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Book/Printed MaterialBook of wonders, or, Marvellous chronicle : containing authentic accounts of extraordinary events and occurrences in nature and art ... collected from the writings of historians, travelers, astrologers, magicians, philosophers &c., &c., …
Book of wonders | Marvellous chronicle Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Samuel Gardner Drake Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1844
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Book/Printed MaterialHerōologia Anglica : hoc est clarissimorum et doctissimorum aliqout [sic] Anglorum qui floruerunt ab anno Cristi M.D. usq' ad presentem annum M.D.C.XX viuae effigies vitae et elogia : duobus tomis
Ms. title on front free endpaper of copy 3: Series of authentic English portraits with memoirs | Herologia Anglica | Spine title of copy 2: Heroologia LC copy has leaf (inserted after 7th preliminary leaf) containing poem in Latin signed: I. Gruterus. LC copy inscribed: P. Mariette 1682. Its ms. marginalia are discussed in Hind, A.M. Engraving in England, v. 2, p. 150-151. Printed by the author. Cf. ESTC. Signatures: )(¹⁰ A-V⁶ chi1. Title page engraved by Crispijn van de Passe; plates engraved by Willem and Magdalena van de Passe.…- Contributor: Naunton, Robert - Holland, Henry - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Passe, Magdalena Van De - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Jansson, Jan - Northwick, John Rushout - Passe, Willem Van De - Passe, Crispijn Van De
- Date: 1620
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Book/Printed MaterialThe historie of the most renowned and victorious Princesse Elizabeth, late queen of England. Contayning all the important and remarkeable passages of state both at home and abroad, during her long and … L.C. copy imperfect: 2 leaves of table (p. [15-18], 6th group) wanting. Six unnumbered pages between p. 104 and 105 (4th group). The frontispiece is engraved by Francis Delaram from a painting by Nicholas Hilliard. Translation of Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha. Translator's pref. signed: R.N. [i.e. Robert Norton]. ESTC S107164 Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 43 STC 4500. Also available…- Contributor: Hilliard, Nicholas - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Norton, Robert - Camden, William - Delaram, Francis
- Date: 1630
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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) - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Barker, Christopher - Beale, Robert - 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 - Woodcock, Thomas - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Orwin, 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: Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez De Guzmán - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- 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: Orwin, Thomas - Medina Sidonia, Alonso Pérez De Guzmán - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- 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: Breton, Nicholas - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- 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: Woodcock, Thomas - Huth, Henry - O. H. - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- 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: Brachfeld, Paul - O. H. - 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: Hondius, Jodocus - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1583
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Book/Printed MaterialDescription & representation de toutes les victoires tant par eau que par terre, lesquelles Dieu a octroiees aux nobles, hauts & puissants seigneurs, messeignrs. les Estats des Provinces vnies du Païs-Bas, souz …
Description et representation de toutes les victoires tant par eau que par terre Added t.p., with title: Les lauriers de Nassav. By J.J. Orlers and H.L. van Haestens. Translation of Den Nassauschen lauren-crans. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 35 Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus. LAC tnb 2019-03-12 update (2 cards)- Contributor: Orlers, Jan Janszn - Haestens, Henrick Van - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1612
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Book/Printed MaterialFilipe Segvndo, Rey de España
Filipe Segundo, Rey de España Illustrated t.p., engr. by P. Perret, 1619. Imprint from colophon. Part 1 (1527-1583) of the work; no more published in this ed. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 37 Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.), 38917 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus.- Contributor: Cabrera De Córdoba, Luis - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1619
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Book/Printed MaterialRelación de los servicios que hizo a su majestad del Rey Don Felipe Segundo y Tercero, Don Alonso de Sotomayor del Abito de Santiago y comendador de Villamayor, del Consejo de Guerra …
Relación de los servicios qve hizo a sv magestad del Rey Don Felipe Segundo y Tercero, Don Alonso de Sotomayor del Abito de Santiago One of 2 different editions with same imprint and date. In the present ed. line 7 on recto of 2d prelim. leaf reads: ... contra la armada Inglesa ... Cf. H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 206-7, no. 38. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 38 Medina, J.T. Bib. hispano-chilena, I, pp. 167-171, no. 48 Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.),…- Contributor: Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Caro De Torres, Francisco - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1620
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Book/Printed MaterialConquista de las Islas Malucas al rey Felipe III N[uestr]o S[eñ]or
Conquista de las Islas Malucas al rey Felipe Tercero | Conqvista de las islas Malvcas al rey Felipe III No. Sor | Conqvista delas islas Malvcas alrey Felipe III No. Sor This is the first edition, published in Madrid in 1609, of a work that recounts in detail the struggle among Portugal, Spain, and local kings and sultans for control of the Maluku (Moluccan) Islands in the 16th century. Also called the Spice Islands, the Maluku are part of present-day Indonesia. Among the individuals who figure in the story are the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan,…- Contributor: Harford, Joseph - Killigrew, Charles - Azara, José Nicolás De - Martin De Balboa, Alonso - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Herrera Y Tordesillas, Antonio De - Southeast Asian Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress) - Leonardo De Argensola, Bartolomé - Perret, Pedro
- Date: 2020
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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: Croftes - Bigges, Walter - Gates, Thomas - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- 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: Croftes - Bigges, Walter - Gates, Thomas - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- 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: Croftes - Boazio, Baptista - Bigges, Walter - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1588
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Book/Printed MaterialThe English hero, or, Sir Francis Drake reviv'd. : Being a full account of the dangerous voyages, admirable adventures, notable discoveries, and magnanimous atchievements of that valant and renowned commander
Sir Francis Drake reviv'd First published in 1687. "The work is based upon the Sir Francis Drake revived of 1653, with additional material."--H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 210, no. 45. ESTC R32386 Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 45 Wing C7322. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC snh 2019-04-26 update (1 card)- Contributor: R. B. - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1695
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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: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Cabrera, Rodrigo De
- 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: Vique Manrique, Pedro - Pérez De Salazar, Alonso - Consejo De Indias (Spain) - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1590
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Book/Printed MaterialDiscorso di Gioseppe Rosaccio ... : nel quale si tratta breuemente della nobiltà & eccellenza della terra rispetto à cieli & altri elementi, mostrandosi gli errori & varie openioni che gli antichi …
Discorso della nobilta et eccellenza della terra Date from H.P. Kraus. Sir Francis Drake; a pictorial biography, 1970, p. 205, no. 34. Portrait of the author on t.p. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. 34 Sabin, 73194 (suggesting the date of 1615) Gift of Hans P. and Hanni Kraus. LAC ecr 2019-06-21 update (2 cards)- Contributor: Rosaccio, Giuseppe - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1610
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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, Johann Theodor De - Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Arthus, Gotthard - Bry, Theodor De - Bry, Johann Israel De
- 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: Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress) - Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) - Jefferson Exhibit Collection (Library of Congress) - Chauveton, Urbain - Benzoni, Girolamo - Bry, Theodor De - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1596
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