HAWKINS, Sir Richard (?1562-1622). The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins ... in his voiage into the South Sea. Anno Domini 1593 . London: John Dawson for John Jaggard, 1622. 2° (279 x 184mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, headpiece and initials. Retaining preliminary blank \Kp\k1. (Some leaves lightly creased, occasional light marking, short marginal tears on E2.3, small paper flaw on R1.) Late 17th-/early 18th-century tan goatskin, boards with borders of double blind rules, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces, one bearing title, the other with Bunbury crest (edges a little rubbed and bumped, occasional scuff marks, hinges rubbed and spine ends chipped). Provenance : errata neatly corrected in a 17th-century hand -- Sir Thomas Hanmer fourth baronet, Hanmer, Flintshire (1677-1746, engraved bookplate on verso of title dated 1707) -- [?by descent to his nephew and heir to his Mildenhall and Barton properties, the Reverend Sir William Bunbury, fifth baronet (d.1764) -- ?by descent to his son, Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, sixth baronet (1740-1821)] -- [?by descent to his nephew] Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, seventh baronet (1778-1860, bookplate on upper pastedown) -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners). FIRST EDITION. 'A VOLUME OF MUCH RARITY' (Sabin). 'The original account of a famous English voyage. Hawkins set forth with the intention of circumnavigating the globe, trading with Japan, the Philippines, the Moluccas, China, and India. He did not complete his circumnavigation, however. After entering the Pacific in 1594, Hawkins and the men of the Dainty plundered the Spanish settlement at Valparaiso. Later in the year, he was trapped by two Spanish ships carrying a force outnumbering his own by ten to one in the Bay of San Mateo in Peru. A three-day fight ensued, but defeat was inevitable. Hawkins was released by the Spanish in 1602. Shortly before this volume was published, he died suddenly in the Council Chamber in London. This work gives an excellent account of life at sea in the Elizabethan age' (Hill). The present copy bears the bookplates of the politician and Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Thomas Hanmer and his descendant Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, soldier, collector, and editor of The Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer Bart. with a Memoir of his Life (London: 1838). Borba de Moraes p.395; Brunet III, 63; Hill 784; JCB II, p.165; NMM I, 284; Sabin 30957; STC 12962.
HAWKINS, Sir Richard (?1562-1622). The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins ... in his voiage into the South Sea. Anno Domini 1593 . London: John Dawson for John Jaggard, 1622. 2° (279 x 184mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, headpiece and initials. Retaining preliminary blank \Kp\k1. (Some leaves lightly creased, occasional light marking, short marginal tears on E2.3, small paper flaw on R1.) Late 17th-/early 18th-century tan goatskin, boards with borders of double blind rules, spine gilt in compartments, gilt morocco lettering-pieces, one bearing title, the other with Bunbury crest (edges a little rubbed and bumped, occasional scuff marks, hinges rubbed and spine ends chipped). Provenance : errata neatly corrected in a 17th-century hand -- Sir Thomas Hanmer fourth baronet, Hanmer, Flintshire (1677-1746, engraved bookplate on verso of title dated 1707) -- [?by descent to his nephew and heir to his Mildenhall and Barton properties, the Reverend Sir William Bunbury, fifth baronet (d.1764) -- ?by descent to his son, Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, sixth baronet (1740-1821)] -- [?by descent to his nephew] Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, seventh baronet (1778-1860, bookplate on upper pastedown) -- Thomas Edward Watson (bookplate; by descent to the present owners). FIRST EDITION. 'A VOLUME OF MUCH RARITY' (Sabin). 'The original account of a famous English voyage. Hawkins set forth with the intention of circumnavigating the globe, trading with Japan, the Philippines, the Moluccas, China, and India. He did not complete his circumnavigation, however. After entering the Pacific in 1594, Hawkins and the men of the Dainty plundered the Spanish settlement at Valparaiso. Later in the year, he was trapped by two Spanish ships carrying a force outnumbering his own by ten to one in the Bay of San Mateo in Peru. A three-day fight ensued, but defeat was inevitable. Hawkins was released by the Spanish in 1602. Shortly before this volume was published, he died suddenly in the Council Chamber in London. This work gives an excellent account of life at sea in the Elizabethan age' (Hill). The present copy bears the bookplates of the politician and Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Thomas Hanmer and his descendant Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, soldier, collector, and editor of The Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer Bart. with a Memoir of his Life (London: 1838). Borba de Moraes p.395; Brunet III, 63; Hill 784; JCB II, p.165; NMM I, 284; Sabin 30957; STC 12962.
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