Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939, The Library of Franklin Brooke- Hitching, Part 3, K-P

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Lot 982
  • 982

Ovington, John

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Description

  • A Voyage to Suratt, in the Year, 1689 [&c.]. London: Jacob Tonson, 1696
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (194 x 111mm.), [xvi], 606pp., 2 folding plates, one folding table of coins, contemporary unlettered panelled calf, repaired tear to one folding plate

Provenance

Baron Rolle, armorial bookplate

Literature

Mendelssohn (1979) III, p.610

Catalogue Note

The title goes on to list the numerous other places which are described by the author en route - "Madeira, St. Jago, Annobon, Cabenda and Malemba (upon the coast of Africa), St. Helena, Johanna, Bombay, the city of Muscatt, and its inhabitants in Arabia Felix, Mocha, and other maritine [sic] towns upon the Red-Sea, the Cape of Good Hope, and the island Ascention".