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. Magellan's Voyage
is published in the first volume of Harris's Collection.
46. C. Ortoga resumen del primero Viage hecho ad rededor del Mundo. Per H.
Magellanes. Madrid, 1769. 4to.
47. The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, to which is added the
Prosperous Voyage of Mr. Thomas Candish. London, 1741. 8vo. also in Harris,
vol. 1. The second voyage of Candish is in Purchas.
48. The principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffique and Discoveries of the
English Nation. London, 1599. 2 vols. folio.
49. The Discoveries of the World, from their original to 1555, translated
from the Portuguese, by R. Hackluyt.
