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A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ... / by James Burney.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks *Kirkland Am 1803 Bur HSP
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burney, James, 1750-1821 31346
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels--82345.
- Voyages and travels.
- Buccaneers--68851.
- Buccaneers.
- Pacific Ocean--77447.
- Pacific Ocean.
- Physical Description:
- 5 v. : ill., plates, maps ; 30 cm. (fol.)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by L. Hansard, 1803-17.
- Contents:
- pt. I. Commencing with an account of the earliest discovery of that sea by Europeans, and terminating with the voyage of Sir Franicis Drake, in 1579
- pt. 2. 1579-1620
- pt. 3. 1620-1688
- pt. 4. To the year 1723, including a history of the buccaneers of America
- pt. 5. To the year 1764.
- Local Notes:
- v. I. 5 fold. maps incl. frontis: v. II. 6 fold. maps incl. frontis, 4 pl. 1 map; v. III, 2 fold. maps incl. frontis, 7 pl. 8 maps; v. IV. 4 fold. maps incl. frontis, 1 map; v. V. 1 fold. map (frontis) 1 fold. pl.
- Retrospective conversion record: original entry.
- HSP in LCP.
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