IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 279344 accession number: PB 144-2020 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Thursday 17 December 2020 updated: Monday 11 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: "Compiled by John Green, but known as the Astley Collection. Published in weekly parts from 1743" (ESTC). Index in vol. 4. With a list of subscribers in vol. 1 & additional lists in vols. 2-4. Binder's title: Astley's voyages. There are maps and charts throughout, including a set of 8 charts of the coasts of Africa, Arabia and western India at the end of vol. 1. The maps and charts are chiefly by Thomas Kitchin or G. Child. Illustrative plates are chiefly by G. Child or N. Parr. Old classmark: 674. Binding: diced calf, border (triple g. fillet); spine & board edges g.t., border g.t. on inside covers, raised bands, g. lettering; coloured e.p.; a.e. marbled. Voyages and travels Early works to 1800. title: A new general collection of voyages and travels, consisting of the most esteemed relations, which have been hitherto published in any language ; comprehending everything remarkable in its kind, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America : with respect to the several empires, kingdoms, and provinces ; their situation, extent, bounds and division, climate, soil and produce ; their lakes, rivers, mountains, cities, prinicpal towns, harbours, buildings, &c. and the gradual alterations that from time to time have happened in each ; also the manners and customs of the several inhabitants, their religion and government, arts and sciences, trades and manufactures ; so as to form a compleat system of modern geography and history, exhibiting the present state of all nations ; illustrated not only with charts of the several divisions of the ocean, and maps of each country, entirely new composed, as well as new engraved, by the best hands, from the latest surveys, discoveries, and astronomical observations ; but likewise with variety of plans, and prospects of coasts, harbours, and cities ; besides cuts representing antiquities, animals, vegetables, the persons and habits of the people, and other curiosities ; selected from the most authentic travellers, foreign as well as English. Published by His Majesty's authority. NOTES ----- type: history note value: Provenance: Fitzwilliam, 1814. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/279344 DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Kitchin, Thomas, maker: Child, G., maker: Parr, Nathaniel, maker: Astley, Thomas, maker: Green, John, maker: Fitzwilliam, Richard Fitzwilliam, DIMENSIONS ---------- value: 4 v ([187] leaves of plates, [45] folded leaves of plates) : ill, maps ; 28cm (4to).