The American traveller : being a new historical collection carefully compiled from original memoirs in several languages, and the most authentic voyages and travels, containing a compleat account of that part of the world, now called the West Indies, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time : illustrated with the heads of the most eminent admirals, commanders, and travellers, neatly engraved : to which is prefixed an introduction, shewing the rise, progress, and improvement of navigation, the use and properties of the loadstone, and an enquiry concerning the first inhabitants of America : with an account of Admiral Vernons taking Porto Bello, Fort Chagre, and Carthagenna ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

J. Fuller, author, issuing body.

Series:

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.

Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navigation--History.

Navigation.

Indigenous peoples--Origin.

Indigenous peoples.

America--Discovery and exploration.

America.

Columbus, Christopher.

English West Indian expedition (1739-1742).

Local Subjects:

English West Indian expedition (1739-1742).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 p.l., xiii, 14-398 p. ) 2 pl., 2 port. (incl. front.) ;

Other Title:

American traveller

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and sold by J. Fuller, 1743.

Notes:

"The work was published in numbers [1741] and appears to be the commencement of an extensive work, but of which no more than this volume appeared. It commences with a long introduction on the rise, progress and improvement of navigation, which is followed by book I., divided into two chapters ; one on the peopling of America, and the other, which concludes the book, containing an account of the voyages of Columbus."--Rich, Bibl. amer. nova, v. 1, p. 65.

Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.

Sabin no. 1250.

Cited in:

RLIN, CTRG527722-B

OCLC:

367981033