[Important Compilation of Contemporary Travel & Exploration Accounts / First Map of the Oregon Trail] Nouvelles Annales des Voyages . Avec des Cartes et Planches (36 volumes and dozens of maps -- Important Reports on Polar Exploration, Search for Northwest Passage, Lewis & Clark, Humboldt, Russian Colonization, Tasmania, New Zealand, Upper Canada, etc.)

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The Most Complete Collection of Voyages Obtainable - A Complete Library in ItselfBeautiful Uniformly Bound Set - In Contemporary Blue BoardsWith the Key Map and Western Overland Account by Hunt and StuartIt wou. Octavo. 36 volumes. 19th century deep blue paper-covered boards, red leather spine labels. Untrimmed. Some scattered foxing. Volume 36 with damage to back cover (lower corner of board broken). Lacks plate of Ch teau de Darmouth in vol. 30, Also lacks a view of Syndey from vol. 32 and a map and some text from vol. 36: pages [129]-144 lacking and Carte de l' le de Ha -nan, dress e par M. Klaproth. Otherwise a clean, very nice uniformly bound set, which shows spectacularly on the shelf. Total of 80 maps, plans and plates (many folding) are present (see below for detailed list). The Most Complete Collection of Voyages Obtainable - A Complete Library in ItselfBeautiful Uniformly Bound Set - In Contemporary Blue BoardsWith the Key Map and Western Overland Account by Hunt and StuartIt would be difficult to imagine a more complete collection of the world's great travels and voyages of discovery. The Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, likely the most comprehensive systematic effort to compile travels and voyages of discovery, is a vast collection of exploration reports from around the world, including a number of highly important accounts concerning the Pacific Northwest of America. The collection spans the entire globe, with emphasis on the Pacific, Africa, and narratives of discovery on the North American continent. The editors kept up with current events, incorporating new and often previously unpublished accounts. In an effort to balance out the collection and perhaps to provide historical context the editors also included a number of early discovery accounts, such as Marco Polo's overland travels to Asia. The present set of 36 volumes consists of the entire output of the Nouvelles Annales under the direction of noted Danish geographer Conrad Malte Brun, director of the project from 1819 to 1826. The work's subtitle explains its greater purpose, as:A collection of unpublished original relations, communicated by French and foreign travellers; new journeys, translated from all European languages; and historical memoirs on the origin, language, customs and arts of peoples, as well as on the production and trade of little or poorly known countries: accompanied by a bulletin announcing all the discoveries, research and undertakings which tend to accelerate the progress of the historical sciences, especially of geography.According to Sabin the Annales continued through 1870, eventually comprising 208 volumes in six series with some modifications to the title. Offered here is one of the most extensive sets we have seen, and especially desirable for being uniformly bound in 19th century deep-blue French boards, with red leather spine labels. Hunt and Stuart - First Detailed Publication of their Western Travels - with a Superlatively Important Map of the West.Of all the great voyages found in these volumes, the outstanding exemplar is the first publication of the text and map relating to the overland adventures and travels in the Northwest by Wilson Price Hunt and Robert Stuart in 1811-1813. These two early western explorers set out to develop John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost at the mouth of the Columbia River and led the most important overland expeditions in the region immediately after Lewis and Clark. Herein is the primary relation of their journey spanning three years, beginning in New York, thence overland to Astoria and back to St. Louis, documenting the discovery of the South Pass and the establishment of the Oregon Trail. The Hunt portion of text was later published in English in The Ove.

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[Important Compilation of Contemporary Travel & Exploration Accounts / First Map of the Oregon Trail] Nouvelles Annales des Voyages . Avec des Cartes et Planches (36 volumes and dozens of maps -- Important Reports on Polar Exploration, Search for Northwest Passage, Lewis & Clark, Humboldt, Russian Colonization, Tasmania, New Zealand, Upper Canada, etc.)

Editor

Conrad Malte-Brun - Robert Stuart - Wilson Price Hunt

Fecha de publicación

1819

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Hardcover

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vg+

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Book

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• Antique Maps