Full title: A journal kept by Capt. Bartholomew Sharpe of his passage over land at the Isthmus of Darien to the South Sea of America and of what was transacted by him whilest he Sailed there and of his discovery of: A Passage to the Eastward of Albemarle Island - out of Said South Seas; as allso an accurat description of the Straghts of Magellan by Capt. John Wood; likewise a journal kept by Capt. William Cowley from the Island of Gorgona in the foresaid South Sea of America by the East indiaes to Holland in Europe; and allso an abstract of the said Cowley's journal from Cape Charles in Virginia and to the Said island of Gorgona in the Sea aforesaid being faithfully Collected & the drafts delineated from the Originals by William Hacke.
Text and charts on rectos; illustrations and charts on versos.
With 95 pages of illustrations which are primarily maps.
Pictorial title border; 95 pages of illustrations,charts and maps including 18 full-page maps and 3 small portrait drawings of Sir Francis Drake, Thomas Cavendish and Sir Walter Rawleigh.
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A journal kept by Capt. Bartholomew Sharpe of his passage over land at the isthmus of Darien to the South Sea of America... : autograph manuscript : [London], [ca. 1695] .
Record ID:
105801
Accession number:
MA 3310
Credit:
Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1979.
Description:
1 item (362 p.) : ill. (ports.) ; 45.4 x 29.0 cm
Notes:
Housed in:
Red cloth drop spine box (49.6 cm)
Binding:
Red morocco, gilt.
Provenance:
With the bookplates of Christopher Jeaffreson of Dullingham and Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.; gift of H. P. Kraus, 1979.
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