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HAKLUYT, Richard.
Hakluyt's Collection
of the Early Voyages, Travels and Discoveries of the English Nation. A new edition, with additions.
Publisher: London, G. Woodfall for R. H. Evans [and others], 1809–12
Stock code: 32875
Price: £5,750 Currency Conversion
Third edition, limited issue, one of 75 large-paper copies on imperial paper. "An accurate reprint of the best folio [edition of 1599–1600] with the addition of those voyages which were published in the first edition, and omitted in the second. It likewise has a supplement containing all the voyages and travels printed by Hakluyt, or at his suggestion, which forms the latter part of the fourth, and the whole of the fifth volume" (Lowndes).
5 volumes, large quarto (370 × 235 mm). Publisher's green half morocco, spine lettered and decorated gilt in compartments between raised bands, sides with double gilt rules, green morocco-grain cloth boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut. Bookplate of William Hardin Bradshaigh and presentation inscription to him dated 1848 on first title verso. Binding a little rubbed in places, an excellent set.
