An account of several late voyages & discoveries to the south and north. Towards the Streights of Magellan, the South Seas, the vast tracts of land beyond Hollandia Nova, &c. Also towards Nova Zembla, Greenland or Spitsberg, Groynland or Engrondland, &c. By Sir John Narborough, Captain Jasmen Tasman, Captain John Wood, and Frederick Marten of Hamburgh. To which are annexed a large introduction and supplement, giving an account of other navigations to those regions of the globe. The whole illustrated with charts and figures.
Friedrich Martens (1635-1699)
Category
Books
Date
1694
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3141888
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxix,[7],196,207,[1]p., [22] leaves of plates (10 folded) . ill.., maps . 8vo.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front flyleaf: "Kedleston"; Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signed 'P. Mazell': 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7705 2nd state- fine text) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; double blind fillet border and blind stamped cornerpieces; spine blind decorated and spine label gilt lettered: "Narborough Voyage to S: Sea".
Makers and roles
Friedrich Martens (1635-1699) Sir John Narbrough (1640-1688) Sir Tancred Robinson (d.1748) Abel Janszoon Tasman (1603-1659) Captain John Wood (fl. 1670)