HAKLUYT, Richard. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffi...
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HAKLUYT, Richard. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiqes 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, 3 volumes bound in two; (xxiv); 1 - 606; (xvi); 1 - 312; 1 - 204; 1 - 866, lacking the Cadiz leaves, no World map, printed in black letter, woodcut ornament on titles, woodcut head-pieces and initials, vol. 1 title page soiled and top corner torn and replaced with blank, looks untidy but limited text loss, towards end of second volume top edge of text block gnawed away with loss of several page numbers, vol. 3 lacks title and pp.867/868 torn out & missing excepting a fraction of upper corner, rebound in full calf raised bands with lettering, folio
Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) was a geographer and is regarded as the first professor of modern geography at Oxford. He went to great lengths to 'read over whatsoever printed or written discoveries and voyages,' He acquainted himself with captains, mariners and merchants such as Martin Frobisher and Humphrey Gilbert. He consulted cartographers such as Abraham Ortelius and Geradus Mercator
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HAKLUYT, Richard. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiqes 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, 3 volumes bound in two; (xxiv); 1 - 606; (xvi); 1 - 312; 1 - 204; 1 - 866, lacking the Cadiz leaves, no World map, printed in black letter, woodcut ornament on titles, woodcut head-pieces and initials, vol. 1 title page soiled and top corner torn and replaced with blank, looks untidy but limited text loss, towards end of second volume top edge of text block gnawed away with loss of several page numbers, vol. 3 lacks title and pp.867/868 torn out & missing excepting a fraction of upper corner, rebound in full calf raised bands with lettering, folio
Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) was a geographer and is regarded as the first professor of modern geography at Oxford. He went to great lengths to 'read over whatsoever printed or written discoveries and voyages,' He acquainted himself with captains, mariners and merchants such as Martin Frobisher and Humphrey Gilbert. He consulted cartographers such as Abraham Ortelius and Geradus Mercator
