Vaughan, William

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

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Description

The Golden Fleece divided into three parts, under which are discovered the errours of religion, the vices and decayes of the kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore trading so much complayned of... London: [by William Stansby, Miles Flesher, and another], 1626
paper, ink, leather

4to (180 x 135 mm). Folding map in facsimile as usual. Eighteenth-century gilt-ruled calf, joints rubbed.

Literature

STC 24609; Church 409; Sabin 98693

Catalogue Note

First edition of one of the earliest contributions to English literature from America.

"William Vaughan (1575 or 1577-1641), was a Welsh poet and colonial promoter. Vaughan endeavored in 1617 to found a colony in Newfoundland, where he spent several years. Wishing to obtain more settlers, he wrote this allegory in praise of his colony, in which truth and fiction are mixed to such an extent that the reader of the present day can hardly separate the one from the other.... The map by Captain John Mason, who spent seven years in the country, is very rarely found with the book." (Church)