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[4],100pp. (8vo) 20.3x13.9 cm (8x6”), taped into later plain wrap.

The first part of this work is devoted to an account of Cavendish' voyage written by one Francis Pretty, who was with him.  The expedition raided along the coast of Brazil, went through the Straits of Magellan and up the west coast of New Spain, ultimately returning to England around the world.  The second voyage also touched Brazil, but Cavendish died on the return to England in 1591. Rare.

Cavendish was a British gentleman privateer in the tradition of Drake, and the first Englishman after Drake to circumnavigate the globe.  .  The account was first printed in Dutch (Amsterdam, 1598).  The following year it was incorporated by Hakluyt into his works.  This is the third Dutch edition, after the second of 1617.  This work also contains an account of Drake's voyage, a description of the route around the world and of the coast of Brazil.