Hakluyt's Collection of the Early Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries, of the English Nation.

First edition of this collected Hakluyt. 5 volumes. Thick folio. Contemporary calf rebacked. One of 75 Imperial paper copies, the Bibliothecca Lindesiana copy bearing the library's bookplate. xxvii, [5], 670, [2];  ix, [9], 684; viii, [8], 623, [1]; [6], 612;  [4], vi, [7]-595, [1]pp. London, for Evans et al.  [1809] -

"An accurate reprint of the best folio [1588-1600] with the addition of those voyages which were published in the first edition, and omitted in the second. It likewise has a supplement containing all the voyages and travels printed by Hakluyt, or at his suggestion, which forms the latter part of the fourth, and the whole of the fifth volume, and was sold separately to complete old editions." (Lowndes).

The extra material is as follows:

Galvano. Discoveries of the World [First printed London 1601]

Davis. The World's Hydrographical Description [London 1595]

Bertrandon de la Brocquiere.  Voyage...de Jerusalem [London 1807]

Varthema. Navigation and Voyage. [Eden, 1555]

A Voyage by certaine Ships of Holland into the East Indies. 1597  [London 1598]

The prosperous and speedy voyage to Java... 8 ships of Amsterdam 1598-99 [London 1599]

Newes from the East Indies, or a Voyage to Bengal. [London,1638]

Boemus. The Fardle of Facions London [London,1555]

The conquest of the Grand Canaries [London 1599]

Histoy of the West Indies published in Latin by Hakluyt and translated by Lok. [London 1612]

Virginia Richly valued De Soto [London 1609]

Discovery of the Bermudas by Gates and Summers. Set fouth by Jourdan. [London1610]

A true copie of a discourse. [London 1589]

The Omissions of Cales voyage.

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