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The Principal nauigations, voiages, traffiques and discoueries 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 1500. yeeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed ... : And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588. and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596. are described. / By Richard Hakluyt ...

Accession number
PML 8030-32
Published
Imprinted at London : By George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker., 1598-1600..
Notes
Title transcribed with medial capital V as u; title as it appears: The Principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English language.
Vol. 2 has title: The second volume of the principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques ... ; v. 3 has title: The third and last volume of the voyages, nauigations, traffiques ...
Publication dates: v. 1: 1598; v. 2: 1599; v. 3: 1600.
Title page to v. 1 in state 1 (line 8 reading 'these 1500. yeeres') and the 'Voyage to Cadiz' in state A (53 lines on p. 607). Cf. Quinn.
Enlarged from the original edition, published in one volume under title: Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation. London, 1589.
Map lacking.
Description
3 volume, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 29 cm
Provenance
From the collection of the Earl of Aylesford; James Toovey collection.
Binding
Sprinkled calf, gilt, in 1/2 brown morocco case by D. Lahey.
Classification
Department