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Book/Printed MaterialA declaration of the causes which mooued the chiefe commanders of the nauie of Her Most Excellent Maiestie the Queene of England in their voyage and expedition for Portingal : to take …
Declaration of the causes, which mooved the chiefe commanders of the navie of Her Most Excellent Majestie the Queene of England | Declaration of the cavses, which mooved the chiefe commanders of the navie of Her Most Excellent Majestie the Queene of England "First edition in English of this official diplomatic document"--H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake : a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 200-201, no. 26. A justification of the seizure of Hansa ships during the 1589 expedition against Spain and Portugal. Also published in Latin under title: Declaratio causarum, quibus Serenissimae Majestatis Angliae classiarii adducti ... quasdam naves ... in ipsis faucibus Ulissiponae, ceperunt ... Errors in…- Contributor: England and Wales. Sovereign ( : Elizabeth I) - Beale, Robert - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Barker, Christopher - Elizabeth I
- Date: 1589
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Book/Printed MaterialA trve coppie of a discourse written by a gentleman, employed in the late voyage of Spaine and Portingale. Sent to his particular friend, and by him published, for the better satisfaction … Has been wrongly attributed to Robert Devereux, 2d Earl of Essex. In some copies E2 is a cancel; the facsim. in L.C. copy is of the cancellandum. The cancellans has additional text relating to the Earl of Essex. Cf. G. W. Cole. The extra gill and the full quart pot, 1919. L.C. copy imperfect: p. 27-30 (signatures E2-3) wanting; supplied in facsim. ESTC S126199…- Contributor: Wingfield, Anthony - Orwin, Thomas - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Woodcock, Thomas - Essex, Robert Devereux
- Date: 1589
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Book/Printed MaterialThe copie of a letter sent from sea by a gentleman, The letter describing a voyage begun Feb. 4 is dated at sea Mar. 12, 1588 [i.e. 1589] and signed: T. F. [i.e. Thomas Fenner?]. ESTC S117953 Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 23 STC 10653 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC knj 2019-02-26 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Fenner, Thomas
- Date: 1589
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Book/Printed MaterialDon Alonso Perez de Guzman el bueno duque de la ciudad de Medina Sidonia, conde de Niebla ..., capitan general del Mar Oceano ... y desta Real Armada y Exercito de su …
Lo que ordeno y mando que hagan y cumplan los generales, maestros de campo, capitanes, y officiales de infanteria, y de mar, pilotos, maestres, soldados, marineros, y officiales, y qualquier otra gente de guerra y mar que viniere en esta dicha Armada todo el tiempo que durare esta iornada, es lo siguiente "The first edition (unrecorded, and apparently unique) of the General Orders for the Invincible Armada of 1588."--Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 197, no. 18. At end: Fecha en el Galeon Sant Martin sobre Belen a De mil y quinientos y ochenta y ocho años. Docket in author's handwriting on p. [8]: Instrucjon Jen[era]l q[ue] se dio al arm[a]da. año…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez De Guzmán
- Date: 1588
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Book/Printed MaterialOrders, ESTC S114377 Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 19 STC 19625 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus. LAC knj 2019-02-26 no edits (1 card)- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez De Guzmán - Orwin, Thomas
- Date: 1588
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Book/Printed MaterialA discourse in commendation of the valiant as vertuous minded gentleman, Maister Frauncis Drake, with a reioysing of his happy aduentures
A discourse, in the commendation of Captaine Drakes trauayle. 1580 This small book by the Elizabethan writer Nicholas Breton (circa 1545-1622) is a work of praise addressed to Francis Drake for his voyage around the world of 1577-80. The fact that it refers to Drake as "master" rather than "sir" suggests that it was published some time between September 26, 1580, when Drake returned to Plymouth, and April 14, 1581, when Queen Elizabeth I…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Breton, Nicholas
- Date: 1581
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Book/Printed MaterialEphemeris expeditionis Norreysij & Draki in Lusitaniam
Relatio eorum omnium, quae a Norreysio & Drako in sua expeditione Portugalensi, singulis diebus gesta fuerint | Ephemeris expeditionis Norreysij et Draki in Lusitaniam "First edition. One of the most important original sources for the history of the Drake-Norris attack upon Spain and Portugal in 1589 ... It is a diary of the events of that expedition, from March 15 to July 3."--H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 200, no. 25. Includes a prefatory letter purporting to be from O.H. to Michael Isselt of…- Contributor: O. H. - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Woodcock, Thomas - Huth, Henry
- Date: 1589
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Book/Printed MaterialWarhafftige vnd gründtliche Historia dess Zugs, welchen die edle vnd gestrenge Herrn Norwitz vnd Drak (nach jhrer glücklichen widerkunfft auss den occidentalischen Insulen) auss vergünstigung der Durchleuchtigsten vn[d] Vnvberwindlichsten Elisabeth, Königin auss …
Gründtliche Relation oder Beschreibung alles dessjenigen, welchs vom Herrn Norrwitz vnd Draken in dem Zug in Portugal von Tag zu Tag ist gehandelt vnnd vollbracht worden | Warhafftige und gründtliche Historia dess Zugs "First German edition of the Ephemeris expeditionis ... containing also the preface to Michael Isselt of Amersfort by O.H., but not the post-script."--H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 200, no. 25a. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 25a Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), B 8231 Also available in digital form on the Library…- Contributor: O. H. - Brachfeld, Paul - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1590
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Photo, Print, DrawingFranciscus Draeck nobilissimus eques Angliae an[n]o aet[atis] sue 43 Drake is depicted standing, his right hand on a helmet, his left holding a baton. Through a window above to the left a landscape is visible; before the window hangs a terrestrial globe or two-hemisphere disc map hanging by an ornamented finial.- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Hondius, Jodocus
- Date: 1583
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Book/Printed MaterialA svmmarie and trve discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage. Wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartegena & Saint Augustine "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 first complete publication of the text."--H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 199, no. 21. L.C. copy cropped; lacks headers and page numbers. ESTC S722 Kraus, H.P. Sir…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Bigges, Walter - Croftes - Gates, Thomas
- Date: 1589
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Book/Printed MaterialA svmmarie and trve discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage. Wherein were taken, the townes of Saint Iago, Sancto Domingo, Cartegena, and Saint Augustine "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…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Bigges, Walter - Croftes - Gates, Thomas
- Date: 1589
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Book/Printed MaterialExpeditio Francisci Draki eqvitis Angli in Indias Occidentales a. M.D.LXXXV. : Quâ vrbes, Fanum D. Iacobi, D. Dominici, D. Augustini & Carthagena, captae fuêre. Additis passim regionum locorúmque omnium tabulis geographicis quàm … "First Latin edition ... The text is somewhat abridged from the original English version, which was published ... in the following year."--H. P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 198, no. 20. L.C. has 3 of 4 maps by B. Boazio, matted and in a separate case (38 cm.) with a photo of the lacking map of St. Augustine. They belong…- Contributor: Boazio, Baptista - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Bigges, Walter - Croftes
- Date: 1588
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Book/Printed MaterialRelacion del viage que hizieron las cinco fragatas de armada de Su Magestad, yendo por Cabo dellas Don Pedro Tello de Guzman, este presente año de noventa y cinco Imprint based on license for printing, dated Feb. 21, 1596. Relates the successful defense of Puerto Rico against an attack led by Francis Drake and John Hawkins. Covers events from Sept. 25 to Dec. 20, 1595. Amended and abbreviated version of a text first printed in 1902; cf. K.R. Andrews. The last voyage of Drake and Hawkins, 1972, p. 153, note 3. Signatures: A4.…- Contributor: Cabrera, Rodrigo De - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1596
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Book/Printed MaterialLa visita qve V[uestra] S[eñoría] vio en reuista entre el licenciado Alonso Perez de Salazar, fiscal del Consejo de Indias, con don Pedro Vique Manrique "The document is an appeal for the commutation of the sentence of death passed on Don Pedro Vique Manrique, commander of the galley flotilla at Cartagena, on charges arising out of the disastrous Spanish defeat by Drake there."--Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 202, no. 28. Caption title. LC copy signed in ms., probably by Vique Manrique's attorney: Vicente (?)…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Vique Manrique, Pedro - Pérez De Salazar, Alonso - Consejo De Indias (Spain)
- Date: 1590
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Book/Printed MaterialAmericae pars VIII : continens primo, descriptionem trium itinerum Francisci Draken, qui peragrato primum vniuerso terrarum orbe, postea cum nobilissime equito Iohanne Hauckens, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panama, in Indiam nauigauit, vbi vitam … First edition, 1st issue. Includes maps on p. 78 (1st group) and p. 3 (2d group); and plates 13 and 14 printed on correct leaves. Cf. Church. Imprint from t.p. of plates. Signatures: AA-KK⁴ 2A-2L⁴ 2M⁶; a-e⁴ (-e4) Plates have special t.p.: Tabulae & imagines ad septimam et octavam Americae partem ... The history of Drake's first voyage is translated from the account by…- Contributor: Bry, Theodor De - Bry, Johann Israel De - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Arthus, Gotthard - Bry, Johann Theodor De - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1599
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Book/Printed MaterialAmericae pars sexta, sive, Historiae ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptae, sectio tertia, res no[n] minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm praecedentes duae : in hac enim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opule[n]tissimas …
Americae pars sexta | Historiae ab Hieronymo Benzono Mediolanense scriptae, sectio tertia, res non minus nobilis & admiratione plenas continens, quàm praecedentes duae Engraved t.p.; map and plan on double leaves of plates; the t.p., with a new engraved title on a slip mounted over the original text, is repeated preceding the plates which are numbered 1-28. Part VI contains the third part of Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo; the remaining text was published in parts IV and V. De Bry utilized Urbain Chauveton's Latin edition…- Contributor: Bry, Theodor De - Benzoni, Girolamo - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Chauveton, Urbain - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1596
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Book/Printed MaterialAmericae pars VII : verissima et iucundissima descriptio praecipuarum quarundam Indiae regionum & insularum, quae quidem nullus ante haec tempora visae cognitaeque, iam primum ab Vlrico Fabro Straubingensi, multum cum periculo inuentae … First edition. Cf. Church. Fully-engraved t.p. Signatures: A-H⁴ (H4 blank) The 3 numbered plates intended to illustrate this part were published with pt. 8, 1st ed., 1599. Translation of Ulrich Schmidel's Warhafftige und liebliche Beschreibung. Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 161 Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 31 Library of Congress. Lessing…- Contributor: Bry, Theodor De - Bry, Johann Israel De - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress) - Arthus, Gotthard - Schmidel, Ulrich - Bry, Johann Theodor De - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1599
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Book/Printed MaterialAmericae achter Theil : in welchem erstlich beschrieben wirt das ... Königreich Guiana ... Item, eine kurtze Beschreibung der vmbliegenden Landtschafften First edition. Without the Latin inscription on the folded map. Cf. Church. The accounts of Raleigh's voyages are by himself and by Lawrence Kemys; the history of Drake's voyage is from his logbook, continued by his mate. With: the editor's [America. pt. 8. Appendix]. Bound together subsequent to publication. Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and…- Contributor: Bry, Theodor De - Edwardes, Henry Hope - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Becker, Matthäus
- Date: 1599
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MapExpeditionis Hispanorum in Angliam vera descriptio. Anno Do: M D LXXXVIII Intended to accompany: Ubaldini, Petruccio. A discourse concerninge the Spanishe fleete invadinge Englande in the yeare 1588. Some of the plates are signed by Robert Adams, artist, and Augustine Ryther, engraver. The legends are in English. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 51 ESTC S123138 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus.…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Adams, Robert - Ryther, Augustine - Ubaldini, Petruccio
- Date: 1589
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Book/Printed MaterialThe principall nauigations, voiages, and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouer land to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within … "A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia ...", by Thomas Harriot: p. 748-764. "The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea ...": [12] p. inserted between p. 643 and p. 644. Includes index. LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection. Imperfect: *6 and map wanting; final blank wanting. Signatures: *⁸ A-T⁶ V-X⁴ 2A-2V⁶ 2X⁴…- Contributor: Newbery, Ralph - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Harriot, Thomas - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Hakluyt, Richard - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Bishop, George
- Date: 1589
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Book/Printed MaterialThe principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse … LC copy bound in 2 v. LC copy imperfect: Lower part of the t.p. of v. 1 is torn off with the missing part of the title supplied in pencil from the facsimile-reproduction of the original t.p. in the reprint of the 2nd ed. Glasgow, 1903-1905. Many errors in paging. Several of the contents are translations accompanied by original texts. The voyage to Cadiz…- Contributor: Newbery, Ralph - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Barker, Robert - Hakluyt, Richard - Bishop, George
- Date: 1598
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MapLa herdike enterprinse faict par le Signeur Draeck D'Avoir cirquit toute la Terre Includes two inset maps and a portrait of Francis Drake. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 48 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus. Conserved 09-82-067.5 1982 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Sype, Nicola Van
- Date: 1581
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Map[Map and views illustrating Sir Francis Drake's West Indian voyage, 1585-6] The first engraving is a map of Drake's voyage [showing Europe, western Africa, northern South America, and eastern North America]; the four other engravings consist of bird's-eye battle plan views of the cities of Santiago, Santo Domingo, Cartagena, and St. Augustine, Florida. 4 bird's-eye views and 1 map. Relief shown pictorially on bird's-eye views. Voyage map in English; city maps in Latin. Title supplied…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Boazio, Baptista - Bigges, Walter - Croftes - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1589
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Map[San Juan de Ulúa Watercolor on vellum. Upper corners damp marked, with very slight marking of the drawing. Mounted on cloth. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 46 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus. Conserved; 09-82-067.7 1982 Library of Congress Conservation Division. For treatment information, contact the Preservation Directorate. https://ask.loc.gov/preservation pda- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Eraso, Cristóbal De
- Date: 1570
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Map[San Juan de Ulúa Ground plan of a projected fortress.- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Eraso, Cristóbal De
- Date: 1570
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