Description
Important and rare offering "A Collection Of Voyages and Travels, Some Now First Printed from Original Manuscripts, others Now first Published in English". This is Vol. II of Six Volumes. Illustrated with a great number of useful Maps and Cuts, Curiously Engraven. The Third Edition. Printed by Mess. Churchill, For Henry Lintot, and John Osborn, 1744. This Volume II contains: Voyages And Travels Into Brasil (Brazil) And The East Indies..Containing An exact Description of the Dutch Brasil, and divers parts of the East Indies; their Provinces, Cities, Living Creatures, and Products, the Manners, Customs, Habits, and Religion of the Inhabitants...By Mr. John Nieuhoff. Publisher's full leather covered boards, 6 raised bands on spine. 744pp. Illustrated with numerous engravings, many fold-outs, maps. These are undoubtedly the most magnificent illustrations contained in any book I have offered in 20+ years. Measures 14" x 9 1/2". This is a very valuable collection, both for its range of coverage and for the fact that it gives the original accounts." (Hill). This second volume comprises voyages to Brasil (Brazil), the East Indies, Africa, East Asia, and North America. The second volume contains the first English edition of Johannes Nieuhof's Voyages and Travels, into Brasil, and the East-Indies, first published in Dutch in 1682. It is divided into two parts; the first being concerned with Nieuhof's stay in Brazil and the second relates to his voyages in the East Indies and South Africa. The second part on his voyage to the East Indies, contains a detailed description of areas and pearl fishing, also Batavia, Malaya, etc.. Also included in this volume are: Travels, Adventures and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America 1593 to 1629. Two Journals: The First Kept by Seven Sailors in the Isle of St. Maurice in Greenland 1633-1634. Captain Thomas James's strange and dangerous voyage in his intended discovery of the northwest passage into the South-Sea, in the years 1631-32. The Life of Christopher Columbus, and the History of His Discovery of the West-Indies. Pyramidographia: or, A Description of the Pyramids in Egypt. An Account of Cochin-China. etc. RARE. The 6 volume set listed elsewhere for $41,000. Volume is in good condition. Pages are surprisingly primarily clean & bright; minor/moderate damp staining on fore-edge margins. No musty, loose, or missing pages, plates, or maps. Some illustrations display tanning/foxing. Front board is detached, rear board loosely connected. Wear on corners and edges of boards. A couple cracks along spine. Some soiling and rubbing on main boards. Smoke-free home.
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Received May 13th. The packaging was adequate, although the inner cardboard protection was smaller than the item so the outer board covering was slightly damaged. The article within the boards was exactly as described. It was also a dwcwnr value for what I paid. Many Thanks.