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Subject Terms Discoveries in geography.

1. Matthew Flinders' narrative of his voyage in the schooner Francis, 1798 : preceded and followed by notes on Flinders, Bass, the wreck of the Sidney Cove, &c. / by Geoffrey Rawson ; with engravings by John Buckland Wright.

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Creator:: Flinders, Matthew, 1774–1814
Date:: 1946
Physical Description:: 100, [2] pages : illustrations, maps ; 32 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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

3. The log of the Bounty : being Lieutenant William Bligh's log of the proceedings of His Majesty's armed vessel Bounty in a voyage to the South Seas, to take the breadfruit from the Society Islands to the West Indies : now published for the first time from the manuscript in the Admiralty records / with an introduction and notes by Owen Rutter ; comments on Bligh's navigation by Rear-Admiral J.A. Edgell, O.B.E., hydrographer of the Navy ; and four engravings on wood by Lynton Lamb.

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Creator:: Bligh, William, 1754–1817
Date:: 1937
Physical Description:: 2 volumes : illustrations ; 33 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The age of reconnaissance [by] J. H. Parry.

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Creator:: Parry, J. H. (John Horace), 1914–1982
Date:: c[1963]
Physical Description:: xv, 364 p. illus., maps, ports. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

5. New found lands : maps in the history of exploration / Peter Whitfield.

New found lands : maps in the history of exploration / Peter Whitfield.

Creator:: Whitfield, Peter, Dr
Date:: 1998
Physical Description:: viii, 200 p. : ill., map (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

6. Travel and discovery in the Renaissance, 1420-1620.

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Creator:: Penrose, Boies, 1902–1976
Date:: 1952
Physical Description:: xvi, 369 p. illus., maps. 25 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library

7. Explorers' maps; chapters in the cartographic record of geographical discovery.

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Creator:: Skelton, R. A. (Raleigh Ashlin), 1906–1970
Date:: [1958]
Physical Description:: xi, 337 p. illus., maps, charts. 26 cm.
Collection:: Reference Library