May 05, 2022 - Sale 2603

Sale 2603 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 8,000
Hakluyt, Richard (1552?-1616)
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation Made by Sea or Over-land.

London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, 1599-1600.

Three parts in two folio volumes, without the map, the account of the victory over Cadiz suppressed in this copy and replaced with the 1720 reprint of the text; second part of volume II misbound after the end of volume III, page 607 with fifty-two lines of text, no tailpiece on page 620; ex libris Charles W.G. Howard from the Dundas gift with armorial bookplates in both volumes, bound in full uniform diced russia gilt, skillfully rebacked, marbled endleaves, 11 3/8 x 7 1/8 in.

STC 12626A; ESTC S106753.

From the Ken Rapoport Collection.