To this work the following is a proper supplement:
22. Recueil des Voyages de M. Thevenot. Paris, 1681. 8vo.
23. Recueil des Voyages qui ont servi a l'Etablissement et au Progres de la
Campagne des Indes Orientates Hollandaises. Par Constantin. - The best
editions are those of Amsterdam, 1730, and of Paris and Rouen, 1705; each
in 10 vol. 12mo.
24. Recueil des Voyages au Nord, &c. Amsterdam, 1717. 8 vol. 12mo.
25. Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses. Paris, 1780, 1781. 24 vols. 12mo.
26. Memoires Orientales. Paris, 1789. 12mo.
27. Collection Portative de Voyages, traduit de differentes Langues
Orientales et Europiennes. Par Langles. Paris, 3 vols. 18mo.
28. Histoire Generale des Voyages. Par Prevot. Paris, 20 vols. 4to. - This
work is valuable for its excellent engravings, maps, plans, &c., but in
other respects its value has fallen, in consequence of the following
abridgment of it:
29. Abrege de l'Histoire Generate des Voyages de Prevot. Par La Harpe.
Paris, 1780-1786. 23 vols. 8vo. - The last five volumes contain voyages and
travels not given by Prevot. This work also has been continued by Comeyras
in 1798-1801, in 9 vols. 8vo.
30. Abrege de l'Histoire Generale des Voyages. Par La Harpe. 2 vols. 12mo.
Paris, 1820. - This abridgment is executed with considerable judgment; it is
necessarily confined to the most novel and curious parts of the narratives
and descriptions.
31. Annales des Voyages. Par Malte Brun. 25 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1814-1817.
32. Nouvelles Annales des Voyages. Par Malte Brun et Eyries. - Twelve
volumes are already published: four volumes are published annually. Perhaps
the very high character of Malte Brun would lead us to expect a more severe
and judicious selection than some parts of this work exhibit; but, on the
whole, it is valuable.
33. Journal des Voyages, Decouvertes et Navigations Modernes, ou Archives
Geographiques du 19me Siecle. - This work began in Nov. 1818, and is
published monthly. Like all collections of this kind, the value of it would
have been encreased, and the bulk much diminished, if the selection had
been more scrupulous.
34. Delle Navigationi e Viaggi raccolti da M.G.B. Ramusio. Venet. - The most
complete and accurate edition of this book consists of vol. 1. of the
edition of 1588; vol. 2. of 1583; the third of 1565; and the Supplement of
1606.
35. J.R. Forster und M.C. Sprengel, Beytrage zur Volker-und Landerkunde.
Leipsic, 1781 - 94. 13 vols. 8vo.
36. Magazin von merkerurdigen Reisebeschreibungen, aus fremden Sprachen
ubersizt. Von J.R. Forster. Berlin, 1790 - 1802. 24 vols. 8vo.
37. Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigstien Reisebeschreibungen. Von M.C.
Sprengel. Weimar, 1801. &c. 22 vols. 8vo. - There are many other
collections in German; the best of which are noticed by Ersch, in his
Literatur der Geschichte und deren Hulfswissenschaften. Leipsic, 1813.
38. Samling af de beste og nyeste Reise-beskriveler. Copen. 1790 - 5. 12
vols. 8vo.
39. Danskes Reise-iagttagelser. Copen. 1798 - 1800. 4 vols. 8vo.
40. Versamnelling der gedenkwaardegsten Reisen nae oost en West Indien door
de Bry. Leyden, 1707 - 10. 30 vols. 8vo.
41. El Viagero Universal. Madrid, 1800. - This work was published originally
in small parts, which form a great many volumes in 8vo.
42. Novus Orbis Regionum et Institutorum Veteribus incognitarum. Basle,
1532. fol. Paris, 1582. fol.
43. Collectiones Peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem et Occidentalem.
Francfort, 1590 - 1634. 7 vols. fol., or 9 vols. fol. - The first edition,
when complete, is by far the most valuable. Several dissertations have been
published on this work, which is generally called Les Grands et Petits
Voyages. In 1742 the Abbe de Rothelin published Observationes sur des
Grands et Petits Voyages. In 1802 Camus published Memoire sur la Collection
des Grands et Petits Voyages; and Debure, in his Bibliographe, has devoted
upwards of one hundred pages to this work. Whoever wishes to ascertain
exactly the best edition, should consult these authors, and the
Bibliotheque des Voyages, vol. 1. 57.
III.
VOYAGES AND TRAVELS ROUND THE WORLD.
Boucher de la Richarderie, the author of the Bibliotheque Universelle
des Voyages, makes some just remarks on the nature and extent of those
voyages to which this appellation is usually applied. He observes that
for the most part, by a Voyage round the World, is understood a voyage
either by the Atlantic Ocean or the Indian Sea to the Pacific or Great
Southern Ocean, the visiting the isles in the last, exploring the
Antarctic Seas, and returning by the route opposite to that by which the
ship went out. This certainly is a voyage round the world, though
probably scarcely any part of Asia, Africa, or America has been explored
or visited, except for the purposes of refitting or provisioning the
ship. But when these quarters of the globe, and especially the unknown
parts of them, have been visited, the application of the term, though
not perhaps so correct verbally, is more justly made. There is a third
class of voyages thus denominated, which, though they embrace the four
quarters of the globe, do not extend to the South Sea, or the
Australasian Lands. All these three classes are comprehended in the
following catalogue, and we have deemed it right also to follow the
author of the Bibliotheque in dividing them into two parts, ancient
voyages round the world, and modern voyages: the first comprehend
voyages of the first class, and were performed from the middle of the
sixteenth to the middle of the seventeenth century.
44. Il Viaggio fatto dagli Spanuoli attorno il Mondo, 1536. 4to. - This is
the first edition of the Voyages of Pigafetta, who sailed with Magellan in
his celebrated Voyage round the World, but it is incomplete. The genuine
and complete work was published for the first time from a MS. in the
Ambrosian Library of Milan, with notes, by Amoretti, under the following
title:
45. Primo Viaggio, intorno al Globo terraqueo fatto dal Casaglieri Ant.
Pigafetta. Milan, 1800. 4to. - The same editor published a French
translation, with a description of the Globe of Behaim.
