The principall nauigations, voiages and discoueries of the English nation, . made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500. yeeres: deuided into three seuerall parts, according to the positions of the regions wherunto they were directed. ... Whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth.
Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616).
Category
Books
Date
1598 - 1600
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3030065
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 242, [2], 243-501, [1], 506-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., folded plate . map . fol. Vols. 1 and 2 bound together. Pencil "57" on titlepage of vol. 1 and "8" on titlepage of vol. 3. Lanhydrock copy lacks the section on the conquest of Cadiz by Essex (vol. 1, p. 607-619,[1]). Also wanting folding map. Provenance: manuscript notes on first two leaves of vol.1 in the hand of John Robartes (1606-1685). Manuscript date "1695" under imprint of vol.1. Occasional marginalia. Binding: vol. I and 2 in early seventeenth-century calf with blind fillets as frame, sewn onto five raised bands, rebacked; holes for clasps. Vol. 3 in full calf, rebacked with an armorial centrepiece; holes for clasps.
Makers and roles
Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616).