The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 Yeeres [Hakluyt's Voyages] by Hakluyt, Richard - 1903

Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1903. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. First thus, one of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Spines a bit faded, ink gift note on front flyleaf of first volume, front & end matter faintly foxed. 1903 Hard Cover. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. lxxix, [i], 354, [1]; xi, [i], 486, [1]; xv, 484, [1]; xv, [i], 456, [1]; xv, [i], 511, [1]; xv, [i], 526, [1]; xvi, 465, [1]; xiv, 485, [1]; xv, [i], 472, [1]; xvii, [i]; 500, [1]; xvi, [i], 457, [1]; xiii, [i], 469 pp. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt titles. Fold-out maps and engravings throughout text. A reissue of the second edition of Hakluyt's work advocating British colonization of North America, released from 1598-1600 in three foolscap folio volumes. This edition includes a publisher's note stating that facsimiles of the titles pages of the first and second editions are included, with some notes on how the revisions were treated. Also included are facsimiles of maps, most notably the map issued with, but often missing from, second editions of the work, believed to be the map referenced by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. Hakluyt was a staunch promoter of a petition to James I for letters patent to colonize Virginia, which were granted to the London Company and Plymouth Company (collectively, the Virginia Company) in 1606. He lends his name to the Hakluyt Society, which publishes scholarly editions of primary records of voyages and travels. Reprint of Sabin 29596-29598.