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A collection of voyages in four volumes : illustrated with maps and draughts : also several birds, fishes, and plants, not found in this part of the world, curiously engraven on copper-plates.
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910.4 COL
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London: Printed for James and John Knapton
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1729
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4 v. : ill., charts, maps ; 21 cm.
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A collected issue (with additions) of Dampier's voyages, previously published in separate volumes, London, 1698-1709.
Vols.1, 2 and 4 each have a collective and a volume title page.
Vol.1 has added t.p.: A new voyage round the world ... By Capt. William Dampier ... 7th ed. corrected 1729.
Vol.3 has title page: A voyage to New-Holland, &c. in the year 1699 ... By Captain William Dampier. The third edition.
Errors in paging in vol. 3: p. 466 is numbered 544 and 467 is numbered 455.
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Book
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Vol. I. A new voyage round the world : describing particularly the Isthmus of America, several coasts and islands in the West Indies, the Isles of Cape Verde, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the South-Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, the isle of
Guam one of the Ladrones, Mindanao, and other Philippine and East-India islands near Cambodia, China, Formosa, Luconia, Celebes, &c. New-Holland, Sumatra, Nicobar Isles, the Cape of Good Hope, and Santa Hellena : their soil, rivers, harbours, plants, fruits, animals, and inhabitants : their customs, religion, government, trade, &c. -- v. II. 1. A supplement to the voyage round the world : describing the countries of Tonquin, Achin, Malacca, &c. their product, inhabitants, manners, trade, policy, &c. 2. Two voyages to Campeachy, with a description of the coasts, product, inhabitants, logwood-cutting, trade &c. of Jucatan, Campeachy, New-Spain, &c. 3. A discourse of trade-winds, breezes, storms, seasons of the year, tides and currents of the Torrid Zone throughout the world : with an account of Natal in Africk, its product, Negroes, &c. -- v. III. 1. A voyage to New Holland, &c. in the year 1699 : wherein are described, the Canary-Islands, the isles of Mayo and St. Jago, the Bay of All-Saints, with the forts and town of Bahia in Brazil. Cape Salvadore. The winds on the Brasilian coast. Abrohlo Shoals. A table of all the variations observ'd in this voyage. Occurrences near the Cape of Good-Hope. The course to New-Holland. Shark's Bay. The isles and coast, &c. of New-Holland : their inhabitants, manners, customs, trade, &c. Their harbours, soil, beasts, birds, fish, &c. Trees, plants, fruits, &c. 2. A new voyage and description of the Isthmus of America, giving an account of the author's abode there, the form and make of the country, the coasts, hills, rivers, &c. Woods, soil, weather, &c. Trees, fruit, beasts, birds, fish, &c. The Indian inhabitants, their features, complexion, &c, their manners, customs, employments, marriages, feasts, hunting, computation, language, &c. With remarkable occurrences in the South-Sea and elsewhere / by Lionel Wafer ; to which are added The natural history of those parts / by a Fellow of the Royal Society, and, Davis's Expedition to the gold mines, in 1702. -- v. IV. 1. A Voyage round the world : being an account of Capt. William Dampier's expedition into the South Seas in the ship St. George. With his various adventures and engagements, &c. Together with a voyage from the west coast of Mexico to East India / by W. Funnell, Mate to Capt. Dampier. 2. Capt. Cowley's Voyage round the globe. 3. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South Seas. 4. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan. 5. Mr. Roberts's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant : his description of the Archipelago Islands, &c.
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