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 57: Continuation des voiages, des découvertes & des établissemens dan l'Amérique Septentrionale.
Description: Paris, Didot, 1759. 12mo. (III)+524 pp. Complete with 5 fold. maps (North Atlantic Ocean incl. Greenland, Iceland & Scandinavia; Novaya Zemlya (incl. Waeigat, Nieuw Walcheren and part of Samoyed called Nieuw Holland); another map of Novaya Zemlya; Arctic Sea between Asia and Alaska; Spitsbergen) & 1 plate. Hardcover. Contemp. mottled calf, spine gilt, with 2 title labels. VG. ¶ Incl. description of the North American Indians; explorations to find a passage to the East Indies by West or by East by the Cabots (1497 & 1528), Frobisher (3 voyages, 1576-78), John Davis (3 voyages, 1586-87), the Dutch (Barentz & Heemskerk, 2 voyages, 1594-97), Henry Hudson (4 voyages, 1607-11), De Fonte (1640), John Wood (1676) and many other English, Danish and Russians (Middleton, Munk, Beerings, etc.).

Keywords: Topography description of country people expeditions . Ethnography native Americans Indians. America Arctic North Polar regions. Spitsbergen Nova Zembla d'exiles antoine francois abbe 1497 1676


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