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OLEARIUS, ADAM OELSCHLAEGER. The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia...The Second Edition Corrected, 1669, folio, old calf, edges stained red, rebacked, worn, 6 engraved folding maps (including a large one of the Volga River often lacking), engraved frontispiece and 1 plate ( 4 of the maps with tears repaired ). Wing O 270--ACUÑA, CHRISTOVAL DE. Voyages and Discoveries in South-America, 1698, 3 parts in 1 vol., old calf, covers detached, spine defective, First Edition in English, 2 engraved folding maps (slightly browned) of the Amazon region and Paraguay. Hill, pp. 311-312; Wing V 746. Bookplate of Alexander Hamilton Rice. See note to copy in lot --ROGERS, Captain WOODES. A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and finish'd in 1711...The Second Edition, Corrected, 1726, contemporary panelled calf, front cover loosening, top of spine chipped, foxing, half morocco slipcase, actually the Fourth Edition, 5 engraved folding maps ( a few small tears, some foxing), without the 2 engraved plates (added to this edition) of an alligator and crocodile. Hill, pp. 258-259. 1728 ownership inscription of Charles Ormston Jr. of Kelso; armorial bookplate of John Waldie. See note to copy in lot --[LLOYD, DAVID]. The Legend of Captain Jones, 1671, 12mo, eighteenth-century tree calf, rebacked, original spine laid down, corners worn, leaves browned with upper margins cut close, paper fault in pp. 28-28 affecting a few letters , engraved folding plate, written in verse. Wing L 2633. Armorial bookplate of I. Mansel--[PALTOCK, ROBERT]. The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish man, Berwick, 1748, 2 vols., half calf, ends of a spine worn --[CLERKE, CHARLES?]. A Journal of a Voyage round the World, In his Majesty's Ship The Dolphin, Commanded by...Commodore Byron, 1767, contemporary sheep, front cover detached, spine defective , FIRST EDITION, engraved folding map and 1 engraved plate. See Hill, p. 310, for a similar title, published in the same year by J. Newbery, but clearly a different work. Ownership inscription of "Thomas Whitgreave 1770" on front flyleaf--CAMPBELL, J. and JOHN KENT Biographia nautica, Dublin, 1785, 5 vols., contemporary tree calf, a cover detached, worn, plates; London, except as noted, together 12 vols., 12mo-folio. (12)