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The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeeres : deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed . The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and northeast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. VVhereunto is annexed a briefe commentary of the true state of Island .../ By Richad Haklvyt ...

Accession number
PML 32261-62
Creator
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.
Published
Imprinted at London : By George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1599-1600.
Credit line
Gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1935.
Notes
This is a later issue with a new title page with various alterations from the 1598 issue; no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1598", the account of the voyage to Cadiz having been suppressed by order of Queen Elizabeth after the disgrace of Essex.
Without a title page for vol. 3.
Contains the original Cadiz Voyage.
Description
3 volumes in 2, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 30 cm (folio)
Binding
Greenish brown buckram.
Classification
Department