A collection of voyages and travels, : some now first printed from original manuscripts, others translated out of foreign languages, and now first published in English. To which are added some few that have formerly appear'd in English, but do now for their excellency and scarceness deserve to be reprinted. In six volumes. With a general preface, giving an account of the progress of navigation, from its first beginning to the perfection it is now in, &c. The whole illustrated with a great number of useful maps, and cuts, all engraven on copper. ...
John Churchill (1690-1714)
Category
Books
Date
1732
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3002051
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol.5-6, leaves of plates : ill., maps ; fol. Shelved with “A collection of voyages and travels, …” vols. 1-4 (London, 1704). Provenance: armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754) in vol. 1, 1704: Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: eighteenth-century sprinkled, polished, sheep (rebacked) on six raised cords, red sprinkled edges, red spine label on new spine, blind double fillet with rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers.
Makers and roles
John Churchill (1690-1714), publisher Awnsham Churchill (d.1728), publisher