Shelfmark
Ah.3.04 - Ah.3.11
Title
A collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English. In eight volumes. With a general preface, giving an account of the progress of trade and navigation, from its first beginning. Illustrated with several hundred useful maps and cuts ... on copper-plates ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by assignment from Messieurs Churchill, for Thomas Osborne, 1752.
Physical description
8v., plates : ill. ; Fo.
Note
Previously Ah.2.7-14.
Note
Compiled by John and Awnsham Churchill.
Note
Vols. VII-VIII have title-page reading "A collection of voyages and travels, consisting of authentic writers in our own tongue ... compiled from the ... library of the late Earl of Oxford ... Vol. I [- II]", the imprint "London: Printed for and sold by Thomas Osborne", and the date 1745. These two volumes were issued separately in 1745 as a continuation of the original work compiled by John and Awnsham Churchill, and used here to form a complete set.
Citation/references note
ESTC T97844
Provenance
Bookplate of Eton College.
Provenance
Label recording donation to Eton by William Hetherington in 1771.
Binding
18th century gold-tooled calf.
Subject
Voyages and travels Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Churchill, Awnsham, ? - d. 1728 publisher.
Added entry--name
Churchill, John publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B9745