A true discourse of the late voyages of discouerie, for the finding of a passage to Cathaya, by the Northweast, vnder the conduct of Martin Frobisher generall: deuided into three bookes
Subtitle: In the first wherof is shewed, his first voyage. Wherein also by the vvay is sette out a geographicall description of the worlde, and what partes thereof haue bin discouered by the nauigations of the Englishmen. Also, there are annexed certayne reasons, to proue all partes of the worlde habitable, with a generall mappe adioyned. In the second, is set out his second voyage, vvith the aduentures and accidents thereof. In the thirde, is declared the strange fortunes which hapned in the third voyage, with a seuerall description of the countrey and the people there inhabiting. VVith a particular card therevnto adioyned of Meta incognita, so farre forth as the secretes of the voyage may permit
Contributors: Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535-1594; Harris, John, 1791?-1873
Publisher: Imprinted by Henry Bynnyman, seruant to the right Honourable Sir Christopher Hatton vizchamberlaine
Published: 1578
Place of publication: At London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Discoveries in geography; English; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Trve discovrse of the late voyages of discouerie, for the finding of a passage to Cathaya, by the Northvveast, vnder the conduct of Martin Frobisher generall.
Notes: Dedication signed: George Beste.

Colophon reads: At London, Printed by Henry Bynnyman. Anno Domini. 1578. Decembris. 10.

Two states of the dedication and p. 17-18 have been noted. In the first state of the dedication, leaf aiii verso, lines 15-29 to leaf b1 recto, lines 1-15, the passage beginning "name of God hath not bin once hearde of" and ends "& of gouernment good for any good place of seruice", was repeated and necessitated the dedication being reprinted; the first state of p. 17, line 15, has "yearuslaue", line 16 "Volga", line 19 "the sayde riuer turning", and p. 18 has two marginal notes. In state two of the dedication, there is no repetition of the text; the second state of p. 17, line 15, has "yearuslane", line 16 "Molga", line 19 "the sayde riuer Volga turning", and p. 18 has no marginal notes.

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Title printed within ornamental border; full page armorial woodcut on p. [4], 1st count; head and tail pieces; initials.

European Americana 578/4.

Church, E.D.  Discovery, 122.

STC (2nd ed.) 1972-1973.

English short title catalogue S104566.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I:268.

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