HAKLUYT, Richard.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation,

      London: George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1598?99?1600 made by sea or over-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500. yeeres: devided into three severall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English . and the famous victorie atchieved at the citie of Cadiz, 1596. . By Richard Hakluyt Master of Artes, and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford. Second and much expanded edition, title-page in volume I in the rare first state, dated 1598 and including the reference to "the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz", with the "Voyage to Cadiz" section (pp. 607?619) which was suppressed by Elizabeth I after the disgrace of the Earl of Essex in 1599. It is rare to find this volume in the first state with the Cadiz sheets uncancelled, neither supplied nor reinserted. As usual the set does not contain the map: Pforzheimer notes, "It is generally allowed that the map which belongs in that third volume, though only occasionally found, was not issued with all copies". 3 volumes, folio (280 × 186 mm). Skilfully bound to style in English panelled calf, red morocco labels and oval numbering pieces, spines gilt in compartments, raised bands, marbled endpapers, old red edges. Ownership inscriptions of C. Killigrew. A little dustsoiling to outer leaves (the volumes were previously bound in two); contents generally clean and fresh; although rebound, an otherwise unsophisticated copy, with the original title page and normally suppressed Cadiz section in place not supplied from other copies ? rare thus. [Attributes: Hard Cover]