HAKLUYT (RICHARD)


The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over-land, to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarter of the Earth, at Any Time within the Compasse of these 1600 Yeeres, 3 vol., second edition, second issue, black letter, woodcut ornament on titles, without the suppressed "Cadiz" leaves (pp.607-619) and folding map (as usual), some side-notes trimmed, volume 3 title soiled, small marginal loss to corner of 3 preliminary leaves (A2, 3 and 8), and final leaf with loss of text (?inserted), some dampstaining, nineteenth century blindstamped calf, rebacked in calf gilt retaining original red morocco spine labels [ESTC S106753], folio (277 x 176mm.), George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, 1599-1600
|"This enormous work... is the most complete collection of voyages and discoveries, by land as well as by sea, and of the nautical achievements of the Elizabethans" (PMM). First published in 1589, this edition was greatly enlarged, the third volume being devoted to the Americas.Provenance: Marshall, early ownership inscription on titles.