North-west Fox or, Fox from the north-west passage. Beginning with King Arthvr, Malga, Octhvr, the two Zeni's of Iseland, Estotiland, and Dorgia; following with briefe abstracts of the voyages of Cabot, Frobisher, Davis, Waymouth, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge: together with the courses, distance latitudes, longitudes ... Mr. Iames Hall's three voyages to Groynland, with a topographicall description of the countries, the salvages lives and treacheries ... Demonstrated in a polar card, wherein are all the maines, seas, and ilands, herein mentioned. With the author his owne voyage, being the XVIth. with the opinions and collections of the most famous mathematicians and cosmographers ... By Captaine Luke Foxe ... Printed by His Majesties command.

Accession number

PML 3853

Creator

Foxe, Luke, 1586-1635.

Published

London, Printed by B. Alsop & T Favvcet, 1635.

Credit line

Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Notes

F.1 (misbound as f.2) has signature mark [circled]A on recto & cut of an armillary sphere on verso (misbound after the title & turned); title, f. 2; prelims., 4ff. Text p. 1-191, errata 171-(172); text ff. 169, (173-272). 2 duplicate leaves inserted between V[superscript]2 & V[superscript]3. Many errors in pagination. With an engraved circumpolar map as frontispiece.
First ed.
One of the most important documents in the history of Arctic exploration.

Description

5 p. l., 269 [3] p. front., illus. (map) fold. map. 19 x 14 cm

Provenance

From the Theodore Irwin collection.

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