Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana

by Joyce Lorimer

$75 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: Hakluyt Society, 2006. Large 8vo, pp. xcvii, 1 , 341, 1 ; ; frontispiece plus 10 maps and illustrations; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued as no.15 in the Hakluyt Society's Third Series. Sir Walter Ralegh's account of his 1595 expedition to the Orinoco in search of the fabled empire of Eldorado was an immediate publishing success and is one of the most important pieces of Elizabethan travel literature. Item #64230

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