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WHITBOURNE, Richard (fl.1579-1627). A Discourse containing a loving invitation…for the advancement of his Magesties most hopefull Plantation in the New-foundland. London: Felix Kyngston, 1622.
The first separate printing of a work which also appeared as the second part of the second edition of Whitbourne’s Discourse and discovery of new-found-land issued in the same year. The present work was issued both with and without a 20pp. section of letters by Edward Wynne describing Lord Baltimore’s colony at Maryland (those letters not present in this copy). Whitbourne arrived in Newfoundland as part of the colonization effort in 1615. His stated purpose was to “crowne that contrey of New-found-land with due praises, that she may…be justly called a Sister-land to this great Island of Britannia, Ireland, Virginia, New-England, and Nova Scotia.” Church 398; Sabin 10333.
Small quarto (171 x 131 mm). (Small marginal wormhole, a few headlines shaved.) Modern maroon morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.
The first separate printing of a work which also appeared as the second part of the second edition of Whitbourne’s Discourse and discovery of new-found-land issued in the same year. The present work was issued both with and without a 20pp. section of letters by Edward Wynne describing Lord Baltimore’s colony at Maryland (those letters not present in this copy). Whitbourne arrived in Newfoundland as part of the colonization effort in 1615. His stated purpose was to “crowne that contrey of New-found-land with due praises, that she may…be justly called a Sister-land to this great Island of Britannia, Ireland, Virginia, New-England, and Nova Scotia.” Church 398; Sabin 10333.
Small quarto (171 x 131 mm). (Small marginal wormhole, a few headlines shaved.) Modern maroon morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe.