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Title: Lot of 14 volumes from the Hakluyt Society Second Series, comprising 10 works Author: ** Place: London Publisher: Hakluyt Society Date: 1940-1974 Description: Includes: The Voyages and Colonising Enterprises of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. 2 volumes. 1940. * The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania (1612), by William Strachey, gent. 1953. * The Roanoke Voyages 1584-1590. Documents to Illustrate the English Voyages to North America Under the Patent Granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584. 2 volumes. 1955. * The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton 1582-1583, Narrative & Documents edited by E.R.G.Taylor. 1959. *The Tragic history of the Sea, 1589-1622: Narratives of the Shipwrecks of the Portugueses East Indiamen Sao Thome (1589) Santo Alberto (1593) Sao Joao Baptista (1622) and the journies of the survivors in South East Africa. 1959. * The Cabot Voyages and Bristol Discovery under Henry VII. 1962. * A Regiment for the Sea and Other Writings on Navigation by William Borne of Gronesend, a Gunner (c.1535-1582). 1963. * Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea 1559-1565. 1968. *The Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter, 1606-1609. 2 volumes. 1969. * The Hakluyt Handbook. 2 volumes.1974. Together, 10 works in 14 volumes. Blue cloth, all but the first 3 works (5 volumes) in jackets. Nice selection of these scholarly compilations and reprints of early voyages. Lot Amendments Condition: Jackets with some foxing and other wear, most prices clipped; a few spine ends crimped; very good or better condition. Item number: 185391