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Robert Morden was a geographer and a prolific maker of maps and globes. Displayed here are maps from the first edition of his Geography Rectified.

This geographical primer was reprinted in 1688, 1693, and 1700. In addition to containing a small…

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Shown here is the titlepage from a reprint of the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela's Description of the World. He described the world as it was perceived by the ancient Romans.

His work is presented as a circumnavigation of the known world at that…

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The true story of his voyage there in 1774 with Captain Cook, of how he was feted by Fanny Burney, approved by Samuel Johnson, entertained by Mrs. Thrale & Lord Sandwich, and painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

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(with wood engravings by Rene Clarke)

Poe's novel was written early in his career after being advised that his short stories would not make a profit in the publishing climate of that time. He took the suggestion and produced a narrative in a genre…

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A sequel to the "Residence in the Marquesas Islands"

This is the first English edition of the sequel to Melville's Typee.

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During a four months' residence in a valley of the Marquesas.


This is the first American edition of Melville's novel set in the Marquesas Islands.

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Including All the late important Discoveries made by the English, and other celebrated Navigators of the various Nations, in the different Hemispheres …

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Performed in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Adventure; In the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775 …

On Captain James Cook's final voyage to the South Seas on January 15, 1779 Cook's ships, the Resolution and the Discovery approached the…

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Voyages successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, And Captain Cook, In the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn up From the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, And from the Papers of Joseph…

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By Don Bartholomew de las Casas, bishop of Chiapa ... Illustrated with cuts. To which is added, The art of travelling

Bartolomé de las Casas was a Spanish missionary and historian often referred to as "the defender of the Indians." He came to…
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