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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

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Period 18th century

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Subject Terms Voyages and travels.

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1. A voyage to the South Sea : undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh : including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies.

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Creator:
Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:
1792
Physical Description:
[10], 264 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. The world displayed, or, A curious collection of voyages and travels : selected from the writers of all nations : in which the conjectures and interpolations of several vain editors and translators are expunged, every relation is made concise and plain, and the divisions of countries and kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted : illustrated and embellished with variety of maps and prints by the best hands.

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Date:
1760-1761
Physical Description:
20 v. : ill., col. maps, plans ; 14 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A compendium of the East : being an account of voyages to the Grand Indies / made by the Sieur Jean de Lacombe, of Quercy, formerly Captain at Arms in the service of the Company of the Indies of Holland ; now published for the first time (from the Bordeaux manuscript of 1681) in an English translation by Stephanie & Denis Clark ; edited, with an introduction and notes, by Ashley Gibson ; contemporary engravings of the principal places visited reproduced from Schultzen's Ost-indische reyse (Amsterdam, 1676).

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Creator:
Lacombe, Jean de, sieur de Querc̦y, active 1676
Date:
1937
Physical Description:
[2], 5-208, [2] pages, [12] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, maps ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën : mitsgaders andere gewesten, ter eerster ontdekking en soo vervolgens van verscheyde volkeren, meerendeels door vorsten, of maatschappyen derwaarts gesonden, gedaan; waar van eenige noyt gedrukt, andere nu eerst uyt haar oorspronkelijke taalen overgeset, en sommige merkelijk verbeterd zijn; beginnende met het jaar 1246. en eyndigende op dese tijd; zijnde een waaragtige en bondige beschrijving van veele vreemde koningrijken, landschappen en steeden, der selver benamingen, gelegentheden, sterktens, stroomen, zee-havens, goud-en-silver-mijnen, peerl-visseryen, en menigvuldige wonderen; benevens de oorlogs-daden en gedenk-waardige bedrijven der ontdekkers, in her op-doen deser landen voorgevallen; voorts hunne gevaarlijke en seldsame ontmoetingen, merk-waardige geschiedenissen, grouwsame verwoestingen, voorname volk-plantingen en vestiging der koopmanschappen aldaar. Alles doorgaans met nodige land-kaarten, menigte konst-printen, en bequame registers verrijkt.

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Date:
1707
Physical Description:
28 [i.e. 29] v. : ill., maps. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Voyage de M. Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique : par le cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 et 85.

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Creator:
Le Vaillant, François, 1753–1824
Date:
1790
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 21cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea, on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt : and of a route through the desarts [sic] of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European traveller, in the year M.DCC.LXXVII : in letters to a lady / by Eyles Irwin ... ; illustrated with maps and cuts ...

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Creator:
Irwin, Eyles, 1751?-1817
Date:
1780
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 400 p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Stedman's Nachrichten von Surinam und von seiner Expedition gegen die rebellischen Neger in dieser Kolonie in den Jahren 1772 bis 1777 : ein Auszug aus dem englischen Original.

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Creator:
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744–1797
Date:
1797
Physical Description:
xiv, 522 p., [1] folded leaf of plate : map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Voyage de M. le Chevalier de Chastellux en Amérique.

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Creator:
Chastellux, François Jean, marquis de, 1734–1788
Date:
1786
Physical Description:
136 p. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Voyage de F. Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance.

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Creator:
Le Vaillant, François, 1753–1824
Date:
An VI (1798)
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm. (8vo)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. An account of the discoveries made in the South Pacific Ocean previous to 1764 : Part 1 containing : I. A geographical description of the places : II. An examination of the conduct of the discoverers in the tracks they pursued : III. Investigations of what may be further expected.

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Creator:
Dalrymple, Alexander, 1737–1808
Date:
1767
Physical Description:
xxxi, 103 p., [3] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts