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The principall nauigations, voiages and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouer land, to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500. yeeres: devided into three severall parts, according to the positions of the regions whereunto they were directed. ... Whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the earth. By Richard Hakluyt Master of Artes, and student sometime of Christ-church in Oxford
Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation
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- Imprinted at London : By George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie, 1589
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- [16], 501, [1], 506-643, [12], 644-825, [12] p., folded plate : map
- From p. 506 on, even numbers are on rectos.
- Includes index.
- The last leaf is blank.
- The folded engraved map, copied from the "Theatrum orbis terrarum" of Abraham Ortelius, has legend "Typus orbis terrarum".
- P. 491-501 are a three-sheet cancel signed 2Y replacing original 2X5-2Y6. Variant 1: with cancellandum leaves (pagination .. 505, [1], 506- ..).
- The [12] pages headed "The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea .." are intended to be bound after 3M3. Variant 2: lacking these leaves.
- Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Appears at reel 216 (copy 9608) and at reel 286 (copy 3437).
- STC (2nd ed.) 12625.
- Available electronically as part of Early English books online.