Histoire générale des voyages, ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terreposées sur les observations les plus autentiques - ECU Libraries Catalog

Histoire générale des voyages, ou, Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terreposées sur les observations les plus autentiques.

Author/creator	Prévost, abbé, 1697-1763
Other author/creator	Meusnier de Querlon, A.-G. (Anne-Gabriel), 1702-1780.
Other author/creator	Green, John, -1757. New general collection of voyages and travels.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Paris : Didot, 1746-1770.
Description	19 volumes : illustrations (some folded), plates, maps, music ; 26 cm
Subject(s)	Voyages and travels. Discoveries in geography. Explorers--Early works to 1800. Asia--Discovery and exploration. Asia--Description and travel. Africa--Discovery and exploration. Africa--Description and travel. America--Discovery and exploration. Orient--Geography. South Asia--Discovery and exploration --French.

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Variant title	Histoire générale des voyages
Variant title	Continuation de l'histoire générale des voyages
Variant title	Nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre
Abstract	Covers the early explorations and discoveries on 3 continents: Africa (v. 1-5), Asia (v. 5-11), and America (v. 12-15). Materials on French, English, Dutch, and Portugese explorers and settlements are included throughout. Vols. on Africa cover primarily coastal countries of West, Southern, and Eastern Africa, plus the Congo, Madagascar, Arabia and the Persian Gulf areas. Vols. on Asia cover China, Korea, Tibet, Japan, Philippines, and countries bordering the Indian Ocean. V. 11 includes Australia and Antarctica. Vols. 12-15 cover voyages and discoveries in America, including the East Indies, South, Central and North America.
General note	Vols. 1-7, are translation by Prévost d'Exiles, with some omissions and variations, of: A new general collection of voyages and travels / compiled by John Green. London : T. Astley, 1745-47.
General note	Title varies in v. 16-19. V. 16 has title: Table alphabt́ique des matiéres contenues dans les XV volumes ; v. 17, Suite de l'histoire générale des voyages ... pour servir de supplement a l'édition de Paris; v. 15 & 18, Continuation de l'Histoire générale des voyages.
General note	"Avec approbation et privilege du roi."
General note	By A.F. Prévost, continued by A.G. Meusnier de Querlon, and others.
General note	Publisher varies in v. 15-19. V. 17 has imprint: Amsterdam : Arkstée et Merkus, 1761. Imprint of v. 18 is Paris : Rozet, 1768; and of v. 19, Paris : Panckoucke, 1770.
General note	Vol. 16 contains index to v. 1-15. V. 17 contains supplements to v. 8-11 of the Paris ed. and v. 10-15 of the Amsterdam ed.
General note	Reproduction of original from Kress Library of Business and Economics, Harvard University.
General note	Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 08209.3.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
Reproduction note	Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2005. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited to licensing agreements.

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