A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 eBook

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A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 eBook

Robert Kerr (writer)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 938 pages of information about A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels.

138.  Baumgarten, Peregrinatio in Egyptum, Arabiam, Palestinam, et Syriam.  Nuremberg, 1621. 4to.

139.  Voyages au Levant, 1749-52.  Par Fred. Hasselquist.  Paris, 1769. 1 vol. 12mo.—­This, originally published in Swedish by Linnaeus, and translated into German and Dutch, is uncommonly valuable to the natural historian.

140.  Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem, et de Jerusalem a Paris, en allant par la Grece.  Par Chateaubriand. 3 vols. 8vo.  Paris, 1810.

141.  Le Nouveau Monde, et Navigations faites par Americ.  Vespuce, dans les Pays nouvellement trouves, tant en Ethiopie qu’en Arabie.  Paris, 4to.—­Translated from the Italian:  both are rare.  The claims and merits of Vespucius may be judged of from the following works:  Canovai Elogio di Amerigo Vespucci.  Florence, 1798.; Tiraboschi Storia dell Litt. vol. 1. p. 1. lib. 1. c. 6.; the Letters of Americo in Ramusio, 1. 138.; Bandini Vita del Amerigo, and an article in the North American Review, for 1822.

142.  Voyage d’un Philosophe (M.  Poivre).  Paris, 1797. 18mo.—­This little work, which embraces remarks on the arts and people of Asia, Africa, and America, deserves the title it bears better than most French works which claim it.

143.  Langstadt, Reisen nach Sud-America, Asien, und Africa.  Hildesheim, 1789. 8vo.

144.  Recueil de divers Voyages faites en Afrique et Amerique.  Paris, 1674. 4to.

145.  Voyages du Cheval.  Marchais en Guinee, Isles voisines, et a Cayenne.  Par Labat.  Paris, 1780. 4 vols. 12mo.

146.  Voyage en Guinee et dans les Isles Caraibes.  Par Isert. 1793. 8vo.  Translated from the German.

147.  Voyage on the Coast of Africa, in the Straits of Magellan, Brazil, &c. in 1695-97.  Translated from the French of Froger.  London, 1698. 8vo.

148.  Hans Sloane’s Voyage to Madeira, Barbadoes, St. Christophers, &c.  London, 2 vols. folio. 1707.—­This work, generally known under the title of Sir Hans Sloane’s History of Jamaica, is a rich mine of natural history, aad contains upwards of 1200 engravings of plants, &c.

149.  The Four Years’ Voyage of Captain G. Roberts to the Islands Canaries, Cape Verde, and the Coast of Guinea, and Barbadoes. 1725. 8vo.

150.  Voyage to Guinea, Brazil, the West Indies, Madagascar, &c.  By John Atkins. 1737. 8vo.

151.  Voyage aux Indes Orientales, Maldives, Moluccas, et Bresil.  Par Fr. Pyrard.  Paris, 1619-8vo.—­These voyages, which occupied the author from 1600 to 1611, are uncommonly well written, accurate, faithful, and circumstantial, especially regarding the Maldives, Cochin, Travancore, and Calicut.  There is appended a particular and methodical description of the animals and plants of the East Indies.

152.  Curiosites de la Nature et de l’Art, apportes dans deux Voyages dans Indes:  Indes Occ. 1698-9; Ind.  Orient. 1701-2.  Par C. Biron, Chirurgeon Major.  Paris, 1703. 12mo.—­Valuable for its natural history, and its account of the implements and arts of the inhabitants.

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