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(1) TWO LOUISIANAS...AMONG THE SAVAGE NATIONS (2) N-E OF SIBERIA (3) ST  PETERSBURGH TO GERMANY (4) TRAVELS INTERIOR AMERICA...CAPTAINS LEWIS &  CLARK (5) WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA (6) TOUR OF SHEERAZ (7) TRAVELS ITALY TO  ENGLAND VOL VI in Series: a collection of modern and contemporary voyages  and travels: containing, i. translations from foreign languages, of  voyages never before translated. ii original voyages and travels never  before published. iii. analyses of new voyages

(1) TWO LOUISIANAS...AMONG THE SAVAGE NATIONS (2) N-E OF SIBERIA (3) ST PETERSBURGH TO GERMANY (4) TRAVELS INTERIOR AMERICA...CAPTAINS LEWIS & CLARK (5) WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA (6) TOUR OF SHEERAZ (7) TRAVELS ITALY TO ENGLAND VOL VI in Series: a collection of modern and contemporary voyages and travels: containing, i. translations from foreign languages, of voyages never before translated. ii original voyages and travels never before published. iii. analyses of new voyages

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(1) TWO LOUISIANAS...AMONG THE SAVAGE NATIONS (2) N-E OF SIBERIA (3) ST PETERSBURGH TO GERMANY (4) TRAVELS INTERIOR AMERICA...CAPTAINS LEWIS & CLARK (5) WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA (6) TOUR OF SHEERAZ (7) TRAVELS ITALY TO ENGLAND VOL VI in Series: a collection of modern and contemporary voyages and travels: containing, i. translations from foreign languages, of voyages never before translated. ii original voyages and travels never before published. iii. analyses of new voyages

by Phillips, Sir Richard, Ed. ; M (Francois Marie) Perrin Du Lac, Gawrila Sarytschew, G (Georg) Reinbeck, Merriweather Lewis, William Clark, F. (Francis) B. Spilsbury, Edward Scott Waring, Marquis De Salvo

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London: Richard Phillips. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1807. First English Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Contemporary 3/4 leather over scuffed marbled boards. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Text tight. Early owner's ink stamp on title page. Condition of individual books as noted after each title. Each book was issued separately throughout the year. Binding Instruction including insertion of plates is at the end of the volume although they were sometimes bound individually. These books were of considerable interest because, at the time, they were one of the only sources of information as to current conditions in foreign countries. Most travel & exploration books were of a more historical nature. There were 10 or more volumes published in this series. Full Titles: (1) "TRAVELS THROUGH THE TWO LOUISIANAS AND AMONG THE SAVAGE NATIONS OF THE MISSOURI; ALSO, IN THE UNITED STATES, ALONG THE OHIO, AND THE ADJACENT PROVINCES IN 1801, 1802 & 1803" by M. Perrin Du Lac, translated from the French. Title page + 106pp. + 2pp index. Light waterstain on approx 1/3 of lower quarter of pages. (2) "VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO THE NORTH-EAST OF SIBERIA, THE FROZEN OCEAN....." by Gawrila Sarytschew, Russian Imperial Major General, translated from the Russian. Title page + 80pp + index at rear (lacks plate of man & woman in Unilaschka). (3) "TRAVELS FROM ST. PETERSBURGH THROUGH MOSCOW, GRODNO, WARSAW, BRESLAW..TO GERMANY IN...1805" by G. Reinbeck, translated from the German. Title page +160pp + fold out plate "Palace of the Czars" (lower corners dampstained) + index at rear. (4) "TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AMERICA COMMUNICATING DISCOVERIES MADE IN EXPLORING THE MISSOURI, RED RIVER AND WASHITA, BY CAPTAINS LEWIS AND CLARK, DR SIBLEY AND MR DUNBAR; WITH A STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTRIES ADJACENT" As Laid Before the Senate by the President of the United States and Never Before Published in Great Britain (an edition of 1000 copies was published inWashington in 1806). Title page + 116pp + index at rear. Illustrated with charts & a folding table. Information on Indian tribes, flora, fauna, geography & first account of Texas in book form. Nice condition: quite rare. (5) "ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO THE WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA; PERFORMED BY HIS MAJESTY'S SLOOP FAVOURITE IN THE YEAR 1805" by F. B. Spilsbury, surgeon to the Favourite. Title page + 2pp ad + 43pp + index + 2 fold-out & 5 full page plates dealing mainly with slavery (lacks 2 plates). Light scattered foxing. Parts (6) & (7) [ Analyses of New Works of Voyages and Travels Lately Published in London] are summaries of larger works & do not have title pages. (6) " ANALYSES A VOYAGE TO SHEERAZ, BY THE ROUTE OF KAZROON AND FEEROZABAD; ....MANNERS, CUSTOMS, LAWS, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF THE PERSIANS..." by Edward Scott Waring. 64pp + index in rear. (7) "TRAVELS IN THE YEAR 1806 FROM ITALY TO ENGLAND, THROUGH THE TYROL, STYRIA, BOHEMIA, GALLICIA, POLAND AND LAVONIA" by Marquis De Salvo. 32pp. World Travel, Americana, Africa, Russia, Persia, Native American, Slavery ; B.W. Plates; 8vo; 600 pages .

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(1) TWO LOUISIANAS...AMONG THE SAVAGE NATIONS (2) N-E OF SIBERIA (3) ST PETERSBURGH TO GERMANY (4) TRAVELS INTERIOR AMERICA...CAPTAINS LEWIS & CLARK (5) WESTERN COAST OF AFRICA (6) TOUR OF SHEERAZ (7) TRAVELS ITALY TO ENGLAND VOL VI in Series: a collection of modern and contemporary voyages and travels: containing, i. translations from foreign languages, of voyages never before translated. ii original voyages and travels never before published. iii. analyses of new voyages
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Phillips, Sir Richard, Ed. ; M (Francois Marie) Perrin Du Lac, Gawrila Sarytschew, G (Georg) Reinbeck, Merriweather Lewis, William Clark, F. (Francis) B. Spilsbury, Edward Scott Waring, Marquis De Salvo
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First English Edition; First Printing
Publisher
Richard Phillips
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London
Date Published
1807
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