Excerpt from Sir Humfrey Gylberte and His Enterprise of Colonization in America Minds of England to the unexplored regions of North America. His elaborate Difcourfe, to prove the exiftence of a N orthweft Paffage to China, is a choice example of the fcientific writing of an unfcientific age. The Letters Patent, granted to him by Queen Elizabeth, fhow with what facility the fovereigns of her time gave away lands which they did not poffefs. The quaint Narrative of Captain Edward Haies can never lofe its intereft as a profe ...
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Excerpt from Sir Humfrey Gylberte and His Enterprise of Colonization in America Minds of England to the unexplored regions of North America. His elaborate Difcourfe, to prove the exiftence of a N orthweft Paffage to China, is a choice example of the fcientific writing of an unfcientific age. The Letters Patent, granted to him by Queen Elizabeth, fhow with what facility the fovereigns of her time gave away lands which they did not poffefs. The quaint Narrative of Captain Edward Haies can never lofe its intereft as a profe epic of the fea. The other papers which complete the bulk of the work, many of them copied from the Englifh Archives and never before printed, will ferve as fide-lights to reveal the circumftances amid which Sir Humfrey Gylberte, the bold pioneer of Eng lifh Colonization, made his way to pra???tical failure and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Very good(+) Frontispiece portrait. Rubricated title, map, 335 pages, tall square 8vo, bound in grey cloth with the original printed wrappers bound in. Boston: Prince Society, 1877. Limited Edition. Scarce. Very good (+). Limited to one of 200 copies.
