An Historical Collection Of the Several Voyages and Discoveries In the South Pacific Ocean

Israel / Da Capo, 1967. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: A4 (300 x 210mm approx.). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Original… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, N. Israel, 1967. . Facsimile; 4to; Vol 1; pp. xxxii, 207; Vol 2; pp. 224, 20 plus 60 un-paginated pages at rear; foldout map frontispiece, 4 foldout illustrations, numerous b/w illustrations throughout, errata, index; original cream cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine and front, minor chipping to corners, otherwise a very good copy. Two Volumes in… Read more about this item

London, printed for the author; and sold by J. Nourse, bookseller in ordinary to His Majesty; T. Payne, at the Mews-gate; and P. Elmsley, opposite Southampton-street, Strand, MDCCLXX. [1770] .. VOLUME 1 ONLY OF 2, SECOND ISSUE 1770. Volume 1 covers the "Spanish Explorers", the missing Volume 2 the "Dutch explorers". 4to, approximately 245 x 200 mm, 9½ x 8… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New. These accounts, published in 1770-1 and reissued here in one volume, are of notable Iberian and Dutch voyages in the southern hemisphere. They were translated and edited by Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), who became the hydrographer to the Admiralty in 1795. The work includes a chronological table of discoveries since 1501.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cambridge University Press, 2015. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 530 pages. 9.92x7.01x1.18 inches.