The American traveller
Subtitle: being a new historical collection carefully compiled from original memoirs in several languages, and the most authentic voyages and travels, containing a compleat account of that part of the world, now called the West Indies, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time : illustrated with the heads of the most eminent admirals, commanders, and travellers, neatly engraved : to which is prefixed an introduction, shewing the rise, progress, and improvement of navigation, the use and properties of the loadstone, and an enquiry concerning the first inhabitants of America : with an account of Admiral Vernons taking Porto Bello, Fort Chagre, and Carthagenna .
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time
Publisher: Fuller
Published: 1743
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher; English West Indian Expedition, 1739-1742; Indians -- Origin; Navigation -- History; America -- Discovery and exploration
Notes: "The work was published in numbers [1741] and appears to be the commencement of an extensive work, but of which no more than this volume appeared. It commences with a long introduction on the rise, progress and improvement of navigation, which is followed by book I., divided into two chapters; one on the peopling of America, and the other, which concludes the book, containing an account of the voyages of Columbus."--Rich, Bibl. amer. nova, v. 1., p. 65

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Microopaque. Louisville [Ky.] : Lost Cause Press, 1967. XX microcards : negative. (Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time)