Collection VOYAGES, osborne, harleian, 2 vols, 1745
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** From the library of Sir Ashton Lever, whose 18th century collection of natural objects was admired by Captain James Cook ** A Collection of Voyages and Travels, consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other collections. And continued with others of note, that have published histories, voyages, travels, journals or discoveries in other nations and languages, relating to any part of the continent of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof, from the earliest account to the present time... (2 volumes)byVarious [PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR MORE PHOTOS] DETAILS: (London): Printed for and Sold by Thomas Osborne of Gray's-Inn, 1745. Quarter leather, rebacked. [4], xii, lviii, 1-261, [2], 410-444, 449-453, 472-630, 699-873, [1]; [32], 1-94. [3], xcviii-c, 95-102, [1]. 102-245, 236-279, [2], 278-402, 393-480, [1], 466-663, [2], 734-931, [1]pp (see below for notes on pagination). Each voyage has its own half-title. Folio sized volumes approx. 14in x 9in (large sized books). *This is a heavy item weighing over 2kg with packaging! Would non-UK customers please e-mail us for a shipping quote prior to bidding. The UK shipping rate is quoted below. CONDITION: Good (see table below for details). Lacks all plates / maps. Rebacked at some point, with new endpapers and fly leaves. Rear board of Volume 1 missing; front board of Volume 2 detached. Heavy wear to boards, some rubbing to spine. Some dirt marks to title page. Light sunning to pages. VOLUME 1: Marginal staining to pages at fore edge (less prevalent in second half of volume), touches text occasionally, but all text still clear and readable. Light foxing to many pages, heavier to a handful. Small mark to top of p720. VOLUME 2: Light foxing to some, heavier to some rear pages (heaviest to p565), but text still readable. Bottom corner of pp15-16 missing, no text affected. Tear to fore edge of pp197-8. Staining to pp248-9, in text and to margins, but text still readable. A few words in ink at top of p391, a little offsetting to facing page. Small stain to p908, in text but text still readable, a little to facing page, again text readable. *Photo(s) given of actual book. CONTENTS: A rare copy of this fascinating two volume set of accounts of voyages, all in English (in many cases translated from the original languages). The work lacks the 16 plates and the 37 maps by Moll but without any loss to text. In addition, the contents pages at the beginning of Volume 1, and the index at the beginning of Volume 2 are both intact. Each of the accounts has its own half title. Includes in Volume 1, "The voyage of Don Manoel Gonzales" which is sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Moore). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens (ESTC). The publisher, Osborne, a major bookseller in this period, bought the library of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, in 1742. This collection is sometimes referred to as the "Harleian Voyages" or the "Oxford Collection". The pagination of the two volumes has several errors, including 2 substantial sections which at first sight appear to be absent. However, from checking each section against the contents list in Volume 1, we cannot identify any missing pages. Pages where page numbers skip all have the catch word at the bottom of one page matching the first word of the next page. The only place where this is not the case is in the large section which appears to be missing in Volume 2. The catch words of the last page of the preceding Madagascar piece are "A Tour" but the next page is blank, and the following page is the half title of "A Short Discovery of the Coast and Continent of America". However, the contents pages lists no other article between these two accounts, so this is possibly a printing error (or maybe a work which was excised altogether before publication?). We have compared this 'error' with another copy of this work, and the page jump and apparent absence of a section is identical, so presume ours to be complete as printed. Volume 1 begins with Introductory Discourses Concerning Geography/Navigation/Government/Commerce/Religion/Travel. Then follow the voyages (each with their own half-title page) which include: "The Voyage of Don Manoel Gonzales, (Late Merchant) of the City of Lisbon in Portugal, to Great Britain: containing an...account of England and Scotland" [sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe, but disputed by some scholars] (208pp); "John Story's Travels through Sweden: containing a short Survey of that Kingdom (28pp); "A Description of Moscovy" (10pp); "Sir Thomas Overbury's Observations in his Travels upon the State of the Seventeen Provinces, as they stood Anno Dom. 1609" (11pp); "A Tour in France and Italy, made by an English Gentleman, 1675" (64pp); "A Relation of the Travels and most miserable Captivity of William Davis, Barber-Surgeon, of London, under the Duke of Florence" (12pp); "A Voyage into the Levant. A brief relation of a journey lately performed by Master Henry Blount, Gentleman, From England by Way of Venice, into Dalmatia, Sclavonia, Bosnah, Hungary, Macedonia, Thessaly, Thrace, Rhodes, and Egypt, unto Grand Cairo" (40pp); "The Navigation, Peregrinations and Voyages, made into Turky, by Nicholas Nicholay Daulphinois" (94pp); "The Preacher's Travels; wherein is set down the true journal to the confines of the East-Indies, through the great countries of Syria, Mesopotamis, Armenia, Media, Hyrcania, and Parthia: with the author's return by the way of Persia, Susiana, Assyria, Chaldaea, and Arabia." (50pp); "The Travels of Four Englishmen and a Preacher, into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythinia, Thracia, and to the Black Sea, and into Syria, Cilicia, Pisidia, Mesopotamia, Damascus, Canaan, Galilee, Samaria, Judea, Palestina, Jerusalem, Jericho, and to the Red Sea, and to sundry other places [1600-1611]" (68pp); "A Voyage to Mount Libanus: wherein is an account of the customs and manners, &c. of the Turks. Also a description of Candia, Nicosia, Tripoli, Alexandretta, &c. with curious remarks upon several passages relating to the Turks and Maronites." (41pp). (Volume 2) "The History of the Court of the King of China" by Michael Baudier (24pp); "An Account of the Empire of China; To which is prefix'd A Discourse of the Navigation which the Portugueze do make to the Realms and Provinces of the East Parts of the World" by Barnardine of Escalanta (70pp); "A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution that happened lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies" (12pp); "Mr. F. Bernier's Voyage to Surat: containing the history of the later revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogol...with an exact description of Dehli and Agra" (139pp); "News from the East Indies; or a Voyage to Bengalla, one of the great kingdoms under the High and Mighty Prince Pedesha Shassallem, usually called the Great Mogul" by William Bruton (12pp); "A True Relation of the Unjust, Cruel, and Barbarous Proceedings against the English, at Amboyna, in the East Indies, by the Nederlandish Governor and Council there." [plus 3 more works on the Amboyna Massacre of 1623, 74pp in total]; "The Discoveries of the World from their first original, unto the year of our lord 1555" by Anthony Galvano (translated by Richard Hakluyt) (50pp); "The Description of a Voyage made by certain Ships of Holland into the East-Indies...Who set forth on the Second of April 1595, and returned on the Fourteenth of August 1597...To which is added The Sea-Journal, or Navigation of the Hollanders into Java,. &c." (30pp); "A Relation of Seven Years Slavery under the Turks of Algier, suffered by an English captive merchant, wherein is also contained all memorable passages, fights and accidents, which happened in that city, and at sea with their ships and gallies during that time." by Francis Knight (24pp); "A True Relation of the Sallee Fleet, with the proceedings of the voyage" by John Dunton (8pp); "A Report of the Kingdom of Congo, a Region in Africa, and of the countries that border round about the same" by Odoardo Lopez (64pp); " A Brief Discovery or Description of the most famous Island of Madagascar, or St Laurence, in Asia, near unto the East-Indies" by Richard Boothby (38pp); "A Short Discovery of the Coast and Continent of America, from the Equinoctial Northward; and of the adjacent isles" by William Castle (48pp); "Nova Francia: or, the Description of that part of New France which is one Continent with Virginia" (122pp); "A Description of Surinam upon the Continent of Guinea in America" by George Warren (11pp). ** This copy is ex-libris Sir Ashton Lever, with his armorial bookplate to front pastedown of Volume 1. Lever (March 5, 1729 - January 28, 1788) was an English collector of natural objects. Lever began by collecting seashells in about 1760, and gradually accumulated one of the richest private collections of natural objects, including live animals. He opened it to the public in April 1766, in Manchester, moving the museum to his family home at Alkrington Hall, near Rochdale, Lancashire, in 1771. In 1774, Lever moved to London, and next year his Holophusicon opened to the public in Leicester Square. Captain James Cook was so impressed by Lever's collection that he donated objects from his own voyages to the museum. (Source: Wikipedia) key words: Powered by eBay Turbo Lister
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