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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.

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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].

 

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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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