Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 3 (of 8) English Explorations and Settlements in North America 1497-1689

volume seventeen years later. _Carter-Brown Catalogue_, p. 292.

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=1583.= Sir George Peckham’s _True Report of the late Discoveries_, etc. See further on this tract on a preceding page.

=1583.= M. M. S. published at London a small tract giving a translation of Las Casas’ story of the Spanish deeds in the New World. _Carter-Brown Catalogue_, p. 293.

=1588.= What is called the second original work published in England on the New World is Hariot’s _New Foundland of Virginia_, a small quarto of twenty-three leaves, imprinted at London. Heber had a copy; and Brunet, the first to describe it, took the title from Heber’s Catalogue. There are copies in the Lenox, Huth (_Catalogue_, ii. 652), Grenville (British Museum) and the Bodleian libraries. Sabin, _Dictionary_, viii. 30377, who says this, adds that there was a copy sold surprisingly low at Dublin in 1873, escaping the attention of collectors. It was reprinted at Frankfort in 1590. See chapter iv.

=1588.= Appeared an English version of the Latin account of Drake’s voyage.

=1589.= Hakluyt gave out the first edition of his _Principall Navigations_. Copies are at present worth from £5 to £10, according to condition; and we have noted the following: Harvard College, Brinley (no. 33), Carter-Brown (no. 384), Charles Deane, Long Island Historical Society, Field (_Ind. Bibliog._ no. 631), Crowninshield (_Catalogue_, no. 487), etc. The catalogues usually note the six suppressed leaves of Drake’s voyage when present.

Hakluyt, at the end of his preface, speaks of “The comming out of a very large and most exact terestriall Globe, collected and reformed according to the newest, secretest, and latest discoveries, ... composed by Mr. Emmerie Mollineaux, of Lambeth, a rare gentleman in his profession.”

In place of this Molineaux map, there sometimes appears, at p. 597, what Hakluyt calls “One of the best general mappes of the world,” which is a recut plate of one in Ortelius’s Atlas; and in other copies instead we find another edition of the same, which is also found in the English translation of Linschoten. Sabin says he has sometimes found a woodcut of Gilbert’s map substituted. The Ortelius map is reproduced in