JOHN HARRIS (1667?-1719) Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca: or, a compleat collection of Voyages and Travels. London: for Thomas Bennet, John Nicholson and Daniel Midwinter, 1705. 2 vols., 2° (39 x 23.4cm). 2pp. subscribers' list. 32 engraved maps, plates and portraits (5 double-page maps, 4 folding maps, 3 portraits, 19 plates, 1 folding plate). (2 maps and the folding plate slightly shaved into the plate area.) Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked, later endpapers). Provenance : Joliffe (armorial bookplate). A fine copy of the first edition. The work, as Harris notes in his address to the reader in vol.I, 'begins with the most early Discoveries, and Settlements of Trade, and reaches down to the Year 1626, where Purchas ends his Collection. But you will find here a succinct Account, of the Books of very many other Authors, which are neither in Him nor Hackluit... The Second Volume hath nothing out of Purchas and Hackluit; but is entirely New: Being taken from the best of all the Modern Authors extant... the Index is so very large and compleat, that you may there readily find the Description of any Part of the World; or an Account of any Bird, Beast, or Plant... that hath been descib'd by Travellers.' Sabin 30482. (2)
JOHN HARRIS (1667?-1719) Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca: or, a compleat collection of Voyages and Travels. London: for Thomas Bennet, John Nicholson and Daniel Midwinter, 1705. 2 vols., 2° (39 x 23.4cm). 2pp. subscribers' list. 32 engraved maps, plates and portraits (5 double-page maps, 4 folding maps, 3 portraits, 19 plates, 1 folding plate). (2 maps and the folding plate slightly shaved into the plate area.) Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked, later endpapers). Provenance : Joliffe (armorial bookplate). A fine copy of the first edition. The work, as Harris notes in his address to the reader in vol.I, 'begins with the most early Discoveries, and Settlements of Trade, and reaches down to the Year 1626, where Purchas ends his Collection. But you will find here a succinct Account, of the Books of very many other Authors, which are neither in Him nor Hackluit... The Second Volume hath nothing out of Purchas and Hackluit; but is entirely New: Being taken from the best of all the Modern Authors extant... the Index is so very large and compleat, that you may there readily find the Description of any Part of the World; or an Account of any Bird, Beast, or Plant... that hath been descib'd by Travellers.' Sabin 30482. (2)
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