By Richard Hakluyt, 3 vols. fol. 1598, 1599,
1600. - This work is often incomplete; the completeness of it may be
ascertained by its containing the voyage to Cadiz, which was suppressed by
order of Queen Elizabeth, after the disgrace of the Earl of Essex. The
first volume of this collection contains Voyages to the North and
North-east: The True State of Iceland; The Defeat of the Spanish Armada:
The Victory at Cadiz, &c. The second volume contains Voyages to the South
and South-east Parts of the World: and the third to North America, the West
Indies, and round the World. It has lately been republished.
15. S. Purchas, his Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, 5 vols. folio, 1625-26. - The
first volume contains Voyages by the Ancient Circumnavigators of the Globe:
Voyages along the Coasts of Africa to the East-Indies, Japan, China,
Philippines, and the Persian and Arabian Gulphs. Vol. 2. contains Voyages
and Relations of Africa, Ethiopia, Palestina, Arabia, Persia, Asia. Vol. 3.
Tartary, China, Russia, North-west America, and the Polar Regions. Vol. 4.
America and the West Indies. Vol. 5. Early History of the World; of the
East Indies; Egypt; Barbary, &c. &c.
16. A General Collection of Voyages and Travels. Published by Astley. 4
vols. 4to. 1745.
17. A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from
original MSS.; others now first published in English. By Churchill. 6 vols.
folio. 1732.
18. Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Harris's Collection of
Voyages and Travels, from Hakluyt, Purchas, Ramusio, &c. The whole work
revised and continued, by Dr. John Campbell. 2 vols. fol. 1744.
19. A General Collection of the best and most interesting Voyages and
Travels, in all Parts of the World. By John Pinkerton. 1808-1814. 17 vols.
4to.
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systematic Order. By Robert Kerr. Edin. 1811-22. 18 vols. 8vo.
21. Relation de divers Voyages curieux, qui n'ont point encore ete publies,
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Espagnols, Allemands, &c. &c. Par M. Thevenot. Paris, 1696. 2 vol.
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83. To this work the following is a proper supplement:
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