A svmmarie and trve discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage.
Subtitle: Wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartegena, and Saint Augustine.
By: With geographicall mappes exactly describing each of the townes ... made by Baptista Boazio.
Contributors: Croftes, Lieutenant.; Gates, Thomas, Sir, d. 1621.; Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed at London by Roger Ward ...
Published: 1589
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 37
Subjects: Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596 -- Travel -- West Indies.; West Indies Expedition, 1585-1586.; Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Explorers -- America -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "Begun by Captaine Bigges, who ended his life in the said voyage ... afterwards finished (as I thinke) by his Lieutenant Maister Croftes or some other."--Dedication by T. Cates (i.e. Thomas Gates).
"The second English edition, published the same year as the first."--H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 199, no. 22.
Device of R. Field on t.p.
First leaf blank except for signature: A.
L.C. copy lacks the 4 maps.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
STC 3057
Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 22