Fine Books and Manuscripts

The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, Being his next Voyage to that to Nombre de Dios. Collated with an Unpublished Manuscript of Francis Fletcher, Chaplain to the Expedition. London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1854. 8vo, rebound in quarter blue calf over original blue cloth stamped in blind and gilt. First edition. With large fold-out linen-backed map and collated with the British Museum, Sloan MS 61, an unpublished manuscript of Francis Fletcher. Minor edgewear; scattered light brownspotting.