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See also NAVAL BIOGRAPHY and EXPEDITIONS and CAMPAIGNS, in subsequent Sections. 1639 The arte of Navigation, | Conteyning a compendious | description of the Sphere, with the ma- | king of certayne Instrumentes and Rules for Navigations, and exemplifyed by many Demonstrations, Written by Martin | Curtes, Spaniarde, Englished out of Spanishe by Richarde Eden, and now newly corrected and amended in diuers places. 1576 [At end] Imprinted at Lon- | don by Richard Iugge, | printer to the Queenes | Majestie. | 1576. Small 4to, vellum L12 Title-page, blank, preface (addressed to Sir Wm. Knight and Mr. Thomas Lodge), 7 leaves; Epistle Dedicatorie of Martin Cortes to Charles V., fol. i-iiii (7 pp.). The work, fol. vi (p. 8) to fol. lxxxiv (several folios incorrectly numbered), with numerous plain and moveable diagrams. Fine copy, clean and unused. 1640 DAVIS. 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MARKHAM; to which is appended Sailing Directions for the Circumnavigation of England, and for a Voyage to the Straits of Gibraltar (from a 15th Century MS.), edited by JAMES GAIRDNER, with Glossary by E. DELMAR MORGAN, 8vo, cloth. (Hakluyt Soc.), 1889 10s 6d G 1642 CORTES (Martin) and FALE. THE ARTE OF NAVI- | GATION. | Contayning a breife description of the Spheare, with the partes and Circles of the same: as also the making and vse of | certaine T Instruments. Very necessarie for all sortes of Sea-men to | vnderstand. First written in Spanish by Martin Curtis, and translated into English by Richard Eden: and lastly corrected and aug-mented, with a Regiment or Table of declina- [tion, and diuers other necessary tables and rules of common Naui- gation. | Calculated (this yeare 1596 being leap yeare) by J. T. Imprinted at London by Edw. Allde for Hugh Astley, by the | assignes of Richard Watkins...... | ......1596. Title, blank; Address, signed Iohn Tap, 1 leaf; Kalender, 3 leaves; the Work, fol. 1 to 92. Horologiographia. | THE ART | of Dialling: | TEACHING AN ...... Title and three leaves introductory; fol. 1-60; Tables, 16 leaves. | 1627. £14 1643 HAKLUYT. THE PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS, VOYAGES, | TRAFFIQUES AND DISCOVE | ries of the English Nation, made by Sea or ouer- | land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600 yeeres: Diuided into three seuerall Volumes, according to the positions of the Regions, whereunto they were directed. | By RICHARD HAKLUYT. 3 vols. in 2, folio, calf neat, gilt edges. Imprinted at London, 1599-1600 £26 This edition was largely extended by the inclusions of later voyages, but the travels of Maundeville, in Latin, occupying 65 pages in the edition of 1589, and Baker's Two Voyages to Guinea in 1562 and 1563, 12 pages in verse, were omitted. In this copy the celebrated voyage of the Earl of Essex, and his famous victory achieved at Cadiz in 1596, suppressed by order of Queen Elizabeth, has been restored. 1644 The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, NEW EDITION, edited by Edmund Goldsmid, 16 vols. 8vo, half-vellum. Edinburgh, 1884-90 £7 Mr. Goldsmid has included the narratives of the first edition (1589), which were omitted in the second (1599-1600), and has added some other works previously issued by Hakluyt, or published at his suggestion, viz.: 'Divers Voyages touching the Discoverie of America,' 'The Conquest of Terra Florida,' Eden's History of the West Indies,' 'The Fardle of Facions...... Maners, Customes, and Lawes of the Peoples......of Affrick and Asie,' 'The Conquest of the Canaries,' Davis's 'Worldes Hydrographical Description,' &c. He has also grouped the contents: all voyages relating to the same parts of the world are printed together. Each volume has also table of contents and index. 1645 1646 The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation...... within the compasse of these 1600 Yeeres. By RICHARD HAKLUYT. NEW EDITION, with facsimile title-pages and maps, 12 vols. 8vo, cloth. Glasgow, 1903-5 £7 10s The SAME EDITION, printed on hand-made paper, 12 vols. 8vo, half-vellum, gilt tops £12 10s The twelfth volume of this edition contains an Essay by Prof. Walter Raleigh on the Voyages, and an Index to the whole work. 1647 PURCHAS. Hakluytus Posthumus, or PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES, in Five Bookes. The First, containing the Voyages and Peregrinations made by Ancients...... Enquiries also of Languages and Religions......The Second, a Description of all the Circum-Navigations of the Globe. 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London, 1617-25 £48 1648 1649 Purchas His Pilgrimes. Containing a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and others, NEW EDITION, with facsimiles of the original maps and illustrations, 20 vols. 8vo, cloth. Glasgow, 1905-7 £12 108 The SAME EDITION, printed on hand-made paper, with proofs on Japanese paper of the maps and illustrations, 20 vols. 8vo. half-vellum, gilt tops £25 The 20th vol. contains a comprehensive Index to the whole work. "The republication of Purchas's 'Pilgrims' is a service of the first order to students, and no library of any importance can afford to miss his volumes from its shelves......A compendium of the geography of the world as it was known to our ancestors up to the end of the seventeenth century, when another era of discovery opened. Messrs. 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