Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 14,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
HAKLUYT, RICHARD. The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation. [16], 1-501, [1], 506-643, [12], 644-825, [10] pages. Small folio, contemporary calf, moderate wear; lacking map as usual; free endpapers renewed, joints cracked, minor dampstaining, scattered early ink notations and later marginal pencil marks, lacking final blank; bookplate of Newfoundland historian William Gilbert Gosling on front pastedown. In modern cloth clamshell case. London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, 1589

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first edition, second issue. "An invaluable treasure of nautical information which has affixed to his name a brilliancy of reputation which time can neither efface nor obscure"--Church 139A. With the revised version of Bowes on pages 491 to 501. Also includes the 6-leaf Drake insert following page 643: "The first published account of Drake's famous voyage around the world"--Wagner, Spanish Southwest 9. European Americana 589/31; Palau 112037; Quinn, Hakluyt Handbook pages 474-481; Sabin 29594.