76/1055 Prevost d'Exiles, A.F. Historische beschryving der reizen. Of nieuwe en volkome verzameling van de allerwaardigste en zeldzaamste zee- en land-togten, ter ontdekkinge en naspeuringe gedaan (...). Vol. 1 and 2. The Hague, P. de Hondt, 1747, 2 (of 21) vols., XLVIII,452,(4); (8),444,(4)p., engr. frontisp. portrait, 25 (of 35) (fold.) engr. maps/ plans/ plates/ views, modern unif. gilt leather, 4to.

- Lacks 10 maps; occas. trifle yellowed.

= Sabin 65405; Tiele 103; NHSM, p.108; Muller, America 1898. The first 7 vols. deal with travels to the East Indies and to Africa (Guinea, Benin, Congo and Angola). The series contains accounts of the voyages and explorations by the Portuguese, English, Dutch and French, with plates depicting local inhabitants, plants and animals, but also customs, fortifications etc.