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AN EXPANDING WORLD – TRAVELS, DISCOVERIES, COLONIES

 

Asia

	G. Piso: De Indiæ utriusque re naturali et medica. 1658.			S. Parkinson: A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas. 1773.
	E. Francisci: Ost= und West=Indischer … Lust= und Stats=Garten. 1668.			The entrance to the tomb of Emperor Akbar.

 

Africa

O. Dapper: Naukeurige Beschrijvinge der afrikaensche Gewesten. 1668.

 

America

	Christopher Columbus: Epistola de insulis … 1494.			Prospect of St. Thomas.
	R. Zamorano: Compendio del arte de navegar. 1588.			J. Ross: … in Search of a North-West Passage. 1835.
	Th. de Bry et al. (eds.): Collectiones peregrinationum in Indiam … 1590-1634.			P.W. Lund: … the Fauna of Brazil … 1838-1843.
	F. Guaman Poma: The “Inca Chronicle”. [1612-1616].			Brochure for “Olympic” and “Titanic”. [1912].
	Jens Munk: Navigatio septentrionalis. 1624.			Guide for travellers to Canada and America. [1915].

 

 

Greenland

	The Greenland Procession … in Copenhagen … 1724.			Pok, a Greenlander who has been travelling … 1857.
	Hans Egede: Map of Greenland. 1737.			[S. Kleinschmidt:] Geography … 1858.
	Hans Egede: … the Beginning and Continuation of the Greenland Missions. 1738.			Jørgen Brønlund’s Diary 1907.

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