April 12, 2024
1903-1905 PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS VOYAGES TRAFFIQUES & DISCOVERIES HAKLUYT 12 VOLS
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Complete set of all twelve volumes of the classic work by Richard Hakluyt, entitled THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS VOYAGES TRAFFIQUES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION MADE BY SEA, OR OVER-LAND TO THE REMOTE AND FARTHEST DISTANT QUARTERS OF THE EARTH AT ANY TIME WITHIN THE COMPASSE OF THESE 1600 YEERES , BY RICHARD HAKLUYT, Preacher and sometime student of Christ-Church in Oxford.Published by James Maclehose, Publishers to the University, in Glasgow.1903 - 1905The edition was limited to 1000 copies.Volume 1 includes the publisher's announcement of the edition.Lavishly illustrated with glorious fold out maps and numerous plates. Bound in blue linen hardboards with gilt embossed motif of a galleon superimposed on the globe.Bookplate from Samuel M. Johnston. Page also includes seller's label from "H. Sotheran & Co., Booksellers and Bookbinders, 37 Piccadilly, W."Please see photos for condition. Note foxing.The famous Maclehose edition of Hakluyt. This handsome production reprints the 1625 edition of Hakluyt's magnum opus, a classic of travel literature, the first English collection of voyages, and one of the gems of Elizabethan letters.Hakluyt himself was the first lecturer on modern geography and one of the leading spirits of Elizabethan maritime expansion (PMM). The work is devoted to American discoveries and the British colonization
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