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Drake, Francis
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
- Sir Francis Drake Revived. Who is or may be a Pattern to stirre up all Heroicke and active Spirits of these Times... being a Summary and true Relation of foure severall Voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies. London: for Nicholas Bourne, [1652–] 1653
- paper, ink, leather
4 parts in one, 4to (183 x 140 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece, separate title-pages; fore-margin of portrait repaired, some browning, a few letters of the headlines or page numbers occasionally trimmed. Modern brown morocco.
Provenance
Wolfgang A. Herz (bookplate; Christie's New York, 9 December 2009, lot 209).
Literature
Wing D2122; Church 526; Hill, pp. 86 and 211; Sabin 20840, 20855, 20843, and 20830
Catalogue Note
first collected edition of drake's famed voyages, beginning with his privateering raids for Spanish gold in the New World, to his raids on the Pacific coast where he claimed California for England and became the first English captain to circumnavigate the globe.