Voyages and travels into Brasil and the East-Indies : Containing, an exact description of the Dutch Brasil, and divers parts of the East-Indies; their provinces, cities, living creatures, and products; the manners, customs, habits, and religion of the inhabitants: with a most particular account of all the remarkable passages that happened during the author's stay of nine years in Brasil; especially in relation to the revolt of the Portuguese, and the intestine war carried on there from 1640, to 1649. As also a most ample description of the most famous city of Batavia in the East-Indies / by Mr. John Nieuhoff. Translated from the Dutch original. Vol. II.

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Includes 2 other travel accounts: The travels, adventures, and observations, of Captain John Smith, into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, from Ann. Dom. 1593. to 1629 (pages [371]-412) -- Two journals : the first kept by seven sailors in the Isle of St. Maurice in Greenland, in the years 1633, 1634. Who pass'd the winter, and all died in the said island. The second kept by seven other sailors who in the years 1633 and 1634 winter'd at Spitzbergen; with an account of their adventures and sufferings, from the bears and whales, insupportable cold and storms, &c. (pages [413]-430). Error in pagination: pages [410] and [411]. Originally published in: A. & J. Churchill's A collection of voyages, London, 1704. Voyages and travels into Brasil and the East-Indies from pages 1-369. Private library of Dr John Sturgus Bastin; East Sussex, United Kingdom; Direct purchase; March 2015. Library's copy (B29265189I) with bookplate of John Bolton pasted on front endpaper; with gilt armorial crests on front and end covers. Rare material - handle and store according to library's policy for handling and storing such material. John Bastin Collection (B29265189I) (Catalogue ref: X/75).