Lot 2026 , 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 Giuana. tit

° 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 Giuana. title within decorated border, portrait frontis. (by Robert Vaughan), headpiece decorations; later 19th cent. period style gilt ruled and decorated boards, gilt decorated panelled spine with red label, ge. & marbled e/ps., sm.8vo. printed by T.W. for Humphrey Moseley ... 1650. Note: The ransacking of a Spanish outpost (Santo Tomé de Guyana) in violation of a Spanish Peace Treaty, on the author's second expedition in search of an El Dorado, caused his execution in 1618; this volume including the first publication of the earlier manuscript apology.
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Signatures - (AI), A2, (A3&4), A-F8, G7 (lacks G8 a blank), (unsigned 4 leaves), B-C8, D4, (AI), A2-8, B-D8, E4. pagination - (10), 42; (I), 4, (65), (I), 46 & (I), 69pp.

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