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Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique: Describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian, and great Mogull, weaved with the history of these later times. As also, many rich and spatious kingdomes in the orientall India, and other parts of Asia ; together with the adjacent isles. Severally relating the religion, language, qualities, customes, habit, descent, fashions ... With a revivall of the first discoverer of AmericaSome years travels into diverse parts of Asia and Africa, etcSome yeares travels into Africa and Asia the great. Especially describing the famous empires of Persia and Industant, etc

Madog ab Owain Gwynedd , 1150-1180?, Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Description and travel, Discovery and exploration--Welsh, Discovery and exploration--Pre-Columbian, DS7 .H47 1638

Rare revised and enlarged second English edition of Herbert's account of his voyage (1627-29) to Persia by way of the Cape, Madagascar and Surat ...
Show moreRare revised and enlarged second English edition of Herbert's account of his voyage (1627-29) to Persia by way of the Cape, Madagascar and Surat (India). On his way back he visited North America. Herbert begins his account of America (pp. 355-364) with its supposed discovery in 1170 by Madoc, son of Owen Gwyneth, Prince of Wales, and attempts to defend this claim with linguistic and cultural evidence. ''The quaint and curious notes on the travels make the volume one of the most interesting and attractive of the earlier and more primitive accounts'' (South African Bibliography). The illustrations include maps of Madagascar and the southeastern coast of Africa, the Persian empire, India, and Southeast Asia, views of the Persian Gulf, Tenerife, St. Helena, natives of Angola, the Cape, Persia and depictions of a coconut tree, a shark fish, a penguin and a dodo. - Thomas Herbert (1606-82) travelled with Dodmore Cotton, the new English ambassador to Persia (who died before Herbert's return). He first published his account in English in 1634, and it was translated into Dutch (by Lambert van den Bos) in 1658 and into French in 1663. Jonathan Swift attacked its "impertinences, conceitedness, and tedious digressions" and called the author a coxcomb (South African Bibliography). - Some marginal waterstains and soiling. A good copy of this account which is still important for its early eyewitness descriptions, especially of Persia, India and Africa.
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Author attributes first dicovery of America to Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd, 300 years before Columbus.
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Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the Great: Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times; as also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the orientall India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit

Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS7 .H47 1665

Added t.p. engraved: Some yeares travels into Africa & Asia the Great. Especially describing the famous empires of Persia and Industant ... The 3d...
Show moreAdded t.p. engraved: Some yeares travels into Africa & Asia the Great. Especially describing the famous empires of Persia and Industant ... The 3d ed. further inlarged. By Sr. Tho: Herbert Bart. London, Printed by I.B. for A. Crooke.
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A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV: And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia

Watson, Charles , 1714-1757, Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Botany, Botany--India, Botany, Medical, Description and travel, History, Description and travel, DS47.5 .I94 1773

By Edward Ives.
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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 of Thebais: hitherto unknown to the European traveller, in the year M. DCC. LXXVII : in letters to a lady

Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Description and travel, DT51 .I79 1780

by Eyles Irwin, esq. ; illustrated with maps and cuts.
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A Picturesque tour through part of Europe, Asia, and Africa: containing many new remarks on the present state of society, remains of ancient edifices, etc

Voyages and travels, G460 .P5

With plates, after designs by James Stuart ; Written by an Italian gentleman.
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Biographical conversations on celebrated travellers: comprehending distinct narratives of their personal adventures

Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Juvenile literature, Travelers, Travelers--Juvenile literature, G170 .B56 1826

Verthema, L. / Travels from Damascus to Medina and Mecca, and thence through India--Roe, Thomas / Journey to the court of the great Mogul--Wheler,...
Show moreVerthema, L. / Travels from Damascus to Medina and Mecca, and thence through India--Roe, Thomas / Journey to the court of the great Mogul--Wheler, Sir George / Travels in Greece--Maundrell, Henry / Travels in the Holy Land--Bell, John / Journey from Petersburgh to Ispahan. Journey from Petersburgh to Pekin--Norden, F.L. / Travels through Egypt and Nubia--Kalm, Peter / Travels in North America--Hearne, Samuel / Journies from Prince of Wale's fort towards the Northern Ocean--Moore, John / Travels in France, Switzerland, and Germany. Travels in Italy--Swinburn, Henry--Travels in Spain.
by the Rev. William Bingley ... designed for the use of young persons.
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Biographical conversations: on the most eminent voyagers of different nations from Columbus to Cook : Comprehending distinct narratives of their personal adventures

Voyages and travels, Explorers, Discoveries in geography, G170 .B56 1826

By the Rev. William Bingley ; Designed for the use of young persons.
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Show moreBy the Rev. William Bingley ; Designed for the use of young persons.
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The voyages & travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick, duke of Holstein, to the great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia: Begun in the year M.DC.XXXIII. and finish'd in M.DC.XXXIX. Containing a compleat history of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other adjacent countries. With several publick transactions reaching near the present times; in VII. books. Whereto are added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo (a gentleman belonging to the embassy) from Persia into the East-Indies ... in III. booksThe voyages and travells of the ambassadors sent by Frederick, duke of Holstein, to the great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia

Crusius, Philipp , 1597-1676, Brüggemann, Otto , 1600-1640, Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS7 .O44

Written originally by Adam Olearius, secretary to the embassy. Faithfully rendered into English, by John Davies.
Vol. 2 has special t.-p: The...
Show moreWritten originally by Adam Olearius, secretary to the embassy. Faithfully rendered into English, by John Davies.
Vol. 2 has special t.-p: The voyages & travels of J. Albert de Mandelslo ... into the East-Indies ...
"He [Frederick] employ'd in this embassy Philip Crusius ... and Otton Brugman." cf. p. 1.
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A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV: And an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the admiral and the nabob Serajah Dowlah ... Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron: description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India ... also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulph of Persia

Watson, Charles , 1714-1757, Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Botany, Botany--India, Botany, Medical, Description and travel, History, Description and travel, DS47.5 .I94 1773

By Edward Ives.
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The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta: In which the several countries are faithfully described: in familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe's Voyage into the East-Indies

Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS7 .D4413 1665, 915.4

Translation by George Havers of the third part of the author's Viaggi ... cioè la Tvrchia, la Persia, e l'India.
Errors in paging: 34, 295, 313,...
Show moreTranslation by George Havers of the third part of the author's Viaggi ... cioè la Tvrchia, la Persia, e l'India.
Errors in paging: 34, 295, 313, 323 numbered 36, 294, 213, 233 respectively.
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Journey from India, towards England in the year 1797: by a route commonly called over-land, through countries not much frequented, and many of them hitherto unknown to Europeans, particularly between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, through Curdistan, Diarbek, Armenia, and Natolia, in Asia, and through Romalia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, Transylvania, &c. in Europe

Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, G460 .J33 1799

Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca: or, A compleat collection of voyages and travels : consisting of above four hundred of the most authentick writers : beginning with Hackluit, Purchass, &c. in English : Ramusio in Italian : Thevenot, &c. in French : De Bry, and Grynaei Novis orbis in Latin : the Dutch East-India Company in Dutch : and continued, with others of note, that have publish'd histories, voyages, travels, or discoveries, in the English, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, or Dutch tongues : relating to any part of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof, to this present time ... to which is prefixed, A history of the peopling of the several parts of the world, and particularly of America : an account of the ancient shipping, and its successive improvements ; together with the invention and use of the magnet, and its variation, &cCompleat collection of voyages and travels

Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels, G160 .H31 1705

by John Harris.
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Includes indexes.
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vol.2
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Show moreby John Harris.
Paging irregular.
Includes indexes.
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The voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 1612-14

Best, Thomas , 1570?-1639, Voyages and travels, G161 .H2 2d ser., no.75, 915.4

edited by Sir William Foster.
The present work consists of Best's log of the voyage and a journal begun by the surgeon and continued by the purser...
Show moreedited by Sir William Foster.
The present work consists of Best's log of the voyage and a journal begun by the surgeon and continued by the purser of the accompanying ship, together with extracts from other narratives and correspondence.
"Fuller titles of works cited": p. [lv]-lvi.
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A voyage to Suratt, in the year, 1689: Giving a large account of that city, and its inhabitants, and of the English factory there. Likewise a description of Madeira, St. Jago, Annobon, Cabenda and Malemba (upon the coast of Africa) St. Helena, Johanna, Bombay, the city of Muscatt, and its inhabitants in Arabia Felix, Mocha, and other maritine [sic] towns upon the Red-sea, and the Cape of good hope, and the island Ascension. To which is addded [sic] an appendix, containing I. The history of a late revolution in the kingdom of Golconda. II. A description of the Kingdoms of Arracan and Pegu. III. An account of the coins of the kingdoms of India, Persia, Golconda, &c. IV. Observations concerning the silk-wormsAn appendix. Containing I. The history of a late revolution in the kingdom of Golconda. II. A short description of the kingdom of Arracan, and Pegu. III. A collection of coyns and IV. Observations concerning the nature of the silk-worms

Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Silkworms, Silkworms--Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Description and travel

By J. Ovington, M.A. Chaplain to His Majesty.
Errata: p. [16] (preliminary sequence).
Half-title.
Signatures: A-Z8 Aa-Qq8 (Qq8 blank).
Appendix has...
Show moreBy J. Ovington, M.A. Chaplain to His Majesty.
Errata: p. [16] (preliminary sequence).
Half-title.
Signatures: A-Z8 Aa-Qq8 (Qq8 blank).
Appendix has separate t.p.
Title within double line border.
From the library of Sir Charles Harding Firth. Imperfect copy: only 1 plate remains. SH/U-1
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Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies: containing, an accurate description of whatever is most remarkable in those countries. And embellished with above 320 cooper plates, to which is added an account of the journey of Mr. Isbrants, ambassador from Muscovy, through Russia and Tartary, to China ; together with remarks on the travels of Sir John Chardin, and Mr. Kempfer, and a letter written to the author on that subject

Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS7 .B78 1737

by Cornelius Le Bruyn. Tr. from the original French.
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Show moreby Cornelius Le Bruyn. Tr. from the original French.
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Travels into Muscovy, Persia, and part of the East-Indies: containing, an accurate description of whatever is most remarkable in those countries. And embellished with above 320 cooper plates, to which is added an account of the journey of Mr. Isbrants, ambassador from Muscovy, through Russia and Tartary, to China ; together with remarks on the travels of Sir John Chardin, and Mr. Kempfer, and a letter written to the author on that subject

Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, Description and travel, DS7 .B78 1737

by Cornelius Le Bruyn. Tr. from the original French.
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Show moreby Cornelius Le Bruyn. Tr. from the original French.
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A new general collection of voyages and travels, consisting of the most esteemed relations, which have been hitherto published in any language; comprehending everything remarkable in its kind, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America: with respect to the several empires, kingdoms, and provinces; their situation, extent, bounds and division, climate, soil and produce; their lakes, rivers, mountains, cities, prinicpal towns, harbours, buildings, &c. and the gradual alterations that from time to time have happened in each; also the manners and customs of the several inhabitants, their religion and government, arts and sciences, trades and manufactures; so as to form a compleat system of modern geography and history, exhibiting the present state of all nations; illustrated not only with charts of the several divisions of the ocean, and maps of each country, entirely new composed, as well as new engraved, by the best hands, from the latest surveys, discoveries, and astronomical observations; but likewise with variety of plans, and prospects of coasts, harbours, and cities; besides cuts representing antiquities, animals, vegetables, the persons and habits of the people, and other curiosities; selected from the most authentic travellers, foreign as well as English. Published by His Majesty's authority

Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Coasts--Maps, Coasts--Africa--Maps--Early works to 1800, Coasts--Maps, Coasts--Asia--Maps--Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Description and travel, G160 .N49 1745

V.1. First voyages of the Portugueze to the East Indies, 1418-1546. First voyages of the English to Guinea, and the East Indies, 1552-1598. First...
Show moreV.1. First voyages of the Portugueze to the East Indies, 1418-1546. First voyages of the English to Guinea, and the East Indies, 1552-1598. First voyages of the English to the East Indies, set forth by the company of merchants, 1600-1620. Voyages to Africa and the islands adjacent, 1455-1721 -- v.2. Voyages and travels along the western coast of Africa, 1637-1735. Voyages and travels to Guinea and Benin, 1666-1726. Description of Guinea -- v.3. Voyages and travels to Guinea, Benin, Kongo and Angola. Description of Loango, Kongo, Angola, Benguela, and adjacent countries. Description of the countries along the eastern coast of Africa, from Cape of Good Hope to Cape Guarda Fuy. Voyages and travels in China, 1655-1722 -- v.4. Description of China, of Korea, eastern Tartary and Tibet. Travels through Tartary, Tibet, and Bukhâria, to and from China, 1246-1698.
Compilation attributed to John Green, but known as the Astley collection -- National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints.
Vol. 1: xi, [13], 680 p., 24 leaves of plates (11 fold.) ; vol. 2: viii, [4], 732 p., 72 leaves of plates (17 fold.) ; vol. 3: iv, [4], 605 p., 61 leaves of plates (16 fold.) ; vol. 4: xii, [4], 751, [42] p., 74 leaves of plates (7 fold.).
Each volume includes a frontispiece, table of contents, list of plates, and list of subscribers. Volumes 1 and 3 also contain errata.
There are maps and charts throughout, including a set of 8 charts of the coasts of Africa, Arabia and western India at the end of vol. 1. The maps and charts are chiefly by Thomas Kitchin or G. Child.
Illustrative plates are chiefly by G. Child or N. Parr.
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vol.1
Item-ID: i10061514
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Includes bibliographical references throughout, and an index at the end of vol. 4.
From the historical library collection of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, transferred to King's on permanent loan in 2007. UkLU-K
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A journal from Calcutta in Bengal, by sea, to Busserah: from thence across the Great Desart to Aleppo, and from thence to Marseilles, and through France, to England. In the year, 1750

Voyages and travels, Description and travel, G161 .P53 1757

by Mr. Bartholomew Plaisted ... to which are added, directions by Capt. Eliot Eliot, for passing over the Little Desart from Busserah, by the way...
Show moreby Mr. Bartholomew Plaisted ... to which are added, directions by Capt. Eliot Eliot, for passing over the Little Desart from Busserah, by the way of Bagdad, Mousul, Orfa, and Aleppo. Published from his original manuscript.
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The voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 1612-14

Best, Thomas , 1570?-1639, Voyages and travels, G161 .H2 1934

edited by Sir William Foster.
The present work consists of Best's log of the voyage and a journal begun by the surgeon and continued by the purser...
Show moreedited by Sir William Foster.
The present work consists of Best's log of the voyage and a journal begun by the surgeon and continued by the purser of the accompanying ship, together with extracts from other narratives and correspondence.
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G161 .H2 1934
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Item-ID: i1022788x
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Includes bibliography ("Fuller titles of works cited": p. [lv]-lvi) and index.
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A new general collection of voyages and travels, consisting of the most esteemed relations, which have been hitherto published in any language; comprehending everything remarkable in its kind, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America: with respect to the several empires, kingdoms, and provinces; their situation, extent, bounds and division, climate, soil and produce; their lakes, rivers, mountains, cities, prinicpal towns, harbours, buildings, &c. and the gradual alterations that from time to time have happened in each; also the manners and customs of the several inhabitants, their religion and government, arts and sciences, trades and manufactures; so as to form a compleat system of modern geography and history, exhibiting the present state of all nations; illustrated not only with charts of the several divisions of the ocean, and maps of each country, entirely new composed, as well as new engraved, by the best hands, from the latest surveys, discoveries, and astronomical observations; but likewise with variety of plans, and prospects of coasts, harbours, and cities; besides cuts representing antiquities, animals, vegetables, the persons and habits of the people, and other curiosities; selected from the most authentic travellers, foreign as well as English. Published by His Majesty's authority

Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Coasts--Maps, Coasts--Africa--Maps--Early works to 1800, Coasts--Maps, Coasts--Asia--Maps--Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Description and travel, G160 .N49 1745

V.1. First voyages of the Portugueze to the East Indies, 1418-1546. First voyages of the English to Guinea, and the East Indies, 1552-1598. First...
Show moreV.1. First voyages of the Portugueze to the East Indies, 1418-1546. First voyages of the English to Guinea, and the East Indies, 1552-1598. First voyages of the English to the East Indies, set forth by the company of merchants, 1600-1620. Voyages to Africa and the islands adjacent, 1455-1721 -- v.2. Voyages and travels along the western coast of Africa, 1637-1735. Voyages and travels to Guinea and Benin, 1666-1726. Description of Guinea -- v.3. Voyages and travels to Guinea, Benin, Kongo and Angola. Description of Loango, Kongo, Angola, Benguela, and adjacent countries. Description of the countries along the eastern coast of Africa, from Cape of Good Hope to Cape Guarda Fuy. Voyages and travels in China, 1655-1722 -- v.4. Description of China, of Korea, eastern Tartary and Tibet. Travels through Tartary, Tibet, and Bukhâria, to and from China, 1246-1698.
Compilation attributed to John Green, but known as the Astley collection -- National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints.
Vol. 1: xi, [13], 680 p., 24 leaves of plates (11 fold.) ; vol. 2: viii, [4], 732 p., 72 leaves of plates (17 fold.) ; vol. 3: iv, [4], 605 p., 61 leaves of plates (16 fold.) ; vol. 4: xii, [4], 751, [42] p., 74 leaves of plates (7 fold.).
Each volume includes a frontispiece, table of contents, list of plates, and list of subscribers. Volumes 1 and 3 also contain errata.
There are maps and charts throughout, including a set of 8 charts of the coasts of Africa, Arabia and western India at the end of vol. 1. The maps and charts are chiefly by Thomas Kitchin or G. Child.
Illustrative plates are chiefly by G. Child or N. Parr.
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G160 .N49 1745
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vol.2
Item-ID: i20240983
BIB-ID: 1007787
Includes bibliographical references throughout, and an index at the end of vol. 4.
From the historical library collection of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, transferred to King's on permanent loan in 2007. UkLU-K
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