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Librería: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condición: NEW. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1745 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 778.
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ISBN 10: 1012997987ISBN 13: 9781012997984
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Publicado por London, 1732
Librería: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Condición: Very Good. Copper engraved view, recently hand-coloured. Sheet dimensions [340mm, 400mm]. Platemark dimensions [280mm, 350mm]. Fold mark running vertically through centre of sheet. Age marks around edges of sheet, one small stain at top fold. Taken from Vol 3. to face Pp 589. View of the City of Masulipatam from Churchill's Collection of Voyages. The print shows a view of the port and city of Masulipatam, India, in which we see elephants, residents of the town collecting water, smoking, going towards the seaside. Buildings flying the flag of England are seen in the distance, as well as sailboats on the horizon. The Churchill brothers, Awnsham (1658-1728) and John (1663-1714), were publishers in London. A collection of voyages and travels: some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English, was first published in 1704, and was a four-volume collection of voyages and travel accounts. This specific print would have first appeared in the 1732 expanded edition, which grew to six volumes of voyages. Engraving is attributed to minister and cartographer Philip Baladeus, and originally published in 1672 in his book A true and exact description of the most celebrated East India coast of Malabar and Coromandel, and of the island of Ceylon, with all the adjacent countries.
Publicado por Churchill, John, London, 1704
Librería: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
unbound. Condición: very good. Engraving. Image measures 11" x 14". Named after the patron saint of Wales, Fort St. David lies in Pulicat on the Coromandel Coast, in South East India. It served as a trading post of the British East India Trading Company. The engraving shows a bird's eye view of the fort and its layout. From Churchill's "Collection of Voyages and Travels".
Publicado por [London, 1732
Librería: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, Estados Unidos de America
[2],489-514pp. plus four plates. Folio. Modern half cloth and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. Extracted from a later edition of Churchill's VOYAGES AND TRAVELS., the narrative of Captain Jens Munk's voyage to discover the Northwest Passage under the auspices of King Christian IV. He made it through Hudson's Strait to Hudson's Bay, where the party was forced to winter. Unfortunately, icy conditions, lack of resources, and scurvy claimed the lives of most of the men, forcing an early retreat for Munk and the two remaining survivors of his disastrous voyage. With much on whales and whaling techniques.
Publicado por Published by London: Printed by Assignment from Messrs. Churchill. For John Walthoe, Tho. Wotton, Samuel Birt (and 4 others, all London), 1732, 1732
Librería: Lodge Books, Carnforth, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Printed by assignment from Mssrs. Churchill; for John Walthoe, Thomas Wotton, Samuel Birt, Daniel Browne, Thomas Osborn, John Shuckburgh and Henry Lintot; London 1732. Hardcover. Volume I only, rebound and re-backed. Professionally repaired title page, spine and joints. Occasional minor dust-marking, age-toned ages, some dampstaing and foxing. Engraved arms 0f 28 named subscribers, the list of which runs to some 102 names headed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Plates and maps, vignettes and woodcuts throughout, including Domingo Fernandez Navarrete's account account of the Empire of China during his work as a missionary from 1646-1673; Brawern and Herckemann's voyage to Chile in 1642 and 1643 and Michele Angelo Guattini's "curious and exact" account of his travels to the Congo (1666-67). Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Please note, additional postage may be requested from international orders.
Publicado por Awnsham and John Churchill, London, 1704
Librería: Arader Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very good. First. THE LORD CARLETON -- BARLOW COPY. First edition, large paper copy. Folio in 4s (15 1/16" x 10", 381mm x 254mm). [Full collation available.] With 207 engraved plates, of which 79 are folding and 98 are integral to the text; and 11 woodcut illustrations integral to the text. Bound in contemporary speckled calf panelled in cat's-paw (re-backed, with the original backstrip laid down). Gilt supralibros of Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton. On the spine, six raised bands. Panels gilt. Title and number gilt to red morocco in the second panel. All edges of the text-block speckled red. Re-backed, with the original backstrip laid down. Fore-corners rebuilt. A triangular fill to the front board of vol. I. Scuffed generally, with some wear at the edges. Internally quite a clean copy with excellent margins. An old repaired tear to I.Xxx3, not affecting the text. Closed tear to III.S3. Passages of tanning at III.Aaa2-3 and III.Vvvv2-3. An early MS notation to III.Mmmmm1. Armorial bookplate of Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow to the front paste-down of each volume. Awnsham Churchill (1658-1728) with his brother John undertook to publish a vast collection of travel-accounts, both those for the first time translated into English and those which "for their Excellency and Scarseness deserve to be Reprinted" as the title explains. The process was laborious, since they had to commission those translations, amass the otherwise scarce works, and assemble the numerous copper plates in order to illustrate the travels extensively. After a 1694 Act of deregulation, Parliament passed the East India Company Act (1697; 9 Will. c. 44 s. LXIX), which overturned nearly a century of precedent. The Act, in effect, removed the Company monopoly on trade with the East Indies, and allowed any firm to trade so long as the Company had no presence in a given port. This created a rush of what the Company termed Interlopers: those who had for decades been barred from any trade with Asia. John and Awnsham Churchill, then Stationer to the King, sought to satisfy that new craving for accounts of previous travelers, which, once purely academic, now had real value to speculators and entrepreneurs to whom Asia and India in particular were now open. By gathering together nearly two centuries of voyages, the Churchills appealed to the newly-burgeoning market of those interested -- materially -- in the prospects of exploration. The Collection included voyages as near as the Ukraine and the Holy Land and as far afield as Chile, America, Africa and throughout Asia and the Pacific. Many appear in English for the first time, and most are augmented by engravings. The collocation of these works allows for a conspectus of what had been learned not just globally but over time as well. The binding owner of the volumes was Henry Boyle (1669-1725), who was an MP for Cambridge University and then for Westminster (in the same Parliament to which Awnsham Churchill was elected in 1705). Boyle -- elevated to the Peerage as Baron Carleton in 1714, providing a terminus post quem for the binding -- had a distinguished political career. He was Lord Treasurer of Ireland, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1701-1708 (in which role the present work was doubtless of nonpareil interest) and, after his ennoblement, Lord President of the (Privy) Council. The set eventually came into the possession of Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow (1826-1889), the New York lawyer famed for removing Jay Gould from the Erie Railroad and reconciling the feud between Cornelius Vanderbilt and William Henry Aspinwall. He was a formidably wealthy bibliophile and collector; the 1890 sale of his library contained 2,784 lots (the present item was lot 515), including nearly all of the great voyages. Sabin 13015 (which reports a mere 51 plates and 4 maps).
Publicado por London: Printed by Assignment from Messrs. Churchill. For John Walthoe, Tho. Wotton, Samuel Birt (and 4 others), 1732, 1732
Librería: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Reino Unido
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 narrative as he had failed to find a publisher in France - he fled to England in 1685, following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes - and was working on an English version at his death in 1712; "it was this version that was eventually published - probably as Barbot had left it but possibly with some editorial revision - by the Churchill brothers of London in 1732" (Law). Volume II opens with a fine portrait of the Dutch adventurer Johan Nieuhof (1618-1672), who served as an official of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil and East India Company (VOC) in China and India. His narrative of the East Indies includes a section devoted to the Arabian Gulf (pages 193-209), including such principal locations as Bahrain (Baharen), Sharjah (Sarba), Dubai (Dibei), Ras Al-Khaimah (Rasaelchimes), Muscat (Muskate), and a virtual track chart of locations along the coasts of Oman and the UAE. Among the most important of the many accounts printed here are those of Martin von Baumgarten on Egypt, Arabia, Palestine and Syria, including his important description of the ruins at Baalbek, all undertaken at the beginning of the 16th century; the Dutch missionary Philippus Baldaeus on Sri Lanka (1656-65); Giovanni Franceso Gemelli Careri on Turkey, Persia and India (1683-98); Thomas Roe on India and Turkey (1615-19); Captain Thomas Phillips of the Royal African Company, who in 1693-94 commanded the company ship Hannibal to Guinea, "on a trading voyage. for elephants teeth, gold, and Negro slaves" (cited in Conrad, p.12); Domingo Fernandez Navarrete's account of the Empire of China during his work as a missionary from 1646-1673; Brawern and Herckemann's voyage to Chile in 1642 and 1643; Captain John Monck's voyage in 1619 and 1620 to Hudson Bay, to discover a passage between Greenland and America; and Michele Angelo Guattini's "curious and exact" account of his travels to the Congo (1666-67). Provenance: gilt stamp of the Northern Light Board to head compartment of spines, showing a lighthouse surmounted by a banderole bearing the company motto "in salutem omnium" (for the safety of all); established in 1786 with headquarters at Edinburgh, the Northern Lighthouse Board was formed to oversee the construction and operation of four lighthouses around the coastline of Scotland. Borba de Moraes, pp. 181-5; Conrad, Robert Edgar, In the Hands of Strangers: Readings on Foreign and Domestic Slave Trading and the Crisis of the Union, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001; Hilmy I p. 135; Hill 295; Law, Robin, "Jean Barbot as a Source for the Slave Coast of West Africa", History in Africa (Vol. 9, 1982, pp. 155-73); NMM 33; Sabin 13016. Six volumes, folio (351 x 216 mm). Contemporary mottled calf skilfully rebacked in the early 19th century, spines with six raised bands, decoratively gilt tooled in compartments, pale brown morocco labels, sides with double gilt fillet border, gilt edge roll, red edges. Engraved arms of 28 named subscribers in vol. I (the list of which runs to some 102 names headed by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty), portrait frontispieces of Johan Nieuhof and Philippus Baldaeus, engraved titles to vols. II and III, 164 plates and maps, vignettes and woodcuts throughout; printed in double columns. Professional small repairs to spines and joints, some craquelure to covers, burn hole through 4X1 in vol. IV affecting some nine lines, occasional minor dust-marking and foxing otherwise a very good set that presents handsomely on the shelf.
Publicado por Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, London, 1704
Librería: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. Rare first editions of all eight volumes. Originally published as a four-volume set, expanded with volumes V-VI in 1732, and followed up by the Osborne volumes in 1745. Contemporary styled speckled calf spines, raised bands, gilt titles, original calf blind panelled boards. Outer edges dentelle. Osborne volumes have speckled calf boards, elaborate gilt compartments, numbered I and II rather than VII and VIII. Speckled edges. c, [4], 813, [12 pp. index]; [4], 838, [12]; [12], 901, [17]; [8], 848, [12]; [4], 716, [6]; [6], iv, 736, [19]; [4], xii, lviii, 873 pp.; 931 pp, [30 pp. index]. Leather is lightly cracked and rubbed. Some light rubbing and wear to edges. Slightly more wear to boards to vol. V and Osborne volumes. Binder's ticket to rear pastedown of Vol. I of first VI vols. Volumes I-VI have newer endpapers and flyleaves. Osborne volumes also previously restored. All volumes have minimal foxing given their age, some browning and offsetting from ink and illustrations, numerous pagination errors (either simple misprints or intentional given the nature of this being a "collected" work including separate title pages from other imprints) with a few pages "lacking" based on pagination and signatures though text appears continuous. Vol. II lacking p. 157-180, apparently never published. A printer's error makes a jump in pagination between pp. 262-410 to Vol. "VII". Other copies appear to have this same mis-pagination. There is also a jump from 630-699 (signature to p. 629 notes "7X-8N" indicating jump is considered). Sporadic damp staining to margins, but volume VI has some more extensive staining to head of gutter. Minimal neat pencil marginalia. Sporadic staining to text and plates. A few paper repairs. Infrequent small spots of worming to edges, text not affected. Occasional soiling, ink smudging, ink fading and rubbing, with the odd small spot of text obscured. A few closed tears to edges (less than half an inch), with a few longer tears (1-4.5" inches), including 2.5" tear to tail edge of plate in vol. V facing p. 202 and 3" tear to foot of plate at 239. Large chip to upper corner of p. 603 of vol. III with no loss of text. Short tear to tail edge at gutter of plate facing p. 808 of vol. IV. Blank space to p. 809 of vol. V with manuscript note "This blank was left by a mistake." Osborne volumes cracked at hinges, ffep loose to vol. I (vol. VII overall). ESTC T97848 & T97843. Cox, I, 10. Hill 295. Sabin 13015, 13016, BA.57765. Goldsmiths', 4035. Hanson, 398. Overall, a remarkably clean and well-preserved and restored set of all eight volumes of the two great voyage anthologies of the period, being an extensive and important collection of various collated travel testimonies, compiled by the brothers Awnsham and John Churchill, based on Richard Hakluyt and Samuel Purchas. The collection spans from the first editions of the first four volumes of 1704 to the first editions of the 1745 Osborne series volumes appended to the set from the collection of the Earl of Oxford, (sometimes called the "Harleian" or "Oxford" Voyages). According to Sabin, these later two volumes are essential accompaniments to the earlier works and all eight volumes are generally found together. This collection is particularly notable for its breadth and the first-hand nature of the accounts, with many of them appearing in English translation for the first time, including the earliest printed source in English for the history of the U.A.E and Qatar (Hill). The introduction, a "History of Navigation from its Original to this time," has been attributed to philosopher John Locke. All volumes are magnificently illustrated with dozens of woodcuts and copper engravings, many of which are double-page spreads or fold-outs, including several interesting maps and charts, all present here and in excellent condition.
Publicado por Printed by Assignment from Messrs. Churchill., 1732
Libro Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Awnsham Churchill (English, 1658-1728) and John Churchill (fl. circa 1700). Book edition published 1732, A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. Complete volumes 1-6. Early leather bound, with gilt decoration on sides. Originally published in 1704; this 1732 edition includes two additional volumes. Complete with 28 engraved arms 161 engraved plate and maps, some double paged, many engraved illustrations in text. Voyages to America, China, Turkey, Ceylon, Persia, India, Africa, and more.
Publicado por John Walthoe [et al]; Thomas Osborne, London, 1745
Librería: Hordern House Rare Books, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia
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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 bound and labelled as Churchill's Voyages. Copies of the various editions of the Churchill Collection appear on the market from time to time, almost always in dilapidated condition - the result of their substantial size and the use that they were subjected to as the major source for voyage information in the early eighteenth century. This set is in superb condition, the bindings bright and the text and plates remarkably fresh. The substantial volumes contain many accounts of voyages to a great many places, a number appearing for the first time, or at least for the first time in English. Originally published in 1704 in four volumes, the Churchill section appears here in its second, much augmented six-volume edition. The success of the work reflects an audience keenly interested in what was a time of energetic exploration and trade expansion throughout the world. For example, the first volume here contains descriptions of the lands and peoples of China, Formosa, Japan, the Congo, and South Africa, lands just beginning to be known to Europeans, as well as accounts of relatively less mysterious but still unfamiliar places such as Egypt and the Ukraine. The fifth volume is devoted largely to Africa, containing accounts of the lands which in the seventeenth century were called Guinea and Lower Ethiopia, but which in fact include the entire coast from Senegal through Angola. Native life, European settlements, animals, natural products, and much more are described in great detail. There is also a translation from the Spanish of Herrera's account of the discoveries of Columbus. The contents of the other volumes are varied, with reports of the Solomon Islands, Dutch shipwrecks in the East Indies, Ovalle's work on Chile (with a fine depiction of the Southern Cross), Virginia, attempts to discover a Northwest Passage, the sages of India, and the land of Tonqueen, now North Vietnam, among very many other reports. Much of the third volume is Baldaeus' work on the East Indies translated from the Dutch, while Nieuhoff's work on the East Indies, also translated, appears in the second volume. The plates are of special appeal, often showing very striking scenes of exotic life, particularly in tropical climes. They include detailed depictions of natives involved in sometimes fascinating activities (witchcraft, elephant catching) as well as many plates of botanical and zoological interest and a number of views of harbours or military engagements. This set is supplemented by the later two-volume "Harleian" or "Oxford Voyages". These were put together from the unpublished manuscripts in the collection of the earl of Oxford. Osborne's first volume comprises travels mainly in the Near and Middle East, while the second volume comprises voyages to India, East Asia, the East Indies, Africa, and North America. The maps are after Dutch cartographer Herman Moll and the frontispiece map in the second volume is "A Chart of the East Indies." with the north and north-west coasts of Australia delineated in accordance with Dutch discoveries. . Expert neat strengthening to some joints; in very good condition, a most handsome set.
Publicado por AWNSHAM AND JOHN CHURCHILL, LONDON 1704-1732-1747, 1747
Librería: EQTNA, Leicester, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. 8 volumes. Rare First Edition of Volumes 1-4. 1704. First Editions of Vol 5-6. 1732. Re-issue of Vol 7-8. 1747, first published in 1745. Comprising two works in matching bindings, containing over 200 engraved plates (many double-page or folding), engraved and woodcut illustrations throughout. A splendid set of the two great voyage anthologies of the early eighteenth century, in handsome contemporary matched bindings. This set contains the Churchill anthology in its First exceedingly Rare edition printed in 4 volumes, first editions of the additional 2 volumes (5-6) which were first published in the 6 volume second edition of 1732 and a re-issue of the 1745 edition with new title pages dated 1747 of the supplementary Osborne series in 2 volumes compiled from Lord Oxford s library by Thomas Osborne and issued as volumes 7 and 8 of the set. According to Sabin these are a necessary accompaniment although sets are generally found on the market in six volumes only. This combination of Churchill s Voyages with Osborne s extension is considered to be the best because of its greater inclusiveness (Hill). Sabin notes that Many of the books in this collection have not appeared elsewhere in English . An important and profusely illustrated collection of travel reports, compiled by the brothers Awnsham and John Churchill, based on Hakluyt and Purchas. It includes the accounts of Martin Baumgarten (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria), Thomas Roe, Philipp Balde and Johan Nieuhoff (East Indies), J. Gemelli Careri (Turkey, Persia, India), Nicholas Rolamb (Constantinople), John Barbot (West Africa, with a chapter on Mahomet and his Alcoran ), as well as of Yemen and various journeys to China, Korea, Greenland, Iceland, Africa, North and South America (including Columbus). This is a very valuable collection, both for its range of coverage and for the fact that it gives the original accounts. (Hill). Followed by Osborne s Oxford Voyages , the first volume comprises travels mainly in the Near and Middle East, while the second volume comprises voyages to India, East Asia, the East Indies, Africa, and North America. The second volume contains the first English edition of Johannes Nieuhof s Voyages and Travels, into Brasil, and the East-Indies, first published in Dutch in 1682. It is divided into two parts; the first being concerned with Nieuhof s stay in Brazil and the second relates to his voyages in the East Indies and South Africa. The second part on his voyage to the East Indies, contains a detailed description of areas and pearl fishing in the Arabian Gulf mainly Oman, Bahrain and al-Qatif, and is the first printed record in English to mention Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Bani Yas and other important place names. Thus, the present volume constitutes the earliest printed source in English for the history of the U.A.E and Qatar.
Publicado por London, Henry Lintot & John Osborne, by assignment from Messrs. Churchill, 1744-1746., 1746
Librería: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Folio (245 x 362 mm). 6 vols. (12), LXXII, (4), 668, (1) pp. (4), 743, (1) pp. 793, (1) pp. (2), IV, 5-780 pp. (4), 708 pp. 824, (104) pp. Title printed in red and black. With 187 engraved plates (many folding) and 9 engravings in the text (showing maps, plans, views, costumes, flora, fauna, scenes, portraits etc., including 2 bound as frontispieces), as well as numerous woodcuts in the text (showing arms, seals, devices, coastal views, details, machinery etc.). Uniform full calf with red labels to spine (gilding oxydized). Third and best edition of this important and profusely illustrated collection of travel reports, compiled by the brothers Awnsham and John Churchill, based on Hakluyt and Purchas. It includes the accounts of Martin Baumgarten (Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Syria), Thomas Roe, Philipp Balde and Johan Nieuhoff (East Indies, including a detailed account of the north-eastern coast of Arabia, with a description of pearl fishing in Bahrain and mentioning Julfar, Qatar, Sir Bani Yas, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras al-Khaimah, Amalgavine, and other places of interest along the coastline), J. Gemelli Careri (Turkey, Persia, India), Nicholas Rolamb (Constantinople), John Barbot (West Africa, with a chapter on "Mahomet and his Alcoran"), as well as of Yemen and various journeys to China, Korea, Greenland, Iceland, Africa, North and South America (including Columbus). - "This is a very valuable collection, both for its range of coverage and for the fact that it gives the original accounts [.] The third edition is considered to be best because of its greater inclusiveness and its copious index" (Hill). Two further volumes were issued separately in 1745, republished in 1752. - The count of the illustrations is notoriously complicated: the "List of the Copper Plates" counts 305 illustrations and maps, of which as many as four are placed on a single plate, and some are placed within the text. Compared to this list, the present set lacks 52 illustrations, or ca. 20 plates, whereas the first volume contains 5 additional plates not called for in the List. Three of the maps (Africa, Asia, America) which the List announces for the first volume are in fact bound in volumes IV-VI. The introduction, a "History of Navigation from its Original to this time", is likely one of the final works of the philosopher John Locke, whose publisher and financial manager Awnsham Churchill had been (while the attribution has been called into question, the text was included in Locke's Complete Works). - Provenance: Byrdie McNeill, Mt. Edgecumbe, Alaska (her stamps). Bindings professionally repaired. Some browning; some edge defects, tears and paper flaws, but generally well-preserved. - Cox, I, 10. Hill 295. Sabin 13017. Shirley G.CHUR-1d. Alden/L. 744/62. Borba de Moraes I, 158. Landwehr, VOC 260 (note). Cf. National Maritime Museum Cat. I, 33.