Terra Australis cognita: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by the editor, in which some geographical, nautical, and commercial questions are discussed

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Author

Brosses, Charles de, 1709-1777.

Uniform Title

Histoire des navigations aux terres australes. English

Title

Terra Australis cognita: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. [electronic resource] : Containing an account of the manners of the people, and the productions of the countries, hitherto found in the southern latitudes; the advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great continent, and the methods of establishing colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a preface by the editor, in which some geographical, nautical, and commercial questions are discussed.

Published

Edinburgh : Printed for the author; and sold by Messrs. Hawes, Clark, and Collins, in Pater-noster-Row, London, MDCCLXVI. [1766]

Physical Description

3 v. ; 8⁰.

Local Notes

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Notes

Edited by John Callander.

A translation, with additions, of C. de Brosses's 'Histoire des navigations aux terres australes', Paris, 1756.

A reissue with different titlepages and cancel preliminaries.

Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.