80/2944 Churchill, A. and J. and Osborne, T. A Collection of Voyages and Travels, Some now first Printed from Original Manuscripts. London, Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill/ J. Rowland, 1704-1752, 8 vols., 1st ed. (4x)/ 2nd ed. (2x)/ 4th ed. (2x), 3 engr. frontisp. (2x portraits), 2 engr. titles, 215 engr. (double-p./ fold.) maps, plans and plates, num. text-ills., contemp. unif. calf w. richly gilt 19th cent. spine (6x)/ contemp. unif. calf w. double gilt fillet line around border w. richly gilt 19th cent. spine w. 2 contrasting mor. letterpieces (2x), folio.

- All vols. w. heraldic bookplate on upper pastedown (6x the 5th Earl of Carysfort, 2x George Wilbraham); occas. sl. foxed/ yellowed; vol. II skips p.157-180 but Nieuhof's voyage to Brazil is followed by his voyage to the East-Indies so probably nothing is lacking. All vols. rebacked.

= A rare, complete set of the two great voyage anthologies of the early 18th century, rarely coming up for auction. This set contains the Churchill anthology in its rare 1st edition printed in 4 vols. and 2nd editions of the additional 2 vols. (5-6) which were first published in the 2nd edition of the 6 vol. set of 1732 and also a re-issue of the 1745 edition of the supplementary Osborne series, with new title pages dated 1752, issued as volumes 7 and 8 of the set. Hill 295; Landwehr, VOC 260 & 263; Sabin 13015 and 57765: "Many of the books in this collection have not appeared elsewhere in English". The work includes the narratives of i.a. the following: Brawern and Herckemann's voyage to Chili in 1642 and 1643; Captain John Monck's voyage in 1619 and 1620 to Hudson's Straits to discover a passage between Greenland and America; Nieuhoff's voyages to Brazil and the East Indies; John Smith's travels in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America from 1592-1629; the life of Christopher Columbus by his son; Barbot's description of North and South Guinea; and the account of the discovery of America from Herrera's History of the West Indies. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CVII.