper joints, otherwise some mended cracks, somewhat faded richly gilt spines, some damages at head, yellow edges. A few leaves browned in the margins. On some last endpapers stamped "Webster Collection". Bookplate of "Torquay Natural History Society. Presented by Captain Bower Jan. 1935". 7 volumes.

Content includes: The four Voyages of Christopher Columbus, Conquest of Mexico by Hernando Cortes, Conquest of Peru by Francis Pizarro, Voyage to South America by Dom George Juan and Don Antonio de Ulloa, Patagonia, John Niehoff´s voyage to Brazil and the East Indies, Lionel Wafer´s Journey over the Isthmus of Darien, A brief account of North America from Major Roger describing the several British Colonies, Colonel Bouqet´s Expedition against the Ohio Indians, Reflections on the War with the savages of North America, the first voyage to the East Indies by Vasquez de Gama, Voyage to the Cape Verde Islands by George Roberts, Mr Peter Kolben´s voyage to the Cape of Good Hope and the Hottentot Natives, The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake around the Globe, The Voyage round the World of William Dampier, The Voyages of Woodes Rogers and Stephen Courtney round the World including finding Alexander Selkirk on the Island of Juan Fernandez, The Voyage round the World of George Anson, Travels through the most Northern Parts of Europe, Travels of Monsieur Maupertius in the Polar Circle, Lorde Molesworth in Denmark and Sweden, Bernard Connor in Poland, Mr Beauplan and Others in the Ukrain, Travels through Europe, Keysler´s Travels through Europe, Travels through France by Sacheveral Stephens, Rev. Clarke´s Travels through Spain and Portugal, Mr Hanway´s Account of Russia, John Thevenot´s Voyage and Travels from Italy to Constantinople, Mr Wood´s Journey to Palmyra, Maundrell and Shaw in the Holy Land and Barbary, Dr Pococke through Egypt, Journey to Mequines by Mr Windus, Travels to the Inland parts of Africa by Francis Moore, Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia, An Account of Indostan by Thomas Roe and Mr Holwell, A Journey from St Petersburg to Pekin by John Bell, Accounts of England and Scotland and a 1762 List of the Royal Navy..

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IngaBritt and Arne Lundberg, Gothenburgh, Sweden.

Auktionsnummer:

6158

Datum:

2016-12-20