A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English. In six volumes. To which is prefixed, an introductory discourse (supposed to be written by the celebrated Mr. Locke) intitled, the whole history of navigation from its original to this time. Illustrated with near three hundred maps and cuts, curiously engraved on copper.
Awnsham Churchill (d.1728)
Category
Books
Date
1744 - 1746
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire
NT 3195987
Summary
Bibliographic description
6 v., plates : ill., maps ; folio. Plate facing p.305, v.4 damaged and part missing. Provenance: eighteenth-century armorial bookplate: William Holbech Esqr. Binding: eighteenth-century calf; double gold fillet borders; gold tooled spine; six raised bands.
Makers and roles
Awnsham Churchill (d.1728) John Churchill (1690-1714)