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December 1759. Proposals For Printing by Subscription, In Weekly Numbers, (Price Six-pence each Number.) A New And Complete Collection Of Voyages and Travels: Comprizing Whatever is Valuable of this Kind in the most celebrated English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, and Danish Writers; Great Part of wich have never appeared in the English Language. The Whole being a General Survey Of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America: Exhibiting Every Particular that merits Attention in the Several Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces and Islands on the Terrestrial Globe: Their Commerce, Produce, Manufactures, &c. together with the Method of Living, Customs, Manners, Arts and Sciences of the Inhabitants: Also Descriptions of the Various Oceans, Seas, Lakes, Rivers, Hakbours [sic], Rocks, Shoals, &c. in every Part of the World. Interpersed with entertaining and useful Accounts of Shipwrecks, Sea-Fights, Bombardments, Sieges, and surprizing Adventures by Sea and Land. Illustrated with near Three Hundred Elegant Copper-Plates, consisting of Perspective Views, Maps, Sea-Charts, Draughts of Harbours, Heafs of the principal Navigators and Travellers, and Drawings of the most Curious Animals, Vegetables and Minerals. |