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MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- (PRÉVOST, A.F.). Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à present dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues. Par., Didot, 1746-89 (Vol. 17: Amst., Arkstée & Merkus, 1761). 20 vols. W. engr. front. & 594 engr. maps/plans/views/figures, partly fold./double-p. 4°. Cont. mottled cf. w. raised bands, richly dec. gilt back, burgundy and brown labels, red edges. (Brown labels for the greater part gone, spine ends chipped/a bit dam. in places, slightly browned/foxed in places, but a good set).
"An important and scarce collection which includes accounts of all the principal early Australian voyages, as well as an account of the discovery of Australia by the Dutch, early voyages to New Guinea and the Palau Islands, and Roggeveen's voyage to Terres Australes, African voyages including the early Portuguese and English voyages to West Africa and the Cape of Good Hope, with a general account of the Dutch at the Cape. Pacific voyages include those of Magellan, Schouten, and Le Maire, Drake, Sarmiento, Cavendish, Spilbergen, Narborough, Rogers Cowley, Frazier, and Anson. Particularly full accounts are given of the Dutch and French voyages to the East Indies, voyages to China, and the British East India Company's voyages to India and Ceylon" (Hill). The twentieth volume of the first edition was published at the onset of the French Revolution and is consequently scarce but present here! - Hill, 1391; Sabin, 65402; cf. Landwehr, VOC, 265.€ 4500
uitslag € 3600
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