Author: RUNDALL, THOMAS
Title: Narratives of Voyages towards the North-West, in Search of Passage to Cathay and India 1496 to 1631. With Selections from the Early Records of The Honourable the East India Company and from Mss. In the British Museum.
Description: London, Hakluyt. 1849, 1st Edition. Blue Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, xx, 259 plus post-scriptum page. Frontis. (fold. map), fold. chart, and one other map. cloth on spine split, spine head worn, small tear at inner margin of frontispiece, small numer 5 on spine, 2 blind stamps Reform Club. Hakluyt first series No. 5. Rare issue. Covers voyages to explore the North-west Passage by Hugh Willoughby, William Adams, Sebastian Cabot, Martin Frobisher, John Davis, Captain George Waymouth, Henry Hudson, John Knight, James Hall, Captain Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge, Luke Fox, Captain James. Good.

Keywords: North-West Passage, India, Cathay, Hugh Willoughby, William Adams, Sebastian Cabot, Martin Frobisher, John Davis, Captain George Waymouth, Henry Hudson, Knight, James Hall, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge, Luke Fox, James, Antarctica, Arctica


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