William Coxe: Account of the Russian Discoveries …

William Coxe: Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America: to which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1780).

• Bibliographic reference: Graesse II 292, BS col. 2447, Lust, no. 170
• Digitized:
  > BHL [Note: doesn’t display properly in Opera browser, no problems with Firefox and IE]
  > dlib.si
  > Google Books (provenance: BSB: digitized: 4 March 2010)
  > HKU
  > University College London

William Coxe: Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America : to which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China (London: T. Cadell 1787)

• Digitized: University College London

French translation:
William Coxe: Les nouvelles découvertes des Russes, entre l’Asie et l’Amérique, avec l’histoire de la conquête de la Sibérie & du Commerce des Russes & des Chinois. Ouvrage traduit de l’Anglais (Paris: Hôtel de Thou, 1781)

• Bibliographic reference: Lust, no. 171
• Digitized:
  > Google Books (University of Michigan; digitized: 23 January 2007)
  > HATHI Trust (University of Michigan)
• Entry in Wiener China-Bibliographie

German translation:
William Coxe: Die neuen Entdeckungen der Russen zwischen Asien und America nebst der Geschichte der Eroberung Siberiens und des Handels der Russen und Chineser aus dem Englischen des Herrn Coxe übersetzt (Frankfurt und Leipzig: Johann Georg Fleischer, 1783).

• Bibliographic reference: see entries above
• Digitzed:
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  > GDZ
• For a review of the German translation see Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek, vol. 63, no. 2 (1785), pp. 491-493 [fulltext, provenance: Bielefeld University Library: Zeitschriften der Aufklärung]

On William Coxe (1748-1828) see Jeremy Knight, ‘Coxe, William (1748–1828)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6540, accessed 20 April 2010]

Last update: September 17, 2016.