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RALEIGH, SIR WALTER. Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations... upon the First Invention of Shipping. The Misery of Invasive Warre. The Navy

RALEIGH, SIR WALTER. Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations... upon the First Invention of Shipping. The Misery of Invasive Warre. The Navy Royall and Sea-Service. With His Apologie for His Voyage to Guiana. Engraved frontispiece portrait (trimmed slightly without loss and mounted). [10], 42; [2], 4, [62]; [2], 46; [2], 69 pages; lacks the 4 leaves of publisher's ads at end. 4 parts in one volume. Small 8vo, contemporary calf, needs rebacking; margins trimmed not affecting text, scattered foxing, stain on fore edges. London: T. W. for Humphrey Moseley, 1650

  • Notes: first edition. With references to American Indians, the Strait of Magellan, the West Indies, etc., in the first part, and to the Incan ruler Atahualpa in the second. Pforzheimer 822; Alden 650/176-177; Wing R170, R154.

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