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SIR FRANCIS DRAKE (1545-1596)
The World Encompassed. By Sir Francis Drake. Being His next Voyage to that of the Nombre de Dios, formerly imprinted; Carefully collected out of the Notes of Master Francis Fletcher, Preacher in this imployment, and divers others his followers in the same. London: E[lizabeth]. P[urslowe]. for Nicholas Bourne, 1635. 4° (174 x 135mm). Dedication leaf, woodcut title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, 2 initials. (Lacks engraved portrait and final blank, one leaf remargined with loss of text, 2 repaired, most leaves shaved at upper and lower margins with the loss of a few letters.) Early 20th-century roan-backed marbled boards, lettered in gilt on the spine (extremities very lightly rubbed). Provenance: pressmark on verso of title.
SECOND EDITION AND VERY RARE SEPARATE PRINTING OF DRAKE'S 1577-1580 CIRCUMNAVIGATION based on the log and notes of Francis Fletcher and compiled by Drake's nephew Francis Drake, and with the dedication to Robert, Earl of Warwick by Francis Drake the younger. Drake's voyage in the Pelican (later named the Golden Hind), sailed to the Pacific via the Straits of Magellan and 'Drake's Passage' from which he proceeded north to Valparaiso, plundering the city and capturing the richest prize ship in history, the Cacafuego. Continuing northward he reached 'New Albion' and claimed it for England, according to the Hungarian Stephen Parmenius in his 1582 poem 'De navigatione', at the request of the native inhabitants of his landing place. Drake's epic decision to continue westward across the Pacific -- rather than return to England via Cape Horn and face Spanish wrath along the west coast of South America -- transformed a piratical raiding voyage into England's most celebrated circumnavigation. Although ballads and engravings were issued soon after his return to England in 1580, word had gone around that no details of the voyage were to be published while England was conducting secret negotiations to prevent war with Spain, hence, no full account of the voyage was published in English until Hakluyt's 1589 Principall Navigations and no complete separate issue appeared until the first printing of this edition in 1628. Although Sabin credits this edition with both a portrait and a map, Church, Shirley and Quinn state that the map was not issued with any but the first edition. This edition is rare in any state. Church Catalogue 428; ESTC S109845; Sabin 20854; cf. Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 326; Quinn, Sir Francis Drake as Seen by his Contemporaries, pp. 9-10, 69.
The World Encompassed. By Sir Francis Drake. Being His next Voyage to that of the Nombre de Dios, formerly imprinted; Carefully collected out of the Notes of Master Francis Fletcher, Preacher in this imployment, and divers others his followers in the same. London: E[lizabeth]. P[urslowe]. for Nicholas Bourne, 1635. 4° (174 x 135mm). Dedication leaf, woodcut title vignette, head- and tail-pieces, 2 initials. (Lacks engraved portrait and final blank, one leaf remargined with loss of text, 2 repaired, most leaves shaved at upper and lower margins with the loss of a few letters.) Early 20th-century roan-backed marbled boards, lettered in gilt on the spine (extremities very lightly rubbed). Provenance: pressmark on verso of title.
SECOND EDITION AND VERY RARE SEPARATE PRINTING OF DRAKE'S 1577-1580 CIRCUMNAVIGATION based on the log and notes of Francis Fletcher and compiled by Drake's nephew Francis Drake, and with the dedication to Robert, Earl of Warwick by Francis Drake the younger. Drake's voyage in the Pelican (later named the Golden Hind), sailed to the Pacific via the Straits of Magellan and 'Drake's Passage' from which he proceeded north to Valparaiso, plundering the city and capturing the richest prize ship in history, the Cacafuego. Continuing northward he reached 'New Albion' and claimed it for England, according to the Hungarian Stephen Parmenius in his 1582 poem 'De navigatione', at the request of the native inhabitants of his landing place. Drake's epic decision to continue westward across the Pacific -- rather than return to England via Cape Horn and face Spanish wrath along the west coast of South America -- transformed a piratical raiding voyage into England's most celebrated circumnavigation. Although ballads and engravings were issued soon after his return to England in 1580, word had gone around that no details of the voyage were to be published while England was conducting secret negotiations to prevent war with Spain, hence, no full account of the voyage was published in English until Hakluyt's 1589 Principall Navigations and no complete separate issue appeared until the first printing of this edition in 1628. Although Sabin credits this edition with both a portrait and a map, Church, Shirley and Quinn state that the map was not issued with any but the first edition. This edition is rare in any state. Church Catalogue 428; ESTC S109845; Sabin 20854; cf. Shirley, The Mapping of the World, 326; Quinn, Sir Francis Drake as Seen by his Contemporaries, pp. 9-10, 69.
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