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The principall navigations, voiages and discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or over land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earch at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : devided into three severall parts, according to the positions of the regions wherunto they were directed ... whereunto is added the last most renowmed English navigation, round about the whold globe of the earth / by Richard Hakluyt ...

Accession number
PML 15594
Creator
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.
Published
Imprinted at London : By George Bishop and Richard Newberie, deputies to Christopher Berker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1589.
Notes
... Sir Frances Drake's voyages inserted between pages 643-644.
434 ff (825 p.) =*[superscript]8 A-T[superscript]6W[superscript]4X[superscript]4 the last leaf blank, unpaged, lacking: Aa-Yy, Aaa-Lll[superscript]6 Mmm[superscript]12 Nnn-Yyy, Aaaa-Eeee[superscript]6Ffff[superscript]4 the last a blank, lacking. Has the original cancelled p. 491-501 and also the second issue p. 491-501 and the 6 suppressed leaves of ...
First edition.
The map is in fac-sim.
Thirteen leaves are included at end of text, containing "The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South sea, and there hence about the whold globe of the earth, begun in the yeere ... 1577".
Description
8 preliminary leaves, 825 (i.e. 822), [35] pages : maps ; 29 cm (folio)
Binding
Red morocco.
Classification
Department