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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
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4 nečíslované strany, xii, lviii, 873 stran, 1 prázdná strana, 30 nečíslovaných stran, 31 nečíslovaných listů obrazové přílohy, 1 nečíslovaný list přílohy : ilustrace ; 2°
Carew, Thomas, - Other Gonzales, Manoel, - Author Story, John, - Author Overbury, Thomas, - Author Davis, William, - Author Ussher, James, - Author Blount, Henry, - Author Nicolay, Nicolas de, - Author Washington, Thomas, - Translator Sherley, Anthony, - Other Sherley, Robert, - Other Cartwright, John, - Author Zarain, - Author Holloway, William, - Translator Osborne, Thomas, - Publisher Parr, Nathaniel, - Engraver Moll, Herman, - Cartographer Basire, James, - Engraver Fritz, Samuel, - Cartographer Blundell, A. J., - Engraver Fletcher, Henry, - Engraver Bois, ... de, - Engraver
geografie historická geografie regionální geografie světa
cestopisy pojednáníCall number SC 2751/7 Title statement 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: WITH HISTORICAL INTRODUCTIONS to each ACCOUNT, where thought necessary, containing either the LIVES of their AUTHORS, or what else could be discovered and was supposed capable of entertaining and informing the curious READER. 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. CONTAINING, Either a GENERAL ACCOUNT of the DISCOVERY of those COUNTRIES, or an Abstract of their HISTORIES, GOVERNMENT, TRADE, RELIGION, [et]c. collected from ORIGINAL PAPERS, LETTERS, CHARTERS, LETTERS PATENTS, ACTS of PARLIAMENT, [et]c. no to be met with, and proper to explain many abscure Passages in other Collections of this Kind. VOL. VII. Publication LONDON : Printed for and Sold by THOMAS OSBORNE in Gray's-Inn, 1747 Phys.des. 4 nečíslované strany, xii, lviii, 873 stran, 1 prázdná strana, 30 nečíslovaných stran, 31 nečíslovaných listů obrazové přílohy, 1 nečíslovaný list přílohy : ilustrace ; 2° Note Na 3. nečíslované straně na začátku: "TO THOMAS CAREW, Esq; MEMBER of the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS."; s. [i] (fol. B1r): "AN Introductory Discourse, CONCERNING GEOGRAPHY."; s. 1: "A Geographical Description OF EUROPE."; s. [9]: "THE VOYAGE OF Don Manoel Gonzales, (Late MERCHANT) of the CITY of LISBON in PORTUGAL, TO GREAT-BRITAIN: CONTAINING An Historical, Geographical, Topographical, Political, and Ecclesiastical ACCOUNT of ENGLAND and SCOTLAND; WITH A curious Collection of THINGS particularly Rare, Both in NATURE and ANTIQUITY. Translated from the PORTUGUEZE Manuscript."; s. [209]: "JOHN STORY's TRAVELS THROUGH SWEDEN: CONTAINIG A short Survey of that Kingdom; AND A brief DESCRIPTION of all its Provinces: AS ALSO Their Riches, Antiquity, Nature and Manners: TOGETHER WITH The Government of this Realm, Might and Power of this great King, as well by Sea as Land, his great Officers, Customs and Revenues of the Crown: LIKEWISE A Catalogue of many of the Kings of SWEDEN ... ALSO Something more particularly concerning that illustrious, invincible, great GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS the Second, and some of his most memorable Acts since his coming to the Crown, as well before as since his entring into Germany, till this present Year 1632."; s. [239]: "A DESCRIPTION OF MOSCOVY: CONTAINING I. Its ancient and modern State, Situation, Extent, Latitude, Division into Provinces ... II. The Cities and Towns, Fortification, and Manner of Building; the Discovery made by the English; Populousness of the Country ... III. Their Religion, Marriages, Obedience of the Women to their Husbands, Divorce, Burials and other Ceremonies; their Diet, Liquors, Stoves, Hot-Houses, Habits, [et]c. IV. The Government of the Provinces and Shires, their Courts of Justice, Parliaments, [et]c. V. Their Military Affairs, Degrees and Order in it, Arms, Discipline, with other Matters. VI. Strange Fish, Beasts, Fowl, and other Rarities of Moscovy. VII. The Succession of the Royal House of Moscovy to the Year 1698, being an historical Account of all the material Translations happening for 1600 Years; the Manner of the CZAR's Coronation, Arms of Moscovy, and Degrees of the Nobility, [et]c. The whole containing all that is necessary to be known concerning that VAST EMPIRE."; s. [251]: "Sir Thomas Overbury's OBSERVATIONS IN HIS TRAVELS UPON THE STATE of the Seventeen PROVINCES, As they stood Anno Dom. 1609. The Treaty of Peace being then on Foot."; s. [409]: "A TOUR IN FRANCE and ITALY, MADE BY An English GENTLEMAN, 1675."; s. [475]: "A TRUE RELATION OF THE TRAVELS And most miserable CAPTIVITY OF WILLIAM DAVIS, Barber-Surgeon of LONDON, under the Duke of FLORENCE. Wherein is truly set down the Manner of his Taking, the long Time of his Slavery, and Means of his Delivery, after Eight Years and Ten Months Captivity in the Gallies. Discovering many Main Lands, Islands, Rivers, Cities, and Towns, of the Christians and Infidels, the Condition of the People ... By WILLIAM DAVIS, Barber-Surgeon of London, and born in the City of Hereford."; s. [489]: "A GEOGRAPHICAL and HISTORICAL DISQUISITION, TOUCHING The ASIA properly so called, The Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament) the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese. By JAMES USSHER, Archibishop of Armagh, and Primate of all IRELAND."; s. [501]: "A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE."; a. [511]: "A VOYAGE INTO THE LEVANT. A brief Relation of a Journey lately performed by Master HENRY BLOUNT, Gentleman, From England, by the Way of Venice, into Dalmatia, Sclavonia, Bosnah, Hungary, Macedonia, Thessaly, Thrace, Rhodes, and Egypt, unto Grand Cairo. With particular OBSERVATIONS CONCERNING The modern Condition of the TURKS, and other People under that Empire."; s. [553]: "THE NAVIGATIONS, PEREGRINATIONS and VOYAGES, Made into TURKY, By NICHOLAS NICHOLAY DAULPHINOIS, Lord of ARFEUILE, Chamberlain and Geographer in ordinary to the King of FRANCE. CONTAINING Sundry Singularities which the AUTHOR hath there seen and abserved. Divided in Four BOOKS. WITH Divers fair and memorable Histories, which happened in our time. Translated out of the French, by T. WASHINGTON the younger."; s. [709]: "THE PREACHER'S TRAVELS; Wherein is set down A True JOURNAL to the Confines of the East-Indies trough the great Countries of SYRIA, MESOPOTAMIA, ARMENIA, MEDIA, HYRCANIA, and PARTHIA: WITH The AUTHOR's Return by the Way of PERSIA, SUSIANA, ASSYRIA, CHALDAEA and ARABIA. CONTAINING, A full SURVEY of the Kingdom of PERSIA; and in what Terms the Persian stands with the Great-Turk, at this Day. ALSO A true Relation of Sir ANTHONY SHERLEY's Entertainment there; and the Estate that this Brother, Mr. Robert Sherley, lived in, after his Departure for Christendom. WITH The Description of a Port in the Persian Gulph, commodious for our East-Indian Merchants: and a brief Rehearsal of some gross Absurdities in the Turkish ALCORAN. Penned by J.C. [i.e. John Cartwright] sometime Student in Magdalen-College, in Oxford."; s. 753: "APPENDIX To the DESCRIPTION of NEW-BABYLON. A RELATION of the late Siege and taking of the City of BABYLON, by the TURK; as it was written from thence by Zarain Aga, one of his Captains, to Caymaran his Brother, Vice-Roy in Constantinople ... Translated out of the Turkish, into the Italian Language, by the Drugerman to the State of RAGOUSA; and English by W.H. [i.e. William Holloway]"; s. [761]: "THE TRAVELS OF FOUR ENGLISHMEN, AND A PREACHER, INTO AFRICA, ASIA, TROY, BYTHINIA, THRACIA, and to the BLACK-SEA. AND INTO SYRIA, CILICIA, PISIDIA, MESOPOTAMIA, DAMASCUS, CANAAN, GALILEE, SAMARIA, JUDEA, PALESTINA, JERUSALEM, JERICHO, and to the Red-Sea, and to sundry other Places. Begun in the Year of JUBILEE, 1600, and by some of them finished in the Year 1611. Very profitable for the Help of Travellers; and no less delightful to all Persons, who take Pleasure to hear of the Manners, Govornment, Religion, and Customs of Foreign and Heathen Countries."; s. [831]: "A VOYAGE TO Mount LIBANUS: WHEREIN IS An Account of the Customs and Manners, [et]c. of the TURKS. Also a Description of Candia, Nicosia, Tripoli, Alexandretta, &c. WITH CURIOUS REMARKS upon several PASSAGES relating to the TUKKS and MARONITES. Written originally in Italian, by the Reverend Father Jerom Dandini.". Rok vydání římskými číslicemi. Stránkování: po straně 444 hned následuje strana 449, čísla 445-448 z číslování stran vypadla; kniha je dále stránkována následovně: 449-453, 472-552, s. 553 bez vytištěného čísla, 754-756, 557-873. Tištěno antikvou, řecká slova alfabetou. Na titulní straně linka, impresum pod dvojlinkou. Plné iniciály ve volném prostoru, linky, viněty, živá záhlaví, marginálie, tabulky, poznámky pod čarou, signatury, stránkové kustody; sazba ve dou sloupcích. Mědiryt. frontispis, sign. Parr Sculp., dále 30 mědirytových příloh, některé složené, z toho celkem 16 map - 14 pochází od kartografa Hermana Molla, autorem jedné mapy je Samuel Fritz a jedna je nesignovaná; 14 vedut - u s. 410 sign. N. Parr Sculp., u s. 414 a 442 sign. de Bois fecit, u s. 442 (resp. 443) sign. Dubois fecit, u s. 439 sign. I. Basire sculp., u s. 743 sign. J. Blundell Sculp., u s. 753 sign. Hen. Fletcher Sculp.t London, u s. 774 sign. A.J. Blundell Sculp., 6 rytin nesignovaných. U s. 83 složený list s tabulkou: "A BRIEF ACCOUNT of the State od each COUNTY in ENGLAND, anno 1731." Ownership hist. Na rubu titulního listu razítko se jménem "J. GROSSER" Poznámky k popisovanému exempláři Stará sign.: 79.8. (červeným inkoustem na prázdném listu oproti titulní straně); SB 143/7. Na rubu přední předsádky tužkou číselná značka antikvariátu a cena za 8 svazků 2500 korun československých. Strany 263-408 chybí Binding inf. Vazba z přelomu 18. a 19. století, celokožená z hnědé kůže na lepenkových deskách, na hřbetu zlacené linky, vytlačený a zlacený titul a číslo svazku, desky i hrany desek zdobeny zlacenými linkami, žlutá ořízka; odřeno, spodní hrany a vnější rohy desek poškozeny, stopy po červotoči Language note Místy latinský text, ojediněle řecká slova Another responsib. Carew, Thomas, asi 1702-1766 (Other)
Gonzales, Manoel, 18. století (Author)
Story, John, činný 1632 (Author)
Overbury, Thomas, 1581-1613 Sir, (Author)
Davis, William, činný 1597 (Author)
Ussher, James, 1581-1656 (Author)
Blount, Henry, 1602-1682 Sir, (Author)
Nicolay, Nicolas de, 1517-1583 (Author)
Washington, Thomas, činný 1585 (Translator)
Sherley, Anthony, 1565-asi 1635 Sir, (Other)
Sherley, Robert, asi 1581-1628 Sir, (Other)
Cartwright, John, činný 1599-1602 (Author)
Zarain, činný 1639 Aga, (Author)
Holloway, William, 17. století (Translator)
Osborne, Thomas, -1767 (Publisher)
Parr, Nathaniel, -1751 (Engraver)
Moll, Herman, 1654-1732 (Cartographer)
Basire, James, 1730-1802 (Engraver)
Fritz, Samuel, 1654-1725 (Cartographer)
Blundell, A. J., činný 17. století (Engraver)
Fletcher, Henry, činný asi 1715-asi 1738 (Engraver)
Bois, ... de, činný asi 17. století (Engraver)
Subj. Headings geografie * historická geografie * regionální geografie světa Form, Genre cestopisy * pojednání Conspect 911 - Obecná geografie. Systematická geografie 09 - Rukopisy, prvotisky, staré tisky UDC 913(100) , 913:94 , (049) , 91 , (0:82-992) Country Velká Británie Language angličtina ; latina ; řečtina, starověká (do 1453) ; italština Document kind Rare books Supplement 
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