A collection of voyages and travels : consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue, which have not before been collected in English, or have only been abridged in other collections : and continued with others of note, that have published histories, voyages, travels, journals or discoveries in other nations and languages, relating to any part of the continent of Asia, Africa, America, Europe, or the islands thereof, from the earliest account to the present time : digested according to the parts of the world, to which they particularly relate ... and with great variety of cuts, prospects, ruins, maps, and charts / compiled from the curious and valuable library of the late Earl of Oxford ; interspersed and illustrated with notes ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osborne, Thomas, -1767.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800.

Voyages and travels.

Penn Provenance:

Schonhorn, Manuel (donor)

Gordon, Cosmo George Gordon, Duke of, ca. 1721-1752 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 37 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

heto o-th eyor hith (3) 1745 (R) v.1

G.c. enis s:ed orpr (3) 1745 (R) v.2

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for and sold by Thomas Osborne ..., MDCCXLV [1745]

Notes:

Paging irregular.

Engraved plates: illustrations (some folded) and maps (some folded).

Text printed primarily in double columns.

Printed marginalia.

For contents see Catalogue of the Royal geographical society, where this work is listed as vols. VII and VIII of A. and J. Churchill's collection, the 2 vols. of the title edition 1747 being numbered VII and VIII in continuation of that collection.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2009 by Dr. Manuel Schonhorn.

Penn Libraries copy: each vol. has armorial bookplate of Cosmo George, Duke of Gordon, on verso of leaf preceding frontispiece and 2 ms. shelf-marks (1 struck through) at head of title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 1: plate with caption "The Great River Marañon or of the Amazons ..." imperfect (a portion appears to have been excised); leaves occasionally dampstained.

Penn Libraries copy: v. 2: leaves dampstained throughout.

Cited in:

ESTC T97843

Cox, E.G. Travel, I:14

Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 7332

OCLC:

1843288