Voyages.- Harris (John) Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca. Or, A Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels, 2 vol., second edition, titles in red and black, vol.1 with initial licence leaf, vol.2 with engraved frontispiece, 22 engraved maps (some folding) and 38 plates, vol.1 2H1-2I2 with some rodent nibbling causing some loss of text, vol.2 with sig. 5D misbound, 6A1 with piece missing from lower margin causing loss of some text, 6Y2 with clean tear through text block, otherwise generally clean and with only some light foxing and occasional staining, modern full calf, spines gilt with red and green morocco labels, [Hill 775; Tooley (Australia) 241; Sabin 30483; Goldsmiths 8040], folio, Printed for T. Woodward [&c], 1744-48.

⁂ A generally very good copy of the second and best edition of Harris' major work, much expanded from the original edition of 1705. Includes some important maps - 2 world maps, 5 of the Americas and Abel Tasman's 'Complete Map of the Southern Continent' - the first English map of New Holland.