Compassing the Vaste Globe of the Earth: Studies in the History of the Hakluyt Society 1846-1996. With a complete List of the Society's Publications.

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Lond: The Hakluyt Society 1996. 8vo. Orig. illust. cloth. Gilt. Dustjacket. (xii 336pp.). With portrait and b/w plates of which most full-page. Erratum slip loosely inserted. Fine. (Hakluyt Society Second Series Volume 183). NOTE: Appreciation of the Society's history and reflection on its meaning. The biographical essays are limited to deceased figures.