CHURCHILL, Awnsham & John. A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English , London: Messrs. Churchill for Henry Lintot, 1744-46. 6 volumes, 2° (360 x 220mm). Title in vol. one printed in red and black. 227 copper-engraved maps and plates only, illustrations. (A few plates neatly repaired, one laid down, a few leaves with small marginal holes, tears and corners torn away, occasional light spotting and marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, lightly rubbed, some scuff marks). Third edition. Rarely, if ever, sold with the 305 plates called for. Sabin 13017: "To this edition a copious index is added, and there is some little difference in the arrangement of the articles. The account of books of voyages and travels is also brought down to the present year. Many of the works in this collection have never appeared elsewhere in English. Sir James Mackintosh remarks: 'The old voyages are always more picturesque and poetical than modern. Churchill and Harris furnish a great abundance of Indian imagery'. And Richarderie observes: 'This collection is very valuable; its place cannot be supplied by recurring to the original works, as a great part of them are first published in it from the manuscript'." With Edward Cavendish Drake's A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels (London, 1768, defective). (7)
CHURCHILL, Awnsham & John. A Collection of Voyages and Travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English , London: Messrs. Churchill for Henry Lintot, 1744-46. 6 volumes, 2° (360 x 220mm). Title in vol. one printed in red and black. 227 copper-engraved maps and plates only, illustrations. (A few plates neatly repaired, one laid down, a few leaves with small marginal holes, tears and corners torn away, occasional light spotting and marginal dampstaining.) Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, lightly rubbed, some scuff marks). Third edition. Rarely, if ever, sold with the 305 plates called for. Sabin 13017: "To this edition a copious index is added, and there is some little difference in the arrangement of the articles. The account of books of voyages and travels is also brought down to the present year. Many of the works in this collection have never appeared elsewhere in English. Sir James Mackintosh remarks: 'The old voyages are always more picturesque and poetical than modern. Churchill and Harris furnish a great abundance of Indian imagery'. And Richarderie observes: 'This collection is very valuable; its place cannot be supplied by recurring to the original works, as a great part of them are first published in it from the manuscript'." With Edward Cavendish Drake's A New Universal Collection of Authentic and Entertaining Voyages and Travels (London, 1768, defective). (7)
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