The american traveller [electronic resource] : being a new historical collection carefully compiled from original memoirs in several languages, and the most authentic voyages and travels, containing a compleat account of that part of the world, now called the West Indies, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time. Illustrated with the heads of the most eminent admirals, commanders, and travellers, neatly engraved. To which is prefixed an introduction, shewing the rise, progress, and improvement of navigation, the use and properties of the loadstone, and an enquiry concerning th e first inhabitants of America. With some account of the places attack'd in the present war.
1741
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The american traveller [electronic resource] : being a new historical collection carefully compiled from original memoirs in several languages, and the most authentic voyages and travels, containing a compleat account of that part of the world, now called the West Indies, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time. Illustrated with the heads of the most eminent admirals, commanders, and travellers, neatly engraved. To which is prefixed an introduction, shewing the rise, progress, and improvement of navigation, the use and properties of the loadstone, and an enquiry concerning th e first inhabitants of America. With some account of the places attack'd in the present war.
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London : printed and sold by J. Fuller at the Dove in Creed-Lane, and by most of the booksellers in Town and Country, M,DCC,XLI. [1741]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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[2], 391, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 4⁰.
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First issue. Published in [18] numbers and appears to be the commencement of an extensive work, but of which no more than this volume appeared. It commences with a long introduction on the rise, progress and improvement of navigation, which is followed by book I., divided int two chapters: one on the peopling of America, and the other, which concludes the book, containing an account of the voyages of Columbus.--Sabin, Rich.
Signatures: pi¹ A-3C⁴.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Libraries.
First issue. Published in [18] numbers and appears to be the commencement of an extensive work, but of which no more than this volume appeared. It commences with a long introduction on the rise, progress and improvement of navigation, which is followed by book I., divided int two chapters: one on the peopling of America, and the other, which concludes the book, containing an account of the voyages of Columbus.--Sabin, Rich.
Signatures: pi¹ A-3C⁴.
Reproduction of original from Harvard University Libraries.
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Sabin, 1250
English Short Title Catalog, N29412.
English Short Title Catalog, N29412.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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