Argonaut Press #15
FROBISHER, Martin
The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher. In Search of a Passage to Cathay and India by the North-West, AD 1576-8. From the Original 1578 Text of George Best together with numerous other Versions. [Edited by V. Stefansson. Facsimile Re-issue].
Published: Israel (Amsterdam) and Da Capo Press (New York NY), [1971]
Stock code: 15672
Price: £94.00
2 vols., in 1, 4to., First Edition thus, with a portrait frontispiece, title-vignettes, 4 facsimile title-pages, 2 facsimiles (1 folding; 1 full-page), 9 maps (3 folding; 6 full-page), and several photographs and illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, blue top, a near fine copy.
With personal bookplate and small relevant cutting mounted on front paste-down. High quality facsimile re-issue of the scarce Argonaut Press two-volume edition of 1938. The other versions mentioned include contemporary accounts of the First Voyage by Christopher Hall and Michael Lok, of the Second Voyage by Dionyse Settle, and of the Third Voyage by Thomas Ellis and Edward Sellman. Scarce. Minchinton IV, 2716; NMM I, 762 (recording the Argonaut Press edition).