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A summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian voyage : wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Jago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bigges, Walter, -1586.
- Series:
- Early English books online
- Standardized Title:
- Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596.
- Drake, Francis.
- West Indies Expedition, 1585-1586.
- Explorers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Explorers.
- Great Britain.
- Explorers--America--Biography.
- America.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages, 52 pages, 8 leaves of plates) : illustrations, portrait, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Imprinted at London : By Richard Field, dwelling in the Blacke-Friars by Ludgate, 1589.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- "Begun by Captaine Bigges, vvho ended his life in the said voyage ... aftervvardes finished (as I thinke) by his Lieutenant Maister Croftes or some other"--Dedication by T. Cates (id est Thomas Gates).
- "The first complete publication of the text"--H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, pages 199, numbers 21.
- Signatures: [A]² B-G⁴ H².
- Contains the five maps attrib. to Baptista Boazio, cataloged elsewhere as STC 3171.6.
- Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1772:10) s1999 miun s
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd edition) 3056
- Contains:
- Famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes wherin weare gotten the townes of St· Iago: :Sto: Domingo, Cartagena and :St: Augustines the same beinge begon from Plimmouth in the moneth of September 1585 and ended at Portesmouth in Iulie 1586.
- OCLC:
- 22298186
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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