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CROUCH (NATHANIEL) The English Acquisitions in Guinea and East-India. Containing, First, the Several Forts and Castles of the Royal African Company..., [and] Forts and Factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China... by Robert Burton, A. Bettesworth, and J. Batley, 1728
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[CROUCH (NATHANIEL)]
The English Acquisitions in Guinea and East-India. Containing, First, the Several Forts and Castles of the Royal African Company..., [and] Forts and Factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China... by Robert Burton, half-title (with a woodcut illustration on verso), 4 full-page woodcut illustrations, 8pp. of advertisments at end, frontispiece working loose, a few small marginal tears, contemporary calf, rubbed with some loss to extremities of spine, 8vo, A. Bettesworth, and J. Batley, 1728
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Scarce edition of a "travel" book to Africa and India, illustrated with 5 full-page woodcuts, of which 2 depict "serpents, monsters and other strange creatures", and one a flying machine powered by geese, to accompany the chapter, "An Account of the Admirable Voyage of Domingo Gonsales, the Little Spaniard, to the World in the Moone".





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