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4 Volumes. 4to. pp. xi, [13], 680; viii, [4], 732; vi, [4], 605; xii, [3], 751,m[42]index. with list of subscribers. text in double columns. 680; 229 (of 232) engraved maps & plates (many folding; incl. 4 frontis.) (lacking 1 Chinese & 2 African plates). woodcut dedication headpieces. modern cloth (small institutional blindstamp on titles, some plates browned, scattered foxing, blank corner of 1 frontis. defective). First Edition. Compiled by John Green but known as Astley s collection. This generously illustrated collection comprises (1) first voyages of the Portuguese to the East Indies, 1418-1546; first voyages of the English to Guinea, and the East Indies, 1552-1598; first voyages of the English to the East Indies, set forth by the company of merchants, 1600-1620; voyages to Africa and the islands adjacent, 1455-1721; (2) voyages and travels along the western coast of Africa, 1637-1735; voyages and travels to Guinea and Benin, 1666-1726; description of Guinea; (3) voyages and travels to Guinea, Benin, Congo and Angola; description of Loango, Congo, Angola, Benguela, and adjacent counties; description of the countries along the eastern coast of Africa, from Cape of Good Hope to Cape Guarda Fuy; voyages and travels in China, 1655-1722; and (4) description of China, of Korea, eastern Tartary and Tibet; travels through Tartary, Tibet, and Bokhara, to and from China, 1246-1698. Two voyages in Volume II relate to America: a voyage along the coast of Guinea, the island of St. Thomas, and Barbados, in 1693 by Thomas Phillips, and a voyage to Guinea, Brazil and the West Indies, 1721, by John Atkins. Cox I p. 15. Hill p. 210. Sabin 28539. European Americana 745/153. Cordier, Japonica, 232, 277, 279, 322, 405 & 406. Cordier, Sinica, 1947. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers elala3387
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