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Voyage autour du monde, commencé en 1708 & fini en 1711 / par le Capitaine Woodes Rogers ; traduit de l'anglois ; où l'on a joint quelques pièces curieuses touchant la Riviere des Amazones & la Guiane.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection G420 .R614 1716 2 v. (v.1-2)
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rogers, Woodes, -1732.
Contributor:
Gomberville, M. Le Roy (Marin Le Roy), sieur de, 1600-1674.
Acuña, Cristóbal de, 1597-
Standardized Title:
Cruising voyage round the world. French. 1716
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Voyages around the world.
Discoveries in geography.
South America--Description and travel.
South America.
Amazon River--Discovery and exploration.
Amazon River.
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)
Place of Publication:
A Amsterdam : Chez la veuve de Paul Marret ..., 1716.
Notes:
Translator: de Gomberville.
Vol. 2 includes: "Suplément, ou description des côtes, rades, havres, rochers, bas-fonds, isles, caps, aiguades, criques, anses, aspects, gisemens, & distances, depuis Acapulco, sous le 17 degré de latitude septentrionale, jusques à l'Isle de Chiloe sous le 44 degré de latitude meridionale tirée de bons manuscrits espagnols, trouvez à bord de quelques vaisseaux pris dans la Mer du Sud" with special title page and separate pagination; and "Relation de la riviere des Amazones, traduite, par feu Mr. de Gomberville de l'Academie françoise, sur l'original espagnol du P. Christophle d'Acugna jesuite, avec une dissertation à la tête sur la même riviere. Sur la copie imprimée à Paris en 1682" with separate pagination and signatures.
Palau (275402-3) and Sabin (72757) both describe copies in which the Suplément and Relation are referred to as a third volume.
Includes indexes.
Local Notes:
Vol. 1: [10], 415, [29] p., [4] leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], 162, [2], 75, [24], 255, [25] p. (last page blank). Vol. 1: engraved frontispiece and a further 5 plates and 1 map wanting; p. 1-2 mutilated; v. 2: engraved frontispiece and a further 5 plates and 6 maps wanting; p. 13-14 of Suplément mutilated.
OCLC:
13605090

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