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Lot 247
SETTLE, DONYSIUS Historia Navigationis Martini Forbisseri Angli Praetoris sive Capitanei, A. C. 1577 ... in Septemtrionis & Occ...
Hamburg: For Johann Naumanni & Geori Wolff, 1675. Second Latin edition. Modern vellum-backed boards.7 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches (20 x 15.5 cm); 28 ff., paginated [xix] (including the fine frontispiece), 37 pp., collating A-G^(4). Light binding wear, browned.
Frobisher made three voyages to the northeast coast of North America between 1576 and 1578 in search of gold and the North West Passage. This is the Latin version of this account of his second voyage, written by an eyewitness, for Settle accompanied him. The Latin edition is based on the French translation of Settle's work published by Chuppin in 1578, but N.B. "The notes of this edition contain much matter not in the English, French, German, or Latin edition" (Church). The engraved frontispiece by J. Wichmann shows a man in a kayak, a map of the Frobisher Straits, and a unicorn and is headed with engraved text. Church 638; European Americana 675/157; JCB, 1675-1700 (1973), p. 14; Sabin 79346.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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