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Primo volume, & seconda editione delle Nauigationi et viaggi : in molti luoghi corretta, et ampliata, nella quale si contengono la descrittione dell'Africa, & del paese del Prete Ianni, con varij viaggi, dalla città di Lisbona, & dal mar Rosso à Calicut, & insin'all'isole Molucche, doue nascono le spetierie, et la nauigatione attorno il mondo : aggiuntoui di nuouo la relatione dell'isola Giapan, nuouamente scoperta nella parte di settentrione, alcuni capitoli appartenenti alla geographia estratti dell'historia del S. Giouan di Barros portoghese, tre tauole di geographia in disegno, secondo le carte da nauigare de Portoghesi, & fra terra secondo gli scrittori che si contengono in questo volume, un'indice molto copioso, delle cose di geographia, costumi, spetierie, & altre cose notabili, che in esso si contengono.
Ramusio, Giovanni Battista, 1485-1557.Date: L'anno 1554- Books
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Three years travels throughout the interior parts of North-America, for more than five thousand miles ... together with a concise history of the genius, manners, and customs of the Indians ... and an appendix, describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. By Captain Jonathan Carver, of the provincial troops in America.
Carver, Jonathan, 1710-1780.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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A general collection of voyages and travels, including the most interesting records of navigators and travellers, from the discovery of America by Columbus, in 1492, to the travels of Lord Valentia / [William Fordyce Mavor].
Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758-1837.Date: 1813- Books
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The Memoirs and adventures of Mark Moore, late an officer in the British Navy. Interspersed With a Variety of original Anecdotes, selected from his Journals, when in the Tuscan, Portuguese, Swedish, Imperial, American, and British Service, in each of which he bore a-Commission. Written by himself. As the Author has been at Intervals the Manager of a respectable Company of Comedians, in several of the principal Towns of England, France, and Flanders, he has also added some original Sketches of several Theatrical Characters, who now rank high in the Thespian Corps-With Descriptions of the various Scenes in which he has been lately involved, through the Machinations of petty-fogging Attornies, in which the Arts of those Terriers of the Law are fully exposed, for the Benefit of Society.
Moore, Mark.Date: M,DCC,XCV. [1795]- Books
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The world displayed; or, a curious collection of voyages and travels, selected from the writers of all nations. In which the Conjectures and Interpolations of Several vain Editors and Translators are expunged, Every Relation is made concise and plain, and The Divisions of Countries and Kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted. Illustrated and embellished with variety of maps and prints by the best hands. Vol. XX.
Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]