The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Collected by Richard Hakluyt, Preacher, and Edited by Edmund Goldsmid.

HAKLUYT, Richard (1553-1616).

Edinburgh: E & G Goldsmid, 1885. [Voyages & Travel, Geopolitics] FIRST EDITION thus, LARGE PAPER EDITION limited to 100 sets. 16 volumes bound as 10. Quarto (29 x 24cm), untrimmed. Title pages printed in red and black. Illustrated with seven full-page plates, compete, as follows; vol 1: four plates; vol 3: frontispiece; vol 4: folding map printed in colour; vol 13: frontispiece. Editor's Preface to first volume, List of Subscribers to the rear of final volume. Finely bound in recent brown morocco with raised bands, twin morocco title labels lettered in gilt, gilt decoration and rules, marbled paper-covered sides, t.e.g., others uncut. Contents clean and fresh, owner's discreet blind-relief stamp to prelims or title of each volume, exterior as new. An excellent set in attractive recent leather bindings. Hakluyt's Voyages, newly-edited and reprinted by demand. Covers Asia, the Americas, Europe, West Indies, Tartary, and voyages of circumnavigation. Richard Hakluyt was a British geographer, editor of travel narratives, and exponent of English overseas trade, exploration and settlement known for promoting the English colonisation of North America. From 1583-1588 he was secretary to the English ambassador at the French court, and a significant figure at The Royal Court, notably as chaplain to the Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth and James I. A wonderful collection of early voyages and discoveries as an imposing and handsome library set. Item #76128

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