Louing & beloued Brother, I doe nowe like ſome that haue an Orcharde ill neighbored, that gather their fruit before it is ripe, to preuent ſtealing. Theſe fragments of my conceites were going to print: To labour the ſtaie of them had bin troubleſome, and ſubiect to interpretation; to let them paſſe had beene to adu[=e]ture the wrong they might receyue by ontrue Coppies, or by ſome garniſhment, which it might pleaſe any that ſhould ſet them forth to beſtowe oppon them. Therefore I helde it beſt diſcretion to publiſh them myſelfe as they paſſed long agoe from my pen without any further diſgrace, then the weakneſſe of the Author...." Duodecimo. The second edition. COLLATION: _A-E4, in twelves_. RICHARD HAKLUYT (1552?-1616) 14. The | Principal Navi- | Gations, Voiages, | Traffiques And Disco- | ueries of the Engliſh Nation, made by Sea | or ouer-land, to the remote and fartheſt di- | ſtant quarters of the Earth, at any time within | the compaſſe of theſe 1500. yeeres: Deuided | into three ſeuerall Volumes, according to the | poſitions of the Regions, whereunto | they were directed. | [Thirteen lines] And laſtly, the memorable defeate of the Spaniſh huge | Armada, Anno 1588. and the famous victorie | atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596. | are described. | By Richard Hakluyt Maſter of | Artes, and ſometime Student of Chriſt- | Church in Oxford. | [Illustration: Printer's ornament] Imprinted at London by George | Bishop, Ralph Newberie | and Robert Barker. | 1598. [-1600]. The year 1589 had seen the publication of a small folio volume entitled: _The Principall | Navigations, Voia- | ges, And Discoveries Of The | Engliſh nation, made by Sea or ouer Land, | [Twenty-seven lines] By Richard Hakluyt Maſter of Artes, and Student ſometime | of Chriſt-church in Oxford. | [Printer's ornament] Imprinted at London by George Bishop | and Ralph Newberie, Deputies to | christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes moſt excellent Maieſtie._ | 1589. The book presents a handsome appearance in the matter of type and ornament: the archer head-band appears, and there are two large pictorial initials at the beginning signed A. It contains also "one of the beſt generall mappes of the world onely, untill the comming out of a very large and most exact terreſtrial Globe, collected and reformed according to the neweſt, ſecretest, and lateſt diſcoueries ... compoſed by M. Emmerie Mollineux of Lambeth, a rare gentleman in his profeſſion...." This map was a close copy of one engraved by Francis Hogenberg for Ortelius's _Theatrum Orbis Terrarum_, published first in Antwerp in 1570. Like the original it is called _Typus Orbis Terrarum_, but Hogenberg's name is erased, and no other appears in its stead.