A collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch East-India Company, for the improvement of trade and navigation :
containing an account of several attempts to find out the North-East Passage, and their discoveries in the East-Indies, and the South Seas ; together with an historical introduction, giving an account of the rise, establishment and progress of that great body /
translated into English [from the "Recueil des voyages" of R.A.C. de Renneville, which work is transl. chiefly from the Dutch collection of I.C.], and illustrated with several charts.
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| Language: | English French Translation of v. 1 of Constantin de Renneville's Recueil des voyages qui ont servi à l'établissement et aux progrès de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales (Amsterdam, 1702), which, with v. 2-7, is a translation/adaptation of Isaac Commelin's Begin ende voortgangh, van de vereenighde Nederlandtsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie, [Amsterdam], 1644?. |
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Printed for W. Freeman..., Tho. Newborough..., John Nicholson..., and R. Parker...,
1703.
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| Notes: | Signatures: A a B-Y. Title and imprint within double line border. Bookseller's advertisements, p. [32], 1st count. Page 254 misnumbered 244. Physical description: [32], 96, 95-110, 113-336 p., [10] leaves of plates (8 folded) : ill. (some fold.), maps ; 20 cm. (8vo) Citations/References: Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800 3: 32 more |