Coxe, Daniel, editor:

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A COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, IN THREE PARTS. PART I. THE DANGEROUS VOYAGES OF CAPT. THOMAS JAMES, IN ATTEMPTING TO DISCOVER A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE TO THE SOUTH-SEA...PART II. THE SIEUR ... A rare collection of three works, which are sometimes found separately, but are here bound in a contemporary binding with the publisher's general titlepage (a note printed below the imprint on the general titlepage states: "N.B. Either Part may be had separate") and separate titlepages for the second and third works. The first part is a reissue of the 1740 edition of Thomas James' voyage, a classic of northwestern exploration which was first published in London in 1633. The second work is a reissue of the 1740 edition of Jean Bernard Louis Desjeans' An Authentick and Particular Account of the Taking of Carthaena (first published in English in London in 1698).The third part is the editor's own work, the 1741 fourth edition of A Description of the English Province of Carolana, after the original of 1722. Coxe's book is one of the first English works to extensively describe what would become the Southeastern United States. Coxe, who claimed grants to much of the South, sought to arouse British concern over French incursions, and did not limit himself to the Carolinas, discussing the lower Mississippi in detail as well. Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana are also described. Howes and Church assert that this fourth edition was augmented with additions, though the collation remains the same as

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