Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Diuers voyages touching the discouerie of America, : and the ilands adiacent vnto the same, made first of all by our Englishmen, and afterward by the French-men and Britons: and certaine notes of aduertisements for obseruations, necessarie for such as shall heereafter make the like attempt, with two mappes annexed heereunto for the plainer understanding of the whole matter..

Accession number
PML 127291
Creator
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.
Published
Imprinted at London : For Thomas VVoodcocke, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the blackebeare., 1582.
Credit line
Gift of C. Douglas Dillon, 1992.
Notes
"The epistle Dedicatorie" signed: R.H.
A propaganda publication intended to arouse English interest in overseas enterprise, including accounts of the products of America and the trade goods that would be suitable to the American Indians.
Colophon: Imprinted at London at the three cranes in the Vine-tree, by Thomas Davvson, 1582.
Signatures: pi2 [par.]4 A-D4 2A-G4 H2 I-K4 (leaf G4 blank).
Description
[60] leaves, [2] folded leaves of plates : 2 folded maps ; 18 cm. (4to)
Provenance
Edward Crowninshield; Roderick Terry; Douglas Dillon.
Binding
Brown morocco, gold-tooled, by Hering.
Classification
Department