Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the Histor

ISBN-13: 9781409412915 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 344 str.

Major, R. H.

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From Spanish and Dutch sources and relating to Spanish and Dutch enterprises, edited, with an introduction - a separate pamphlet dated 1861 and containing an article by Major on the discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1859.

 

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A MEMORIAL ADDRESSED TO HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY PHILIP THE THIRD, KING OF SPAIN, RELATION OF LUIS YAEZ DE TORRES, CONCERNING THE DISCOVERIES OF QUIROS, AS HIS ALMIRANTE. DATED MANILA, JULY 12, 1607, EXTBACT FROM THE BOOK OF DISPATCHES FROM BATAYIA; COMMENCING JANUARY THE 15th, 1644, AND ENDING NOVEMBER THE 29th FOLLOWING THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS PELSART, IN THE BATAVIA, ON THE COAST OF NEW HOLLAND, AND HIS SUCCEEDING ADVENTURES, VOYAGE OF GERRIT THOMASZ POOL TO THE SOUTH LAND, ACCOUNT OF THE WRECK OF THE SHIP DE VERGULDE DRAECK ON THE SOUTH LAND, AND THE EXPEDITIONS UNDERTAKEN, EXTRACT PROM SLOAN MS., 3236, ENTITLED THE ADVENTURES OF WILLIAM DAMPIER, WITH OTHERS [1686-87], WHO LEFT CAPTAIN SHERPE IN THE SOUTH SEAS, SOME PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE VOYAGE OF WILLEM DE VLAMINGH TO NEW HOLLAND IN 1696, EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE MADE TO THE UNEXPLORED SOUTH LAND, BY ORDER OF THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY, IN THE YEARS 1696 AND 1697, ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER ON THE COAST OF NEW HOLLAND, IN 1699, A WRITTEN DETAIL OF THE DISCOVERIES AND NOTICEABLE OCCURRENCES IN THE VOYAGE OF THE FLUYT VOSSENBOSCH, THE SLOOP D'WAIJER, AND THE PATSJALLANG NOVA HOLLAN- DIA,, THE HOUTMAN'S ABEOLHOS IN 1727, TRANSLATED FROM A PUBLICA- TION ENTITLED DE HOUTMAN'S ABROLHOS''

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R.H. Major