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Record Nr.

UNISA996393105103316

Autore

Bigges Walter <d. 1586.>

Titolo

A summarie and true discourse of Sir Francis Drakes VVest Indian voyage [[electronic resource] ] : wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine : with geographicall mappes exactly describing each of the townes with their scituations, and the manner of the armies approching to the winning of them

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

Descrizione fisica

[4], 52 p., [5] folded leaves of plates : maps

Altri autori (Persone)

Croftes, Lieutenant

GatesThomas, Sir, -1621

BoazioBaptista

Soggetti

Explorers - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Signatures: A-G⁴ H².

Errata: p. 52.

This item was mistakenly omitted from reel guide at reel 1745.

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

Identified as 3056 at reel 377:5.

Printer's device (McK. 222) on t.p.; headpieces; initials.

Imperfect: copy at reel 377:5 cropped, with loss of signature marks; last p. verso not filmed.

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

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113