Author: PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE-FRANCOIS,
Title: Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre... Tome 3: Premiers voyages des Anglois en Guinée & aux autres Indes Orientales (suite: 1586-1605).
Description: Paris, Didot, 1749. 12mo. (III)+466 pp. Complete with 2 fold. engr. maps (East coast of Southern Africa from Cape of Good Hope to Cabo del Gada, & Madagascar and surrounding islands, both made by Comte de Maurepas in 1740) & 1 plate. Hardcover. Contemp. calf, spine richly gilt, with red title label. (Top of spine & corners sl. dam.; front endpaper glued to pastedown, some worm damage in lower part of front endpaper & 1st blank and a little in lower corner of title). Good. ¶ Incl. the voyages of Foster, Whiddon, Drake (Guinea, 1586-87), Bird & Newton (Benin, 1588), Cumberland, Greenwill, Robert Flyke (Azores, 1589, 1591), voyages to the East Indies by James Lancaster (1591-93), Reynolds (1591), Burrough (1592), Cumberland (1593), Benjamin Wood (1596), Davis (pilot under Dutch command of Cornelis de Houtman, 1598-1600), James Lancaster (1601-03), Henry Middleton (1604-06), Edmond Scott (1602-05). It also includes the voyage of Dutch Jan Huygen van Linschoten (sailing with Portuguese ship Santa Cruz from Goa to Flores, 1589-91).

Keywords: . Colonial expansion. British English colonies . Dutch colonial East Indies. Southern . Azores islands Atlantic. Indonesia. Guinea Bissau West Africa. d'exiles antoine francois abbe linschoten jan huygen van middleton henry scott edmond lancaster james 15


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