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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.

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.

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.