A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now
Image Count:
4
Description:
In: Churchill, Awnsham, d. 1728. Collection of voyages and travels. London : Printed by assignment from Messrs. Churchill, for H. Lintot [etc.], 1746 vol. 5.
Publisher:
Printed by assignment from Messrs. Churchill, for H. Lintot [etc.],
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration, Angola--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Guinea--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, Guyana--Description and travel--Early works to 1800, and West Indies--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
"Certaine preambles here followe, gathered by R. Eden heretofore, for the better vnderstanding of the whole worke": leaves 1-7., First complete English translation of the eight Decades. The four translated by Eden had appeared as early as 1555, and again in 1577 with an abridgment of Decades 5-8., First preliminary leaf blank; has signature A., Imperfect: 1st, 3rd and 4th p.l., and leaves 158, 287, 288, 293, 294 (signatures A1,3,4, X8, Pp1,2,7,8) wanting: title-page and many leaves bled., and Signatures: A4B-Z8Aa-Ss8.
Publisher:
Printed for Thomas Adams,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration, America--Early accounts to 1600, and West Indies--History
"Les cartes géographiques et les figures insérćes dans le texte sont celles de l'édition flamande de 1630"--Willems, Les Elzevier, 1880, no. 497., "This French translation of Laet contains many materials not to be found in the original Dutch, chiefly vocabularies of Indian tribes"--Sabin., First edition published in Dutch at Leyden, 1625, under title: Nieuvve wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien., Printer's mark (the hermit) on t.-p., and T.-p. in red and black.
Publisher:
Chez B. & A. Elseuiers,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Description and travel, America--Discovery and exploration, and West Indies--Description and travel
Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps), 1867-1944 Wieder, Frederik Caspar, 1874-1943
Published / Created:
1915-28.
Call Number:
1977 +53
Image Count:
5
Description:
"Of this book three hundred and sixty copies have been printed on English hand-made paper [4-6 on Holland hand-made paper] and forty-two on Japanese vellum." This copy on English and Holland hand-made paper., Bibliography by V. H. Paltsits., and Engraved title page, with ornamental border: engraved head and tail pieces. "Most of the head-bands and tail-pieces were engraved ... by Mr. Sidney L. Smith from designs composed by the author." Others by Walter M. Aikman.
Publisher:
R. H. Dodd,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Discovery and exploration, America--Maps, Early, America--Maps--Bibliography, New York (N.Y.)--Bibliography, New York (N.Y.)--History, New York (N.Y.)--Maps, and New York (N.Y.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name):
Havemeyer, Henry Osborne,--1876---Ownership (BEIN 1977 +53) and Rosenbloom, Charles J.--Bookplate (BEIN 1977 +53)
Subject (Topic):
American newspapers--New York (State)--New York--Bibliography and Cartography--America--History
