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Voyages.- Hakluyt (Richard) The Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, made by sea or over land, first edition, black letter, engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces, lacking title, nineteenth-century facsimile title supplied, lacking the map (as often), lacking X4 and 4F4 (final blank), trimmed, occasionally touching headline or page number, T4 with short marginal tear and no loss, 2K5 & 2K6 with small hole touching odd letter, 4F3 with tears and neat old repairs, spotting and staining, ink signatures, finger-posts and notes in various hands throughout, nineteenth-century half-calf, rebacked, a little rubbed, [Sabin 29594; PMM 105 (second edition)], folio, Christopher Barker, 1589.

⁂ 'the most complete collection of voyages and discoveries, by land as well as by sea, and of the nautical achievements of the Elizabethans' (PMM).