HAKLUYT, Richard (1552-1616). The Principal Navigations... Edinburgh, 1885-1890. LIMITED EDITION, LARGE-PAPER COPY.
16 volumes bound in 17, 4to (280 x 223 mm). List of subscribers. 3 engraved maps (one folding), 7 engraved plates, numerous engraved initials, head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary vellum gilt, smoot spines gilt, green and red calf lettering-pieces gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (spine labels slightly faded). LIMITED EDITION, LARGE-PAPER COPY, one of 100 sets bound in full vellum with plates & maps on india-proof paper. A fine reissue of the most celebrated collection of voyages and travels described by bibliographers and historians as a "magnificent achievement," an epic of English prose and a unique source of reference to the great discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries. A VERY HANDSOME SET. Howgego I:H8.
Provenance: John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron (1820-1894), lord chief justice of England, Heaths Court, Ottery St Mary (1888 signature to Vol.I).
