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Zelia in the desert From the French. By the lady who translated "adelaide and Theodore"; and "anecdotes of Henry IV. of France." In three volumes.
Daubenton, Mme. (Marguerite), 1720-1788.Date: 1789- E-books
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The adventures of Sig. Gaudentio di Lucca . Being the substance of his examination before the fathers of the Inquisition at Bologna, in Italy: giving an account of an unknown country, in the midst of the deserts of Africa, the origin and antiquity of the people, their religion, customs, and laws. Copied from the original manuscripts in St. Mark's Library at Venice; with critical notes of the learned Signor Rhedi. To which is prefixed, a letter of the secretary of the Inquisition, shewing the reasons of Signor Gaudentio's being apprehended, and the manner of it. Translated from the Italian.
Berington, Simon 1680-1755.Date: 1799- E-books
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The travels of Cyrus . To which is annexed, a discourse upon the theology and mythology of the pagans. By the Chevalier Ramsay.
Ramsay, Chevalier (Andrew Michael), 1686-1743.Date: 1793- E-books
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The Amours and adventures of two English gentlemen in Italy . With a particular description of the diversions of the carnival in Venice. Also the duels they fought; the dangers they escaped; and their safe arrival in England.
Date: 1795- E-books
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The adventures of Sig. Gaudentio di Lucca . Being the substance of his examination before the fathers of the Inquisition at Bologna, in Italy. Giving an account of an unknown country, in the midst of the desarts [sic] of Africa. Copied from the original manuscript in St. Mark's Library, at Venice. With critical notes of the learned Signor Rhedi. Translated from the Italian.
Berington, Simon 1680-1755.Date: 1800
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The Isle of Pines: or, A late discovery of a fourth island in Terra Australis Incognita . Being a true relation of certain English persons, who, in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth, making a voyage to the East Indies, were cast away, and wrecked, upon the Island near to the coast of Terra Australis Incognita, and all drowned, except one man and four women, whereof one was a Negro. And now lately, An. Dom. 1667. A Dutch ship, driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their posterity (speaking good English) to amount to ten or twelve thousand persons, as they suppose. The whole relation follows, written and left by the man himself, a little before his death, and declared to the Dutch by his grandchild. Licensed, June 27. 1668.
Neville, Henry, 1620-1694.Date: Printed in the year M,DC,LXVIII. [1668]- E-books
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The english hermit , or the unparalell'd and surprizing adventures of one Philip Quarll, who was lately found in an uninhabited island in the South Sea, near Mexico; where he has liv'd fifty Years unknown and remote from humane Assistance, and where he still remains and intends to end his Days. With an Account of his Miraculous coming there, and most wonderful manner of Living ever since; of his Dress. Habitation, and Utensils, as also of his being accidentally found out by an English Merchant, and an Inhabitant of Mexico, Fishing at the Foot of the Rocks that surround the said Island. With his Conversation and extream kind manner of Entertaining of the said Persons, to whom (having shew'd several wonderful Rarieties) he gave at Parting a Mapp of the Island of his own Drawing, and a Memorial of his Birth and Education, of all the strange and most unaccountable Transactions of his Life from the Age of Eight Years, to that of Seventy Eight. Likewise of the surprizing and unheard of events happened in the Island since his being there, carefully gathered out of the above said memoirs in thr[ee] books, by P. L. gent.
Longueville, Peter fl. 1727.Date: 1727- E-books
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The hermit or, the unparalled [sic] sufferings and surprising adventures of Mr. Philip Quarll, an Englishman. Who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington a Bristol merchant, upon an uninhabited Island in the South-Sea; where he has lived above Fifty Years, without any human Assistance, still continues to reside, and will not come away. Containing I. His Conferences with Those who found him out, to whom he recites the most material Circumstances of his Life; as, that he was born in the Parish of St. Giles, educated by the charitable Contribution of a Lady, and put 'prentice to a Lock-Smith. II. How he left his Master, and was taken up with a notorious House-Breaker, who was hanged; how, after this Escape, he went to Sea a Cabbin-Boy, married a famous Whore, listed himself a common Soldier, turned Singing-Master, and married Three Wives, for which he was tried and condemned at the Old-Bailey. III. How he was pardoned by King Charles II. turned Merchant, and was ship-wracked on this desolate Island on the Coast of Mexico. With a curious Map of the Island, and other Cuts.
Longueville, Peter fl. 1727.Date: 1727- E-books
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The life and adventures of Peter Wilkins , a Cornish man: relating particularly, his shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful Passage thro' a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World; his there meeting with a Gawry or flying Woman, whose Life he preserv'd, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of Glums and Gawrys, or Men and Women that fly. Likewise a Description of this strange Country, with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of its Inhabitants, and the Author's remarkable Transactions among them. Taken from his own Mouth, in his Passage to England, from off Cape Horn in America, in the Ship Hector. With an Introduction, giving an Account of the surprizing Manner of his coming on board that surprizing Manner of his coming on board that Vessel, and his Death on his landing at Plymouth in the Year 1739. Illustrated with several Cuts, clearly and distinctly representing the Structure and Mechanism of the Wings of the Glums and Gawrys, and the Manner in which they use them either to swim or fly. By R.S. a passenger in the Hector. In two volumes.
Paltock, Robert 1697-1767.Date: 1751- E-books
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The travels of Mr. John Gulliver, son to Capt. Lemuel Gulliver Translated from the French, By J. Lockman.
Desfontaines, M. l'abbe (Pierre-Francois Guyot), 1685-1745.Date: 1731