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voyages and travels67
voyages around the world4
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black people2
adventure and adventurers1
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Soviet Union1
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Churchill, Awnsham8
Churchill, John (1695-)8
Churchill, John8
Churchill, Awnsham (1728)8
Osborne, Thomas (1767)8
Osborne, Thomas8
Locke, John (1632-1704)8
Locke, John6
Anson, George Anson, Baron, 1657-17626
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762)5

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A journey over land to India : partly by a route never gone before by any European

Campbell, Donald (1751-1804)

1795

The second American edition of this work was published New York, 1798, under title: A narrative of the extraordinary adventures and sufferings by shipwreck & imprisonment, of Donald Campbell... in an ...

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A compendium of the most approved modern travels : Containing a distinct account of the religion, government, commerce, manners, and natural history, of several nations. Illustrated and adorned with many useful and elegant copper-plates (v.1)

Maundrell, Henry (1665-1701); Shaw, Thomas (1694-1751); Wood, Robert (1717?-1771); Pococke, Richard (1704-1765); Drummond, Alexander (1769); Russell, Alexander (1715?-1768); Hanway, Jonas (1712-1786); Pontoppidan, Erik (1698-1764); Norden, Frederik Ludvig (1708-1742)

1757

Running title: Modern travels.

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A compendium of the most approved modern travels : Containing a distinct account of the religion, government, commerce, manners, and natural history, of several nations. Illustrated and adorned with many useful and elegant copper-plates (v.2)

Maundrell, Henry (1665-1701); Shaw, Thomas (1694-1751); Wood, Robert (1717?-1771); Pococke, Richard (1704-1765); Drummond, Alexander (1769); Russell, Alexander (1715?-1768); Hanway, Jonas (1712-1786); Pontoppidan, Erik (1698-1764); Norden, Frederik Ludvig (1708-1742)

1757

Running title: Modern travels.

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Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca : Or, A complete collection of voyages and travels. Consisting of above six hundred of the most authentic writers (v.2)

Harris, John (1667?-1719); Campbell, John (1708-1775)

1744-48

Title in red and black. Edited by John Campbell.

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Diary of the adventures of a merchant captain in the Mediterranean, 1711-1715, compiled by George Aptall

Aptall, George

1715

Contains Captain George Aptall's personal account of his misadventures in the Eastern Mediterranean, signed by him on 17 October 1715.

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Voyages de François Coreal aux Indes Occidentales : contenant ce qu'il y a vû de plus remarquable pendant son séjour depuis 1666. jusquèn 1697

Coreal, Francisco (1648?-1708); Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552?-1618); Narbrough, Sir John (1640-1688); Nyel, Armand Jean Xavier (1670-1738); Suárez de Figueroa, Christóval (fl. 1613)

1722

Republished with the title: "Recueil de voyages dans l'Amerique Méridionale." Amsterdam, 1738. cf. Sabin, Bibl. amer. No Spanish original of Coreal's voyages is known and the identity of the author...

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Histoire de la navigation, son commencement, son progrès & ses découvertes jusqu' à présent. Traduit de l'anglois. Le commerce des Indes Occidentales. Avec un catalogue des meilleures cartes geographiques & des meilleurs livres de voyages, & le caractere de leurs auteurs (v.1)

Locke, John (1632-1704); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)

1722

Authorship from Echeverria & Wilkie, and from Alden-Landis. Vol. 1: [12], 378, [6] p.; v. 2: [8], 316 p. "Memoire des isles françoises de l'Amerique meridionale, appellee's Antilles," v. 2, p. [8...

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Histoire de la navigation, son commencement, son progrès & ses découvertes jusqu' à présent. Traduit de l'anglois. Le commerce des Indes Occidentales. Avec un catalogue des meilleures cartes geographiques & des meilleurs livres de voyages, & le caractere de leurs auteurs (v.2)

Locke, John (1632-1704); Halley, Edmond (1656-1742)

1722

Authorship from Echeverria & Wilkie, and from Alden-Landis. Vol. 1: [12], 378, [6] p.; v. 2: [8], 316 p. "Memoire des isles françoises de l'Amerique meridionale, appellee's Antilles," v. 2, p. [8...

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