[Callander, John]. TERRA AUSTRALIS COGNITA: or, Voyages to the Terra Australis, or Southern Hemisphere, during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Containing an Account of the Manners of the People, and the Productions of the Countries, hitherto found in the Southern Latitudes; the Advantages that may result from further discoveries on this great Continent, and the Methods of establishing Colonies there, to the advantage of Great Britain. With a Preface by the Editor, in which some geographical, nautical, and commercial Questions are discussed. 3 vols., Facsimile Edition; Vol. I, pp. [iv], [vi], viii, 516; Vol. II, pp. [iv], ii, [3]-692; Vol. III, pp. [iv], iv, 748(last 3 blank); 3 folding charts by Robert de Vaugondy (in front of each volume); original vinyl; a fine set. Amsterdam; N. Israel; (1967).
***Bibliotheca Australiana Nos. 8-10. First published at Edinburgh, Printed by A. Donaldson, 1766-68. CALLANDER based his work on the notable French work by DE BROSSES (Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, 2 vols., Paris, Durand, 1756) and the maps are taken directly from it. Included are accounts of the navigations of Amerigo Vespucci, de Gonneville, Magellan, de Saavedra, Francisco de Ulloa, Gaetan, de Mendoza, Drake, da Silva, Pedro Sarmiento, Fenton, Cavendish, de Quiros, Spilbergen, Le Maire, Schouten, Jacques l'Hermite, Pelsaert, Pool, Tasman, Narborough, Sharp, Cowley, Dampier, Vlaming, Funnell, Woodes Rogers, Frezier, Clipperton, Shelvocke, Roggewein, Lozier Bouvet, Anson, Byron, and many others. The work includes FULLER'S notes to Cavendish's voyage, and the final part of Volume III consists of - "Of the method of forming colonies in the Terra Australis, and the Advantages that may be expected to result to Great Britain, from such Establishments in that Hemisphere." This, no doubt, was inspired by the proposal for the colonisation of New Holland put forward by DE BROSSES in his work. #4980
