A collection of voyages chiefly in the southern Atlantick Ocean. /
Dalrymple, Alexander,1737-1808.
London: : printed for the author, 1775. Sold by J. Nourse ... P. Elmsly ... Brotherton and Sewell ... Jefferys and Faden ... and, A. Dury ... ,
[1775].
With a half-title.
Titlepages of 'Two voyages' and 'Extrait d'un journal de navigation' printed in Scotland, use a fount of type very similar to that used for the roughly contemporaneous issue by Dalrymple of the memorial 'Senor' by Arias , the colophon of which specifies Murray & Cochran of Edinburgh as printers.
Preface contains correspondence of 1772 about Alexander Dalrymple's proposed voyage of discovery in South Atlantic.
"Most of these papers have been printed for some years: but I have postponed the publication ..." (preface, p. 2); the Journal of the Leon's voyage was printed in Scotland (preface, p. 1)
Contents: Two voyages made in 1698, 1699 and 1700, by Dr. Edmund Halley - Extrait du voyage fait aux Terres Australes, les années 1738 & 1739, par Mr. des Loziers Bouvet commandant la Frégate l'Aigle, accompagnée de la Frégate la Marie - Extrait d'un Journal de navigation pour un voyage de la Mer du Sud, fait par le S. Ducloz Guyot de St Malo, dans le vaisseau Espagnol le Lyon, en 1753 - Journal of the winds and weather, and degrees of heat and cold by the thermometer, at Falkland Islands, from 1st February 1766, to 19th January 1767.
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