Together 8 volumes, folio (345 x 214 mm). Over ## engraved maps, plates and illustrations, several double-page. (Some spotting or browning to a few quires, a few short tears to plates, a few plates trimmed close). Contemporary mottled calf gilt, morocco lettering-pieces gilt (some neat repairs to joints and edges). 

Fourth edition. Churchill's work was originally published in 4 volumes in 1704, and two additional volumes were added in the second edition of 1733.  Two further volumes by Osborne adapted from materials in the library of the Earl of Oxford, known as the Harleian Voyages (comprising the 7th and 8th volumes in the present set) were added to the third edition, published in 1745. According to Sabin, Churchill's collection "is very valuable; its place cannot be supplied by recurring to the original works, as a great part of them are first published in it from the manuscript.” The work includes the narratives of the following: Brawern and Herckemann's voyage to Chili in 1642 and 1643; Captain John Monck's voyage in 1619 and 1620 to Hudson's Straits to discover a passage between Greenland and America; Nieuhoff's voyages to Brazil and the East Indies; John Smith's travels in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America from 1592-1629; the life of Christopher Columbus by his son; Barbot's description of North and South Guinea; and the account of the discovery of America from Herrera's History of the West Indies. The introduction of Churchill's work is attributed to John Locke.  ESTC T97844; see Hill 296 (third edition); see Sabin 13017 (third edition) and 57765 (first edition of Osborne's work).