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Gyan Publishing House, 2020. Paperback. New. English

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Asian Educational Services,India, 2002. Library Binding. New. facsimile edition. 765 pages. 12.40x9.60x3.00 inches.

London: Printed by Assignment from Messrs. Churchill. For John Walthoe, Tho. Wotton, Samuel Birt (and 4 others),, 1732. A very valuable collection Second, enlarged edition of one of the great voyage collections, originally issued by the brothers Awnsham and John Churchill in four volumes in 1704 with the advice and encouragement of the philosopher John Locke. Hill describes it as "a very valuable collection, both for its range of coverage and for the fact that it gives the original accounts". The list of subscribers runs to some 102 names, headed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Perhaps the most notable addition here, not present in the 1704 edition, is the account of West Africa (1678-82) by the French Huguenot slave trader Jean Barbot (1655-1712), A Description of the Coasts of North and South-Guinea, which includes a chapter on "Mahomet and his Alcoran... the cities of Medina and Mecca, and Mahomet's tomb; and of the Arabs" (vol. V, pp. 63-72). This is the first appearance of Barbot's… Read More

London: John Walthoe [et al]; Thomas Osborne, 1745. Expert neat strengthening to some joints; in very good condition, a most handsome set.. Eight volumes, folio, comprising the complete works in original and matching bindings, containing some 213 engraved plates including work by Herman Moll, Johannes Kip, and others (many double-page or folding), engraved and woodcut illustrations throughout; splendid late eighteenth-century Russia leather bindings, simple gilt and blind borders to sides, spines ornamented and lettered in gilt between double raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers. A splendid set of the two great voyage anthologies of the early eighteenth century, in handsome, original matched bindings. This set contains the Churchill anthology in its second improved edition and the first edition of the supplementary Osborne series, better known as the "Harleian" or "Oxford Voyages", which is generally seen as a supplement to the Churchill collection; the eight volumes of this set are uniformly… Read More