A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES TO THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.

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First Edition as Thus, 2 vols, 8vo, pp 692; iim 746; contemporary brown tree calf, re-backed with original spine, small loss to Vol I, facsimile title-page to Vol I. A very rare version of Callander's Terra Australis Cognita, first issued as three volumes 1766-8. Callander's work, based on the 1756 French collection of De Brosses, contains in this two-volume form a total of forty-one narratives, some in English for the first time, including the voyages of Hawkins, Quiros, Spilbergen, Le Maire, Schouten, Pelsaert, Tasman, Dampier, Shelvocke and Anson. This has been described as "the fundamental proposal for the first European settlement of the Southern Continent". Sabin 10053; not in Ferguson. N° de ref. del artículo 10048

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