A collection of voyages: In four volumes. Containing ... Illustrated with maps and draughts: Also several birds, fishes and plants not found in this part of the world: curiously engraven on copper-plates

Roberts, A.17th cent | Funnell, William. | Wafer, Lionel, 1660?-1705? | Wood, JohnCaptain | Dampier, William, 1652-1715

Printed for James and John Knapton, at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, M DCC XXIX. [1729]

Advertisements at end of vol. 1 and 4. Pagination for v.1-2: [10], vi, 550 [i.e. 548], [4] p., [5] leaves of plates (3 folded); [8], 184, 132, [4], 112, [76] p., [4] folded leaves of plates; v.1 with p. 385-386 omitted from numbering. A collected issue (with additions) of Dampier's voyages, previously published in separate volumes, London, 1698 to 1709. (from t.p.): I. Captain William Dampier's Voyages around the world, describing particularly, the coasts of islands in the East and West-Indies; the South-Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico; the countries of tonquin, Achin and Malacca; the Cape of Good Hope, New-Holland, &c.; II. The voyages of Lionel Wafer, giving an account of his being left on the Isthmus of America, amongst the Indians, and the treatment of him, with a particular description of the country, &c., also the natural history of those parts, by a fellow of the Royal Society and Davis's expedition to the Golden Mines; III. A voyage round the world, containing and account of Capt. Dampier's expedition into the South-Seas in the ship St. George, with his various adventures and engagements, &c., together with a voyage from the coast of Mexico to East-India by W. Funnell, mate to Capt. Dampier; IV. Capt. Cowley's Voyage round the globe; V. Capt. Sharp's journey over the Isthmus of Darien, and expedition into the South-Seas; VI. Capt. Wood's voyage through the Streights of Magellan; VII. Mr. Roberts's adventures and sufferings amongst the corsairs of the Levant, his description of the Archipelago islands, &c. V. 2 has no added individual t.p.; main t.p reads: A collection of voyages. Vol. II. Containing I. A supplement to the voyage round the world: describing the countries of Tonquin, Achin, Malacca, &c. their product, inhabitants, manners, trade, policy, &c. II. Two voyages to Campeachy; with a description of the coasts, product, inhabitants, logwood-cutting, trade, &c. of Jucatan, Campeachy, New-Spain, &c. III. A discourse of trade-winds, breezes, storms, seasons of the year, tides and currents of the torrid zone throughout the world: with an account of Natal in Africk, its product, negroes, &c. Includes general index for v. 1-2 on [76] p. at end of v.2. V. 1 has added individual t.p.: A new voyage round the world : describing particularly the Isthmus of America, several coasts of islands in the West Indies, the isles of Cape Verde, the passage by Terra del Fuego, the South-Sea coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, the isle of Guam, one of the Ladromes, Mindanao, and other Philipine, Formosa, Luconia, Celebes, &c., New-Holland , Sumatra, Nicobar isles, the Cape of Good Hope, and Santa Hellena. Their soil, rivers, harbors, plants fruits, animals, and inhabitants. Their customs, religion, government, trade, &c. By Capt. William Dampier ; illustrated with maps and draughts ; the seventh edition, corrected.

VGN 910 C68D.7 V.1-2

4 v. : ill., maps (some folded) ; 20 cm. (8vo)