A summarie and true discourse of Sir Francis Drakes VVest Indian voyage : wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine : with geographicall mappes exactly describing each of the townes with their scituations, and the manner of the armies approching to the winning of them.
- Bigges, Walter, -1586
- Date:
- 1589
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Publication/Creation
Imprinted at London : By Richard Field, dwelling in the Blacke-Friars by Ludgate, 1589.
Physical description
4 unnumbered pages, 52 pages, 5 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : maps
Contributors
- Bigges, Walter, -1586
- Croftes, Lieutenant
- Gates, Thomas, Sir, -1621
- Boazio, Baptista. Famouse West Indian voyadge made by the Englishe fleete of 23 shippes and barkes wherin weare gotten the townes of St· Iago: :Sto: Domingo, Cartagena and :St: Augustines the same beinge begon from Plimmouth in the moneth of September 1585 and ended at Portesmouth in Iulie 1586
References note
STC (2nd ed.) 3056.5
Notes
"Begun by Captain Bigges, vvho ended his life in the said voyage ... the same being aftervvardes finished (as I thinke) by his Lieutenant Maister Croftes, or some other"--Dedication by Thomas Cates [i.e. Thomas Gates].
Signatures: A-G⁴ H².
Errata: p. 52.
This item was mistakenly omitted from reel guide at reel 1745.
Contains the five maps attrib. to Baptista Boazio, and cataloged elsewhere as STC 3171.6.
Identified as 3056 at reel 377:5.
Printer's device (McK. 222) on t.p.; headpieces; initials.
Imperfect: copy at reel 377:5 cropped, with loss of signature marks; last p. verso not filmed.
Reproductions of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Reproduction note
1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 377:5, 1745:11)
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, s1999 miun s