HAKLUYT, RICHARD. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker 1599-1600. 3 vols. in 2, folio, 298 x 195 mm. (11 3/8 x 7 5/8 in.), early nineteenth-century crimson straight-grained morocco, covers with blind- and gilt-tooled borders, gilt floral ornaments at angles, spine gilt-panelled and blind-tooled, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., binder's ticket of C. Kalthoeber, London, extremities rubbed, small gouge to upper cover of first vol., 4-inch scrape to upper cover of second vol., lower corners of first 2 leaves and margin of title-leaf of vol.1 repaired, small hole to head-line of fol. **1 affecting 1 letter and border rule, small stains to fols. R2, Iii3 and Iii4 in vol. 3 each partly effacing 2 or 3 letters, rust-holes to fols. Cc2, Pp1 and Ooo6, affecting respectively 11, 4 and 3 letters, lightly washed, light foxing and soiling to title-pages and first and last few leaves of each vol., a few leaves in vols. 1 and 2 discolored, occasional insignificant marginal paper defects or repairs . Second edition, cancel title-page dated 1599 and omitting mention of Cadiz, but with Church's first issue of the subsequently suppressed account of Drake's voyage to Cadiz on pp. 607-619 of vol. 1, mostly black letter, woodcut ornaments and initials. This second edition was considerably enlarged, its scope being broadened to include non-English voyages. "This enormous work -- it contains one million seven hundred thousand words -- is the most complete collection of voyages and discoveries, by land as well as by sea, and of the nautical achievements of the Elizabethans...The arrangement is both chronological and regional, with personal reports by explorers and navigators, merchants and diplomats, the reproduction of documents, sailing directions, etc."--Hill, pp. 131-2. "The fruit of a life devoted to promoting the cause of English colonization and commerce by disseminating knowledge about, and stimulating interest in, all the less known or recently discovered parts of the world...[It] was aptly styled by Mr. Froude 'the prose epic of the modern English nation'" (Church). Many copies lack the account of the Cadiz expedition, which was suppressed (along with the first issue of the title of vol. 1) by order of Queen Elizabeth after the disgrace of the Earl of Essex in 1599. The Molyneux-Wright world map that was intended to accompany vol. 2 (which deals primarily with the New World), was issued with only a handful of copies and is thus usually lacking (cf. Shirley 221). Church 322; Sabin 29596-98; STC 12626a; Kraus, Drake , 30. Provenance : Philip John Miles, stencilled arms on front pastedowns. (2)
HAKLUYT, RICHARD. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker 1599-1600. 3 vols. in 2, folio, 298 x 195 mm. (11 3/8 x 7 5/8 in.), early nineteenth-century crimson straight-grained morocco, covers with blind- and gilt-tooled borders, gilt floral ornaments at angles, spine gilt-panelled and blind-tooled, board edges and turn-ins gilt, g.e., binder's ticket of C. Kalthoeber, London, extremities rubbed, small gouge to upper cover of first vol., 4-inch scrape to upper cover of second vol., lower corners of first 2 leaves and margin of title-leaf of vol.1 repaired, small hole to head-line of fol. **1 affecting 1 letter and border rule, small stains to fols. R2, Iii3 and Iii4 in vol. 3 each partly effacing 2 or 3 letters, rust-holes to fols. Cc2, Pp1 and Ooo6, affecting respectively 11, 4 and 3 letters, lightly washed, light foxing and soiling to title-pages and first and last few leaves of each vol., a few leaves in vols. 1 and 2 discolored, occasional insignificant marginal paper defects or repairs . Second edition, cancel title-page dated 1599 and omitting mention of Cadiz, but with Church's first issue of the subsequently suppressed account of Drake's voyage to Cadiz on pp. 607-619 of vol. 1, mostly black letter, woodcut ornaments and initials. This second edition was considerably enlarged, its scope being broadened to include non-English voyages. "This enormous work -- it contains one million seven hundred thousand words -- is the most complete collection of voyages and discoveries, by land as well as by sea, and of the nautical achievements of the Elizabethans...The arrangement is both chronological and regional, with personal reports by explorers and navigators, merchants and diplomats, the reproduction of documents, sailing directions, etc."--Hill, pp. 131-2. "The fruit of a life devoted to promoting the cause of English colonization and commerce by disseminating knowledge about, and stimulating interest in, all the less known or recently discovered parts of the world...[It] was aptly styled by Mr. Froude 'the prose epic of the modern English nation'" (Church). Many copies lack the account of the Cadiz expedition, which was suppressed (along with the first issue of the title of vol. 1) by order of Queen Elizabeth after the disgrace of the Earl of Essex in 1599. The Molyneux-Wright world map that was intended to accompany vol. 2 (which deals primarily with the New World), was issued with only a handful of copies and is thus usually lacking (cf. Shirley 221). Church 322; Sabin 29596-98; STC 12626a; Kraus, Drake , 30. Provenance : Philip John Miles, stencilled arms on front pastedowns. (2)
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