lxv, 235, [1] pp. With an Appreciation of the Achievement of Sir Richard Carnac Temple. Illus. with facsimiles of maps, etc., a few folding; title-page woodcut by William Monk. 10x7½, half vellum & cloth, spine lettered in gilt. No. 480 of 975 copies printed on Japon Vellum by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge.

The first publication of the Argonaut Press, a fine printing of the primary account of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation of the globe in 1577, compiled and first published in 1628 by the admiral's nephew and namesake.