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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.
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1557.Date: L'anno 1554
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Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles ... together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians ... and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. By Captain Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America.
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]
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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].
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758-1837.Date: 1813
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The Memoirs and adventures of Mark Moore, late an officer in the British Navy. Interspersed With a Variety of original Anecdotes, selected from his Journals, when in the Tuscan, Portuguese, Swedish, Imperial, American, and British Service, in each of which he bore a-Commission. Written by himself. As the Author has been at Intervals the Manager of a respectable Company of Comedians, in several of the principal Towns of England, France, and Flanders, he has also added some original Sketches of several Theatrical Characters, who now rank high in the Thespian Corps-With Descriptions of the various Scenes in which he has been lately involved, through the Machinations of petty-fogging Attornies, in which the Arts of those Terriers of the Law are fully exposed, for the Benefit of Society.
Moore, Mark.Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]
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The world displayed; or, a curious collection of voyages and travels, selected from the writers of all nations. In which the Conjectures and Interpolations of Several vain Editors and Translators are expunged, Every Relation is made concise and plain, and The Divisions of Countries and Kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted. Illustrated and embellished with variety of maps and prints by the best hands. Vol. XX.
Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
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A Collection of voyages and travels, consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other collections. And continued with others of note, that have published histories, voyages, travels, journals or discoveries in other nations and languages. Relating to any part of the continent of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof, from the earliest account to the present time. Digested according to the parts of the world, to which they particularly relate: with historical introductions to each account, where thought necessary, containing either the lives of their authors, or what else could be discovered and was supposed capable of entertaining and informing the curious reader. And with great variety of cuts, prospects, ruins, maps, and charts. Compiled from the curious and valuable library of the late Earl of Oxford. Interspersed and illustrated with notes. Containing, either a general account of the discovery of those countries, or an abstract of their histories, government, trade, religion, &c. Collected from original papers, letters, charters, letters patents, acts of Parliament, &c. Not to be met with, and proper to explain many obscure passages in other collections of this kind. Vol. VII.
Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]
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A collection of voyages to the southern hemisphere. Vol. I. Contains 1. Sir Richard Hawkins, to Magellanica 2. Ferdinand de Quiros, to Polynesia and Australasia 3. George Spilberg, to Magellanica and Polynesia 4. James Le Maire, and William Schouten, to Magellanica, Polynesia, and Australasia 5. Garcia de Nodal, to Magellanica 6. Account of the Dutch navigations to the Terra Australis 7. Jaques Le Hermite, to Polynesia and Australasia 8. Francis Pelsart, to Australasia 9. Gerard Pool, to Australasia 10. Abel Tasman, to Australasia 11. Henry Brewer, to Magellanica 12. A Dutch frigate to the Isle of Tristan Acunha 13. Vink, to Australasia 14. Sir John Narborough, to Magellanica 15. Keyts, to Australasia 16. Bartholomew Sharp, to Magellanica 17. Cowley, to Magellanica and Polynesia 18. William Dampier, to Magellanica and Polynesia 19. Lionel Wafer, to Magellanica Vol. II. Contains. 20. De Gennes, to Magellanica 21. Ulaming, to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope 22. History of the New Phillippine Islands 23.Anthony Cantova to the Caroline Islands in the East Indies 24. Manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Marian or Ladrone Islands in the East Indies ... 36. Lozier Bouvet, to Magellanica 37. Commodore Anson's voyage round the world 38. Hon. George Murray's account of the separation of the ships Severn and Pearl from Anson's squadron 39. Don Antonio Ulloa, to the South Seas 40. Hen Brignon, to Magellanica 41. Byron, to the South Seas, &c.
Brosses, Charles de, 1709-1777.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]
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Genuine copies of various papers relative to Col. Charles Egerton, authenticated by the original records of the Hon. East-India Company.
Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]
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The first Englishmen in India : letters and narratives of sundry Elizabethans / written by themselves and edited with an introduction and notes by J. Courtenay Locke.
Date: [1930]
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The world displayed; or, a curious collection of voyages and travels, selected from the writers of all nations. In which the Conjectures and Interpolations of Several vain Editors and Translators Are expunged; Every Relation is made concise and plain, and The Divisions of Countries and Kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted. Illustrated and embellished with a variety of maps and prints by the best hands. The third edition. Vol. I.
Date: 1767
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Voyage in search of La Pérouse, performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1793, and 1794, and drawn up by M. Labillardiere, Correspondent of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, Member of the Society of Natural History, and One of the Naturalists Attached to the Expedition. Translated from the French. Illustrated with Forty-Six Plates.
Labillardière, Jacques-Julien, 1755-1834.Date: 1800
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An historical collection of the several voyages and discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol.I. Being chiefly a literal translation from the Spanish writers. By Alexander Dalrymple, Esq.
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737-1808.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]
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The World displayed; Or, A curious collection of voyages and travels, selected from the writers of all nations. In which the conjectures and interpolations of several vain editors and translators are expunged; every relation is made concise and plain, and the divisions of countries and kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted. Illustrated and embellished with variety of maps and prints by the best hands. Vol. XVI.
Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]
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The world displayed; or, a curious collection of voyages and travels, selected from the writers of all nations. In which the Conjectures and Interpolations of Several vain Editors and Translators Are expunged; Every Relation is made concise and plain, and The Divisions of Countries and Kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted. Illustrated and embellished with a variety of maps and prints by the best hands. The third edition. Vol. II.
Date: 1767
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Miscellanea curiosa. Being a collection of some of the principal phænomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age. ...
Royal Society (Great Britain)Date: 1705-07
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Capt. Dampier's vindication of his voyage to the South-Seas in the ship St. George. With some small observations ... on Mr. Funnel's chimerical relation of the voyage round the world; ...
Dampier, William, 1651-1715.Date: [1707?]
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The itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502-1508 / as translated from the original Italian edition of 1510, by John Winter Jones, F.S.A., in 1863 for the Hakluyt Society; with a Discourse on Varthema and his travels in southern Asia, by Sir Richard Carnac Temple, bt.
Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century.Date: 1928
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A voyage to the South Seas, in the years 1740-1. Containing a faithful narrative of the loss of His Majesty's Ship the the [sic] Wager on a desolate island in the latitude 47 south, longitude 81:40 west ... Interspersed with many entertaining and curious observations, no taken notice of by Sir John Narborough, or any other journalist, with many things not published in the first edition. By John Bulkeley and John Cummins, late gunner and carpenter of the Wager.
Bulkeley, John.Date: 1757. (Price 10s)
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Travels of Rabbi Benjamin, son of Jonah, of Tudela: through Europe, Asia, and Africa; from the ancient Kingdom of Navarre, to the frontiers of China. Faithfully translated from the original Hebrew; And enriched with a Dissertation, and Notes, Critical, Historical, and Geographical: In which the true Character of the Author, and Intention of the Work, are impartially considered. By the Rev. B. Gerrans, Lecturer of Saint Catherine Coleman, and Second Master of Queen Elizabeth's Free Grammar-School, Saint Olave, Southwark. This Author flourished about the Year 1160 of the Christian Aera, is highly prized by the Jews, and other Admirers of Rabbinical Learning; and has frequently been quoted by the greatest Orientalists that this or any other Nation ever produced: but was never before (to the Editor's Knowledge) wholly translated into English, either by Jew, or Gentile. Entered at Stationers Hall.
Benjamin Ben Jonah, of Tudela.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]
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The world displayed; or, a curious collection of voyages and travels. Selected from the writers of all nations. In which the Conjectures and Interpolations of Several vain Editors and Translators are expunged, Every Relation is made concise and plain, and The Divisions of Countries and Kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted. Embellished with cuts.
Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
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A journey over land to India, partly by a route never gone before by any European, by Donald Campbell, of Barbreck, Esq. who Formerly Commanded a Regiment of Cavalry in the Service of his Highness the Nabob of the Carnatic. In a series of letters to his son. Comprehending his Shipwreck and Imprisonment with Hyder Alli, and His Subsequent Negociations and Transactions in the East.
Campbell, Donald, 1751-1804.Date: 1795
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A new voyage to the East-Indies by Francis Leguat and his companions. Containing their adventures in two desart islands, And an Account of the most Remarkable Things in Maurice Island, Batavia, at the Cope of Good Hope, the Island of St. Helena, and other Places in their Way to and from the Desart Isles. Adorn'd with maps and figures.
Le Guat, François, 1637-1735.Date: MDCCVIII. [1708]
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Medizinische Beobachtungen während der Weltumsegelung des Adam Johann von Krusenstern / von Thomas Seidel.
Seidel, Thomas.Date: 1979
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The world displayed; or, a curious collection of voyages and travels, selected from the writers of all nations. In which the Conjectures and Interpolations Of Several vain Editors and Translators are expunged; Every Relation is made concise and plain, And The Divisions of Countries and Kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted. Illustrated and embellished with a variety of maps and prints by the best hands.
Date: 1769
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Instructive rambles in London, and the adjacent villages. Designed to amuse the mind, and improve the understanding of youth. By Elizabeth Helme. [Five lines of quotation]
Helme, Elizabeth, -1816.Date: 1799