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“The world displayed, or, A curious collection of voyages and travels : selected from the writers of all nations, in which the conjectures and interpolations of several vain editors and translators are expunged, every relation is made concise and plain, and the divisions of countries and kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted” (Publication, 1759-1761)

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1759-1761

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Smart, Christopher. The world displayed, or, A curious collection of voyages and travels : selected from the writers of all nations, in which the conjectures and interpolations of several vain editors and translators are expunged, every relation is made concise and plain, and the divisions of countries and kingdoms are clearly and distinctly noted. By Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, John Newbery, James Hoey. Vol. 1-20. (London : Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, 1759-1761).
[Enthält] :
Vol. 2 : The voyage of Captain William Dampier, round the world.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008588480.
Vol
. 3 : The voyage of Commodore [George] Anson, round the world.
https://archive.org/details/worlddisplayedor03no_a.
Vol
. 5 : The travels of the ambassadors of the Duke of Holstein, into Muscovy, Tartary, and Persia. [Holstein-Beck, Friedrich Karl Ludwig von].
https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/readbook/TheWorld Displaye
doraCuriousCollectionofVoyagesandTravels_10556937#0.
Vol. 6 : Le Comte, Louis ; Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste. A description of China.
https://books.google.ch/books?id=2EhOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA184&lpg=
PA18&dq=the+world+displayed+a+description+of+china&source=bl&ots=
KlHCCYKEl6&sig=zgCw-ZcYhEl-zBTj9onTJuZf-ZU&hl=de&sa=X&ved=
0ahUKEwjPmJ3xyILTAhXE7RQKHYcFCxIQ6AEIOzAE#v=onepage&q=
the%20world%20displayed%20a%20description%20of%20china&f=false
. (Smart2)

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Publication

Contributors (6)

Anson, George  (Colwich, Staffordshire 1697-1762 Moor Park, Herfordshire) : Admiral, Politiker

Dampier, William  (East Coker, Somerset 1651-1715 London) : Reisender, Forscher

Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste  (Paris 1674-1743 Paris) : Jesuit, Priester, Geograph, Mitherausgeber der Lettres édifiantes et curieuses

Holstein-Beck, Friedrich Karl Ludwig von  (Königsberg 1757-1816 Wellinsbüttel = Hamburg) : Herzog

Le Comte, Louis  (Bordeaux 1655-1728 Bordeaux) : Astronom, Geograph, Naturwissenschaftler

Smart, Christopher  (Shipbourne, Kent 1722-1771 King's Bench Prison, London) : Dichter

Subjects

Travel and Legation Accounts

Cited by (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 2011 Bibliothèque publique et universitaire, Genève Publication / BPU
  • Source: Olesen, Muriel ; Butor, Michel ; Minkoff, Gérald. Nuits de Chine de l'hiver au printemps 1988. (Genève : Miss Understanding for All, 1990). [Photos von Muriel Olesen ; Text von Michel Butor]. [Bericht ihrer Reise 1988 nach Beijing, Datong (Shanxi), Taiyuan (Shanxi), Taishan (Shanxi), Xi'an (Shaanxi), Chengdu (Sichuan), Kunming (Yunnan), Guilin (Guangxi), Guangzhou (Guangdong), Hong Kong, Hanzhou (Zhejiang), Shanghai, Suzhou (Jiangsu), Beijing]. [Enthält Photos der Zimmer der Übernachtungen]. (But7, Publication)
  • Source: Meyer, Charles. Histoire des Français en Chine (1698-1939). (Paris : Ed. You Feng, 2009). (MeyC1, Publication)