A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Library at Oxford, and one in the University of Leyden. A fourth is in the collection formed by the late Henry Huth, and a fifth is, or was, in the collection of the late Lord Taunton. Two copies are in America, one in the New York Public Library, Lenox Collection, and the other, the copy from which this reprint is made, in private hands This copy may, With some probability, be called Sir F rancis Drake's. It was sold at auction in 1883 With other books from a library said to have been brought together by him. It is possible, however, that the collec tion, as such, dates no farther back than the time of his nephew, who published Str Francis Drake Revived, in 1626. It was bought by the late Mr. Quaritch for £300. He catalogued it at 33 5 and sold it, probably at that price, to the late Mr. Charles H. Kalbfleisch. Since the death of the latter it passed into the collection of Mr Marshall C.

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