The American traveller [electronic resource] : Being a new historical collection carefully compiled...
The American traveller [electronic resource] : Being a new historical collection carefully compiled from original memoirs in several languages, and the most authentic voyages and travels, containing a compleat account of that part of the world, now called the West Indies, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time. Illustrated with the heads of the most eminent admirals, commanders, and travellers, neatly engraved. To which is prefixed an introduction, shewing the rise, progress, and improvement of navigation, the use and properties of the loadstone, and an enquiry concerning the first inhabitants of America. With an account of admiral vernons taking Porto Bello, Fort Charge, and Carthagenna, as also of the damages done on each side, and the number of British ships taken by the Spaniards and Spanish ships taken by the English since the commencement of war.
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London : Printed and sold by J. Fuller at the Dove in Creed Lane, and by most of the booksellers in town and country, M,DCC,XLIII [1743]
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M,DCC,XLIII [1743]
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[2], 398 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 4°.
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London : Printed and sold by J. Fuller at the Dove in Creed Lane, and by most of the booksellers in town and country, M,DCC,XLIII [1743]
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England
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M,DCC,XLIII [1743]
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The American traveller [electronic resource] : Being a new historical collection carefully compiled from original memoirs in several languages, and the most authentic voyages and travels, containing a compleat account of that part of the world, now called the West Indies, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time. Illustrated with the head...
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This edition not in Sabin or Rich....
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ESTC N29413.
Sabin, 1250.
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/51.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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