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3 v. ([24], 619, [1]; [16], 312, 204; [16], 868 p.), folded plate : map |
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The second volume is dated 1599. |
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"The second part of this second volume" begins new pagination on 3A1 of vol. 2. |
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Variant: title page has "yeares". |
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The folded engraved map has legend in cartouche at lower right "Thou has here (gentle reader) a true hydrological description of so much of the world as hath beene hitherto discouered ..". It comes in two states: (1) without and (2) with a cartouche in lower left referring to the discovery of Sir Francis Drake. The map is often lacking from the book and may quite possibly not have been issued with it. |
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The section on the conquest of Cadiz by Essex (vol. 1, p. 607-619, [1]) was ordered suppressed by Queen Elizabeth in 1599. It comes in the following states: (1) numbered as above, chain lines spaced (a) 20-25mm. apart or (b) 27-30mm. apart. (2) As in (1) but in a photographic facsimile with muddy and flat appearance and chain lines spaced 25-27mm. apart. (3) A reprint of ca. 1720, pages numbered 607-620. (4) A reprint of ca. 1795, pages numbered 607-417 [sic], [1]. (5) Lacking entirely (cancelled). |
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A reissue, with cancel title page, of the edition with title page dated 1598 and mentioning Essex's Cadiz victory. There is a title page dated 1600 but printed ca. 1735. |
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Identified as STC 12626 on UMI microfilm reel 1575. |
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Reproductions of the originals in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and Eton College. Library. |
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Appears at reel 245 (Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery copy) and at reel 1575 (Eton College. Library copy). |
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