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America.- Newfoundland.- Whitbourne (Sir Richard) A discourse and discouery of Nevv-found-land, with many reasons to prooue how worthy and beneficiall a plantation may there be made...Together with the laying open of certaine enormities and abuses committed by some that trade to that countrey, second edition, title with woodcut printer's device recto and full-page royal arms verso, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking blank A4, repairs to upper inner corners of A2-B4, fraying / chipping to upper blank corner of title and all to F1, S4 small hole within text, with loss of 3 letters, but no loss of sense, final f. repaired at head, with loss of pagination and 3 letters of text from the first line, supplied in modern ink, same f. with lower blank corner repaired, occasional worming to inner gutters, some spotting or staining (including occasional ink), lightly browned, disbound, housed in a modern brown morocco drop-back box, spine in compartments and with black and burgundy leather labels, little marked, [Sabin 103331; STC 25372], small 4to, By Felix Kingston, 1622.

⁂ A rare appearance at auction of this work on early British settlement in North America. The second edition has 'A Loving Invitation' appended, and contains at the end 15pp. of letters from Newfoundland, dated 1622. Whitbourne was a South Devon man. He was the first to hold a court of Justice in North America (at Trinity in 1615), and governed Vaughan's ill-fated colony from 1618 to 1620. He was highly successful in attracting Englishmen to Newfoundland.

Provenance: 'Richard Hunckes, his book' (contemporary ink inscription to verso of final leaf).

Lot 247

America.- Newfoundland.- Whitbourne (Sir Richard) A discourse and discouery of Nevv-found-land, with many reasons to prooue how worthy and beneficiall a plantation may there be made, second edition, By Felix Kingston, 1622.  

Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000

Description

America.- Newfoundland.- Whitbourne (Sir Richard) A discourse and discouery of Nevv-found-land, with many reasons to prooue how worthy and beneficiall a plantation may there be made...Together with the laying open of certaine enormities and abuses committed by some that trade to that countrey, second edition, title with woodcut printer's device recto and full-page royal arms verso, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking blank A4, repairs to upper inner corners of A2-B4, fraying / chipping to upper blank corner of title and all to F1, S4 small hole within text, with loss of 3 letters, but no loss of sense, final f. repaired at head, with loss of pagination and 3 letters of text from the first line, supplied in modern ink, same f. with lower blank corner repaired, occasional worming to inner gutters, some spotting or staining (including occasional ink), lightly browned, disbound, housed in a modern brown morocco drop-back box, spine in compartments and with black and burgundy leather labels, little marked, [Sabin 103331; STC 25372], small 4to, By Felix Kingston, 1622.

⁂ A rare appearance at auction of this work on early British settlement in North America. The second edition has 'A Loving Invitation' appended, and contains at the end 15pp. of letters from Newfoundland, dated 1622. Whitbourne was a South Devon man. He was the first to hold a court of Justice in North America (at Trinity in 1615), and governed Vaughan's ill-fated colony from 1618 to 1620. He was highly successful in attracting Englishmen to Newfoundland.

Provenance: 'Richard Hunckes, his book' (contemporary ink inscription to verso of final leaf).

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