A svmmarie and trve discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes West 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 situations, and the manner of the armies approching to the winning of them / [by Walter Bigges].

Author/creator Bigges, Walter
Other author Croftes, Lieutenant.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBay City, Mich. : W.L. Clements, [1921]
Description[4], 52 p., [4] leaves of plates : 4 fold. maps, facsims. ; 21 cm.
Supplemental ContentGale, Sabin Americana: History of the Americas, 1500-1926
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Variant title Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
Variant title Binder's title: Drake's "Summarie and true discourse"
SeriesSabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926. UNAUTHORIZED
Local noteBiography; Travel.
Local note2013AJ10400.
General notePhotocopy. Originally published: London : Imprinted by R. Field, 1589.
General note"Begun by Captaine Bigges, who ended his life in the said voyage ... afterwards finished (as I thinke) by his Lieutenant Maister Croftes or some other."--Dedication by T. Cates.
General noteOne of ten copies made in fac-simile by the photostat of the Christie-Miller original.
General note"The text is that of the second English edition." Cf. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. [120]; the four maps are of the 1588 Latin edition in the Wm. L. Clements Library. Cf. Letter to Wm. G. Kelso, Jr. from Clements, February 4th, 1921.
General noteTitle-vignette.
General noteReproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
General noteSabin no. 11505.

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