WHITBOURNE, RICHARD A Discourse and Discovery of New-Found-Land, with many reasons to procue how worthy and beneficiall a Plantation may there be made, after a far better manner than now it is. London: Felix Kingston, 1622. The second edition (enlarged from the 1620 first issue). Later half calf (defective). 7 x 5 inches (18.5 x 13.3 cm); With original title, signatures B-T^4 only (lacks A2 & A3 which contain dedications to the King, and A4 which is blank), without preliminary or final blank. Explorers Club bookplate and blindstamps, small ink numeral on title and first leaf, foxing, old dampstain at gutter touching some text, the front cover detached and portions of spine lacking. An important and rare work by "the father of Newfoundland," this second issue was enlarged from the 1620 edition to include fifteen pages of letters and gives the only account of George Calvert's Avalon colony, which was abandoned for Maryland. The text also includes Whitbourne's strange encounter with a mermaid. We trace few copies of this title at auction and while this copy is lacking two preliminary leaves, a copy sold in 1988 also lacked these leaves suggesting a variant issue. C The Explorers Club Collection
WHITBOURNE, RICHARD A Discourse and Discovery of New-Found-Land, with many reasons to procue how worthy and beneficiall a Plantation may there be made, after a far better manner than now it is. London: Felix Kingston, 1622. The second edition (enlarged from the 1620 first issue). Later half calf (defective). 7 x 5 inches (18.5 x 13.3 cm); With original title, signatures B-T^4 only (lacks A2 & A3 which contain dedications to the King, and A4 which is blank), without preliminary or final blank. Explorers Club bookplate and blindstamps, small ink numeral on title and first leaf, foxing, old dampstain at gutter touching some text, the front cover detached and portions of spine lacking. An important and rare work by "the father of Newfoundland," this second issue was enlarged from the 1620 edition to include fifteen pages of letters and gives the only account of George Calvert's Avalon colony, which was abandoned for Maryland. The text also includes Whitbourne's strange encounter with a mermaid. We trace few copies of this title at auction and while this copy is lacking two preliminary leaves, a copy sold in 1988 also lacked these leaves suggesting a variant issue. C The Explorers Club Collection
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