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. 

DRAKE, SIR FRANCIS

Edité par London: for Nicholas Bourne, 1652

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"THE FIRST COLLECTED AND MOST COMPLETE EDITION OF DRAKE'S VOYAGES" (Church). FIRST EDITION, 4 parts in one, engraved portrait frontispiece, separate title-pages, woodcut initials and headpieces, the first 3 separately signed and paginated, the last 2 continuously paginated, full later speckled calf, spine gilt, 4to (183 x140mm), London: for Nicholas Bourne, [1652-] 1653. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Drake's voyages, the four parts comprising: Sir Francis Drake Revived, the voyages of 1570-71 and 1572-73 describes Drake's privateering expeditions to the West Indies, the raid on Nombre de Dios in 1572, when he captured a fortune of Spanish silver from the centre of the Spanish New World empire. The World Encompassed, the voyage of 1577-80. Compiled by Francis Drake, nephew of the late explorer, it narrates Drake's memorable voyage, in which his five vessels raided Spanish outposts and supply routes on the Pacific coast, claimed California ("New Albion") for the British crown and returned via the Pacific and Indian Oceans, making Drake the first English captain to circumnavigate the globe. A Summarie and True Discourse of [his] West Indian Voyage, the voyage of 1585-86 that was begun by Bigges, an officer under Drake, and finished after his death, probably by his lieutenant, Master Croftes. Drake's expedition to the Spanish Indies was the first major British naval foray into the Caribbean and was sanctioned by a commission from Queen Elizabeth with letters of marque. As well as capturing and sacking a number of cities he also rescued the 103 colonists remaining on Raleigh's Roanoke Island Virginia colony and returned them to England along with a shipment of potatoes and tobacco. A Full Relation of Another Voyage into the West Indies, made by Sir Francis Drake' Accompanied with Sir John Hawkins, Sir Thomas Baskerfield, Sir Nicholas Clifford, and others. Who set forth from Plymouth on 28. Of August 1595. 'Sir Francis Drake, the greatest of the naval adventurers of England of the time of Elizabeth, was born in Devonshire about 1540. He went to sea early, was sailing to the Spanish Main by 1565, and commanded a ship under Hawkins in an expedition that was overwhelmed by the Spaniards in 1567. In order to recompense himself for the loss suffered in this disaster, he equipped the expedition against the Spanish treasure Philip Nichols Church 526; Hill, pp. 86 and 211; Sabin 20840, 20855, 20843, and 20830; Wing D2122.

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• Titre: 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.
• Éditeur: London: for Nicholas Bourne
• Date de parution: 1652
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good