North-vvest fox, or, Fox from the North-west passage
Beginning with King Arthur, Malga, Octhur, the two Zenis of Iseland, Estotiland, and Dorgia; following with briefe abstracts of the voyages of Cabot, Frobisher, Davis, Waymouth, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge: together with the courses, distance, latitudes, longitudes, variations, depths of seas, sets of tydes, currents, races, and over-falls; with other observations, accidents and remarkable things, as our miseries and sufferings. Mr. Iames Hall's three voyages to Groynland, with a topographical description of the countries, the salvages [sic] lives and treacheries, how our men have beene slayne by them there, with the commodities of all those parts; whereby the marchant may have trade, and the mariner imployment. Demonstrated in a polar card, wherein are all the maines, seas, and ilands, herein mentioned. With the author his owne voyage, being the XVIth. With the opinions and collections of the most famous mathematicians, and cosmographers; with a probabilitie to prove the same by marine remonstrations, compared by the ebbing and flowing of the sea, experimented with places of our owne coast
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Signatures: A⁴ (A3 missigned A2) (A1 recto, A2 verso blank) a² (a1 missigned A1) B-T⁴ (T2 missigned 2T1) V⁴ (V2+u3, u2) X-2I⁴ 2K².
In some copies an error in imposition is noted in gathering B and is paginated 1, 6, 7, 4, 5, 2, 3, 8.
Errors in paging: page 27, 140, 146, 147, 148, 160, 161, 164, 166, 167, and 169, 2nd count, misnumbered 19, 145, 149, 146, 147, 260, 291, 294, 266, 267, and 172; pages 193, 196, 205-212, 236, 239, 239, 252, 256, and 258, 5th count, misnumbered 196, 193, 225-232, 226, 239, 238, 452, 266, and 458.
Errata: page [3], 6th count.
Includes a frontipiece illustration of an astrolabe on verso of leaf A1 and a folded map depicting the Arctic regions.
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Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America, 429
Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.), 11221
Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, II: page 256
European Americana, 635/47
English short title catalogue, S105645
Purchase; 1846; 0376.
Purchase; 1946; 29912.
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