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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.
Headpieces; initials.
Author attributes first dicovery of America to Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd, 300 years before Columbus.
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Item-ID: i2266774x
BIB-ID: 1508228
Book plate of T. Scott. (Rev. Thomas). WlLaUW
T.-p. signed William Phillips de Bradeley. WlLaUW
Presented by Thomas Phillips 1842. WlLaUW
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The totall discourse of the rare aduentures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares trauayles, from Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica: perfited by three deare bought voyages, in surueighing of forty eight kingdomes ancient and moderne, twenty one rei-publickes, then absolute principalities, with two hundred ilands : the particular names whereof are described in each argument of the ten diuisions of this history, and it also diuided in three bookes, two whereof neuer heretofore published : wherein is contayned an exact relation of the lawes, religion, policies and gouernment of all their princes, potentates and people : together with the grieuous tortures he suffered by the inquisition of Malaga in Spain, his miraculous discouery and deliuery thence, and of his last and late return from the northerne ilesTotall discourse of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travayles, from Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica

Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, G460 .L58 1632, 910 L71t, 1632a

by William Lithgouu.
Rev. ed. of: A most delectable and true discourse of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland to the most famous...
Show moreby William Lithgouu.
Rev. ed. of: A most delectable and true discourse of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke.
Signatures: A-3V⁴.
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G460 .L58 1632
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Item-ID: i10225973
BIB-ID: 1024233
LC copy has armorial bookplate of George Arnold. DLC
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A relation of some yeares travaile: begvnne anno 1626, into Afrique and the greater Asia, especially the territories of the Persian monarchie: and some parts of the orientall Indies, and iles adiacent, of their religion, language, habit, discent, ceremonies, and other matters concerning them, together with the proceedings and death of the three late ambassadours: Sir D.C. Sir R.S. and the Persian Nogdi-Beg, as also the two great monarchs, the King of Persia, and the Great MogolDiscription of the Persian monarchy

Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, G460 .H47 1634

by T.H. Esquier.
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G460 .H47 1634
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Item-ID: i24531200
BIB-ID: 2623727
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G460 .H47 1634
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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.
Paging irregular.
Includes indexes.
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G160 .H31 1705
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vol.2
Item-ID: i15799591
BIB-ID: 2524745
Show moreby John Harris.
Paging irregular.
Includes indexes.
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G160 .H31 1705
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vol.2
Item-ID: i15799591
BIB-ID: 2524745
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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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DS7 .B78 1737
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vol. 2
Item-ID: i20306945
BIB-ID: 1025016
Show moreby Cornelius Le Bruyn. Tr. from the original French.
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DS7 .B78 1737
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vol. 2
Item-ID: i20306945
BIB-ID: 1025016
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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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DS7 .B78 1737
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vol.1
Item-ID: i15960754
BIB-ID: 1025016
Show moreby Cornelius Le Bruyn. Tr. from the original French.
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DS7 .B78 1737
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vol.1
Item-ID: i15960754
BIB-ID: 1025016
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The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo, together with the travels of Nicoldeonti

Voyages and travels, Mongols--History, Voyages, Mongols--Histoire, Mongols, Travel, Voyages and travels, Description and travel, Descriptions et voyages, G370 .P68 1929, 915

The travels of Marco Polo.--The travels of Nicoldeonti in the East.--Selected passages from Ramusio, &c.
edited from the Elizabethan translation of...
Show moreThe travels of Marco Polo.--The travels of Nicoldeonti in the East.--Selected passages from Ramusio, &c.
edited from the Elizabethan translation of John Frampton; with introduction, notes and appendixes by N.M. Penzer, M.A.
"This edition ... is the sixth publication of the Argonaut press and is limited to 1050 copies on Japon vellum, numbered 1 to 1050 ... This copy is number 742."
With reproduction of t.p. of original edition.
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G370 .P68 1929
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Item-ID: i15866191
BIB-ID: 2518562
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