Sir Francis Drake | Sir Francis Drake Revived, 1653

Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake Revived. Who is or may be a Pattern to stirre up all Heroicke and active Spirits of these Times... being a Summary and true Relation of foure severall Voyages made by the said Sir Francis Drake to the West-Indies. London: for Nicholas Bourne, [1652–] 1653

4 parts in one, 4to (184 x 142 mm.), engraved portrait frontispiece, separate title-pages, nineteenth-century sprinkled calf gilt by Bedford, spine with raised bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering pieces to second and third compartments, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, a few letters of the headlines, page numbers, or marginal text occasionally trimmed, small rust hole to C2 of part 2, upper board detached

First collected edition of Drake's famed voyages, beginning with his privateering raids for Spanish gold in the New World, to his raids on the Pacific coast where he claimed California for England and became the first English captain to circumnavigate the globe.

PROVENANCE:

Cecil Stillingfleet, early ownership inscription to verso of preliminary blank; Samuel Stillingfleet, armorial bookplate on verso of front free endpaper; Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire seat of the Cowper family from 1869, armorial bookplate; Panshanger, Hertfordshire, armorial bookplate

LITERATURE:

Wing D2122; Church 526; Hill, pp. 86 and 211; Sabin 20840, 20855, 20843, and 20830