A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English. To which is prefixed, an introductory discourse (supposed to be written by the celebrated Mr. Locke) intitled, the whole history of navigation from its original to this time / Illustrated with maps and cuts, curiously engraved.

The holy family prepare to flee for Egypt. Engraving by F. Poilly after G. Reni.

The flight into Egypt in the night, illuminated by the moon and the milky way. Engraving by H. Goudt, 1613, after A. Elsheimer, 1609.

4 unnumbered pages, 34, 436 leaves, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, plans (woodcuts) ; folio (33 cm)

Primo volume, & seconda editione delle Nauigationi et viaggi : in molti luoghi corretta, et ampliata, nella quale si contengono la descrittione dell'Africa, & del paese del Prete Ianni, con varij viaggi, dalla città di Lisbona, & dal mar Rosso à Calicut, & insin'all'isole Molucche, doue nascono le spetierie, et la nauigatione attorno il mondo : aggiuntoui di nuouo la relatione dell'isola Giapan, nuouamente scoperta nella parte di settentrione, alcuni capitoli appartenenti alla geographia estratti dell'historia del S. Giouan di Barros portoghese, tre tauole di geographia in disegno, secondo le carte da nauigare de Portoghesi, & fra terra secondo gli scrittori che si contengono in questo volume, un'indice molto copioso, delle cose di geographia, costumi, spetierie, & altre cose notabili, che in esso si contengono.

28 volumes : plates (some folded), portraits, folded maps (including folded frontispiece) ; (8vo)

A general collection of voyages and travels, including the most interesting records of navigators and travellers, from the discovery of America by Columbus, in 1492, to the travels of Lord Valentia / [William Fordyce Mavor].

A tour through Sicily and Malta  In a series of letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in Suffolk; from P. Brydone, F.R.S. In two volumes.

A compendium of authentic and entertaining voyages , digested in a chronological series. The whole exhibiting a clear view of the customs, manners, religion, government, commerce, and natural history of most nations in the known world. Illustrated and adorned with a Variety of genuine Charts, Maps, Plans, Heads, &c. curiously engraved. In Seven Volumes.

A new voyage, round the world, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, and 1771  undertaken by order of his present Majesty, performed by, Captain James Cook, in the ship Endeavour, drawn up from his own journal, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. F.R.S. And published by the special direction of the Right Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty. By John Hawkesworth, L.L.D. and late director of the East-India Company. In two volumes: with cutts [sic] and a map of the whole navigation. ..

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A general collection of voyages and travels, including the most interesting records of navigators and travellers, from the discovery of America by Columbus, in 1492, to the travels of Lord Valentia / [William Fordyce Mavor].

A tour through Sicily and Malta In a series of letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in Suffolk; from P. Brydone, F.R.S. In two volumes.

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A general collection of voyages and travels, including the most interesting records of navigators and travellers, from the discovery of America by Columbus, in 1492, to the travels of Lord Valentia / [William Fordyce Mavor].

A tour through Sicily and Malta In a series of letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in Suffolk; from P. Brydone, F.R.S. In two volumes.

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