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TRADESCANT, John. -- Sir Roger WILLIAMS. The Actions of The Lowe Countries, epistle dedicatory by Peter Manwood, edited by J. Haywarde, London: Humfrey Lownes for Mathew Lownes, 1618, 4°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM SIR PETER MANWOOD TO JOHN TRADESCANT (lacks C4 and final [?] blank), contemporary limp vellum. [STC 25731]
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Sir Peter Manwood and John Tradescant, inscribed on front blank: "Given By the Right-worshipfull Sr petter manwood this is John tradescant his Booke," with a further, 15-line list of goods on board ship.
A traveller, naturalist and gardener, John Tradescant (d. ? 1637) was the author of A Voiag of ambasad (1618), describing a voyage under Sir Dudley Digges to Archangel and containing the earliest acccount extant of Russian plants. He joined the expedition of Sir Samuel Argall against Algerine pirates, 1620, bringing back, among other things, the "Algier apricot." His physic garden at South Lambeth was the first in England. Sir Peter Manwood (d. 1625) undertook the publication of the above work, and his name is at the foot of the dedication to Sir Francis Bacon. An antiquary, he represented between 1588 and 1621 Sandwich, Saltmarsh, Kent and New Romney; was sherrif of Kent, 1602; and is "mentioned with great respect by Camden." (DNB)
A traveller, naturalist and gardener, John Tradescant (d. ? 1637) was the author of A Voiag of ambasad (1618), describing a voyage under Sir Dudley Digges to Archangel and containing the earliest acccount extant of Russian plants. He joined the expedition of Sir Samuel Argall against Algerine pirates, 1620, bringing back, among other things, the "Algier apricot." His physic garden at South Lambeth was the first in England. Sir Peter Manwood (d. 1625) undertook the publication of the above work, and his name is at the foot of the dedication to Sir Francis Bacon. An antiquary, he represented between 1588 and 1621 Sandwich, Saltmarsh, Kent and New Romney; was sherrif of Kent, 1602; and is "mentioned with great respect by Camden." (DNB)