[Australia]: Major, R. H., editor:

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EARLY VOYAGES TO TERRA AUSTRALIS, NOW CALLED AUSTRALIA: A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS, AND EXTRACTS FROM EARLY MANUSCRIPT MAPS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF DISCOVERY ON THE COASTS OF THAT VAST ISLAND, ... From the collection of R. David Parsons. A collection of accounts of early Spanish and Dutch voyages to Australia made prior to those of Captain James Cook, published by the Hakluyt Society and here bound with the rare supplement. Contents of the volume include the accounts of Juan Luis Arias, Luis Vaez de Torres, Francisco Pelsaert, Gerrit Thomasz Pool, the ship Vergulde Draeck, Samuel Volkersen, William Dampier, the ship Vossenbosch, and P.A. Leupe. Among the documents, the editor notes, are "some...from the Hague, which have never before been printed." The documents are preceded by an extensive and lengthy introduction by the editor, Richard Henry Major, a geographer, librarian, and curator of the British Museum's map collection. Bound in at rear is a separate pamphlet, an extract from a letter from Major to Sir Henry Ellis dated 1861 on "The Discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601," reprinted from an issue of Archaeologia, and "distributed to the Members of the Hakluyt Society for insertion as a Supplement" to the present volume. The present volume, comprising both the Early Voyages and the supplement, features seven maps in all, six of them folding. The present copy was once in the collections of the New Zealand General Assembly Library and bears a device in gil

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