COOLEY William Desborough, A history of voyages and discoveries made at sea and on land from the beginning of the 15th century until our days.

History of voyages and discoveries made on sea and land from the beginning of the 15th century until our days.

Transl. from the French by Wojciech Szymanowski. Warsaw 1842, in the printing house of the Bank of Poland. 8, pp. 351, [1], double-spaced text, period cloth covers.
Soiled and heavily scuffed covers, traces of notes (pen and pencil) throughout, title page missing, no. Rust stains on pages. Includes, among others: First discoveries of the Portuguese; Columbus; Settlements in the East; Further discoveries of the Rossyans; Bruse's voyages; Mouth of the Niger. William Desborough Cooley (c. 1795 - 1883) was an Irish geographer. Discoveries made by European explorers gradually showed that many of his theories about Central Africa, though strongly held, were wrong. In other disputes, it is believed that his position had some justification. His main contributions are now seen as related to his criticism of the sources of historical records, his understanding of West Africa, and as an insightful historian of globalization.