Ralegh's Last Voyage.

£200 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

A beautifully printed set of translations and reprinted tracts piecing together Sir Walter Raleigh's last voyage to 'Guiana' (Venezuela) in search of El Dorado. During the expedition a detachment, not under his command, attacked the Spanish outpost of Santo Tomé de Guayana in violation of Anglo-Spanish peace treaties with his son being one of the fatalities. He was beheaded on his return. 4to (26.5 x 20 cm); number 47 of 775 copies printed on Japon vellum, frontispiece, 2 folding maps, unopened; publisher's original vellum-backed brown cloth, gilt medallion to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine, corners a little bumped, a very good copy; [viii], 379, [1] pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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