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HAKLUYT, Richard - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiqes and Discoveries of the English Nation,made by sea or over-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the Earth : - (etc). 3 volumes bound in two; (xxiv) ; 1 - 606; (xvi); 1 - 312; 1 - 204; 1 - 866. Volume one lacks all after Cccc6. The final volume is entirely dedicated to the Americas. The suppressed pages on the conquest of Cadiz pp. 607 to 619 are present. No World map. Title page a little soiled and the top corner has been torn and then replaced, looks untidy but doesn't seemed to have any text loss. Towards the end of the second volume the top edge of the text block has been gnawed a way with loss of several page numbers. Rebound in full calf raised bands with lettering. Folio. George Bishop, Ralph Newberie, and Robert Barker Second edition. 1599-1600. * Richard Hakluyt was a geographer, ( 1552 - 1616 )he is regarded as the first professor of modern geography at Oxford. He went to great lengths to 'read over whatsoever printed or written discoveries and voyages,' He acquainted himself with captains, mariners and merchants such as Martin Frobisher, and Humphrey Gilbert. He consulted cartographers such as Abraham Ortelius and Geradus Mercator