A summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian voyage : wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Jago, Sancto Domingo, Cartagena & Saint Augustine.
- Bigges, Walter, -1586
- Date:
- 1589
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About this work
Also known as
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
Publication/Creation
Imprinted at London : By Richard Field, dwelling in the Blacke-Friars by Ludgate, 1589.
Physical description
4 unnumbered pages, 52 pages, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait, 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
Notes
"Begun by Captaine Bigges, vvho ended his life in the said voyage ... aftervvardes finished (as I thinke) by his Lieutenant Maister Croftes or some other"--Dedication by T. Cates (i.e. Thomas Gates).
"The first complete publication of the text"--H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 199, no. 21.
Signatures: [A]² B-G⁴ H².
Contains the five maps attrib. to Baptista Boazio, cataloged elsewhere as STC 3171.6.
Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1772:10) s1999 miun s