Voyages.- Hakluyt (Richard) The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Dicoveries of the English Nation, made by Sea or overland..., 3 vol. in 2, second edition, second issue, printed in black letter, woodcut ornament on titles, woodcut head-pieces and initials, lacking the folding engraved map (as usual) but with the suppressed leaves on the conquest of Cadiz pp.607-619 (first state), title of vol.3 defective at lower outer corner with loss to ends of a few lines (repaired, loss supplied in manuscript, mostly to imprint), titles and final leaves a little soiled, some light water-staining, mostly marginal, a few other small stains, slight worming to vol.2 affecting a few letters of one line but not sense and to inner margin towards end, vol.1 with manuscript leaf of agricultural accounts for the Dorvil family dated 1696-1704 written on verso of title-page of a prayer loosely inserted, vol.1 & 2 contemporary calf with central arabesque lozenge in gilt and old cloth ties, spine in compartments with small gilt ornaments and eight raised bands, red morocco label chipped, rubbed, spine a little faded and worn at head, a few small stains, wormhole to lower cover, ties frayed and defective, vol.3 18th century mottled calf, spine gilt with roan labels, g.e., rubbed, spine rather worn and chipped, joints split, old rather crude repair to upper joint, [Hill 743; Sabin 29596-29598; STC 12626a], folio, by George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker, 1599-1600.

⁂ Monumental record of Elizabethan exploration and greatly expanded from the first edition of 1589; vol.3 is entirely devoted to the Americas. Vol.1 is a reissue of the 1598 edition with a new title-page.