The voyages and works of John Davis, the navigator.
By: Edited with an introd. and notes by Albert Hastings Markham.
Contributors: Markham, Albert Hastings, Sir, 1841-1918, ed.; Coote, C. H. 1839-1899.; Jane, John, fl. 1590.; Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615.
Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, no. 59; Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ;; no. 59.
Publisher: B. Franklin
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Davys, John, 1550?-1605.; Cumberland, George Clifford, 3d Earl of, 1558-1605.; Cavendish, Thomas, 1560-1592.; Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.; Navigation.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Reprint of the 1880 ed., which was published in 2 v. and included a facsim. map with title: The map of the world A.D. 1600.
"Note on the 'New map,' by C. H. Coote": p. [lxxxv]-xcv.
"Works on the art of navigation previous to and during the age of Elizabeth": p. [339]-367.
Includes The third voyage of the Erle of Cumberland to the Azores, by E. Wright; The last voyage of the Worshipfull M. Thomas Candish, and the first and third voyages of John Davis, by J. Jane; and reprints of the author's The worlde's hydrographical description, London, 1595, and The seaman's secrets, London, 1607.