Parution : A Collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts

Créateurs

• Churchill, Awnsham (16..-1728). Éditeur scientifique
• Churchill, John (16..-1714?). Éditeur scientifique
• Locke, John (1632-1704). Préfacier

Informations pratiques

• Titre :  A Collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts. Others translated out of foreign languages, and now first publish’d in English. To which are added some few that have formerly appear’d in English, but do now for their excellency and scarceness deserve to be reprinted. In four volumes. With a general preface, giving an account of the progress of navigation… The whole illustrated with a great number of useful maps, and cuts, all engraven on copper… Vol. I [-IV]
• Editeur : London : printed for Awnsham and John Churchill. MDCCIV-London : printed by H.C. for Awnsham and John Churchill
• Date de parution : MDCCIV [1704]
• Description matérielle : 4 vol., pl. dont certaines dépl. : ill. ; in-2
• Index
• Éd. par Awnsham et John Churchill. Préface attribuée à John Locke, d’après une mention au titre de la 3e éd. de 1744. – Nombreuses erreurs de pagination. Avec des citations en grec, hébreu, italien et latin et des vers en anglais et latin
• Contient :
  • Vol. I : AN ACCOUNT OF THE EMPIRE OF CHINA., pp. CI-424 ; THE TRAVELS OF MARTIN BAUMGARTEN, A NOBLEMAN OF GERMANY, THROUGH EGYPT, ARABIA, PALESTINE, AND SYRIA., pp. 425-502 ; A VOYAGE TO THE KINGDOM OF CHILI IN AMERICA., pp. 503-526 ; A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE ISLAND OF FORMOSA IN THE INDIES,SITUATE NEAR THE COAST OF CHINA; AND OF THE MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND…, pp. 526-533 ; SOME CURIOUS REMARKS UPON THE POTENT EMPIRE OF JAPAN., pp. 534-540 ; AN ACCOUNT OF A MOST DANGEROUS VOYAGE PERFORM’D BY THE FAMOUS CAPT. JOHN MONCK, IN THE YEARS 1619, AND 1620., pp. 541-570 ; A DESCRIPTION OF UKRAINE, CONTAINING SEVERAL PROVINCES OF THE KINGDOM OF POLAND., pp. 571-610 ; A CURIOUS AND EXACT ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO CONGO, IN THE YEARS 1666, AND 1667., pp. 611-650 ; A VOYAGE TO CONGO, AND SEVERAL OTHER COUNTRIES, CHIEFLY IN SOUTHERN-AFRICK., pp. 651-757 ; THE JOURNAL OF SIR THOMAS ROE, pp. 757-813.
  • Vol. II : VOYAGES AND TRAVELS INTO BRASIL, AND THE EAST-INDIES ; THE TRUE TRAVELS, ADVENTURES, AND OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH, INTO EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AND AMERICA, FROM ANN. DOM. 1593 TO 1629., pp. 371-413 ; TWO JOURNALS, pp. 413-429 ; A TRUE AND SHORT ACCOUNT OF FORTY TWO PERSONS, WHO PERISHED BY SHIPWRACK NEAR SPITZBERGEN, IN THE YEAR 1646., pp. 429-431 ; AN ACCOUNT OF ISELAND, SENT TO MONSIEUR DE LA MOTHE DE VAYER ; AN ACCOUNT OF GREENLAND, TO MONSIEUR DE LA MOTHE LE VAYER., pp. 449-478 ; CAPTAIN THOMAS JAMES’S STRANGE AND DANGEROUS VOYAGE IN HIS INTENDED DISCOVERY OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE INTO THE SOUTH SEA: IN THE YEARS 1631. AND 1632., pp. 479-544 ; AN ACCOUNT OF TWO VOYAGES., pp. 545-557 ; THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND ACTIONS OF ADM. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, AND OF HIS DISCOVERY OF THE WEST-INDIES., pp. 557-687 ; PYRAMIDOGRAPHIA: OR A DESCRIPTION OF THE PYRAMIDS IN ÆGYPT, pp. 687-737 ; A DISCOURSE OF THE ROMAN FOOT AND DENARIUS., pp. 737-786 ; AN ACCOUNT OF COCHIN-CHINA IN TWO PARTS., pp. 787-838.
  • Vol. III : ERRATA, IN THE HISTORY OF CHILE ; AN HISTORICAL RELATION OF THE KINGDOM OF CHILE ; SIR WILLIAM MONSON’S NAVAL TRACTS ; A TRUE AND EXACT DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST CELEBRATED EAST-INDIA COASTS OF MALABAR AND COROMANDEL ; A DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT AND MOST FAMOUS ISLE OF CEYLON., pp. 667-830 ; THE IDOLATRY OF THE EAST-INDIA PAGANS, pp. 830-901.
  • Vol. IV : VOYAGE Round the World by Dr. John Francis Gemelli Careri¹ ; AN ACCOUNT OF THE SHIPWRECK OF A DUTCH VESSEL On the Coast of the Isle of Quelpaert, Together with the Description of the Kingdom of COREA., pp. 607-623 ; The Description of the Kingdom of Corea., pp. 623-632 ; AN ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE FROM Spain to Paraquaria…, pp. 633-665 ; Advertisement concerning the Fragment of the Discovery of the Islands of Salomon., pp. 665-679 ; THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCES OF Paraguay, Tucuman, Rio de la Plata, Parana, Guaira and Urvaica. And something of the Kingdom of Chili…, pp. 680-807 ; God’s Power and Providence, Shewed in the Miraculous Preservation and Deliverance of EIGHT ENGLISH-MEN, Left by Mischance in GREENLAND., pp. 808-821 ; The Journey of John Baptist Merin…, pp. 822-828 ; An Account of the Cape of Good Hope…, pp. 829-845 ; A Draught of the Streights of Gibraltar…

Localisations

• PARIS-BnF :
  • Tolbiac – Rez-de-jardin – magasin : G-1218 < Vol. 1 >
  • Tolbiac – Rez-de-jardin – magasin : G-1219 < Vol. 2 >
  • Tolbiac – Rez-de-jardin – magasin : G-1220 < Vol. 3 >
  • Tolbiac – Rez-de-jardin – magasin : G-1221 < Vol. 4 >
• Disponible en ligne, url : <https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:49950386$7i>.

Note

1. Avec notamment Vol. IV., PART VI Containing the moſt Remarkable Things he ſaw in New Spain, BOOK I, p. 502-600. Disponible en ligne, url : <https://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13479274?n=3344>. [↩]

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