Documentary history of the State of Maine. Vol. II. A discourse on western planting : written in the year 1584, by Richard Hakluyt ; with a preface and an introduction by Leonard Woods ; edited, with notes in the appendix, by Charles Deane.

Hakluyt, R. ; Woods, L. ; Deane, C.

Verlag: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, first edition thus, 1877, 1877

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Cloth, blindstamped cover decoration, gilt spine-title, 8vo, lxi, 253 pp, fold-out facs. Hakluyt is thought to have made three or possibly four copies of his Discourse: the copy reprinted here belonged to the great manuscript collector Sir Thomas Phillips. Contents: Note of the Standing Committee; Editorial note, by Charles Deane; Preface, by Leonard Woods [giving an account of the discovery of the manuscript of the Discourse and its identification with the narrative presented to Queen Elizabeth as 'Mr. Rawley s Voyage' and with the title 'Sir Walter Raleigh s Voyage to the West Indies' to Walsingham in 1585]; A particuler discourse concerning the greate necessitie and manifolde comodyties that are like to growe to this Realme of Englande by the Westerne discoueries lately attempted, written in the yere 1584, by Richarde Hackluyt of Oxforde, at the requeste and direction of the righte worshipfull Mr Walter Rayhly, nowe Knight, before the comynge home of his twoo barkes, and is devided into XXI chapiters, the titles whereof followe in the nexte leafe. Appendix: Notes to Hakluyt s Discourse : Note on the Title-page; Notes on the "Heads of Chapters"; Notes on the Text of the Discourse. One fold-out facsimile frayed at the protruding edge, contents slightly agetoned, otherwise Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-57503

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Titel: Documentary history of the State of Maine. ...

Verlag: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, first edition thus, 1877

Erscheinungsdatum: 1877

Einband: Hardcover

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