The True and Perfect Newes of the Worthy and Valiaunt Exploytes, Performed and Doone by that Valiant Knight Sir Francis Drake: Not Only at Sancto Domingo, and Carthagena, But Also Nowe at Cales, and Vppon the Coast of Spayne, 1587.

GREEPE, Thomas.

Published by Hartford [Conn.] Henry C. Taylor, 1955., 1955

About this Item

Small folio. Edited, with an introduction and notes, and a bibliography of English military books, by David W. Waters. Frontispiece, plate, 12 facsimiles leaves, 5 folding maps. Original gilt stamped beige cloth over brown boards. Fine. 95 pages. As issued, without dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. One of 560 copies printed by Carl Purington Rollins. American Nauticum Number Three. Excellent facsimiles of the very rare original Greepe poem (only 4 recorded copies), one of which now resides at Yale University.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The True and Perfect Newes of the Worthy and Valiaunt Exploytes, Performed and Doone by that Valiant Knight Sir Francis Drake: Not Only at Sancto Domingo, and Carthagena, But Also Nowe at Cales, and Vppon the Coast of Spayne, 1587.
• Publisher: Hartford [Conn.] Henry C. Taylor, 1955.
• Publication Date: 1955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • LITERATURE