Sir Francis Drake revived.. Who is or may be a pattern to stirre up all heroicke and active spirits of these times, to benefit their countrey and eternize their names by like noble attempts. Being a summary and true relation of foure severall voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies. Viz. His dangerons [sic] adventuring for gold and silver with the gaining thereof. And the surprizing of Nombre de dios by himselfe and two and fifty men. His encompassing the world. His voyage made with Chistopher Carleill, Martin Frobusher, Francis Knollis, and others. Their taking the townes of Saint Jago, Sancto Domingo, Carthagena and Saint Augustine. His last voyage (in which he dyed) being accompanied with Sir John Hawkins, Sir Thomas Baskerfield, Sir Nicholas Clifford, with others. His manner of buriall. Collected out of the notes of the said Sir Francis Drake; Mastet [sic] Philip Nichols, Master Francis Fletcher, preachers; and the notes of divers other gentlemen (who went in the said voyages) carefully compared together.
Bigges, Walter, -1586
Category
Books
Date
1652
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3138882
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 87, [1]; [4], 108; 60 p. :. ill., port. ;. 4to. Accession no. 4525. Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Binding: late nineteenth-century English mottled calf, gilt spine, two red lettering-pieces; edges red, French shell endleaves. Bound by W. Pratt.
Makers and roles
Bigges, Walter, -1586 Fletcher, Francis, active 16th century Nichols, Philip, active 1562