Histoire générale des voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à present dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues ... Tome premier [-vingtième]
Contributors: Gmelin, Johann Georg, 1709-1755
Publisher: chez Didot ...
Published: 1746
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Other titles: A new general collection of voyages and travels. French.; Histoire générale des voyages.
Work titles: Histoire générale des voyages
Notes: Vols. 1-7, translation by l'abbé Prévost with some omissions and variations of: A new general collection of voyages and travels. London : T. Astley, 1745-1747. The remaining volumes were compiled by Prévost and others, vol. 16 being an index to the 1st 15 volumes.

Titles vary: v. 16, Table alphabetique des matieres contenues dans les xv. volumes de l'histoire générale des voyages.

Imprints vary: v. 15-16, Chez la veuve Didot; v. 17, A Amsterdam, chez Arkstée et Merkus; v. 18, A Paris, chez Rozet; v. 19, Chez Panckoucke; v. 20, Chez Maradan.

Colophons: v. 2-9, De l'imprimerie de Claude Simon; v. 10-11, De l'imprimerie de la veuve de Claude Simon; v. 12-15, De l'imprimerie de Didot; v. 18, De l'imprimerie de Le Breton; v. 19, Chez Gueffier.

Complete collation of signatures and pagination is recorded in the John Carter Brown Library bibliographical file.

Errata statements: v. 2, leaf a4 verso and 4o1 verso; v. 18, leaf e4 verso; v. 19, leaf 4H2 verso.

Includes a translation of: Reise durch Siberien / Johann Georg Gmelin. Göttingen : A. Vandenhoecks wittwe, 1751-1752; first published in French: Paris : Desaint, 1767.

Bookseller's advertisement: v. 1, leaves 4B1 verso and 4B2.

Brown, J.C.  Bibliotheca Americana, 3:831.

Sabin 65402.

Digital version of maps available on Luna Imaging.

John Carter Brown Library copy lacks plate 10 in v. 13; bound in contemporary mottled calf.