Travel and Exploration Can it Be pofible for A natural1 man Totraueil nimbler then Tom Corycte can ? No :though You ihould tie to his horne-peec'd Shoes, wings fzther'd mcre then Mer- crrry did vie, Perchaunce hee borrowed Fo7tunatas Hatte, for wings fince Bladuds tine Were out of da-k His purfe he hath to prbt Whac hez did write, e!fe who had read of tlee, 0 Wandering Wight ? Whb elf! had hiowne whht thou H& felt and ieene, where and with whom; and how firr~ Thou hait becne? Erz thou t3 O~~smbecouldfi thy Tro- phyes b;kg ? Thy hungiy prapies in his Egge I fifi& At thy requcfi, elie in another fzflllon. I would Haue pointcd zit thy commendation : Thy other Heliconian friends bring itore of Sdt, of Pepper, acd Vineger iowre, to furniih thy Italian Eanquet forth, whereby is Plainly fhovrn thy wondrous worth. Feat Ccryatc, fcat the world Still with thy trauel, diicharge The PreiTe, and care Not then who CaeulI. Travel and Exploration: A Catalogue of The Providence Athenaeum Collection Compiled by Carol S. Cook The Providence Athenaurn Providence, Rhode Island 1988 Design by Risa Gilpin Word processing and typesetting by Verbatim, Inc. Printed by the Town Press. The major funding for this publication was provided by the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Copyright O The Providence Athemum, 1988 CONTENTS Foreword by Sally Duplaix ................................................................................................Page ix The Library Committee by Elmer M. Blistein ................................................................................x Preface by Carol S. Cook ..........................................................................................................xi Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................xii Chronicles (catalogue numbers 1-15)...................................................................................... Page 1 Navigation (16-26) ...................................................................................................................-4 Collections (27-53) ....................................................................................................................7 General Voyages (54-78)....................................................................................................... 12 Geography (79-116) .................................................................................................................16 Antiquities (117-161) ...............................................................................................................22 Guidebooks (162- 163) ..............................................................................................................28 Voyages around the World (164-232) ...........................................................................................30 Europe (233-702) ...................................................................................................................39 General Works (233-321) .......................................................................................................40 Great Britain (322-427) ........................................................................................................48 Scotland (322-366) .........................................................................................................49 Ireland (337-350) ............................................................................................................50 England. British lsles (351-420) ........................................................................................50 London (4 15-420)........................................................................................................... 56 Wales (421-427) .............................................................................................................57 Germany (428-437) ..............................................................................................................58 Aush (438-444) .................................................................................................................59 Hungary (445-446) ..............................................................................................................60 France (447474) ..................................................................................................................60 Paris (467-474) ..............................................................................................................62 Italy (475-529) ......................................................................................................................62 Sicily (523-529) .............................................................................................................66 Spain (530-566) ...................................................................................................................67 Portugal (567-580) ...............................................................................................................70 Russia (581-604) ..................................................................................................................72 Finland (605)....................................................................................................................... 74 Russia-Caucasus (606-609)................................................................................................... 74 Scandinavia (6 10-626) ...........................................................................................................75 The Netherlands (627631) ...................................................................................................76 Iceland (632-640) ..................................................................................................................77 Switzerland (641656) ..........................................................................................................78 Greece (657672) ..................................................................................................................79 Turkey (673-700) .................................................................................................................81 Crete (701-702) ...................................................................................................................83 Asia (703-1008) ...................................................................................................................... 83 General Works (703-728) .......................................................................................................85 China (729-768) ...................................................................................................................88 Korea (769) .........................................................................................................................92 Japan (770-786) ..................................................................................................................92 Arabia (787.797) ..................................................................................................................94 India (798-869) ...................................................................................................................-95 Persia (870-890) ..................................................................................................................102 Middle East (Near East) (89 1-961) ......................................................................................... -104 Asiatic Russia (Siberia) (962-974) ..........................................................................................111 Central Asia (975-99 1) ..................................................................................................1 12 Southeast Asia (992-1008) ....................................................................................................114 (See also Chapter XIS'. Malaysiflhilippines) XI Africa(1009-1161) ............................................................................................................117 General Works (1009- 1015)................................................................................................... 18 North Africa (1016-102 1) ...................................................................................................118 Egypt (1022-1057) .............................................................................................................. 119 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) (1058-1063) ...........................................................................................123 Barbary States. Northwest Coast and Offshore Island (10W-1070) .................................................123 Algeria (1071-1074) .............................................................................................................124 West Africa (1075- 1106)....................................................................................................... 124 Central Africa (1 107-1 133).................................................................................................... 128 Southern Africa (1 134-1 159) .................................................................................................130 Madagascar (1 l6@1161) ..................................................................................................... 133 XD North America