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110.[DRAKE, Sir Francis]
Sir Francis Drake Revived. Who is
or may be a Pattern to stirre up all
Heroicke and active Spirits of these
Times, to benefit their Countrey
and eternize their Names by like
Noble Attempts. Being a Summary
and true Relation of foure severall
Voyages made by the said Sir
Francis Drake to the West-Indies …
London, Nicholas Bourne, 1652–3 [37635] £5000
Small 4to (195 × 150mm). Four parts in one volume. Portrait
frontispiece, cut down to the image and captioning, three
small areas of loss from the image, laid down on Japanese
tissue and bound in, engraved historiated initials to each
part. Somewhat browned and soiled throughout, two small
worm-holes to the title page, but overall very good in late
19th-century brown morocco by Fleming of Glasgow, gilt
panels to the sides, spine gilt in compartments, rubbed at the
extremities, gilt edges
“This was the first collected edition of Drake’s Voyages
…” (NMM). Contains Sir Francis Drake Revived, [vi], 87pp.,
The World Encompassed, [ii], 108pp., A Summarie and True
Discourse … 42pp., & A Full Relation of Another Voyage,
pp.43–60. Compiled around 1589–95 from various
manuscript sources by Philip Nichols, who may well have
served with Drake, these accounts of the privateer’s famous
voyages were not fully published until nearly 60 years later.
It is possible that Nichols was the compiler of the original
text on the “Famous Voyage” which was suppressed from
Hakluyt’s Principall Navigations… due to Drake’s disgrace
following the invasion of Portugal. What is certain is that
the idea of publication was resurrected by Francis Drake,
Drake’s nephew, at a time when England was yet again
at war with Spain, and under this tub-thumping title the
narratives stood to be good propaganda for the cause of
England and his beloved uncle both.
Sabin 20840: NMM I, 275.
111.EDWARDS, Bryan.
The History, civil and commercial,
of The British Colonies in the West
Indies: in two volumes … The
Second Edition. Illustrated with
maps.
London: for John Stockdale, 1794–1801 [25488] SOLD
3 volumes, 4to (269 × 210 mm). Contemporary mottled
calf, skilfully rebacked with original spines laid down and
recornered, black morocco lettering-pieces, matching circular
numbering-pieces, spines attractively gilt with oriels, Greekkeys,
rules etc. in gilt, covers with single gilt rules, 11 maps (5
Catalogue 57: Travel Section 3: The Americas, Greenland and the Arctic
folding), 11 engraved plates. Armorial bookplates of Elizabeth
Dowager Duchess of Manchester. Light rubbing, an attractive
set.
First published in 1793 in two volumes, this set has the
first two volumes in second edition expanded by the
addition of the supplementary third volume, published
posthumously, which principally reprints Edwards’s
Historical survey of the French colony in the island of St
Domingo (1797), together with other material and a
useful biographical sketch.
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Howgego E15.