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Purchas, Samuel (1577?-1626)5
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The itinerary of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna from 1502-1508 : as translated from the original Italian edition of 1510

De Varthema, Lodovico; Jones, John Winter (1805-1881); Penzer, N M (1892-1960); Temple, Sir Richard Carnac (1850-1931); Argonaut Press

1928

With reproduction of text of original t.-p. and colophon.

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Divers voyages touching the discovery of America and the islands adjacent

Hakluyt, Richard (1552?-1616); Jones, John Winter (1805-1881); Fahyan, Robert (1513); Thorne, Robert (1527); Verrazzano, Giovanni da (1485-1528); Ribaut, Jean (1520 (ca.)-1565); Hacket, Thomas (fl. 1560-1590); Great Britain

1850

Reprint of original edition, including title-page.

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Travels and adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff

Wolff, Joseph (1795-1862); Gatty, Alfred (1813-1903)

1861

Edited by Alfred Gatty.

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Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca : Or, A complete collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers (v.2)

Harris, John (1667?-1719); Campbell, John (1708-1775)

1744-48

Title in red and black. Edited by John Campbell.

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Miscellanea curiosa : Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age: being the most valuable discourses, read and delivered to the Royal Society... As also a collection of curious travels, voyages, antiquities, and natural histories of countries; presented to the same society. To which is added, a Discourse of the influence of the sun and moon on human bodies, &c (v.1)

Derham, W (1657-1735); Mead, Richard (1673-1754); Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Hodgson, James (1672-1755); Royal Society (Great Britain)

1723-27

Vol. 1, the third edition. Revised and corrected, by W. Derham. 1726; v. 2, to which is added the laws of stereographick projection, laid down and projected by Ja. Hodgson. 1723; v. 3, the second edit...

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Miscellanea curiosa : Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age: being the most valuable discourses, read and delivered to the Royal Society... As also a collection of curious travels, voyages, antiquities, and natural histories of countries; presented to the same society. To which is added, a Discourse of the influence of the sun and moon on human bodies, &c (v.2)

Derham, W (1657-1735); Mead, Richard (1673-1754); Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Hodgson, James (1672-1755); Royal Society (Great Britain)

1723-27

Vol. 1, the third edition. Revised and corrected, by W. Derham. 1726; v. 2, to which is added the laws of stereographick projection, laid down and projected by Ja. Hodgson. 1723; v. 3, the second edit...

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Miscellanea curiosa : Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age: being the most valuable discourses, read and delivered to the Royal Society... As also a collection of curious travels, voyages, antiquities, and natural histories of countries; presented to the same society. To which is added, a Discourse of the influence of the sun and moon on human bodies, &c (v.3)

Derham, W (1657-1735); Mead, Richard (1673-1754); Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657-1757); Hodgson, James (1672-1755); Royal Society (Great Britain)

1723-27

Vol. 1, the third edition. Revised and corrected, by W. Derham. 1726; v. 2, to which is added the laws of stereographick projection, laid down and projected by Ja. Hodgson. 1723; v. 3, the second edit...

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Voyages and discoveries

Dampier, William (1652-1715); Penzer, N M (1892-1960); Wilkinson, Clennell (1883-); Bell, Archibald Colquhoun; Argonaut Press

1931

"This edition... is limited 975 copies on Japon vellum, numbered l to 975 ... ". Reprinted from the second volume of the author's A collection of voyages, published 1729. Edited by N. M. Penzer.

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Six months in the West Indies, in 1825

Coleridge, Henry Nelson (1798-1843)

1826

Signatures: [1] 2-25 26. Authorship from t.p. London, Murray, 1832 edition and Halkett and Laing.

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The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo : together with the travels of Nicolò de' Conti

Polo, Marco (1254-1323?); Conti, Niccolò de' (1395-1469); Ramusio, Giovanni Battista (1485-1557); Frampton, John (fl. 1577-1596); Penzer, N M (1892-1960); Argonaut Press

1929

"This edition... is the sixth publication of the Argonaut press and is limited to 1050 copies on Japon vellum, numbered 1 to 1050." With reproduction of t.-p. of original edition. Translated by Fr...

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