Global Voyages: Columbus to Modern Exploration

Description

Selected collection of travels around the world and in the most curious places on the globe from Christopher Columbus to the present day. Containing complete accounts or analyses of the voyages of Columbus, Pizarro, Fernand Cortez, Anson, Cook, La Pérouse, James Bruce, Mungo-Park, Burckardt, Bougainville, Richard and John Lander, Basil-Hall, Byron, Fraser, Chardin, Macartney, Klaproth, Le Vaillant, Bandia, Dumont-Durville, and others. Work arranged by William Smith. Paris, Au Bureau de la Publication, [c. 1845]. 12 volumes, octavo, half-leather binding with wear marks, signed Koehler, with some foxing. Includes detailed accounts of circumnavigations by G. Anson (1740-1744), Commodore Byron (1764-1766), Bougainville (1766-1769), Captain J. Cook's three voyages (1768-1771, 1772-1775, 1776-1779), La Pérouse (1785-1788), and explorations of Africa and the Southern Lands. Illustrated with folding maps and numerous plates.