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Record Nr.

UNISA996388179503316

Autore

Bigges Walter <d. 1586.>

Titolo

A summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian voyage [[electronic resource] ] : wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Jago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : By Richard Field, dwelling in the Blacke-Friars by Ludgate, 1589

Descrizione fisica

[4], 52 p., 8 leaves of plates : ill., port., maps

Altri autori (Persone)

Croftes, Lieutenant

GatesThomas, Sir, -1621

BoazioBaptista

Soggetti

Explorers - Great Britain

Explorers - America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Begun by Captaine Bigges, vvho ended his life in the said voyage ... aftervvardes finished (as I thinke) by his Lieutenant Maister Croftes or some other"--Dedication by T. Cates (i.e. Thomas Gates).

"The first complete publication of the text"--H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 199, no. 21.

Signatures: [A]² B-G⁴ H².

Contains the five maps attrib. to Baptista Boazio, cataloged elsewhere as STC 3171.6.

Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113