The definitive bibliographical study of the Elizabethan travel writer Richard Hakluyt and his early works.
This bibliography concerns the ten works written by or produced with the involvement of Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) between 1580 and 1588, describing each book and its history with as much primary and secondary documentation as possible. The introduction gives a brief notice of Hakluyt's life and career, followed by an outline of the bibliography's scope and conventions. The detailed bibliography enables us to trace not only the composition and material form of these writings and their reception, but also Hakluyt's developing interests, his intellectual debts and milieu, the books and other sources available to him, and his patrons and career from his time at Oxford until the imminent publication of the original edition of the Principall Navigations, his celebrated collection of voyages and travels, in 1589. While partly an exercise in documentation, identifying sources and references as a guide to research, it goes further in attempting a study of Hakluyt's books drawing on the various approaches to bibliography, taking these into the allied field of 'the history of the book'.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
Richard Hakluyt and His Books
The Scope of This Bibliography
Existing Studies
The Structure of This Study
Conventions
CHAPTER ONE
[ Jacques Cartier.] A Shorte and Briefe Narration of the Two Navigations and
Discoveries to the Northweast Partes Called Newe Fraunce: First Translated
Out of French into Italian by that Famous Learned Man Gio: Bapt: Ramutius,
and Now Turned into English by Iohn Florio: Worthy the Reading of All
Venturers, Travellers, and Discoverers. London: Henry Bynneman, 1580
CHAPTER TWO
[ Richard Hakluyt.] Divers Voyages touching the Discoverie of America, and
the Ilands Adiacent unto the Same, Made First of All by Our Englishmen, and
Afterward by the Frenchmen and Britons: And Certaine Notes of Advertisements
for Observations, Necessarie for Such as Shall Heereafter Make the Like
Attempt, with Two Mappes Annexed Heereunto for the Plainer Understanding of
the Whole Matter. London: Thomas Dawson for Thomas Woodcock, 1582
CHAPTER THREE
Richard Hakluyt. 'Analysis, seu resolutio perpetua in octo libros
Politicorum Aristotelis'. Manuscript. 1583
CHAPTER FOUR
Richard Hakluyt. [ Discourse of Western Planting.] Manuscript. 1584
CHAPTER FIVE
Marc'Antonio Pigafetta. Itinerario di Marc'Antonio Pigafetta gentil'huomo
vicentino. London: John Wolfe, 1585
CHAPTER SIX
Antonio de Espejo. El viaie que hizo Antonio de Espeio en el anno de ochenta
y tres: el qual con sus companneros descubrieron una tierra en que hallaro[ n]
quinze provincias todas llenas de pueblos, y de casas de quatro y cinco
altos, a quien pusieron por no[ m]bre nuevo Mexico, por parecerse en muchas
cosas al viejo. Esta ąla parte del norte, y se cree que por ella, y por
poblado, se puede venir hasta llegar a la tierra que llaman del Labrador, de
quien diximos mas largamente adelante. Paris: Richard Hakluyt, 1586
CHAPTER SEVEN
René de Goulaine de Laudonničre. L'histoire notable de la Floride situee čs
Indes Occidentales, contenant les trois voyages faits en icelle par certains
capitaines & pilotes franēois, descrits par le capitaine Laudonniere, qui y a
commandé l'espace d'un an trois moys: ą laquelle a esté adiousté un
quatriesme voyage fait par le capitaine Gourgues. Mise en lumiere par M.
Basanier, gentil-homme franēois mathematicien. Paris: Guillaume Auvray,
1586
CHAPTER EIGHT
Pietro Martire d'Anghiera (Peter Martyr). De orbe novo Petri Martyris
Anglerii Mediolanensis, protonotarij, & Caroli quinti senatoris decades octo,
diligenti temporum observatione, & utilissimis annotationibus illustratę,
suóque nitori restitutę, labore & industria Richardi Hakluyti Oxoniensis
Angli. Additus est in usum lectoris accuratus totius operis index. Paris:
Guillaume Auvray, 1587
CHAPTER NINE
René de Goulaine de Laudonničre. A Notable Historie Containing Foure Voyages
Made by Certayne French Captaynes unto Florida: Wherein the Great Riches and
Fruitefulnes of the Countrey with the Maners of the People Hitherto Concealed
Are Brought to Light, Written All, Saving the Last, by Monsieur Laudonniere,
Who Remained There Himselfe as the French Kings Lieuetenant a Yere and a
Quarter: Newly Translated Out of French into English by R. H. London: Thomas
Dawson, 1587
CHAPTER TEN
[ Juan Gonzįlez de Mendoza.] The Historie of the Great and Mightie Kingdome
of China, and the Situation Thereof: Togither with the Great Riches, Huge
Citties, Politike Governement, and Rare Inventions in the Same. Translated
Out of Spanish by R. Parke. London: John Wolfe for Edward White, 1588
APPENDICES
A. The Suppression of the Voyage to Cadiz in Hakluyt's Principal Navigations
B. Hakluyt and the East India Company
INDEXES
References and Bibliographical
Manuscripts
Maps
Locations and Provenances
Printers, Booksellers and Publishers
Bookbinders
Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616)
General
Honorary Research Fellow, University of East Anglia, sometime Vice-President of the Hakluyt Society, and former Director of Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
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