Ventes live - Lot 468
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A new collection of voyages and travels, into several parts of the world, none of them ever before printed in English [...].
London, for J. Knapton, A. Bell [e.a.], 1709-1710]
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Description du lot
4 vol., 4to (staining).
Mod. limp brown leather, front covers titled in gilt and ruled with a gilt roll-stamp and fillet, flat spines titled in gilt, gilt inside dentelle.
Collection comprising in total 7 parts, compiled and translated by the English captain John Stevens (ca. 1662-1726), originally in monthly issues. This set is composed of parts III-V-VI-VII in first English edition:
- Cieza de León, Pedro - The seventeen years travels, through the mighty kingdom of Peru, and the large provinces of Cartagena and Popayan in South America: from the city of Panama, on the isthmus, to the frontiers of Chile. Now first translated from the Spanish [...]. 1709. [8]-244-[11] pp. (lacking fold. ma, plan & pp. 29-30; marg. wormhole in 1st half, long to first ff.). Only the 1st part of the "Crónicas del Perú" by the Spanish conquistador Cieza (1518-1554) was published during his lifetime. Illustrated with 3 ill. in text. Ref. ESTC T133232. - Sabin 13056. Prov. Benjamin Pike 1746 (ms. entry). - Libr. stamps.
- [Moüette, Germain] - The travels of the Sieur Moüette, in the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, during his eleven years captivity in those parts. 1710. 115-[5] pp. (title & map lacking). Story of Moüette's captivity in Morocco where he was imprisoned by the Salé Rovers (corsairs). It was 1st published in French in 1683. Ref. ESTC T133237.
- Texeira, Pedro - The travels from India to Italy by land. London, s.n., 1710. 81 (= 89)-[7] pp. (errors in pagination). Ref. ESTC T133236 ("Originally issue with title page?").
- [Cauche, Francis - A voyage to Madagascar, the adjacent islands and coast of Africk [sic]. 1710]. 77-[3] pp. (title lacking?). Ref. ESTC T133235 ("Originally issued with title page?").
Ref. For the entire collection: Sabin 91537. - ESTC T231338.
Prov. Charles Crofton-Atkins (mod. bookpl. in the 4 vol.).