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Asia

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  • João de Barros, royal cronicler, called attention for the use of the name Santa Cruz (Holy Cross) instead of brasil (from pau brasil, for its …
Year:
1552
Contributor:
Barros, João de, 1496-1570
Subject:
e-po--- > a------
CPJCB
Discoveries in geography > Portuguese
Portuguese > India
Portugal > History > Period of discoveries, 1385-1580
Africa > Description and travel
Portugal > Lisbon
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Asia

Description:
  • João de Barros, royal cronicler, called attention for the use of the name Santa Cruz (Holy Cross) instead of brasil (from pau brasil, for its …
Year:
1552
Contributor:
Barros, João de, 1496-1570
Subject:
e-po--- > a------
CPJCB
Discoveries in geography > Portuguese
Portuguese > India
Portugal > History > Period of discoveries, 1385-1580
Africa > Description and travel
Portugal > Lisbon
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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De India: ejúsque gloriosa juventute; sermones habiti a rhetoribus viennensibus et honori illustrissimorum, perillusatrium, reverendorum, praenobilium, nobilium, excellentium, ac doctissimorum dominorum

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  • AA. LL. & philosophiae doctorum ab iisdem inscripti, dum per reverendum patrem Augustinum Hingerle, è Soc. Jesu, AA. LL. & phil doctorem, ejusdémque professorem emeritum, …
Year:
1726
Contributor:
Hoeller, Franz, 1694-1732
Hingerle, Augustin, 1690-1760
Subject:
a------ > f------ > n------ > s------
Indians of North America > Pictorial works
Indians of South America > Paraguay > Pictorial works
Orient > Description and travel
Africa > Description and travel
America > Description and travel
Imprint 1726.
Austria > Vienna
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Fortsetzung des Curieusen Antiquarii: das ist: Allerhand auserlesene geographische und historische Merckwürdigkeiten, so in Asia, Africa und America zu finden

Description:
  • aus berühmter Männer Reisen zusammen getragen, und mit einem zweyfachen Register versehen.
  • Authorship and publication date according to Holzmann & Bohatta.
  • Originally published Hamburg, 1711, …
Year:
1742
Contributor:
Berckenmeyer, Paul Ludolf, 1667-1732
Subject:
a------ > f------ > n------ > s------
Voyages and travels > Collections
Asia > Description and travel
Africa > Description and travel
America > Description and travel
Germany > Hamburg
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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General Chronica, das ist: Warhaffte eigentliche vnd kurtze Beschreibung, vieler namhaffter, vnd zum Theil biss daher vnbekannter Landtschafften: erstlich dess Grossmechtigen vnd gewaltigen Herrn Priester Johan[n]s, Königs in Morenlandt, Königreichen vnd Herrschafften, auch derselbigen beyde geistliche vnd weltliche Regiment. Zum andern ein gemeine Beschreibung dess gantzen Erdbodems, in drey Bücher getheilt, nemlich, Asiam, Aphricam, vnd Europam, vnd was sich fürnemlich darinnen für guts und böses, zu Wasser und Landt, mit Krieg, Brunst, Hunger vnd dergleichen, von anfang der Welt, biss vff erbauwung der Statt Rom, vnd von dannen biss zu der Zeit Honorii vnd Theodosii, begeben vnd zugetrragen hat. Zum dritten vnd letzten, ein kurtzer Summarischer doch verstendtlicher Ausszug vnd Beschreibung der neuw erfundenen Inseln, Americe vnd Magellane, so man die neuwe Welt pflegt zu nennen. Darinnen alle Völcker vnd Nationen, die in der gantzen Welt (als viel deren jetziger Zeit bekannt sind) wohnen, sampt ihrer Ankunfft und Herkommen, auch Art vnd Natur, item Ceremonien und Gebräuchen in geistlichen und weltlichen sachen, trewlich beschrieben, vnd gleich als in einer Tafel abgemalt, für die Augen gestelt werden. Jetzt auffs neuw mit sonderm grossen fleiss, besser als zuuor, beschrieben vnd verteutscht, auch mehrer richtigkeit halben in drey vnderschiedliche Bücher getheilt, dergleichen noch niemals aussgangen

Description:
  • Virgules replaced by commas in title page transcription.
  • Compiled by Sigmund Feyerabend.
  • First printed in Frankfurt am Main, 1576.
  • Includes voyages to China, Persia, Ethiopia, …
Year:
1581
Contributor:
Feyerabend, Sigmund, 1528-1590
Subject:
a-io--- > f------ > n------ > s------
Prester John (Legendary character)
Voyages and travels
China > Discovery and exploration
Iran > Discovery and exploration
Africa > Description and travel
Imprint 1581.
Germany > Frankfurt am Main
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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A geographical historie of Africa

Description:
  • written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More ... Before which ... is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and also a particular …
Year:
1600
Contributor:
Leo, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 (creator)
Pory, John, 1572-1636
Church Collection (Brown University)
Subject:
Discoveries in geography
Voyages and travels
Africa > Discovery and exploration
Africa > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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Historia Indiæ Orientalis: ex variis auctoribus collecta, et iuxta seriem topographicam regnorum, prouinciarum & insularum, per Africæ, Asiǽque littora, ad extremos vsque Iaponios deducta

Description:
  • autore M. Gotardo Arthus Dantiscano.
  • Abridgement of the collection, India Orientalis / Johann Theodor de Bry.
Year:
1608
Contributor:
Arthus, Gotthard, 1568-
Subject:
a-io--- > a------ > f------
Indonesia > Description and travel
Asia > Description and travel
Africa > Description and travel
Germany > Cologne
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Hodæporicon Indiæ Orientalis; Das ist: Warhafftige Beschreibung der ansehlich lobwürdigen Reyss, welche der edel, gestreng vnd weiterfahrne Ritter, H. Ludwig di Barthema von Bononien aus Italia bürtig, in die orientalische vnd Morgenländer, Syrien, beide Arabien, Persien vnd Indien, auch in Egypten vnd Ethyopein, zu Land vnd Wasser persönlich verrichtet

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  • Alles von jhme H. Barthema selber in italienischer Sprach schrifftlich verfasst, vnd nu aus dem Original mit sonderm Fleiss verdeutscht ... / durch Hieronymum Megiserum. …
Year:
1608
Contributor:
Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century
Megiser, Hieronymus, approximately 1553-1618
Subject:
a------ > f------
Asia > Description and travel
Africa > Description and travel
Germany > Leipzig
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Ioannis Leonis Africani: De totivs Africae descriptione, libri IX

Description:
  • recens in Latinam linguam conuersi Ioan. Floriano interprete. Antverpiae, apud Ioan.
Year:
1556
Contributor:
Leo, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 (creator)
Leo, approximately 1492-approximately 1550 (tr.)
Subject:
Africa > Description and travel
Collection:
Brown University Library
Brown Olio
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Johann Paul Augspurgers kurtze und warhaffte Beschreibung der See-Reisen von Amsterdam in Holland nacher Brasilien in America, und Angola in Africa. Vom 4. Novembris 1640. biss 10. Julii 1642

Description:
  • Signatures: A-D⁸ E⁴ (E3 verso, E4 blank)
Year:
1644
Contributor:
Augspurger, Johann Paul.
Subject:
e-ne--- > s-bl--- > f------
Netherlands > Description and travel
Brazil > Description and travel
Africa > Description and travel
Germany > Schleusingen
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Nouveau voyage autour du monde, en Asie, en Amérique et en Afrique, en 1788, 1789 et 1790: précédé d'un voyage en Italie et en Sicile en 1787; avec un recueil de tout ce que les voyageurs ont publié de plus curieux sur toutes les parties du globe, excepté l'Europe, sur leurs arts, leurs sciences, leurs productions commerciales et naturelles, leurs moeurs et leurs usages, ainsi que l'histoire de leurs gouvernemens anciens et modernes

Description:
  • Pagination: v. 1: vi, 504 p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: 420 p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: 414, [2] p., …
Year:
1797
Contributor:
Pagès, (Pierre Marie François), 1748-1793
Pagès, François, 1745-1802
Subject:
Voyages around the world
Italy > Description and travel
Africa > Description and travel
South America > Description and travel
Asia > Description and travel
Oceania > Description and travel
North America > Description and travel
France > Paris
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Nouveau voyage autour du monde, en Asie, en Amérique et en Afrique, en 1788, 1789 et 1790: précédé d'un voyage en Italie et en Sicile en 1787; avec un recueil de tout ce que les voyageurs ont publié de plus curieux sur toutes les parties du globe, excepté l'Europe, sur leurs arts, leurs sciences, leurs productions commerciales et naturelles, leurs moeurs et leurs usages, ainsi que l'histoire de leurs gouvernemens anciens et modernes

Description:
  • Pagination: v. 1: vi, 504 p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: 420 p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: 414, [2] p., …
Year:
1797
Contributor:
Pagès, (Pierre Marie François), 1748-1793
Pagès, François, 1745-1802
Subject:
Voyages around the world
Italy > Description and travel
Africa > Description and travel
South America > Description and travel
Asia > Description and travel
Oceania > Description and travel
North America > Description and travel
France > Paris
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
Full Record

Nouveau voyage autour du monde, en Asie, en Amérique et en Afrique, en 1788, 1789 et 1790: précédé d'un voyage en Italie et en Sicile en 1787; avec un recueil de tout ce que les voyageurs ont publié de plus curieux sur toutes les parties du globe, excepté l'Europe, sur leurs arts, leurs sciences, leurs productions commerciales et naturelles, leurs moeurs et leurs usages, ainsi que l'histoire de leurs gouvernemens anciens et modernes

Description:
  • Pagination: v. 1: vi, 504 p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: 420 p., [2] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: 414, [2] p., …
Year:
1797
Contributor:
Pagès, (Pierre Marie François), 1748-1793
Pagès, François, 1745-1802
Subject:
Voyages around the world
Italy > Description and travel
Africa > Description and travel
South America > Description and travel
Asia > Description and travel
Oceania > Description and travel
North America > Description and travel
France > Paris
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique, qui n'on t point esté encore publiez: contenant l'origine, les moeurs, les coûtumes & le commerce des habitans de ces deux parties du monde. : Avec des traitez curieux touchant la Haute Ethyopie, le débordement du Nil, la mer Rouge, & le Prete-Jean. : Le tout enrichi de figures, & de cartes geographiques, qui servent à l'intelligence des choses contenuës en ce volume

Description:
  • Includes translations from English, Portuguese, Latin, etc.
  • Compiled and edited by Henri Justel.
  • "Achevé d'imprimer pour la premiere fois, le quatriéme [i.e. quatrième] octobre 1673."--p. …
Year:
1674
Contributor:
Justel, Henri, 1620-1693
Renaudiere, Antoine Salemon.
Subject:
Voyages and travels
Africa > Discovery and exploration
Africa > Description and travel
West Indies > Description and travel
Atlantic States > Description and travel
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Description and travel
Imprint 1674.
France > Paris
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique, qui n'on t point esté encore publiez: contenant l'origine, les moeurs, les coûtumes & le commerce des habitans de ces deux parties du monde. : Avec des traitez curieux touchant la Haute Ethyopie, le débordement du Nil, la mer Rouge, & le Prete-Jean. : Le tout enrichi de figures, & de cartes geographiques, qui servent à l'intelligence des choses contenuës en ce volume

Description:
  • Includes translations from English, Portuguese, Latin, etc.
  • Compiled and edited by Henri Justel.
  • A reissue, with cancel title page, of the 1674 ed.
  • "Achevé d'imprimer …
Year:
1684
Contributor:
Justel, Henri, 1620-1693
Subject:
Voyages and travels
Africa > Discovery and exploration
Africa > Description and travel
West Indies > Description and travel
Atlantic States > Description and travel
Great Britain > Colonies > America > Description and travel
Imprint 1684.
France > Paris
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Die ritterlich vn[d] lobwirdig Rayss des gestrengen vn[d] über all ander weyt erfarnen Ritters vnd Lantfarers Herren Ludowico Vartomans vo[n] Bolonia sagent vo[n] den Landen, Egypto, Syria vo[n] bayden Arabia Persia India un[d] Ethiopia

Description:
  • Translation, by Michael Herr, of: Itinerario de Ludovico de Varthema.
  • Imprint from colophon.
  • Signatures: a-t⁴ (t4 verso blank)
  • Printer's device on p. [151]
Year:
1515
Contributor:
Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century
Herr, Michael, -approximately 1550
Subject:
a------ > f------
Asia > Description and travel
Africa > Description and travel
Germany > Augsburg
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Die ritterlich vnd lobwirdig Raiss des gestre[n]gen vnd über all ander weyt erfarnen Ritters vn[d] Landtfarers, Herren Ludowico Vartomans von Bolonia. Sagent vo[n] den Landen Egipto. Syria, vo[n] bayden Arabia. Persia. India. vn[d] Ethiopia

Description:
  • Translation, by Michael Herr, of: Itinerario de Ludovico de Varthema, and 1st published in German, Augsburg, 1515.
  • Place and date of publication from colophon; printer's …
Year:
1518
Contributor:
Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century
Herr, Michael, -approximately 1550
Subject:
a------ > f------
Asia > Description and travel
Africa > Description and travel
Germany > Augsburg
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Die ritterliche vnnd lobwirdige Reyss, des gestrengen vnd vber all ander weit erfarne Ritter, vnnd Landtfahrer, Herrn Ludovico Vartomans von Bolonia, sagend von den Landen Egypto, Syria, von beiden Arabia, Persia, India, vnd Ethiopia

Description:
  • Translation, by Michael Herr, of: Itinerario de Ludovico de Varthema, and 1st published in German, Augsburg, 1515.
  • Place of publication and printer's name from colophon; …
Year:
1548
Contributor:
Varthema, Lodovico de, active 15th century
Herr, Michael, -approximately 1550
Subject:
a------ > f------
Asia > Description and travel
Africa > Description and travel
Germany > Frankfurt
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Les singularitez de la France Antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique: & de plusieurs terre & isles decouuerte de nostre temps

Description:
  • Par F. André Theuet ..
  • Originally published: Paris, 1557.
  • Signatures: a⁸ ²a-z⁴ A-T⁴
  • Title vignette.
Year:
1558
Contributor:
Thevet, André, 1502-1590
Subject:
n------ > s------ > f------
Indians
America > Description and travel
America > Discovery and exploration
Africa > Description and travel
France > Paris
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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Terceira decada da Asia de Ioam de Barros: dos feytos que os portugueses fizeram no descobrimento & conquista dos mares & terras do Oriente

Description:
  • First two decades published in Lisbon, 1552-1553.
  • Includes description of Magellan's circumnavigation.
  • Signatures: [maltese cross] A-2I 2K 2L ([maltese cross]1, [maltese cross]4, [maltese cross]8 and …
Year:
1563
Contributor:
Barros, João de, 1496-1570
Subject:
e-po--- > a-ii---
CPJCB
Portuguese > India
Discoveries in geography > Portuguese
Portugal > History > Period of discoveries, 1385-1580
India > History > 1526-1765
Africa > Description and travel
Portugal > Lisbon
Collection:
John Carter Brown Library
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