Hakluyt, Richard

SECOND EDITION, 3 volumes, folio (280 x 176mm.; vol.3 slightly larger), Black Letter, early nineteenth-century calf, spine gilt with raised coloured bands, lacking map (as usual), slightly soiled, occasional slight worming in corners touching a few page numerals or letters (eg. upper outer corner vol.1 pp.200-220, and at beginning of vol.2; upper inner corner at end of vol.1), preliminaries of vol.1 with occasional stains, lower joint of vol.1 split

Sir John Saunders Sebright, bookplate; George Paton, bookplate on verso of title vol.3

PMM 105; Sabin 29596-98; STC 12626 and 12626a

The condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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A HANDSOME COPY.

This second edition is much expanded compared with the first. Hakluyt himself never travelled further afield than France, but he met or corresponded with many of the great explorers, navigators and cartographers, including Drake, Raleigh, Gilbert, Frobisher, Ortelius and Mercator.

In addition to long and significant descriptions of the Americas in volume 3, the work also contains accounts of Russia, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, Turkey, Middle East, Persia, India, south-east Asia, and Africa.

This set has the second issue of volume 1, which is dated 1599 and with the title omitting "the famous victorie atchieved at the citie of Cadiz". The account of the Earl of Essex's voyage to Cadiz, which was ordered to be suppressed in 1599, and therefore is sometimes missing, is present in this copy as pp.607-620 in volume 1, which according to STC was not printed until c.1720.