The Last Voyage of Drake & Hawkins.

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Cambridge U.P. 1972. 8vo. Or.illust.cl. Gilt. d.w. (XIV284pp.). With 1 fold. plate 9 full-page plates and 2 full-page maps. (Hakluyt Soc. 2nd Ser. No. 142). NOTE: Study of the West Indian expedition of 1595-6 which was a miserable failure with its commanders Sir Francis Drake (cc.1540-1596) and Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) and many others dying of sickness.