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Prevost - Volume 13 with 31 Maps & Engravings (India & environs) - This is volume 13 with 31 maps and engravings of Antoine-Francois Prevost d'Exiles's Histoire Générale des Voyages, ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et par terre, qui ont été publiées jusqu'à present dans les différentes langues de toutes les nations connues . The work was published by Pierre De Hondt in The Hague in 1755. The plates and maps were by Cochin fils, Tardieu, B. L. Prevost and others. This volume has references to India and surrounding environs. This is part of an expansive work that referenced China, the East Indies, Asia, the Americas, early Austrlian voyages, New Guinea, Palau Islands, Africa, and voyages in the Pacific including those of Magellan, Schouten, and Le Maire, Drake, Sarmiento, Cavendish, Spilbergen, Narborough, Rogers, Cowley, Frazier, and Anson. The work included particularly full accounts are given of the Dutch and French voyages to the East Indies, voyages to China, and the British East India Company's voyages to India and Ceylon. (Hill) Provenance: G. Wahrendorf, 1803 Paper Size: ~ 8” by 10” (though some plates are fold out and larger)