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Credit: Sales catalogue 43: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![| VOYAGES—continued. 69 [CHURCHILL (A. and J.)] COLLECTION of VOYAGES and TRAVELS, THIRD EDITION, with a Compleat Index, nearly 300 fine maps and plates, engraved on copper (mostly full-page), 6 vols, folio, old calf, Printed by Assignment from Messrs. Churchill, for Henry Lintot and ¥. Osborn, 1744-46 £7 /7/- Vol. 1 has top outer margin of pages 475/6 torn away, affecting terminal letters on three lines of text; Vol. 6 has some small wormholes and stains in the lower blank margins of some pages. Other than these defects the set is in clean and sound condition. This important collection includes: Brawern (H.) and Herckemann. Voyage to Chili, ~ 1642-43 ; Monck (Capt. J.) Account of a most dangerous Voyage to Hudson’s Straits, with a description of old and New Greenland, 1619-20; Nieuhoff (J.) Voyages and Travels into Brasil, and the East Indies, 1640-71 ; Smith (Capt. J.) True Travels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, from 1592-1629; Greenland and Spitz- bergen. [wo Journals . . . 1633/4; Columbus (Christopher) Life, and the History of his Discovery of the West Indies, by his son, D. F. Columbus ; Techo (F. Nich. del.) History of the Provinces of Paraguay, Tucuman, Rio de la Plata, Parana, Guaira, Urvaica, and Chile, to 1645; Barbot (J.) Description of the Coasts of Guinea and Angola, with a new relation of the Province of Guiana, the Rivers Amazons and Oronoque in South America ; and Account of the Discoveries of America in the XI Vth Century, from Herrera’s History of the West Indies ; Norwood (Col.) Voyage to Virginia, 1649 ; and Description of the Mosqueto Kingdom in America [etc.] in 1699. 70 CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE GLOBE; and Progress of Maritime Discovery, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, with 12 plates in chromoxylography, post 8vo., cloth, 1859 8/- Includes the voyages of Columbus, Magellan, Dampier, Cook, Vancouver and Kotzebue. 71 COOK (Capt. JAMES) THREE VOYAGES round the WORLD, ORIGINAL EDITIONS : comprising HAWKESWORTH’s ACCOUNT of the VoyAGEs in the “‘ DOLPHIN,” ** SWALLOW ” and ‘‘ ENDEAVOUR,” 1768 to ’71, [SECOND EDITION], 3 vols, Printed for W. Strahan ; and T. Cadell, 1773—VovaGE in the ‘‘ RESOLUTION ” and ‘‘ ENDEAVOUR ” to NEW ZEALAND and towards the SOUTH POLE, 1772 to °75, FirST EDITION, 2 vols, zbid. 1777—VOYAGE to the PACIFIC OCEAN and the NorTH-WEsST Coast of AMERICA in the ‘‘ RESOLUTION”? and ‘‘ DISCOVERY,’, 1776 to 1780, SECOND EDITION, 3 vols, Printed by H. Hughs ; for G. Nichol and T. Cadell, 1785—with portrait, 2 maps, 57 charts and 65 plates, 8 vols, 4to., contemp. russia, emblematic gilt backs (some joints neatly repaired) ; and the SCARCE FOLIO ATLAS of 2 large MAPS and 61 PLATES to the Third Voyage, in contemp. half russia (not quite uniform), gilt back, a good set, in contemporary binding 1773-85 £21/-/- (eA ‘THREE VOYAGES round the WORLD, BEST OcTAvo EDITION, portrait, folding map and 24 plates, 7 vols, 8vo., contemp. calf, neatly rebacked, 1821 £9/9/- 73 A New, AUTHENTIC, and COMPLETE COLLECTION of VOYAGES round the WORLD, . containing a FULL and COMPLETE History of CAPTAIN COOK’s FIRST, SECOND THIRD and Last VoyaGEs . . . edited by GEORGE WILLIAM ANDERSON, . . . portrait, folding general chart and 153 maps and plates, folio, old half morocco, Printed for the Proprietors and Published by Alex. Hogg, 1784 £1/10/- The folding chart and a few margins of text defective and repaired. In addition to Cook’s Voyages this collection contains those of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Mulgrave, Anson, and Drake. 74 A New, AUTHENTIC, and COMPLETE COLLECTION of VOYAGES ROUND the WORLD : undertaken and performed by Royal Authority, containing a COMPLETE HISTORICAL AccOUNT of CAPTAIN COOK’s First, SECOND, THIRD and LAST VOYAGES, undertaken for making New Discoveries, &c., compiled from Authentic Sources by CAPT. JOHN Hoae, 3 portraits, 29 maps and 128 plates, 6 vols, 8vo., contemp. calf, neatly rebacked, Printed for Alex. Hogg, [ca. 1795] £4/10/- The “ Contents ” sheet at the end of the sixth volume has catchword ‘“‘ Directions,” undoubtedly intended for “‘ Directions to the binder ” leaf, but which does not appear to have been printed as it is always absent. 15 — A New, AUTHENTIC COLLECTION of CAPTAIN Cook’s [THREE] VOYAGES round the WORLD, portrait, 8vo., contemp. sheep, Printed for William Lane, 1787 18/-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30859335_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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