The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation: Made By Sea or Overland, to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth, At Any Time Within the Compasse of These 1600 Yeres

Richard Hakluyt

London : George Bishop, Ralph Newberie and Robert Barker, 1599

Volumes 1 and 2 bound as 1. 2nd edition. Folio. Bound in modern 3/4 black leather. Marbled boards and endpapers. Gilt spine.Ornamental woodcut capitals, some colored. Generally good internationally, foxing, mostly marginal, one margin repaired. [iii]-xxiv, 606 + [xvi] 312 + 202 pp. Lacking title pages, replaced with title page for Volume II. Lacking map.  The title page has "Hackluyt" and 1599";  line 7 reads "thefe 1600 yeres." Lacking volume II title page, present in 19th century pen facsimile. Pages 15-20 in handwritten pen facsimile. Collated : 2-6, **6, A-Z6 (lacking B2-4), Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Ddd6, Eee3; *8, A-Z6, Aa-Cc6.

Volumes 1 and 2 only.

As is typical, lacking the section on the conquest of Cadiz by Essex; as ordered suppressed by Queen Elizabeth in 1599. 

Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616) was one of the primary promoters of English colonization of Virginia.   "Hakluyt with his collection of exemplary English voyages served the historic function of propagandist for English mercantilism and colonial expansion." Streeter Sale 28.  "In a word, many of such useful tracts of sea adventures, which before were scattered as several ships, Mr. Hakluyt hath embodied into a fleet, divided into three squadrons so many several volumes; a work of great honour to England" (Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England).  An important work in early England exploration. 'The prose epic of the modern English nation.' - Froude. 

  References: Church 322; Golier English 14; Hill 131-132; Palau 112038 & 112039;  Pforzheimer 443; STC 12626;  Alden/Landis 594/42; Printing in the Mind of Man 105;  Sabin 29595. 

Provenance: Penciled gift inscription to James W. Savage, from Charles Goodrich, 1856. James Savage was (1826-1890) a Colonel in the 12th NY Cavalry during the Civil War, a judge in Nebraska, member of the NY bar, and government director of the Union Pacific Railroad. Includes his obituary from the Omaha Daily Bee, November 23, 1890.  Additionally, letters from Lucy Tucker Savage (to John Charles Phillips (1876-1938). Later book plate of John Charles Phillips, a wildlife biologist. Also includes a later letter from Anna Phillips Bolling, Greenwich CT, 1941 about Lucy Savage.