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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 quarters of the Earth. London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1598-1600.
3 volumes in 2, 2° (285 x 185mm.). Woodcut historiated and decorative initials and head- and tailpieces, with the suppressed account of Drake's voyage to Cadiz in third state. (Lacking the world map, as usual, and final blank d2 of voyage to Cadiz, title of volume I restored at head, Eee1 repaired at outer margin affecting some text, Ooo6 and Ppp1-4 of volume II creased at outer margin.) Old blind-tooled calf (rebacked). Provenance: Trinity House (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF VOLUME I, with the 1598 title-page. This is an amplified edition of Hakluyt's original, one-volume compilation, published in 1589: the scope of the work was widened to include non-English explorations, and the amount of text was increased to over three times the original amount. According to STC, the third state of the account of the Cadiz expedition, present in this copy, was printed circa 1720. The original report was suppressed by order of Elizabeth I, on the disgrace of the Earl of Essex, and so, according to Sabin, is "often supplied by a reprint". The world map that was intended to accompany the third volume was only actually issued with a handful of copies - Church was able to trace just thirteen - and is almost always missing. STC 12626; Church 322 (second issue of volume I); Sabin 29595, 29597, 29598; Borba de Moraes I, pp. 328-329. (2)
3 volumes in 2, 2° (285 x 185mm.). Woodcut historiated and decorative initials and head- and tailpieces, with the suppressed account of Drake's voyage to Cadiz in third state. (Lacking the world map, as usual, and final blank d2 of voyage to Cadiz, title of volume I restored at head, Eee1 repaired at outer margin affecting some text, Ooo6 and Ppp1-4 of volume II creased at outer margin.) Old blind-tooled calf (rebacked). Provenance: Trinity House (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF VOLUME I, with the 1598 title-page. This is an amplified edition of Hakluyt's original, one-volume compilation, published in 1589: the scope of the work was widened to include non-English explorations, and the amount of text was increased to over three times the original amount. According to STC, the third state of the account of the Cadiz expedition, present in this copy, was printed circa 1720. The original report was suppressed by order of Elizabeth I, on the disgrace of the Earl of Essex, and so, according to Sabin, is "often supplied by a reprint". The world map that was intended to accompany the third volume was only actually issued with a handful of copies - Church was able to trace just thirteen - and is almost always missing. STC 12626; Church 322 (second issue of volume I); Sabin 29595, 29597, 29598; Borba de Moraes I, pp. 328-329. (2)