Narratives of Voyages towards the North-West, in search of a passage to Cathay and India. 1496 to 1631. With selections from the early records of the honourable the East India Company and from Mss. in the British Museum.
by RUNDALL, Thomas
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London, Hakluyt Society, 1849. . 8vo, 8, 4, vi, xx, 259 pp., 3 maps (2 of them folding), original blue cloth, rebacked blue morocco gilt, blindstamps and label at base of spine of the Royal United Service Institution, corners worn, a good copy.
Hakluyt Society First Series, No. 5.
Accounts of the voyages of Cabot, Davis, Frobisher, and others, drawn chiefly from the works of Hakluyt, Purchas, Harris, and Foxe.
Hakluyt Society First Series, No. 5.
Accounts of the voyages of Cabot, Davis, Frobisher, and others, drawn chiefly from the works of Hakluyt, Purchas, Harris, and Foxe.
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- Narratives of Voyages towards the North-West, in search of a passage to Cathay and India. 1496 to 1631. With selections from the early records of the honourable the East India Company and from Mss. in the British Museum.
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- RUNDALL, Thomas
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- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Hakluyt Society, 1849.
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