The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation : made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres : divided into three sevuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed : The first volume containeth the worthy discoveries, &c. of the English toward the north and northeast by sea ... : The second volume comprehendeth the principall navigations, voyages, traffiques, and discoveries of the English nation made by sea or ouer-land, to the south and south-east parts of the world, as well within as without the Streight of Gibralter, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeres : diuided into two seueral parts, &c. ... / By Richard Hakluyt ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.

Contributor:

Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616.

STC Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages and travels.

Discoveries in geography--English.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor)

Wilson, Helen Godey (bookplate)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : map ; 31 cm (folio)

Place of Publication:

Imprinted at London : By George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, Anno 1599.

Notes:

Vol. 2 has title: The second volume of the principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques ... ; v. 3 has title: The third and last volume of the voyages, nauigations, traffiques ...

Publication dates: v. 1-2: 1599; v. 3: 1600.

Enlarged from the original edition, published in one volume under title: Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation. London, 1589.

The folded engraved map has legend in cartouche at lower right "Thou has here (gentle reader) a true hydrological description of so much of the world as hath beene hitherto discouered ...". It comes in two states: (1) without and (2) with a cartouche in lower left referring to the discovery of Sir Francis Drake. The map is often lacking from the book and may quite possibly not have been issued with it.

Two states of title page noted: in one, line 7 reads: these 1600 yeres; in another, the title page reads: these 1600 yeares.

The section on the conquest of Cadiz by Essex (vol. 1, p. 607-619, [1]) was ordered suppressed by Queen Elizabeth in 1599. It comes in the following states: (1) numbered as above, chain lines spaces (a) 20-25mm. apart of (b) 27-30mm apart. (2) As in (1) but in a photographic facsimile with muddy and flat appearance and chain lines spaced 25-27mm. apart. (3) A reprint of ca. 1720, pages numbered 607-620. (4) A reprint of ca. 1795, pages numbered 607-417 [sic], [1]. (5) Lacking entirely (cancelled).

Cancel title page omits mention of the Cadiz victory.

Pagination: v. 1: [24], 619, [1]; v. 2: [16], 312, 204; v. 3: [16], 868p.

Signatures: v. 1: *-2*⁶ A-3D⁶ 3E⁶ (-E4, E5, E6) a-c² d² (-d2); v. 2: *⁸ A-2C⁶ 3A-3R⁶; v. 3: (A)⁸ A-I⁶ K⁸ L-4C⁶.

The dedicatory letters for the three vols. are dated respectively 7 Oct. 1598, 24 Oct. 1599, 1 Sept. 1600.

Local Notes:

Laid in v. 1 is a facsimile of the Molineaux-Wright map, in the 1st state. Includes section on conquest of Cadiz.

Vols. 1-2 bound in 1.

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed), 12626a

ESTC S106753

JCB Lib. cat, pre-1675, 1: 372-374

Alden-Landis. European Americana, 599/45

Alden-Landis. European Americans, 600/51

Church, E.D. Discovery, 322

Quinn, D.B. Hakluyt Handbook, II, p. 491- 495

Church, 322, p. 756

OCLC:

249354917