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John Churchill
Collection of Voyages and Travels



JOHN CHURCHILL, Collection of Voyages and Travels: Some now first printed from original manuscripts. Others translated out of foreign languages, and now first publish'd in English, London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1704

(Volume 3 only)
3 parts in 1 volume as issued, each with own section title dated 1703; pagination and register continuous, the third part (Baldaeus) with engraved portrait frontispiece, additional engraved title-page; 33 engraved folding plates including maps; plans, views and orthographical tables of the Tamil language; numerous engraved vignettes in the text, several full-page
Contemporary calf leather along with decorative gilt spine
32 x 22 x 8 cm

This third volume of an important collection of voyages contains three parts:
Part I: Alonso de Ovalle, An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile was printed in Rome by Francisco Cavallo in 1649, Translated out of Spanish into English
Part II: Sir William Monson, Naval Tracts: in Six Books ... The Whole from the Original Manuscript Never Before Published
Part III: Philippus Baldaeus, A True and Exact Description of the Most Celebrated East-India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, as also of the Isle of Ceylon. Was translated from the High-Dutch and printed in Amsterdam in 1672







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ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS AUCTION
15-16 JANUARY 2020

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