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Hakluyt, Richard (1552? -1616) The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over Land, to the Most Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any Time within the Compasse of these 1500 Yeeres. London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to Christopher Barker, 1589. First edition, folio, lacking the map, without the cancelled leaves recounting Bowes' expedition in Russia, without the added unnumbered leaves with the account of Drake's circumnavigation; first and last few leaves with marginal paper repairs; leaves 485-492 [Xx2-Xx5] supplied from a smaller copy, remargined; in contemporary brown calf, ruled in blind; resewn and rebacked; neat contemporary marginal notes throughout in the hand of Martin Fotherbye [likely Bishop of Salisbury (c. 1560-1620)], with his signature on the title page, 11 3/4 x 8 in.


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