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  • A Voyage round the World,

    ANSON, George.
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    A landmark of eighteenth-century English circumnavigation. Anson's voyage recounts the expedition made to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from S...

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  • Il Gazzettiere Americano

    [AMERICAS].
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    A crisp copy of this wide-ranging topographical dictionary of the New World, in the preferred Italian version. Published in English a year earlier...

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  • Istoria della Conquista del Messico,

    SOLIS, Antonio de.
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    A fine copy of the Italian edition of this celebrated history of Mexico, which describes the three years between the appointment of Cortes to comm...

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  • An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile.

    OVALLE, Alonso de.
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    As quoted by Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. First printed in Rome by Francisco Cavallo in 1649, before being translated into English an...

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  • Histoire de l'expedition de trois vasseaux,

    [BEHRENS, Carl Friedrich].
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    Roggeveen's voyage - Europeans discover Rapa Nui (Easter Island). The first French account of Roggeveen's voyage and the European discovery of Rapa...

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  • Journal de la navigation autour du globe

    BOUGAINVILLE, Hyacinthe Yves Philippe Potentien (Baron de).
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    The official record of Bougainville's voyage around the world. The main intention of the voyage was political: to extend French influence in Indoc...

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  • Voyage autour du monde sur la Frégate La Vénus

    DU PETIT-THOUARS, Abel.
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    With the rare Atlas Hydrographique. One of the most important and complete records of the Mexican period in California. 'This voyage, ostensibly t...

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  • Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum;

    SPILBERGEN, Joris Van.
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    A book of primary importance in the history of dutch navigation. The first Latin edition of the first circumnavigation to have the official support...

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  • The History of America.

    ROBERTSON, William.
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    This was the first sustained attempt to describe the discovery, conquest and settlement of Spanish America since Herrera's Décadas. Robertson inte...

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  • Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes.

    RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas.
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    The definitive edition. The final, expanded edition of this radical tour-de-force of global commerce and politics. The definitive version of the te...

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  • Bradford on Mount Fairweather

    WASHBURN, Bradford.
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    Bradford Washburn was one of America's foremost mountaineers. He led many first ascents and established new routes on several Alaskan peaks, often...

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  • Polymetis:

    SPENCE, Joseph.
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    Images from Polymetis were consulted during the creation of the seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia.'Joseph Spence (1699 – 1748) was an English s...

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  • Seven years' travel in Central America,

    FROEBEL, Julius.
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    Froebel (1805 –1893) was a German geologist and mineralogist, and journalist. He emigrated to the United States, where he became editor of a Germa...

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  • An account of the new Northern Archipelago

    STAEHLIN, J[akob] v[on].
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    Alaska as an island. Fresh copy of the first English edition of 'an important work in the history of north-west coast exploration' (Hill).Preceded ...

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  • Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos

    HERRERA TORDESILLAS, Antonio de.
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    The second Spanish edition of a highly important collection of Spanish narratives of exploration and conquest, drawing on some sources no longer e...

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  • A true and impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas,

    [ANSON'S VOYAGE]. THOMAS, Pascoe.
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    Earliest account of Anson's Voyage. Pascoe Thomas kept a full and faithful daily journal of the incidents of this important four-year voyage. Inclu...

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  • Hechos de Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, quarto margues de cañete.

    SUAREZ DE FIGUEROA, Cristobal.
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    First edition of this account of the deeds of Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza (1535-1609), Captain General of Peru and from 1590-1596 Viceroy of Peru. ...

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  • Relacion del viage que por orden de su Magestad, y acuerdo de el real Consejo de Indias...

    NODAL, Bartolome Garcia de & NODAL, Goncalo.
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    The first to include the important Derrotas, the instructions for navigation within the Americas. 'The original edition of the voyage for the disc...

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  • Viage al estrecho de Magallanes

    SARMIENTO DE GAMBOA, Pedro.
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    Illustrious provenance of Straits of Magellan classic. A fine copy of this rare book from the library of Charles de Fleurieu, author of Discoveries...

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