Mavor´s Voyages and Travels from 1492-1800
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Author: Mavor, William Fordyce, compiler
Title: A General Collection of Voyages and Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century. In Twenty-Eight Volumes.
Place Published: London
Publisher:[William Fordyce Mavor]
Date Published: 1809-1810
Description:
Author: Mavor, William Fordyce, compiler
Title: A General Collection of Voyages and Travels, from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century. In Twenty-Eight Volumes.
Place Published: London
Publisher:[William Fordyce Mavor]
Date Published: 1809-1810
Description:
28 volumes. Variously illustrated with engraved maps, portraits and views, many folding. 15.5x9.5 cm (6¼x3¾¨), contemporary tree calf, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers.
An excellent collection travel narratives from the 17th and 18th centuries. Compiled by Scottish teacher, priest, and publisher of educational books William Fordyce Mavor. Includes all three of Cook´s voyages as well as numerous other explorers including Anson, Shaw and Forster.
28 volumes divided into two parts titled Voyages and Travels:
Voyages
- Vol. 1 - Columbus, De Gama, Cabot, Magellan and Drake.
- Vol. 2 - Anson and Ulloa.
- Vol. 3 - Byron, Wallis, Carteret.
- Vol. 4-5 - Cook´s First Voyage.
- Vol. 6-7 - Cook´s Second Voyage.
- Vol. 8-10 - Cook´s Third Voyage.
- Vol. 11 - Phipps, Forest, Philip, Wilson and Thunberg.
- Vol. 12 - Pages and Vancouver.
- Vol. 13 - Mathews, Bligh, Turnbull, and index.
Travels
- Vol. 14 - Addison and Montagu.
- Vol. 15 - Shaw, Hanway and Niebuhr.
- Vol. 16 - Bruce, Maupertuis and Wood.
- Vol. 17 - Smollet´s France and Italy.
- Vol. 18 - Brydone, Swinburn and Wraxall.
- Vol. 19 - Coxe and Moore.
- Vol. 20 - Pallas and Macartney.
- Vol. 21 - Vaillant, Browne, and Barrow.
- Vol. 22 - Sonnini, Denon and Park.
- Vol. 23 - Forster, and Buchanan´s India.
- Vol. 24 - Hearne, Weld, Liancourt and Mackenzie.
- Vol. 25 - Bourgoing´s Spain.
- Vol. 26 - Kotzebue´s Siberia, France and Italy.
- Vol. 27 - Carr´s France, Batic and Holland.
- Vol. 28 - Valentia and index.
Condition
Light wear and soiling to calf, rubbing to extremities, corners bumped; various toning and foxing to pages, some damage to pages and plates has been inexpertly repaired with tape, ill creasing and stub tears to some maps; overall very good.
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Mavor´s Voyages and Travels from 1492-1800
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