Author: CALLANDER, JOHN
Title: Terra Australis Cognita: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis or Southern Hemisphere, during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the Countries [.]
Description: 1766, First Edition. Full-Leather, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 3 volume set. vi,2,viii,516; [4],692; [2],iv,745pp. original maps missing, volumes I and II have facsimiles of the maps, no map in volume III. Ex-General Assembly Library New Zealand with a small gilt stamp on spine and a larger one on the front cover. Front cover vol. I starting, front cover vol. III detached. Important collection of voyages published before Captain Cook's voyages. 41 relations of voyages, some for the first time in English. Good.

Keywords: Magellan, Drake, Dampier, Tasman, Quiros, Gamboa, Ulloa, Narbrough, Frezier, Anson,


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