New general collection of voyages and travels
Subtitle: consisting of the most esteemed relations which have been hitherto published in any language; comprehending every thing remarkable in its kind in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America ... Also the manners and customs of the several inhabitants ... so as to form a compleat system of modern geography and history, exhibiting the present state of all nations ...
Contributors: Green, John; Astley, Thomas; Sauer, Hans (bookplate)
Publisher: T. Astley
Published: 1745
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Notes: Compiled by John Green, but known as the Astley collection.

Bibliographical footnotes.

RBSC copy: Vol. 1, plates 3, 6, 14, and v. 2, plate 72 wanting; v. 3, plate 29 bound incorrectly between p. 312-313, v. 4, plates 51 and 70 bound incorrectly between p. 218-219 and p. 476-477 respectively; v. 4, 2 additional plates 44 and 71 bound to follow p. 210 and 526 respectively. With the armorial bookplate of Hans Sauer.
Table of contents: value: v. 1.  First voyages of the Portuguese to the East Indies, 1418-1546.  First voyages of the English to Guinea, and the East Indies, 1552-1598.  First voyages of the English to the East Indies, set forth by the Company of Merchants, 1600-1620.  Voyages to Africa and the islands adjacent, 1455-1721.-  v. 2.  Voyages and travels along the western coast of Africa, 1637-1735.  Voyages and travels to Guinea and Benin, 1666-1726. Description of Guinea.-; value: v. 3.  Voyages and travels to Guinea, Benin, Congo and Angola. Description of Loango, Congo, Angola, Benguela, and adjacent countries. Description of the countries along the eastern coast of Africa, from Cape of Good Hope to Cape Guarda Fuy.  Voyages and travels in China, 1655-1722.-  v. 4.  Description of China, Korea, eastern Tartary and Tibet.  Travels through Tartary, Tibet, and Bukhara to and from China, 1246-1698.