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Book/Printed MaterialKurtze warhafftige Relation vnnd Beschreibung der wunderbarsten vier Schiffahrten, so jemals verricht worden. Als nemlich: Ferdinandi Magellani Portugalesers, mit Sebastiano de Cano. Francisci Draconis Engelländers. Thomae Candisch Engelländers. Oliuarii von Noort, Niderländers. … "A narrative of the four earliest circumnavigations of the world, forming part 6 of the Hulsius series of voyages; the present copy is the third Hulsius edition."--H. P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 208, no. 41. At head of title: Sechster Theil. Church, E.D. Discovery, 284 Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 41 Also available in digital form on the…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Hulsius, Levinus
- Date: 1626
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Book/Printed MaterialThe world encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, being his next voyage to that to Nombre de Dios formerly imprinted; This work of 1628 is the first edition of the earliest detailed account of the voyage around the world by Sir Francis Drake in 1577-80. It includes a frontspiece with a portrait of Drake and a double-globed map of the world. Drake's was the second successful circumnavigation, after that of Ferdinand Magellan in 1519-22. Setting out with five ships and 160 men, Drake used…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Fletcher, Francis - Drake, Francis
- Date: 1628
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Book/Printed MaterialLe voyage cvrievx, faict avtovr du monde, par François Drach, admiral d'Angleterre. Augmenté de la seconde partie
Voyage curieux, faict autour du monde, par François Drach, admiral d'Angleterre Engraved title vignette. Ex libris Thomas W. Streeter; "Holstein - Holsteinborg" stamp on t. p. The 1st part is a translation, by F. de Louvencourt, sieur de Vauchelles, of The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea (as published in R. Hakluyt. The principall navigations ... 1589). It was published in 1613 under title: Le voyage de l'illvstre seignevr et cheualier…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Louvencourt, François De
- Date: 1641
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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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MapNova et exacta delineatio Americae partis avstralis. qve est : Brasilia, Caribana, Gviana regnũm noũũm, Castilia del Oro, Nicaragva, insũlae Antillas et Perv. Et sub Tropico Capricorni, Chile, Rio della Plata, Patagonṽ, … "This folding map of South America and the West Indies, printed on two separate sheets, with uncut margins, was engraved for the second edition of the fourth part of Hulsius' collection of voyages, which consists altogether of 26 parts. The "Vierte Schiffart" (Fourth voyage) is an account of Ulrich Schmidel's voyage to Brazil and the Rio de la Plata from 1534 to 1554. In…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Hulsius, Levinus
- Date: 1692
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MapA map of the county of Devon, with the city & county of Exeter Insets: The Island of Lundy.--A plan of the city and suburbs of Exeter.--A plan of the town and citadel of Plymouth.--A plan of Stoke Town and Plymouth dock. Scale ca. 1:63,360; statue miles 69 1/2 nearly to a degree. AACR2 drakenew Vault- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Donne, Benjamin - Jefferys, Thomas
- Date: 1765
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Map[La Coruña. El Ferrol, Spain] "This English manuscript double chart, in pen and water colors, on vellum, shows the harbors of La Coruña and El Ferrol in Spain. The date, localities depicted, and provenance of the charts indicate that they were prepared for use in the Drake-Norris expedition of 1589. After the Spanish Armada was defeated in 1588 by the English fleet and failed in its attempt to invade…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1589
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Map[La Coruña. El Ferrol, Spain] Ink on paper. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, 50b Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus. Conserved; 09-82-067.9 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)
- Date: 1589
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Book/Printed MaterialM. Blundeuile his exercises : containing eight treatises, the titles whereof are set down in the next printed page : which treatises are very necessarie to be read and learned of all …
M. Blundevile his exercises | M. Blvndevile his exercises Each treatise, except that on arithmetic, has a special title page. LC copy has inscriptions: William Leeson, Danil. Kyrk 1667, C. Command 1634, Tho Morley, Mr. [?]watt 1800, Mrs. Thompson 1820, M. Markfisher, Elth. Thompson. Dealer's description mounted on p. [2] of cover; H.P. Kraus description, laid in. An additional detached copy of p. 719-177 laid in. LC copy imperfect: one volvelle is wanting…- Contributor: Mercator, Gerhard - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Blagrave, John - Blundeville, Thomas - Plancius, Petrus - Stansby, William
- Date: 1613
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Book/Printed MaterialThe tapestry hangings of the House of Lords: representing the several engagements between the English and Spanish fleets, in the ever memorable year MDLXXXVIII, with the portraits of the lord high-admiral, and … During or immediately after the Armada campaign, Robert Adams, Surveyor of Works to Queen Elizabeth I, prepared a series of drawings displaying the principal incidents of the sea battles between the Spanish and English, with a general map. These were engraved and published by Augustine Ryther. Shortly thereafter, the English commander-in-chief, Lord Howard of Effingham, ordered a set of tapestries after the Adams drawings…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Pine, John
- Date: 1739
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialMemoria de la Costa Rica del Mar del norte [with three other narratives] All four of the narratives could have been composed at about the same date--some time during the twenty years after da Silva's deposition of 1579 on his voyage with Sir Francis Drake. This time limit is shown by internal evidence which can be deduced from close study of the information recorded in each passage. Manuscript on paper, written in clear and legible cursive script.…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 15??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialRel[aci]on de la entrada q[ue] hizo por el estrecho el Navio yngles, y de lo q[ue] se previno contra el The original draft of the letter from the Viceroy of Peru to the Governor of the Río de la Plata (resident at Buenos Aires) recounting Sir Francis Drake's depredations on the Pacific coast of Spanish America during his voyage of circumnavigation and the measures taken there against him. The numerous inter-linear and marginal additions and correction throughout this version of the letter prove that…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Toledo, Francisco De
- Date: 1579
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAutograph letter signed, in Latin. To Abraham Ortelius This letter is one of the most exciting pieces in the famous correspondence between the greatest cartographer and the leading map publisher of Sir Francis Drake's day, whose productions Drake almost certainly used himself. It speculates on the possible connection between Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe (completed about ten weeks before this letter was written) and the secret voyage of Arthur Pett and…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Mercator, Gerhard
- Date: 1580
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAutograph draft of a reply to a memorandum recommending changes in the naval defense of Spanish America and its seaborne trade This manuscript in Medina Sidonia's autograph is, in effect, addressed to King Philip II of Spain. It relates to Drake's depredations along the Pacific coast of Spanish America (1578-1579) and in the Caribbean (1585-1586) and suggests measures which should be taken to avert further disasters of this sort. It recommends a thorough overhaul of Spanish naval strategy and new arrangements to protect communications and…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez De Guzmán
- Date: 1586
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter signed, to the Duke of Medina Sidonia, giving instructions in view of the expected intentions of the English squadron under Drake reported to be then attacking Cadiz This letter clearly demonstrates the intimate contact between the Duke of Medina Sidonia and the Court. It exemplifies Philip II's reaction to the extremely unwelcome news that the English were not merely taking the preparation of an Armada against them seriously, but were trying to prevent it from ever getting to sea, and even dared to enter his own harbors to attack it. This…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Philip II
- Date: 1587
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialManuscript dispatch in Spanish This endorsed "Copy of the letter the duke my lord wrote to the governors of the Indies in the year 1587" is the official "model" of a set of letters sent by the Duke at the behest of King Philip II of Spain. The attached slip is a list of the addressees: it specifies the governors of Havana ( i.e. , of Cuba), of…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez De Guzmán
- Date: 1587
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialManuscript document signed (signature is a woodcut stamp) Don Pedro de Sotomayor is by this document appointed to serve under the Marquess of Santa Cruz in the "large armada to go and seek the one that has sailed from England and which wanders through the seas of these my kingdoms" (trans.). The situation at this date was indeed unfavorable for Spain. Drake had descended upon Cadiz on April 29, 1587, and had…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Philip II
- Date: 1587
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialFinal portion of a document signed A legal document in regard to a loan of money, connected with the office of the Treasurer of the Navy, to which post Hawkins had been appointed in 1573. As he was knighted in 1588, and does not use his title here, it can be assumed that the present document falls somewhere between those years.- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Hawkins, John
- Date: 1588
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter signed. To Sir Francis Walsingham, "Principal Secretarie to the Q:[ueen's] Ma[jes]tie." A letter concerning the futile diplomatic negotiations between an English delegation (the Earl of Derby, Sir James Crofts, Lord Cobham, John Rogers, and Dr. Dale), and the Duke of Parma, representing the King of Spain. Meetings began late in 1587, but Parma had been instructed by Philip II to procrastinate and come to no agreement on any point, as the King intended the negotiations…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Dale, Valentine
- Date: 1588
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDocument signed (contemporary copy) A source for the history of the Drake-Norris expedition against Spain and Portugal, which was planned and organized immediately after the defeat of the Invincible Armada, and which was carried out in the following year, 1589. In this document, Sir Henry Billingsley (d. 1606), then an Alderman of London, and a wealthy merchant; Peter Osborne (1521-1592), a "remembrancer to the Lord Treasurer in the…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Walsingham, Francis - Burghley, William Cecil
- Date: 1588
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialBrief note of the accompte of the voyage intended by Sir John Norreis and Sir Francis Drake knyghts 17 December 1588" (docket), A. An extract from the "Booke of accompte" of the Drake-Norris expedition which was then being prepared for sailing in 1589. The total sum so far paid in by the joint-venturers was £26,450 11s.; of this, the Queen had invested £16,000, and Drake and others the balance. There are a number of corrections in the figures of the account, and a number of amusing blunders…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1588
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDocument on vellum, signed by Alderman Paul Banninge of London The record of Drake's sale of a 71-year lease of a house called "The Herbar" in the Dowgate ward of London. It is Drake's own copy, signed by Banninge; the counterpart copy signed by Drake was given to Banninge, and is not known to be extant.- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Drake, Francis
- Date: 1593
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialDe praesenti statu Cornubiae et Devoniae quae duae Provinciae sunt Hispaniae proximiores The work is a lengthy intelligence report given to King Philip II of Spain by one of the English Catholic exiles who had fled from England when Elizabeth I became Queen and had entered Spanish service as a soldier. An unpublished manuscript, dealing with matters in the "top secret" category. It is indeed remarkable that such a document is extant outside of an official…- Contributor: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Winslade, Tristran
- Date: 1595
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter signed, in Spanish. To the Duke of Medina Sidonia News of the death of Drake, one of Medina Sidonia's principal adversaries in the Armada battles of 1588. Armenteros was a lawyer, as his title of "Licenciado" shows, and at this time was a member of the Council of the Indies (see Schaefer, Indice de la Colección de Documentos Inéditos de Indias , I, p. 41). His report, certainly unpublished, states that the ships…- Contributor: Armenteros, Andres - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1596
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