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HAWKINS, Sir Richard (1562?-1622)

Lot 201
13.07.2022 10:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 201 | HAWKINS, Sir Richard (1562?-1622)
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HAWKINS, Sir Richard (1562?-1622)

The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins ... in his voiage into the South Sea. Anno Domini 1593. London: John Dawson for John Jaggard, 1622.

First edition of ‘a volume of much rarity' (Sabin). ‘The original account of a famous English voyage. Hawkins set forth with the intention of circumnavigating the globe, trading with Japan, the Philippines, the Moluccas, China, and India. He did not complete his circumnavigation, however. After entering the Pacific in 1594, Hawkins and the men of the Dainty plundered the Spanish settlement at Valparaiso. Later in the year, he was trapped by two Spanish ships carrying a force outnumbering his own by ten to one in the Bay of San Mateo in Peru. A three-day fight ensued, but defeat was inevitable. Hawkins was released by the Spanish in 1602. Shortly before this volume was published, he died suddenly in the Council Chamber in London. This work gives an excellent account of life at sea in the Elizabethan age' (Hill). Borba de Moraes p.395; Brunet III, 63; Hill 784; JCB II, p.165; Sabin 30957; ESTC S119816; STC 12962.



Folio (285 x 188mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut initials, with preliminary blank (lower margins waterstained with consequent paper softening and staining, a few holes restored, one just touching a letter in table, lower blank corner of last leaf restored, washed). Contemporary calf, sides panelled in gilt and blind, fleurons at outer corners, gilt arms of Robert Glascock (rebacked with gilt spine, corners restored, later endpapers, waterstain on lower sides). Provenance: Robert Glascock (1600-1657 of Queen’s County, Ireland; binding).





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