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HAKLUYT, Richard (1552?-1616)

Lot 79
13.12.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 79 | HAKLUYT, Richard (1552?-1616)
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HAKLUYT, Richard (1552?-1616)

The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over-land, to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth. London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1598-1600.

The first issue of the important second edition, the most complete record of Elizabethan voyages and discovery, with the later-suppressed ‘Voyage to Cadiz’ report present and named on the title-page. Hakluyt's account of the English victory at Cadiz in 1596 was suppressed after that victory's hero, the Earl of Essex, fell into disgrace with Queen Elizabeth. Most copies of the second edition (even with the Cadiz report) are found with the later title-page, dated 1599 (see Church). This second edition is greatly expanded over the first edition of 1589, with the entire third volume dedicated to America. ‘Though Hakluyt himself never traveled further than France, he inspired some of the great overseas explorations of his time and was one of the leading spirits in the Elizabethan maritime expansion ... He pleaded for a voyage to find the Northwest Passage, which he firmly believed to exist’ (Hill). Church 322 (with second issue of title and lacking Cadiz report); Hill 743; Pforzheimer 443; PMM 105, Sabin 29595, 29597, 29598.



3 volumes, folio (288 x 190mm). Volume 1 complete with the voyage to Cadiz that starts on Eee4 and ends on Fff4, with Fff4v blank, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials (title to vol. 1 with tiny marginal tear and some light brown staining, this extending through to the following three leaves, occasional light spotting, sometimes obscuring a few letters, occasional light dampstaining, mainly confined to margins, leaves Eee6 in vol. 1 and Rrr4 in vol. 2 with a couple of tiny holes with loss of a couple of letters, a few tiny wormholes in vol. 3 to gathering Aaaa6 through to endwith associated loss of a few letters. This set is without the world map, as usual; according to Pforzheimer it was not issued with all copies). A matched set bound uniformly using old russia to style, vols 1-2 with marbled edges, vol. 3 with plain edges (extremities faintly rubbed). Provenance: early ink inscriptions on title of vol. 1 – Thomas Stewart (Knight of Jerusalem, ink ownership inscriptions dated 1842 to titles of vols 1 and 2) – Lord Barding (ink ownership inscription in vol. 3 dated 1738).

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